From the asahi.com: Beijing should not escalate tension over Taiwan.
In January a baby born at a Beijing hospital brought the population of China to 1.3 billion, a jump of 100 million people during the past decade alone.
China now boasts the world’s seventh largest gross domestic product, and will soon pull ahead of Britain in that column. The average per-capita income of the Chinese people has risen to more than $1,000.
Beijing announced that this year’s national defense spending will rise by 16 percent over the previous year, reaching roughly 3.2 trillion yen.