Melissa Chan is currently a graduate student in the department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a degree in English in 2009. Her current research interests are diasporic Chinese populations, film, and translation.
Despite President Obama’s recent expression of support for the Philippines in the South China Sea dispute, the Philippines have called back their ships from the disputed shoal due to bad weather conditions. From AFP: Aquino...
Read MoreAs Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou pledged closer ties with the mainland, China is also working to improve these ties by offering Taiwan companies $95 billion in credit. AFP reports: China pledged Sunday to offer up to 600 billion...
Read MoreAmid Beijing’s claims that foreign embassies’ data on air quality is ‘unlawful’ and ‘inaccurate’ and the implementation of new air pollution regulations, there have been disputes about the accuracy of China’s air quality...
Read MoreAs China plans to launch a manned spacecraft, they are also planning to send a manned submarine into the world’s deepest trench. Jiaolong, the submarine, has already been used to explore various terrains. Xinhua reports: The...
Read MoreAlthough tensions seem to have eased in the South China Sea, there is still, however, a stalemate in the region between China and the Philippines. While the US and the Philippines have discussed the dispute before, Washington...
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