Arms sales to China resume – Yaakov Katz

From The Jerusalem Post (link): Israeli arms developers are once again marketing their wares in China despite the 2004 crisis that developed with the US over a sensitive arms deal, Defense Ministry Director-General Ya’acov Toren revealed on Wednesday. “The military industries have returned to working on defense exports with China and other countries,” Toren told […]

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Did China Create Its Own Domain Names? – Stephen Lawson

From PCWorld (link): ICANN denies reports that China established its own Internet domains. China’s Ministry of Information Industry has established a set of new top-level and second-level domain names, according to People’s Daily Online, the Web site of the official People’s Daily newspaper. The new domain name system took effect today, according to the report. […]

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Drug cartels ‘laundering cash in China’ – Guy Dinmore

From the Financial Times (link): The US on Wednesday expressed concern that ever more sophisticated drug-trafficking cartels were using China’s inadequately controlled financial system to launder their proceeds, possibly even getting tax breaks in the process. Releasing its annual report on drug-trafficking worldwide, the State Department’s bureau for international narcotics and law enforcement affairs pointed […]

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Chinese Lawmakers to Discuss Poverty – Joe McDonald

From the AP, via the Washington Post (link): For months, Chinese leaders have been trying to quell tensions in the restive countryside with promises of more schools, health care and other aid to people who have missed out on the country’s economic boom. When parliament begins its annual session Sunday, they’ll need to start explaining […]

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China a Key, Unmentioned Issue of Bush India Trip – Al Pessin

From Voice of America (link): An almost unmentioned, but still important, issue in President Bush’s trip to India is China. Both the United States and India have interest in participating in China’s economic growth, but they both also have concerns about the growth of China’s military. Technorati Tags: China, India

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Nigeria shifts to China arms – Dino Mahtani

From the Financial Times, via A Glimpse of the World blog (link): Nigeria has criticised Washington for failing to help protect the country’s oil assets from rebel attack, forcing it to turn to other military suppliers, including China, for support. Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria’s vice-president, told the Financial Times the US had been too slow to […]

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Is Beijing Greedy for Oil? – Wenran Jiang

From Business Week (link): China’s growing appetite for energy has caused widespread concern in the West. The Middle Kingdom is blamed for the sharp increase in global oil prices in the past few years. Meanwhile, the U.S. is uneasy about Beijing’s cozy relations with major oil producers such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Venezuela […]

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Beijing Accuses Taiwan Leader of ‘Grave Provocation’ – Joseph Kahn and Keith Bradsher

From the New York Times (link): President Hu Jintao of China reacted sharply on Tuesday to the decision by President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan to terminate the island’s unification council, calling it “a grave provocation” and “a dangerous step on the road toward Taiwan independence.” President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan displayed in Taipei yesterday the […]

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China creates own Net domains – Hiawatha Bray

From the Boston Globe (link): Internet authorities in China have set up a new family of Chinese-language alternatives to .com and other popular Internet address domains. It’s a move that bypasses the US-sponsored organization that controls address information for the global Internet, and some analysts fear that it could enhance China’s ability to censor its […]

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Google talks about operating in China – K. Oanh Ha

From the Mercury News (link): Google’s research chief said the search giant and other technology firms with Chinese operations are discussing a code of principles to address censorship and protection of people’s privacy in repressive countries. At Santa Clara University Monday night, Peter Norvig, Google’s director of research, provided some insight into the internal debates […]

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