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From China’s Past: Chinese Exclusion Act May 6, 1882

This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. For the first time, Federal law proscribed entry of an ethnic working group on the premise that it endangered the good order of certain localities.Read more

China’s No. 2 official travels to Russia to ‘deepen’ ties as Ukraine war grinds on

Chinese Premier Li Qiang is set to meet with Russian leaders in Moscow Wednesday during a four-day trip to Russia and its ally Belarus as Beijing shrugs off Western criticism of its robust Kremlin ties amid the war in Ukraine. Li, China’s No. 2 official under leader Xi Jinping, will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and hold talks on China-Russia cooperation and strategic ties with

India’s top court creates safety task force after rape, murder of doctor

India’s Supreme Court has set up a national task force of doctors to make recommendations on workplace safety following the rape and murder of a trainee medic at a state hospital that prompted nationwide protests. The court, which took up the case on its own, said on Tuesday that the doctors’ panel was being established to frame guidelines for the safety and protection of medical workers across

From China’s Past: The Rape of Nanking, 1937

In 1931, the Japanese occupied the Chinese province of Manchuria transforming it into a Japanese puppet state. It was the first step in Japan's drive to control all of China. Six years would elapse before the Japanese took the next step in their plan of conquest. In early July 1937, Japanese and Chinese troops clashed in Peking in an incident at the Marco Polo Bridge. Using this as justification,

Vietnam, China sign 14 agreements during top leader’s visit to Beijing

Vietnamese leader To Lam rounded off his three-day trip to China on Tuesday with a visit to the Central Party School, which provides training to Communist Party officials. He also led a Vietnamese delegation to Beijing-headquartered artificial intelligence company Megvii, the Vietnam News Service reported.Lam’s first foreign trip since being appointed to his country’s top job on Aug. 3 began on

CHINA-TAIWAN WEEKLY UPDATE, AUGUST 16, 2024

The PRC released four members of a Taiwanese fishing boat on August 13, whom it detained near Kinmen on July 2.The crew’s release does not indicate a change in the PRC’s long-term coercion campaign against Taiwan, however. The PRC continues to hold the Taiwanese captain of the crew and the boat, with no confirmed date for their release. The Chinese Coast Guard (CCG) detained the crew and boat for

Is China conducting ‘gray zone’ warfare for Russia?

In October 2023, damage to the Balticconnector gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia knocked it out for six months. Suspicion quickly fell upon a Chinese-owned, Hong Kong-flagged container ship called the Newnew Polar Bear. Now the South China Morning Post has reported that the Chinese government agrees the anchor of the Newnew Polar Bear severed the pipeline. Chinese authorities add that the

In US lockstep, Philippines ‘de-risking’ from China

The Philippines and China have capped their tensions in the South China Sea after a series of incidents brought the two rival claimants dangerously close to armed conflict. But the fragile sea truce masks a more fundamental shift in Philippine-China relations. The Ferdinand Marcos Jr administration is quietly yet proactively “de-risking” relations with China in line with US-led decoupling and in

Beijing to Bangkok train just a few links from reality

A Bangkok to Beijing train journey became one clickity-clack link closer with the completion by Thailand and Laos of a Mekong River railway bridge and tracks last month, enabling cross-border rail transport with Laos for the first time and only a few kilometers remaining as the last trackless gap to reach China. With the Thai-Lao railway’s new opening, a 12-hour-long train trip now runs from

Survey of Chinese Espionage in the United States Since 2000

This updated survey is based on publicly available information and lists 224 reported instances of Chinese espionage directed at the United States since 2000. It does not include espionage against other countries, against U.S. firms or persons located in China, nor the many cases involving attempts to smuggle controlled items from the U.S. to China (usually munitions or controlled technologies)