Category: China

Tweet of the Day: Someone In China Remember the US’s World War II Help

| September 8, 2015

Picture of the Day: President Park Given Center Stage in China

| September 5, 2015

At the military parade in Beijing marking the seventieth anniversary of China’s war victory over Japan, from right to left, former Chinese Presidents Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin, current President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Uzbek President Islam Karimov, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Sep. 3. (by Lee Jeong-yong, staff photographer) [Hankyoreh]

Tweet of the Day: China Hard Landing Would Be Devastating for Korea

| September 4, 2015

Tweet of the Day: China Interested In RIMPAC 2016

| August 30, 2015

President Park to Attend Event In China Commemorating the End of World War II

| August 28, 2015

I wonder if the Chinese Communist Party will take credit for the fighting that the Nationalists primarily carried out fighting Japan during World War II?:

Seoul’s presidential office has officially announced that President Park Geun-hye will visit China from September 2 to 4 to attend Victory Day events marking the end of World War II.

Along with the main commemoration ceremony on Thursday next week, the South Korean president will also attend a military parade in Tiananmen Square, featuring 12-thousand troops and conventional and nuclear missiles.

Presidential Spokesman Min Kyung-wook told reporters Wednesday that Park decided to attend the event in consideration of South Korea’s friendly and cooperative ties with China, and its hope for the country’s role in the unification of the two Koreas.

A day ahead of the Victory Day celebration, President Park and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold a summit. On the last day of her visit, Park will be in Shanghai to attend the reopening ceremony of the historic building where the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea was located during Japan’s colonial occupation of the Korean Peninsula.   [KBS World Radio]

Tweet of the Day: Contributor to Deadly Tianjin Blast

| August 22, 2015

Tweet of the Day: PLA’s New Reconnaissance Vehicle

| August 9, 2015

Tweet of the Day: Plane Nearly Runs Out of Fuel Avoiding Chinese Military Exercise

| August 4, 2015

China May Next Begin Building Islands in the Indian Ocean

| July 31, 2015

This would be real provocative towards India if China does in fact try and build islands in the Indian Ocean:

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There are growing fears, particularly in India, that China may soon launch an island reclamation project in the Indian Ocean.

The fears stem from a constitutional amendment passed by the small archipelagic nation of Maldives last week, which for the first time allows foreign ownership of Maldives territory. Specifically, the constitutional amendment allows foreigners who invest over $1 billion to own land, provided that at least 70 percent of the land is reclaimed from the sea.

Since July 2013, China has launched a massive reclamation project in the South China Sea that has created 2,000 acres of artificial landmass in five Spratly island outposts. Some 75 percent of this been dredged this year alone.

Unnamed Indian officials have told local media outlets that they are “concerned” that China now plans to do the same in some of the Maldives’ 1,200 islands, which are located strategically in the Indian Ocean.

They are not alone; domestic opponents of the amendment have expressed similar concerns. For example, Eva Abdullah, one of just 14 parliamentarians to vote against the amendment, told The Diplomat “this will make the country a Chinese colony.”  [The National Interest]

You can read the rest at the link, but it seems it would easier for them just to continue to use bases in Pakistan instead of building their own island.

Tweet of the Day: Interesting Read on PRC-DPRK Relations

| July 25, 2015