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This week deadly armed clashes near Burma’s border with China ended a nearly two-decade-old ceasefire between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and Burma’s government. About 10,000 people have fled to refugee camps along the Chinese border and 215 Chinese workers from the Datang United Hydropower Developing Co. returned home after the KIA captured a Chinese-built and operated hydropower plant last week. A KIA spokesperson told the Thailand-based Irrawaddy that the uprising began when the government reneged on an agreement to share electricity generated from the region’s Chinese-built hydropower plants with local people. “This electricity is now going to China, not...

In late 2010, General Motors agreed to sponsor a propaganda film celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). ... set to premiere all over the Communist nation on June 15 ... The auto website adds: "According to an announcement posted on Shanghai GM’s official web site yesterday, whose title reads "joining hands with China Film Group, Cadillac whole-heartedly supports the making of the Birth of a Party..." The report goes further: "As the CCP marries totalitarianism with capitalism and fools the people with entertainment, only the "politically correct" or stupid–or those who pretend to be so–can get...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Rush Limbaugh's imitation of the Chinese language during a recent speech made by Chinese President Hu Jintao has stirred a backlash among Asian-American lawmakers in California and nationally. California state Sen. Leland Yee, a Democrat from San Francisco, is leading a fight in demanding an apology from the radio talk show host for what he and others view as racist and derogatory remarks against the Chinese people.

The Marine Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) staged a military drill in the disputed South China Sea Tuesday as representatives from more than 40 countries observed, the China News Service reported. The Marine Corps' annual war games included amphibious combat military exercises during drill codenamed Jiaolong-2010. Some 1,800 naval forces and at least 100 warships, submarines and combat aircrafts took part in yesterday's live-fire exercises. More than 200 military students from 40 countries and regions observed the exercises that included assault drills. They discussed the exercises with commanding officers. The officer responsible for the drills said the...

Chinese Air Force in Night Drill Over West Sea Chinese fighter jets took part in an unprecedented night flight drill recently over the West Sea preparing for a U.S. air raid. Quoting the Chinese People's Liberation Army Daily, the South China Morning Post on Wednesday reported fighter jets from the North China Sea Fleet took off from the Liaodong and Shandong peninsulas for a night drill over Bohai Gulf. The drill lasted about two hours in the early morning. "Data collected from night flying will help our army to cope with combined operations on modern battlefields," the PLA Daily commented....

06:05 PM Aug 12, 2010 BEIJING (AP) - China's military is lashing out at planned U.S.-South Korean naval drills in the Yellow Sea and demanding Washington heed its objections. The military's newspaper People's Liberation Army Daily said in in an editorial China would respond in kind if offended. It added that those were not "joking remarks." China has repeatedly criticized the games, saying they risked heightening tensions on the Korean peninsula and expressing a more sweeping objection to any foreign military exercises off its coast. The participation of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington is particularly irksome because of its...

Beijing - China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has promoted a grandson of Mao Zedong to become its youngest serving general at 40 years old, state media said on Monday. Mao Xinyu was given his new rank as the PLA announced dozens of promotions in the run-up to Sunday's 83rd anniversary of the army's founding, the semi-official China News Service said. The planned promotion of Mao, who reportedly works as a researcher at the Academy of Military Sciences of Beijing, had attracted criticism from online commentators who claimed it was linked to his family history rather than his achievements. But academy...

London, Aug 7(ANI): China is reportedly developing a new missile designed to penetrate the defenses of even the most advanced moving aircraft carrier from a distance of more than 900 miles. American experts believe that the weapon-’Dong Feng 21D’, a version of which was displayed last year in a Chinese military parade, could revolutionize China’s role in the Pacific balance of power, weakening Washington’s ability to intervene in any potential conflict over Taiwan or North Korea. When complete it would give China the ability to reach and hit the enemy country’s aircraft carriers well before they can get close enough...

In China, automotive industry workers are striking for higher pay. In the U.S., auto-industry workers are agreeing to pay cuts -- and then their employers are being sold to Chinese companies. That's the story behind the headline: "GM to sell steering unit to Chinese group." On Wednesday, G.M. announced the sale of Nexteer Automotive to Pacific Century Motors, a joint venture between Beijing's municipal government and a Beijing-based auto-parts manufacturer with an engineering center in Detroit and customers across the globe. Nexteer, the second largest employeer in Saginaw, Mich., makes power steering systems for the Ford Mustang, Chevy Malibu and...

In China, automotive industry workers are striking for higher pay. In the U.S., auto-industry workers are agreeing to pay cuts -- and then their employers are being sold to Chinese companies. That's the story behind the headline: "GM to sell steering unit to Chinese group." On Wednesday, G.M. announced the sale of Nexteer Automotive to Pacific Century Motors, a joint venture between Beijing's municipal government and a Beijing-based auto-parts manufacturer with an engineering center in Detroit and customers across the globe. Nexteer, the second largest employeer in Saginaw, Mich., makes power steering systems for the Ford Mustang, Chevy Malibu and...

First Look: PLA Navy Live Fire Exercises in East China Sea The first photos are coming in from China’s PLA Navy’s live fire exercises conducted in the East China Sea some time yesterday. The above photo shows a Type 022 Houbei fast attack missile catamaran, in its distinctive camouflage pattern, firing one of its YJ-83 anti-ship missiles. The above photo shows PLAN officers posing for the cameraman pointing at a computer screen and pretending to talk on some old school looking telephones. More photos can be found here on the China Daily site. An English language news report can be...

Warships off Okinawa and other incidents with an increasingly far-roaming and competent Chinese navy likely a harbinger of shocks to come. Tokyo's shock, horror and alarm at the sighting a few days ago of a flotilla of 10 Chinese warships off Japan's southern Okinawa island is undoubtedly contrived. It has been evident for the past two decades as it invested huge amounts of money, time and effort into military modernization that Beijing intends to be able to project military power that supports its growing economic and diplomatic supremacy. Just a few days before the latest encounter, a helicopter from a...

President Barack Obama greets Chinese President Hu Jintao during the official arrivals for the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, Monday April 12, 2010

WASHINGTON – More than 2.1 million drop-side cribs by Stork Craft Manufacturing are being recalled, the biggest crib recall in U.S history, following reports of four infant suffocations. The Consumer Product Safety Commission said late Monday the recall involves 1.2 million cribs in the United States and almost 1 million in Canada, where Stork Craft is based. Sales of the cribs being recalled go back to 1993. Nearly 150,000 of the cribs carry the Fisher-Price logo. The CPSC said it is aware of four infants who suffocated in the drop-side cribs, which have a side that moves up and down...

Knees high, ladies! China marks 60 years of Communist rule with a mighty show of its goose-stepping female militia By Mail Foreign Service Last updated at 10:30 AM on 02nd October 2009 Comments (8) Add to My Stories China celebrated its wealth and rising might with a show of goose-stepping troops, gaudy floats and nuclear-capable missiles in Beijing today, 60 years after Mao Zedong proclaimed its embrace of communism. Tiananmen Square became a high-tech stage to celebrate the birth of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, with the Communist Party leadership and guests watching the meticulously disciplined...

At 60th birthday, Chinese in nostalgia of "red" arts www.chinaview.cn 2009-09-26 20:40:19 Print by Zuo Yuanfeng BEIJING, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- On a rainy Saturday night, Kong Mingzhe rushed home from a private theater. His red Chairman Mao T-shirt was all wet. Tired from hours of rehearsal for "Godot finally came", a modern sequel inspired by Irish dramatist Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", he turned on the DVD player. It was one episode of a period TV series about a Chinese double agent who collected information in the Kuomintang for the Communist Party of China (CPC). "I'm very curious about...

Chinese citizens and government workers have been preparing for months for their upcoming celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1st. Parts of Beijing have been shut down several times, allowing for rehearsals of a once-in-a-decade military parade, multiple artistic performances and shows, fireworks and more. Security concerns are high as well, bringing out large details of security personnel and equipment. Collected here are images from the past several weeks of people around China preparing to celebrate their National Day. (37 photos total)

For years it's been a closely held secret: The People's Republic of China is an empire desperately trying to make the world think it's a state. The riots by Uighurs in China's far northwest are not something new; the place really erupted back about the time of the American Civil War. Clashes between Han Chinese moving into the basin, range and uplands inhabited by the much different ethnic people of the Central Asian heartland began at least 2,000 years ago in the Han Dynasty. Some of the most powerful pieces in Chinese literature, like the Tang Dynasty Ballad of the...

It is highly likely the recent collision of a Chinese submarine and an underwater sonar array towed by a US warship in the South China Sea was due to misjudgment of distance, Chinese military experts said. The conjecture is in line with the United States view of "inadvertent encounter". The collision occurred last Thursday as the destroyer USS John S. McCain was sailing in the sea, CNN television reported on Friday. Its sonar array, used to listen and locate underwater sounds, was damaged in the incident, but fortunately the sub and ship did not collide, an unnamed military official told...

There's something rotten in Homestead. It's the odor in Jason and Melissa Harrell's house, which was built with defective, Chinese-made drywall redolent of strong paint or rotten eggs. The smell got so bad that the Harrells felt forced to move. They now pay rent on top of their mortgage. ''What it boiled down to is, I had to choose between my financial health and my children's physical health,'' Melissa Harrell said. When the sulfurous stink in Gary and Andrea Suhajcik's Boynton Beach home wouldn't go away, the builder offered to rip out the walls, wiring, plumbing and molding in hopes...