VOA Chinese, Jan 17, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110117-China-Denies-Sending-Troops-into-North-Korea.html
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(1) John Garnaut, China's military a fragmented beast. Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 18, 2010 (available now).
http://www.smh.com.au/business/chinas-military-a-fragmented-beast-20110117-19u35.html
Quote:
"They [my Chinese colleagues who were there in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake] saw soldiers bustle between Premier Wen Jiabao and the official television cameras on their way to a mock rescue, while dozens and probably hundreds of trapped survivors cried out for them below.
"As Hu prepares to touch down in the US, the same White House officials who were paying homage to Chinese power in 2009 are busily briefing influential reporters that China's world-shaking political edifice is more fragile than it seems.
(2) China Seeks More Quiet. Strategy Page, Jan 16, 2011.
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htsub/articles/20110116.aspx
(the last of four Chinese Yuan diesel-electric submarine)
(3) 中国国家主席承认与美国存在不同意见. VOA Chinese, Jan 16, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110116-US-China-113849274.html
My comment: I did not understand what the translation 缺少规章 meant. The following is the text in English; there was nothing spetacular.
China's Hu Jintao answers questions with Washington Post. Washington Post, Jan 16, 2011, at web page 2.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/16/AR2011011601921.html
Quote from the Washington Post report:
"Q: What lessons do you think can be drawn from the 2008 international financial crisis?
"HU: This international financial crisis has reflected the absence of regulation in financial innovation.
(4) Henry A Kissinger, Avoiding a U.S.-China Cold War. Washington Post, Jan 14, 2011.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/13/AR2011011304832.html
My comment: The article did not say anything important. At MOST, read
基辛格:中美两国要避免重陷冷战. BBC Chinese, Jan 15, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2011/01/110114_us_china_kissinger_wl.shtml
(5)
(a) 奥巴马在白宫会见中国人权活动人士. VOA Chinese, Jan 15, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110115-OBAMA-CHINA-HUMAN-RIGHTS--113698084.html
My comment:
(i) The report was based on
Scott Wilson, Obama discusses China's civil liberties with advocates in White House meeting. Washington Post, Jan 13, 2011.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/13/AR2011011306922.html
("On Thursday, Obama questioned the advocates - three of whom were born in China - about how, in the words of one administration official, 'the arbitrary exercise of power is felt in the everyday lives of the Chinese people'")
(ii) ZHA Jianying 查 建英
LI Xiarong 李 晓蓉
(b) 李晓蓉忆述奥巴马会见倡导中国人权者. VOA Chinese, Jan 15, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110115-CHINA-US-HUMAN-RIGHTS-113777104.html
(6) John Pomfret, Chinese general to visit U.S. base in small sign of thawing military ties. Washington Post, Jan 12, 2011.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/12/AR2011011200195.html?sub=AR
Quote:
"Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that Gen. Jing Zhiyuan, commander of China's 2nd Artillery Corps, had accepted his invitation to visit the headquarters of the U.S. Strategic Command in Nebraska. * * * Jing's acceptance of the invitation was one of the bright spots on Gates's trip