China’s foreign ministry expressed "strong displeasure" with the US over an accidental delivery of missile fuses to Taiwan in 2006, AP reported. Comments posted on the ministry’s website called for a thorough investigation by US authorities in order to prevent "negative effects and disastrous consequences created by this incident," spokesman Qin Gang. The Pentagon admitted […]
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Beijing has allowed 26 overseas journalists to tour Tibet, the first group of foreign reporters allowed in the area since violence broke out two weeks ago, Bloomberg reported. Reporters from 19 news organizations set off on a three-day guided tour Wednesday, according to state media. The unrest in Tibet has prompted varied reponses from world […]
State media and rights groups confirmed that at least two people were killed as protesters and police clashed in a Tibetan area of western Sichuan province, AP reported. According to the India-based Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy, a peaceful protest march by monks and nuns in Garze prefecture on Monday turned violent when […]
A Chinese-born engineer convicted of conspiracy to export US defense technology to China was sentenced to 24 years and six months in US federal prison, AP reported. Chi Mak, a naturalized US citizen who worked for defense contractor Power Paragon, was also convicted of acting as an unregistered foreign agent, attempting to violate export control […]
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KMT's Ma wins Taiwan election
Taiwan and the mainland may resume dialogue over closer economic links following Ma Ying-jeou’s victory in Taiwan’s presidential election, the Financial Times reported. Ma said that he expects to resume talks with Bejing through semi-official institutions such as Taiwan’s Straits Exchange Foundation and China’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait. The talks would focus […]