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  • Inside China: China upset over RIMPAC snub

    By Miles Yu

    As China ratchets up military tensions with almost all of its neighbors in the Western Pacific, the United States is hosting its largest multinational maritime exercise and has excluded China from joining the maneuvers near Hawaii called Rim of the Pacific. Published July 4, 2012

  • Inside China: PLA says war with U.S. imminent

    By Miles Yu - The Washington Times

    A Chinese general recently offered an alarming assessment that a future conflict with the United States is coming as a result of U.S. “containment” policies. Published June 27, 2012

  • Inside China: PLA hawks decry sellout by leaders

    By Miles Yu - The Washington Times

    China's military is making bold accusations that self-described "heroic" anti-American hawks are being purged and betrayed by China's CIA-controlled civilian leaders. Published June 20, 2012

  • Inside China: China's one million traitors

    By Miles Yu - The Washington Times

    "China is a country with fertile soil to produce traitors. There were over 1 million Chinese traitors during the Resisting the Japanese War [World War II]. In today's China, there are more traitors than that number," said Rear Adm. Zhang Zhaozhong of the Chinese navy, who is the most well-known and most senior military commentator on China's state television. He is one of the most outspoken, hard core anti-American spokesmen. The revealing remarks were made June 7 in the online edition of the official Chinese newspaper the Global Times. Published June 13, 2012

  • Inside China: China and India play consulate game

    By Miles Yu - The Washington Times

    India is taking advantage of China's desire to open a new diplomatic outpost in the strategically important port city of Chennai in South India. The Delhi government for its part wants the Chinese government to reopen the Indian consulate in Lhasa, Tibet, the Hindustan Times reported May 28. That consulate was forced to close in the aftermath of the 1962 Sino-Indian border war. Published June 6, 2012

  • Inside China: China sees conspiracy in sea law convention

    By Miles Yu

    The Chinese government reacted strongly recently to U.S. government efforts to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), calling the move a dangerous U.S. military plot to interfere further in Asia's regional affairs. Published May 30, 2012

  • Inside China: U.S. missions subtle threat to China's regime

    By The Washington Times

    Recent spats between the United States and China are focused on one particular venue: U.S. diplomatic compounds across China, a testimony to the fact that America's soft power is becoming increasingly more menacing to the autocratic communist regime. Published May 23, 2012

  • Inside China: China and its exiles

    By Miles Yu - The Washington Times

    As its influence continues to grow on the world stage, China has one major demand that the rest of the world is finding more and more difficult to accept: stay away from those people Beijing dislikes and views as undesirable. Published May 16, 2012

  • Inside China: Hobnobbing, war hysteria escalate

    By Miles Yu

    Billed as the most important and substantial military exchange visit with the United States in nine years, the grand tour from Friday through Thursday by a large Chinese military delegation – led by Defense Minister Gen. Liang Guanglie – received royal treatment at the Pentagon this week. Published May 9, 2012

  • Inside China: Admiral says China can destroy destroyers

    By Miles Yu

    The Navy's next-generation warship, the 15,000-ton Zumwalt-class destroyer, is no good and can be destroyed by Chinese fishing boats armed with explosives, according to a leading Chinese military commentator, People's Liberation Army Rear Adm. Zhang Zhaozhong. Published May 2, 2012

  • Inside China: Eroding press freedom

    By Miles Yu

    A routine Taiwanese legislative hearing on Chinese government advertising activities in Taiwan revealed alarming evidence that the communist government paid some of Taiwan's leading newspapers to produce pro-mainland news coverage. Published April 25, 2012

  • Inside China: China, Russia to hold drill near Korea

    By Miles Yu

    Chinese and Russian military forces are set to hold a large-scale, weeklong joint naval drill beginning Sunday, and the maneuvers will be held in sensitive waters of the Yellow Sea just west of the Korean Peninsula. Published April 18, 2012

  • Inside China: Murder, Xi wrote

    By Miles Yu - The Washington Times

    The bizarre affair involving China's flamboyant princeling, former Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai, continues to dazzle the world following Bo's unceremonious ouster as the regional communist viceroy on March 15. Published April 11, 2012

  • Inside China: A powder keg in Northeast Asia

    By Miles Yu

    North Korea's planned launch of what it calls a Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite on a space launcher, scheduled to take place between April 12 and 16 to mark the 100th anniversary of the late dictator Kim Il-sung's birth, has dramatically intensified the already volatile security environment in Northeast Asia, causing a crisis that threatens to bring war to the region. Published April 4, 2012

  • Inside China: Red Songs curbed but not banned

    By Miles Yu - The Washington Times

    A signature action of ousted Chongqing Communist Party chief Bo Xilai was to hold mass rallies for the singing of communist songs, or "red songs." Mr. Bo's program was officially curtailed by the new propaganda chief, who announced the move Monday in the southwestern metropolis of more than 30 million people. Published March 28, 2012

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