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Foreign Ministry Resolutely Opposes Foreign Military Vessels & Aircraft Affecting China’s Security

China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang reiterated on the 15th that China firmly opposes any foreign military vessels and aircraft engaging in activities affecting its security interests in the Yellow Sea and other Chinese coastal waters. In response to a reporter’s hypothetic question, "If the US-ROK hold military exercises in July, will China and the DPRK plan to hold military exercises in the western waters of the Korean Peninsula?" Qin said it was a typical Cold War mentality to divide the Northeast Asia and Asia-Pacific regions into different military alliances, and to view the region’s security issues with a Cold War style confrontation perspective. “Times have changed now. No single country or single military alliance can resolve the issue of regional security and stability.” 

Source: Xinhua, July 15, 2010 
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2010-07/15/content_13865520.htm
Briefings | | |   US-China Relations

China’s Beidou Competing with US GPS

Xinhua reported that competition for world market of the global position system will ultimately be between the U.S. GPS and China’s Beidou satellite navigation system. “While the U.S. Global Positioning System remains the most mature and the most profitable GPS, according to authoritative estimates, by 2020 China will have taken at least one third of the global market.” “Experts said it is inevitable that the competition for dominance in the global positioning system market will be fought between the U.S. and China.”
 
Xinhua suggests that “The future of Europe’s Galileo and Russia’s GLONASS is difficult to predict due to funding and political reasons.”

Source: Xinhua, July 14, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2010-07/14/content_13859824.htm

Briefings | | |   Defense/Military

New Regulations: Officials Must Report Personal Matters

On July 11, Xinhua published new government regulations. Going forward,  government and state company officials are required to report about their personal matters. Under the new rules, officials from the midlevel and up, including Party and nonparty members, and those working for state-owned companies must report personal information including changes in marital status, personal assets including property and investments, and business activities by spouses and children. They must also report the whereabouts of spouses and children living abroad and whether children are married to foreigners, including people from Hong Kong or Taiwan. Punishment for failing to report ranges from criticism in private and public reprimand to dismissal.

Source: Xinhua, July 11, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2010-07/11/c_12321707.htm

Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

Public Security Chiefs Departing to the US for Training

On July 8, Cai Anji, political commissar at the Ministry of Public Security met with a group of 25 local public security chiefs before their departiure for the United States. They were slated for 21 days of training. Cai claimed that training overseas was for the purpose of implementing the Party’s directive on strengthening training of local public security leaders. He asked the group to “change the training into a process that strengthens political ideals and beliefs, and will instill in them the wish to think outside the box, find solutions, and develop breakthroughs that will result in new developmental stages for public security.”

Source: Ministry of Public Security, July 9, 2010
http://www.mps.gov.cn/n16/n1237/n1342/n803680/2461560.html

Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

Xinhua: US-Japan Alliance Should not Aim at Third Countries

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang recently commented that, as a bilateral arrangement, the US-Japan Alliance should not have activities exceeding the scope of the two countries, and especially should not aim at third countries. The Japanese Prime Minister suggested on June 22 that the U.S. military presence in Japan has a significant deterrence function. He also expressed his serious concern about China’s growing military capabilities. When spokesman Qin Gang was asked for his opinion on the Prime Minister’s comments, he declared China’s refusal to accept any “deterrence” from any country.

Source: Xinhua, June 24, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2010-06/24/c_12259411.htm

Briefings | | |   Geo-Strategic Trend

Xinhua: Eight Functions of the Central Propaganda Department

The spokesman of the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party recently talked about the eight functions of this Party department: (1) directing the propaganda of Marxism; (2) guiding public opinion; (3) directing the production of culture products; (4) planning overall ideological and political work; (5) managing leadership personnel in the propaganda area; (6) creating propaganda policies and coordinating propaganda organizations; (7) providing public opinion intelligence to Party leadership; (8) leading cultural system reform, including the publication and broadcasting industries.

Source: Xinhua, June 30, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2010-06/30/c_12283040.htm

Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

CRN: Analysis of US Aircraft Carrier Strategy

China Review News recently published a review of an article discussing the strategy behind the U.S. use of its aircraft carriers. The article expressed that there are four reasons for the U.S. to send its carriers: (1) pushing China to buy more US bonds; (2) using war threats to hammer China’s development; (3) reducing US debt pressure; (4) confirming that China doesn’t dare to start a war. The author emphasized that the U.S. heavily manipulates nearly all of the problems that trouble China today, such as issues regarding Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjiang, India, Vietnam, the South China Sea, Mid-Asia, and Falun Gong, etc. He sees the ultimate way to resolve China’s problems as being to weaken the U.S. The author further suggested that the right way to handle the U.S. carrier situation is to sink the carriers that are currently having a joint naval exercise with South Korea in the Yellow Sea.

Source: China Review News, July 3, 2010
http://gb.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1013/7/1/0/101371042.html?coluid=148&kindid=0&docid=101371042&mdate=0703100742

Briefings | | |   Defense/Military

Huanqiu: China Must Create Conditions for an Alliance û a Sino-Russian Alliance Is Imperative

Huanqiu, China’s official newspaper, published an article stating, “While we adhere to a "non-alignment" policy, we must create conditions for an alliance for future needs.” The author believes that Russia is probably the best partner for a military-political alliance, along with a few small countries.

The author said on the one hand, “China should not establish a military and political alliance with Russia or other countries; and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) should not develop into a military and political group as long as there are no substantial changes in the international strategic situation and no serious threats to national security.” On the other hand, he suggests that China lay the necessary foundation for a future alliance in case of a crisis so as to avoid international isolation.

Source: Huanqiu, July 10, 2010
http://mil.huanqiu.com/Exclusive/2010-07/918019.html

Briefings | | |   Geo-Strategic Trend