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Chinese Navy Fleet Heavily Monitored on Visit to South America

Xinhua recently republished an article reporting the Chinese Navy’s visit to South America. The report briefly described the Navy mission to Chile, Peru and Ecuador. The report especially mentioned, “The Pacific has no pacification” – the fleet was under heavy surveillance by various countries. Starting the third day, the Chinese fleet was followed by the fleet from a “certain country.” After that, warships and reconnaissance planes from another country took over. And then a new warship from a “certain country” followed the Chinese fleet day and night even in five-meter waves. The report suggested that the close monitoring of the Chinese mission is proof that peace in the Pacific has a long way to go.

Source: Xinhua, January 22, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2010-01/22/content_12854324.htm

Briefings | | |   Defense/Military

Xinhua: Recent Energy Shortage Explained

Winter in the year 2009 brought China strong shortages of energy due to unusually cold weather. The National Energy Administration explained the situation giving four primary reasons: (1) the low water level in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River; (2) rapid recovery of China’s macro economy in Q4 of 2009; (3) the low stock level of coal, as well as a bottleneck in railway capacities; (4) a sharp increase in consumer demand caused by the fact that most of the regions were attacked by rainy and snowy weather.

Actions being taken by the authorities are: (1) increasing the coal gas production level; (2) increasing the supply of natural gas by expanding the volume of imports; (3) speeding up the construction of Natural Gas Storage and Adjustment Facilities.

Source: Xinhua, January 22, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2010-01/22/content_12858478.htm

Briefings | | |   Economy/Resources

Google Incident and U.S. Internet Strategy

Global Times, under the Chinese state’s daily news Renmin, recently published an article on the Google incident. The report stated that the US State Department has been behind the scenes “throughout the event.” It is a reflection of the US strategy of promoting U.S. political, commercial, and cultural values using the U.S. Internet’s competitive advantages in technology, capital and market areas. The report calls the US strategy “coercive selling in the name of ‘universal values.’” The U.S. carefully picked the “Google excuses” of hacking and censorship. The author believed that hacking is happening every day and censorship is also present in the States, France, Germany and India, etc. The conclusion drawn by the article is that, Google is just one chess piece of US Internet hegemonism.

Source: Global Times, January 22, 2010
http://opinion.huanqiu.com/roll/2010-01/697246.html

Briefings | | |   Information/Technology

Obama Just Better Than China at Publicizing the U.S. Rescue Effort in Haiti

A Chinese official newspaper, Wenhui, reported on January 19, 2010, that the first rescue workers who arrived in Haiti were actually the Chinese, 2 hours earlier than the Americans.

However, Obama is much better at publicizing his rescue effort to the world’s TV than China, inviting two former presidents in the White House to call for donations and sending Hillary Clinton to Haiti. Yet, what is the amount of the badly needed food, medicine and drinking water the U.S. has brought to the local disaster victims? What is seen is that the U.S. military army has controlled the only local airport so as to give the U.S. nationals the priority to withdraw from Haiti, resulting in French nationals being stranded in the airport for many days, while the plane with French donated field hospital equipment was not able to land in the U.S.-controlled airport. 

Source: Wenhui, January 19, 2010
http://wenhui.news365.com.cn/gj/201001/t20100119_2595374.htm

Briefings | | |   Geo-Strategic Trend

China Commerce Minister: Accusations of African Resource Exploitation are Unfounded

On January 20, 2010, People’s Daily, published an interview with Chen Deming, Minister of the Commerce Department in China, about China’s investment in Africa. Chen Deming denied the international community’s allegations –

of china’s neo-colonialism in Africa, as well as the plundering of African resources – as "totally without justification."

Chen proudly stated that China increased investment in Africa by 77.5% in the first three quarters of 2009. The total investment in 2009 will exceed $1 billion. In addition, China has set up a China-Africa Development Fund, supporting those Chinese enterprises and projects involved with African countries, which will encourage more Chinese companies to invest up to $3.6 billion in Africa.

Source: People’s Daily, January 20, 2010
http://finance.people.com.cn/GB/10801223.html

Briefings | | |   Geo-Strategic Trend

Military General: China’s Own Satellite Navigation System Is Important to National Security

After China launched the third satellite of its Compass Navigation Satellite System (CNSS) on January 17, 2010, Major General Jin Yinan, Head of the Institute of Strategy, National Defense University, stressed the importance for China to have its own Satellite Navigation System. Jin mentioned that as Europe is developing its Galileo System and other counties continue to launch satellites, the most important issue is the competition for the limited space orbit and satellite communication frequencies. China should launch its satellites before others countries can, to obtain the needed orbits and frequencies while they are still available.

“As of today, launching and starting to use the CNSS system, I personally think, is more important than manned space flight and Chang’e moon landing projects.” Jin argued.

Source: People’s Daily, January 22, 2010
http://military.people.com.cn/GB/42969/58520/10825418.html

Briefings | | |   Defense/Military

Three Top Issues on China’s Agenda for the United States

He Yafei, spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry prioritized three issues on China’s agenda for the United States. “This year both China and the United States need to cautiously and earnestly deal with issue of arms sales to Taiwan, the Dalai Lama, and economic and trade friction, particularly the United States. How to deal with these problems depends on whether or not political leaders, especially the United States government can muster the political determination.”

Source: Xinhua, January 22, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2010-01/22/content_12855052.htm

Briefings | | |   US-China Relations