The head of the U.S. Pacific Command, Admiral Harry B. Harris, gave a talk on the South China Sea issue at the Aspen Security Forum on July 24. Jia Xiudong, an invited commentator for People’s Daily and a distinguished scholar at the China Institute of International Studies, published an article commenting on the talk Harris gave. Below is an excerpt from the article:
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Internet Users’ Information Theft Is Alarming in China
People’s Daily reported that, according to the 2015 Investigative Report on China’s Internet Users’ Protection Rights, 78.2 percent of Internet users in China have had their personal information stolen. The related financial losses that resulted were 8.05 trillion yuan (US$1.3 trillion).This is equivalent to 124 yuan (US$20) per person for the period between July 2014 to June 2015, assuming there were 649 million Internet users and close to 7 percent of the Internet users suffered financial losses as high as 1,000 yuan (US$161). The report indicated that online shopping, online searches, social websites, online games and online travel are the sites where most of the Internet users experienced information theft. According to the legal expert, the personal and identify information theft rate in China is alarming, but since the financial damage is relatively small, few of the Internet users seek legal protection.
Source: People’s Daily, July 24, 2015
http://tc.people.com.cn/n/2015/0724/c183008-27353836.html
By 2022, China Will Have 9.2 Million Hepatitis B Patients
Guangming Daily reported that, on July 25, 2015, World Hepatitis B Awareness Day, there were 6.9 million Hepatitis B patients in China. According to the vice chairman of the China Foundation for Hepatitis Prevention and Control, that number will reach 9.2 million by 2022. The article also disclosed that among 400 million Hepatitis B and C carriers in the world, China accounts for 25 percent of the population while the number of liver cancer patients in China accounts for half of the world’s population.
Source: Guangming Daily, July 26, 2015
http://politics.gmw.cn/2015-07/26/content_16424619.htm
People’s Daily Had Full Page Coverage of The Difficult Position that Democracy Faces in the U.S.
Xinhua reported that, on July 26, the print edition of People’s Daily used a full page to cover the issue of democracy in the U.S. The title was, “The Difficult Position Democracy Faces in the U.S.” In the editor’s note, the article questioned what happened to democracy in the U.S. It said that democracy in US has turned into a mere show off piece, which is a problem in itself. It is evident in the U.S. economy, in the model for the operation of democracy, and in U.S. foreign policy. The full page consisted of the translation of four articles. These were, “Money dictates Politics; ‘American Democracy’ is not a true Democracy,” written by John Ross, the former director of London’s economic and business policy [Editor’s note: John Ross was economic advisor to Ken Livingstone when he was mayor of London]; “A Double Standard is Used; Inequality is Increasing,” written by Boris Guseletov, the Advisor to the State Duma (Russian Parliament); “The Small Group holding Power Has Control of the General Population; the Oligarchy Damages Democratic Values,” written by Paulo Duate, Researcher at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium; and “American Democracy Does Not Fit Other Countries; Being a Copy Cat will not Work," written by Yuksel Gormez, the Central Bank of Turkey’s Beijing Economic Counselor.
Source: Xinhua, July 26, 2015
http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2015-07/26/c_128059281.htm
PLA Strategist: China’s Rise Requires Great Wisdom
In the interview, Qiao argued that the Diaoyu Islands and the islands in the South China Sea are not China’s current core interest and that, for the next 10 to 20 years, China should focus on its continued economic development so that it can become a super strong economic power. He also talked about how China can counter the U.S.’s military superiority in the information technology field.
Although the interview was conducted in March 2014, his points and his perspective are still relevant today. The following are excerpts from the article.] [1]