The militarization of a China its rulers want you to think is just a peaceful, growing economy

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The militarization of a China its rulers want you to think is just a peaceful, growing economy

Sol W. Sanders As the Chinese and the Americans sat down for the seventh of their annual two-day meeting [June 22-24], set up in 2009 to maintain bilateral cooperation despite growing differences, a major transformation of the Chinese regime was a new and worrying factor. Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew […]

Divide-and-conquer tactics in the S. China Sea pit one communist state against another

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Divide-and-conquer tactics in the S. China Sea pit one communist state against another

Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com China’s highest-ranked diplomat Yang Jiechi made a surprising trip to Hanoi even as the two countries are embroiled in arguably the worst confrontation since the Sino-Vietnamese War in 1979. The tension was triggered in early May when Beijing moved an oil rig into waters within Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone. China […]