U.S. intel finds links between Huawei Technology and Chinese military intelligence

U.S. counterintelligence officials will participate in an interagency security review of the proposed $2.2-billion merger between China’s Huawei Technology and the U.S. computer equipment maker 3Com. Huawei is China’s largest telecommunications company.     (FULL STORY)

Scowcroft discloses secret visit with Deng after Tiananmen

A Chinese paramilitary guard at Tiananmen Square on Oct. 7.   AFP/Teh Eng Koon

Xi who? As Chinese communists convene, Hu's heir apparent is on the rise

Baring accidents, 54-year-old Xi Jinping will become Chinese Communist Party (CCP) general secretary and commander in chief in late 2012 and state president soon afterwards. Wait a minute -- Xi who? Xi, the low-profile son of Party Elder Xi Zhongxun became known throughout China only last March when he was named party secretary — and No. 1 official — of Shanghai. Before that, Xi had been the party secretary of Zhejiang -- a rich coastal province just south of Shanghai famous for its tens of thousands of aggressive, prosperous private businessmen — for almost five years.                                                       (FULL STORY)
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