June 16, 2010

China-Taiwan intelligence wars expanding along with business exchanges

Taiwan's military intelligence bureau (MIB) is continuing the "intelligence war" with the mainland, a war highlighted by defections and double agents. Taiwan's military monthly journal Defense International reported in May that the MIB is using Taiwan businessmen for intelligence work.
(FULL STORY)
Entrepreneurs from China's Henan Province and Taiwan communicate at an economic conference, in Taipei, on Dec. 16, 2009.  Xinhua/Wu Ching-teng
Hu Jintao finding few reasons not
to harden the line against U.S.

President Hu Jintao has toughened policies toward the U.S. in an apparent effort to play up nationalist sentiments. In the run-up to the G20 meeting, Chinese cadres and the state media have ratcheted up attacks on the U.S. for forcing China to appreciate the yuan, or renminbi. This was despite the fact that early this year, the Governor of the People’s Bank of China and other financial experts had given clear-cut indications that Beijing should end the yuan’s peg to the greenback.  (FULL STORY)
A bank clerk counts a stack of US dollars alongside 100 yuan notes at a bank in Huaibei, in eastern China.   AFP/File
U.S. military's perspective on China changing from optimism to concern
China rebuts Gates on differing views of U.S. by military, party: 'In our hearts' antipathy same
   
Moscow: China's J-15 jet fighter was reverse-engineered from Su-33
North Korea apologizes . . . to China . . . over border shootings
'Butcher of Beijing' diary cites Deng Xiaoping's orders on Tiananmen
Report: North Korea's consolidated intelligence steps up ops against South

  INSIDE  NORTH  KOREA     
Famine alert as Kim Jong-Il ends all food rations; N. Koreans 'should fend for themselves'

North Korea's communist regime has stopped public food rations, telling its people not to depend on the state to feed them, a Seoul-based welfare group said on June 14.
Trade suspension called most punishing response Seoul could make to ship sinking
China defends its 'tepid' response to sinking of South Korean ship
China opposes U.S. carrier deployment to Korea as 'provocation'

 
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