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CHINA

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 4, 2013
Peng Liyuan, Chinese leader Xi's wife, callled best-dressed first lady
In the love-hate U.S.-China relationship, there has been no shortage of competition: cyberwars, currency wars, intellectual property wars and, most recently, the tug-of-war over a certain asylum-seeking leaker of secrets.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 4, 2013
China may relax one-child policy to let more couples have second child
China is studying whether to relax its one-child policy to allow more couples to have two children, the official Xinhua News Agency has reported, citing the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 3, 2013
China, U.S. at odds over human rights
U.S. officials said Friday that human rights abuses in China are worsening and that their latest talks with China on the issue "fell short of expectations."
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 3, 2013
China tunes in to public opinion
More than ever before, China's rulers are actually listening to their people, reacting quickly to contain potential crises that could threaten one-party control. With its ability to control the Internet increasingly challenged, China's Communist Party has had to change its game.
EDITORIALS
Aug 2, 2013
Defense plan would raise tensions
An interim outline of Japan's new defense policy points suspiciously toward deviations from the country's postwar defense-only posture that has won it friends.
EDITORIALS
Aug 2, 2013
Smarter diplomacy needed
Given the importance of rebuilding ties with China, perhaps Shinzo Abe should reconsider his emphasis on 'universal values' as part of his regional diplomacy.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 1, 2013
Nation's troops long way from hitting the beaches: experts
Japan has taken an increasingly proactive role in defending its territory since the end of the Cold War allowed it to shift its defensive posture to address threats from North Korea and China as public memories of the war begin to fade.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 1, 2013
Abe takes hard line on Chinese gas exploration
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday his administration will stand firm against China over its unilateral exploration for natural gas in contested waters in the East China Sea.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 31, 2013
Chinese dismiss Japan auto brands
Japanese auto brands posted a significant decline in customer satisfaction in China among foreign automakers, after the Senkaku Islands dispute sparked nationwide protests last year.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 31, 2013
Solid ASEAN ties key to Abe strategy
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visits to Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines last week underscores his government's eagerness to forge closer ties with the fast-growing Southeast Asia region as part of efforts to revive Japan's economy.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 31, 2013
Lincoln statue vandal suspect is Chinese national
Moments before District of Columbia police found Jiamei Tian hiding in a bathroom stall at Washington National Cathedral, a family of tourists had spotted her in a back pew of the Children's Chapel guarding two bags and muttering softly in a foreign language.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society / FOCUS
Jul 31, 2013
China grapples with understanding spate of random violence
A spate of deadly knife attacks and other apparently random acts of violence in the past few days has rattled the Chinese government.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 30, 2013
Dumpling poisoner faces stiff sentence
A Chinese man admits putting poison in frozen 'gyoza' dumplings that sickened 10 people in Japan 5½ years ago.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 30, 2013
China should return to the natural birth model
China has one of the highest Ceasarian birthrates in the world. The consequences should make Chinese women think twice before requesting this procedure.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 30, 2013
China's financial tightrope
The world cannot afford for China to enter a major financial crisis and then to experience trouble with growth because of a rush toward financial deregulation.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 30, 2013
Papers confirm U.S. planes patrolled around Spratlys
A classified government document seen by Kyodo News on Friday confirmed that U.S. Navy surveillance planes conduct routine maritime patrol to monitor activities in the disputed South China Sea.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2013
Saiki dispatched to China to ease tensions over isles
The government dispatched Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki to Beijing on Monday for two days of talks aimed at easing tensions being caused by the Senkaku Islands dispute.
BUSINESS
Jul 29, 2013
China orders government debt audit
China will start a nationwide audit of government debt this week as the new Communist Party leadership investigates the threats to growth and the financial system from a record credit boom.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 27, 2013
China betting on overland energy-supply lines
China's strategy to diversify supply routes for its rapidly rising energy imports has taken a major step forward as natural gas flows through a Myanmar pipeline.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 27, 2013
Jilted mistresses emerge as China's new whistle-blowers on corruption
As President Xi Jinping pledges to clean up government corruption in China, an unlikely group of self-styled whistle-blowers has emerged: jilted mistresses.

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