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Morning Clicks
by John Kennedy
Morning Clicks
by John Kennedy

Japan presses ahead with Diaoyu Islands nationalisation plan

Japanese ambassador Uichiro Niwa was summoned for a meeting in Beijing yesterday.

The Japanese government decided yesterday to purchase the Diaoyu Islands from the Kurihara family for a reported US$26.15 million (HK$202.8 million) in a deal that is expected to be finalised today. In response, Premier Wen Jiabao said China will make "no concession" in its stance of claiming sovereignty over the islands, and a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses "firm opposition and strong protest" to the agreement.
Aside from summoning Japanese ambassador Uichiro Niwa for a meeting yesterday and a statement that it "will not sit back", Beijing has yet to explain in English what Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei sought to convey with a reference to "necessary steps" China will take to safeguard its territorial sovereignty over the islands.
Also, 15 survivors of Japanese bombs dropped on China in WWII announced yesterday that a collective lawsuit has been filed against Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda. September 18 remains a sensitive date, commemorated each year to mark Japan's initial invasion of China in 1931.

 

Morning Clicks

Al Bawaba
-- UAE and Chinese economies are burgeoning and forging historic links Trade between the UAE and China has increased fivefold over the past 10 years with a growth rate of 395 percent - from USD 65415, billion in 2011 to USD 123, billion in 2002.
All Roads Lead to China
-- China Slows Down Given the fact that I had several emails from the large investment banks with their analysis on today’s numbers, I guess it is hard to say that there was any surprise in the data that was released.
Black Voices
-- Africa and the Chinese Invasion: Some Nuts and Bolts in the Craft Sector It is amazing to see the Chinese who came to Africa about 600 years ago to help build it as workers return as owners. That transformation is vital - to global Africans like me who are watching carefully, it is important to learn from them.
Danwei
-- The media should not exploit patriotism Yet if Hillary Clinton and Xi Jinping agree that the US and China can co-exist in the South Pacific, why is still there so much shrill commentary in China about the US? To Xu, certain commentators in China still remain locked in an old-fashioned way of looking at the US.
East Asia Forum
-- The globalisation of Chinese capital Cash-starved multinationals can sell their brands, channels of distribution, know-how and customer bases, thereby allowing Chinese multinationals to develop advanced capabilities in technology, design and branding.
Eurasia Review
-- Southern Africa: Increasing Hostility Towards Chinese Traders But human rights groups have described the legislation as xenophobic, and consumers like Arnold Mwenefumbo, from Karonga District in northern Malawi, complain that forcing out the Chinese traders will mean paying much higher prices for products sold by Malawians and other African nations.
Filmonic
-- James Cameron considering using Chinese actors for Avatar 2 and 3 Chinese regulators recently announced they’d be cracking down on so called “co-productions” by making the requirements stricter. At least one-third of the budget must come from China and Chinese investment, the main cast must be Chinese, and part of the movie must be shot in the country.
Government Security News
-- House Intelligence Committee sets open hearing on Chinese telecom companies The leaders of the House Intelligence Committee plan to question executives from Huawei and ZTE on Sept. 13 about national security concerns with the Chinese companies’ telecommunications equipment.
Tea Leaf Nation
-- Winter For Chinese Media: Why So Many Respected Journalists Are Leaving the Field Although the government’s control over news media has always been tight, the range and intensity of the purge this year has been rarely seen, suggesting that the censors’ controlling hand is tightening.
The Australian
-- Rudd trumps Gillard on China Mr Rudd will meet one of the main contenders for a position in China's new leadership line-up and looks like being the only representative of the Gillard government at the summer edition of the World Economic Forum.
The Dish
-- The Manufacturing Comeback It’s too earlier to claim victory with the current recovery in the manufacturing sector, but it is the the first positive slope since mid-1990′s.
The Korea Herald
-- Superpower moment for China: Remembering ‘7-13’ On July 13, for the first time in history, an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit of foreign ministers ended without the usual joint communique, as Vietnam and the Philippines unsuccessfully sought to include the issue of China’s increasing assertiveness over resources-rich areas of the South China Sea. 
The Media Online
-- Highway Africa. Highway to China? Africa has become home to a proxy war between the United States and China and the media needs to monitor it, warned a media leader at the start of a journalism conference in South Africa this weekend.
The National Interest
-- Escalating Tensions in the South China Sea In recent weeks, Beijing has included three island groups in the South China Sea under its domestic administration, established a forty-five-member legislature to represent the 1100 people who live on the islands and approved the deployment of a People’s Liberation Army garrison to the islands.
The New York Times
-- In Russia, Chinese-Run Farms Solve Each Side’s Needs Although China’s ventures into Russian agriculture have been on a smaller scale, they could end up being just as important — not least because they raise tensions about the role of immigrants similar to those seen in the United States over migrant Mexican farm laborers.
The Telegraph
-- China's Revolution Risk There has of course been a basic policy error. The government thought it could cool of the property boom with surgical tightening, leaving productive industry intact. That was an illusion. "They didn't expect the market reaction to be so strong and bring down the whole economy," he said.
The Vancouver Sun
-- China and the movable boundaries of an amorphous empire Westad takes us on a fast but sure-footed (for the most part) gallop over the heavy ground of China’s relations with the outside world since the beginning of the serious incursions by foreign powers, especially the British.

 

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