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Biden-Xi meeting fails to resolve ADIZ crisis - World Socialist Web Site

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Biden-Xi meeting fails to resolve ADIZ crisis
By John Chan and Peter Symonds

5 December 2013

US Vice President Joe Biden held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday in Beijing, but failed to resolve the highly volatile situation in the East China Sea since Beijing declared an air defence identification zone (ADIZ) on November 23 that included the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands, disputed with Japan.

Washington immediately sided with Tokyo, flying nuclear-capable B-52 bombers into the zone to challenge Beijing’s authority. Biden met Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday and reaffirmed the US commitment to its alliance with Japan in the event of a war with China. The US and Japan continued to fly military planes into the Chinese ADIZ over the past week. China has responded by scrambling fighters, heightening the danger of an accident or miscalculation that could precipitate a wider conflict.

#chine #japon #états-unis #différend_territorial #senkaku

Sino-Japanese tensions flare over disputed islands - World Socialist Web Site

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Sino-Japanese tensions flare over disputed islands
By John Chan
16 September 2013

Tensions between Japan and China flared last Wednesday, on the anniversary of the Japanese government’s purchase last year of the disputed Senkaku islands (known as Diaoyu in China) from their private Japanese owner.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was in Argentina to lobby for Tokyo’s bid for the 2020 Olympic Games, used the occasion to declare that Japan must maintain “effective control” over the Senkakus. Hours later, two Chinese H-6 bombers for the first time flew over international airspace between the Okinawa island chains and Miyako islands, near the Senkakus. Japan responded by scrambling fighter jets.

#japon #chine #conflit #diférend_territorial

No maritime agreement at ASEAN meeting - World Socialist Web Site

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No maritime agreement at ASEAN meeting
By John Chan
8 August 2013

In another sign of mounting tensions fuelled by the Obama administration’s “pivot to Asia,” China ruled out any immediate commitment to a “Code of Conduct” in the South China Sea at a meeting with Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers meeting in Bangkok last week.

#frontières #frontières_maritimes #asean #asie #différends_frontaliers

Visiting Europe, Chinese premier demands Japan return “stolen” territories - World Socialist Web Site

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By John Chan
29 May 2013

In an unprecedented move to challenge Japanese claims over the Diaoyu islands (known as Senkaku in Japan) in the East China Sea, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang brought the issue with him to Potsdam during his first visit to Germany.

In Potsdam, after the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, the Allied leaders held a conference in July–August 1945 to define the post-war settlement and discuss the final war effort against Imperial Japan.

#japon #chine #senkaku

Entre la Chine et la Russie, c’est le grand amour (militaire et économique)

Chinese president’s “historic visit” to Russia - World Socialist Web Site
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Chinese president’s “historic visit” to Russia
By John Chan
26 March 2013

Less than a week after the National Peoples Congress (NPC) installed Xi Jinping as Chinese president, he made his first state visit on March 22-24—to Russia. The trip was designed to boost the “strategic partnership” between the two countries, whose economic and strategic interests are threatened by the aggressive policies of the US and its allies in Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

#chine #russie #le-grand-amour

China’s red aristocracy - World Socialist Web Site

En Chine, une aristocratie rouge

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China’s red aristocracy
By John Chan
31 December 2012

China’s newly appointed anti-corruption head, Vice Premier Wang Qishan, recently called on party officials to read the classic book by French historian Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and French Revolution. The message was clear. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime, which is widely detested as the representative of China’s super-rich, is in danger of sharing the fate of the French aristocracy.

New Chinese leader signals further pro-market restructuring - World Socialist Web Site

Donc, la Chine va devenir encore plus capitaliste !

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–d18.html
By John Chan
18 December 2012

The new Chinese Communist Party (CCP) general secretary, Xi Jinping, conducted a “southern tour” from December 7 to 11. It was designed to send an unequivocal message that his leadership will impose another round of pro-market restructuring, further opening up the Chinese economy to foreign capital. The tour followed the recent 18th CCP congress, which installed Xi as party leader and adopted an economic agenda in line with the China 2030 report, jointly published with the World Bank in February.

Xi sought to replicate the “southern tour” of CCP leader Deng Xiaoping in January-February 1992, just weeks after the dissolution of the former Soviet Union. Deng’s tour greatly accelerated the processes of capitalist restoration that he had begun in 1978. With the backing of the military, Deng ended the protracted internal debates that had followed the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown, and opened up all of China as a cheap labour platform for global corporations. As investment flooded in, tens of millions of workers were laid off as state enterprises were restructured into joint-stock companies or sold to private owners.

Mounting anti-Japanese protests in China

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By John Chan
19 September 2012

Sino-Japanese tensions are rapidly rising amid the largest anti-Japanese demonstrations in China since the two countries normalised relations in 1972. For the past four days, the Beijing regime has allowed protesters to rampage against Japanese-owned businesses, Japanese diplomatic offices and Japanese nationals.

The anti-Japanese rallies were triggered by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s provocative move last week to formally purchase the disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku islands in the East China Sea from their private Japanese owner. Protests erupted in 52 Chinese cities last Saturday, and spread to 82 cities the next day.

#chine #japon #mer-de-chine #diaoyu

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China stirs anti-Japanese protests over disputed islands

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By John Chan
20 August 2012

Tensions between China and Japan are again heating up after 14 pro-Chinese activists from Hong Kong were arrested last week by Japanese police when they attempted to land on the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands (known as Diaoyu in China) in the East China Sea. Both countries, as well as Taiwan, claim the islets.

The immediate standoff ended on Friday after Japan released the protesters, who included two reporters from the pro-Beijing Phoenix channel in Hong Kong. Yesterday, however, anti-Japanese protests flared in a number of Chinese cities after Japanese nationalists swam ashore from boats to land, with Japanese flags, on one of the disputed islands, Uotori. The right-wing activists had earlier been denied permission by Japanese authorities to visit the islands.

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Mass protests force Chinese authorities to scrap industrial project

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By John Chan
11 July 2012

The Chinese government last week promised to abandon the construction of a $1.6 billion industrial plant in Sichuan province’s Shifang city following mass protests.

Hongda Chemical, a subsidiary of the privately-owned Chinese resources conglomerate, Hongda Group, planned to refine copper ore from Tibet and Australia. The project consisted of a molybdenum processor with an annual capacity of 40,000 tonnes and a 400,000-tonnes-a-year copper cathode production line.

Like many industrial projects in China, the plant had been approved with little consideration for the wellbeing of the local population or the impact on the environment. Fears that the plant’s emissions would destroy limited local water supplies or cause cancers made it a focal point of anger against the government.