Cyber security must be high on Central Military Commission Vice-Chairman Fan Changlong's agenda during his ongoing visit to the United States, especially after the US Department of Homeland Security said last week that the computers of the Office of Personnel Management had been hacked and data on about 4 million federal employees stolen.
An undercover journalist from Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis Daily infiltrated a gang in Jiangxi province to expose its racket of arranging for fake candidates to take the national college entrance examination (gaokao) for others. This is the biggest gaokao-related news this year.
Litchi and dog meat is the unlikely favorite combo of people in Yulin, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on summer solstice. In fact, the local catering industry has been using the combo to promote the summer solstice "festival" since the late 1990s, claiming ancient herbal medicine books say that eating litchi and dog meat together can help people overcome the negative effects of the hot and humid weather.
For people concerned that the broad China-US relationship has been hijacked recently by an excessive focus on the South China Sea and cyber security, two events in Washington this week offered welcome relief.
The visit of China's Central Military Commission Vice-Chairman Fan Changlong to the United States sends an unmistakable signal to the outside world that Beijing and Washington are keen on bolstering the current good momentum in bilateral military exchanges.
A recent report published by Shanghai University of Finance and Economics indicates that 54.6 percent of the elderly in China's rural areas still engage in occupational work and more than 60 percent live alone at home, with young people pursuing a better life in cities.
At their recent summit, the G7 members issued a statement strongly opposing "any unilateral actions that seek to change the status quo, such as large-scale land reclamation" in the South China Sea and East China Sea. Comments:
Fan Jiadong, a Party discipline official at Qing'an, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, died in hospital after he was attacked in the street by a group of masked men.
The local government said that the death of a 13-year-old boy in Xinyang, Central China's Henan province, who went missing six months ago and reportedly died of severe malnutrition and tuberculosis in April, was 70 percent his own fault.
Has the relationship between China and the United States reached "a tipping point"? This question has become important at a time when the US seems to encourage some of China's neighbors to challenge Beijing's legitimate interests in the South China Sea.
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