When Elizabeth Trudeau, director of US State Department Press Office, read a statement on Tuesday about a US Navy surface ship "exercising the right of innocent passage" while transiting near China's Yongshu Reef that day, she said it was to uphold the rights and freedoms of all states under international law and to challenge the excessive maritime claims of some claimants in the South China Sea.
What happened between the police and 29-year-old Lei Yang on Saturday night? The entire truth about Lei's death is indispensable if justice is not only done but seen to be done in this case.
The situation in the South China Sea took a worrying turn for the worse on Tuesday after the US guided-missile destroyer USS William P. Lawrence conducted another so-called freedom of navigation operation near Yongshu Reef in China's Nansha Islands.
ON TUESDAY, Li Yanhong, chairman and CEO of domestic online search engine Baidu, issued a letter to all staff about the results of the recent investigation into the death of a college student, which concluded the search engine had played a role in the young man's death. Beijing News commented:
A 14-YEAR-OLD TEENAGER was found dead on April 11 in his bed near a factory in South China's Guangdong province where he and his mother worked, China Youth Daily commented on Wednesday:
PEKING UNIVERSITY is making it mandatory for female students to take part in an aerobics performance as part of the university's sports show. They are also required to wear skirts the university will pay for. Beijing Times commented on Wednesday:
The 2016 recruiting video for the People's Liberation Army titled Battle Declaration has already been watched tens of thousands of times in weeks since it was posted online. All those who have watched it will have noted the advanced, high-tech weaponry displayed.
Whether the campaign to promote stricter governance of the ruling Party can achieve the expected and desired effects depends on whether effective education and disciplines can be put in place, and whether a sharp sword is hanging overhead to deter violations of the Party's rules.
The White House announced on Tuesday that US President Barack Obama will visit Hiroshima later this month when he visits the country to attend the G7 Summit. It will be the first visit by a sitting US president. However, it would be wrong to interpret this as a message that the US is apologizing for the atomic bomb it dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, which killed tens of thousands of Japanese.
The country's sputtering export machine has obviously caught the full attention of Chinese policymakers who rolled out supportive measures on Monday.
Besides officially crowning Kim Jong-un as supreme leader, the just-concluded party congress of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea offered the rest of the world a rare glimpse of the country's actual policy orientations.
The terse statement released by the police about the death of a young man who was interrogated in Beijing at the weekend has once again provoked the public to question the official version of events.
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