Alerts: China

11/24/12, The Philippines' top diplomat has told the country's future military leaders that they must stand their ground in any territorial disputes with China.  China has enraged several neighbors with a map printed in its newly revised passports that show it staking its claim on the entire South China Sea.

6/15/07, New intelligence reveals China is covertly supplying large quantities of small arms and weapons to insurgents in Iraq and the Taliban militia in Afghanistan, through Iran.

6/13/07, China is seeking to unseat the United States as the dominant power in cyberspace, a U.S. Air Force general leading a new push in this area said Wednesday. "They're the only nation that has been quite that blatant about saying, 'We're looking to do that,"' 8th Air Force Commander Lt. Gen. Robert Elder told reporters.

6/10/07, For almost six decades, U.S. military power has frustrated the ambition of China's ruling Communist Party to unite Taiwan with the mainland. With this U.S. security blanket in place, Beijing has been largely powerless to prevent the prosperous, self-governing island from becoming independent in all but name. But, an increasingly wealthy China is now building a military force tailored specifically to challenge any attempt by the United States to intervene in a conflict over Taiwan, Western and Chinese military analysts say.

5/25/07, China's modernizing military will make it a more muscular player in world events, a U.S. Defense Department report says. China's developing capabilities "will increase Beijing's options for military coercion to press diplomatic advantage, advance interests or resolve disputes," the Pentagon says in its annual report to Congress on China.

5/16/07, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has rejected criticism that his country is only interested in Africa because of its huge wealth of raw materials. He told a meeting of the African Development Bank in Shanghai that China was committed to helping the continent develop socially and economically.

5/16/07, North Korea is developing a new long-range ballistic missile that may be capable of hitting the U.S. territory of Guam, a Japanese official said Wednesday.

5/11/07, The new head of the U.S. Pacific Command said on Saturday that China's anti-satellite test sent a "confusing signal" about its military intentions, adding he would push for deeper exchange and openness between the countries' forces. China's military modernization and expanding defense budget have been a source of friction with the United States. "They're getting better. The equipment, the hardware that China's fielding, is improving."

5/10/07, Jurors on Thursday convicted a Chinese-born engineer of conspiring to export U.S. defense technology to China, including data on an electronic propulsion system that could make submarines virtually undetectable.

5/8/07, U.S. fish farms may have been given meal laced with melamine, expanding an investigation that already has found the industrial chemical in food for pets, pigs and chickens, officials said on Tuesday. China shipped tainted ingredients to Canada, which produced fish meal that was later sold to several fish farms in the United States.

5/8/07, China acknowledged on Tuesday that two Chinese companies had illegally exported contaminated wheat gluten and rice protein for pet food blamed for a spate of animal deaths in the United States.

5/8/07, China and Russia are supplying arms to Sudan that are being used to fuel the violence in the Darfur region in violation of a U.N. arms embargo, a human rights group said in a report Tuesday. China and Russia quickly rejected the report and Sudan's government said it was "not justified."

4/24/07, China has increased its presence in Africa in recent years in a hunt for oil and other natural resources to feed its rapidly growing economy. Its forays into areas considered politically unstable, however, has exposed Chinese workers to attacks.

4/13/07, Surgeons in Taiwan have reattached a vet's arm, after it was bitten off by a crocodile as he gave it an anaesthetic.

4/11/07, China's use of a missile to destroy a satellite in January put vital U.S. national-security satellites at risk, the top U.S. Air Force general said.