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Fri, July 20, 2018 | 23:32

Opinion > Columnists > Frank Ching >

Self-restraint the Beijing way

A couple of weeks ago, IHS Jane’s, a leading British publishing company specializing in military topics, reported that China was reclaiming land at Fiery Cross Reef in the South China Sea. The report said China was transforming permanently submerged features that do not qualify as an island under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea into an artificial island big enough to accommodate an airfield and a harbor, the largest Chinese naval facility in the Spratly Islands. With the benefit of modern technology, China is able to transform nature. In theory, at least, the artificial i...

2014-12-07 17:04

Will China drop 'one country, two systems' policy?

In the 1980s, when China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping introduced the concept of "one country, two systems," people in many foreign countries were skeptical that it could be done. China proved them wrong. Ironically, now, after 17 years of experience, it seems that the Chinese government is beginning to agree with these foreign skeptics. Instead of emphasiz

2014-11-20 16:35

Will Xi Jinping create personality cult?

For someone whose public life is an open book, many people are still puzzled by China's leader Xi Jinping, who became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and chairman of the Central Military Commission two years ago.

2014-11-09 15:39

China's concern on Western interference in Hong Kong

China's relationship with Russia has strengthened in the wake of the Ukraine crisis, despite Moscow's clear violation of the Chinese principle of noninterference in other countries' internal affairs.

2014-10-21 16:01

India's foreign policy under new premier

"I'm a very modest man," Narendra Modi, who as a young man sold tea by the railroad but who became India's prime minister in May, told 18,500 cheering fans in New York’s Madison Square Garden. "That's why I plan to do big things for modest people."

2014-10-12 15:13

Controversy over 'Confucius Institutes'

Last week, President XiJinping addressed the International Confucian Association to mark the 2,565th anniversary of the birth of Confucius. This would have been impossible for a Communist leader in earlier times. During the reign of Chairman Mao Zedong, Confucius was subjected to vilification and contempt.

2014-10-03 15:00

Rule of law in China

China’s Communist Party has announced that a plenary session of its Central Committee will meet next month and the focus will be on the rule of law. While no one expects the party to allow a fully independent judiciary, there may well be progress while leaving in place the ultimate role of the party.

2014-09-28 15:45

China's economic muscles and Hong Kong

China is warning Britain in no uncertain terms not to stick its nose into Hong Kong affairs, despite the fact that the two countries co-signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984 and registered it with the United Nations as an international treaty whose terms will last until 2047.

2014-09-14 15:11

China's returned students, scholars

The 110th anniversary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping on Aug. 22 has brought forth a flood of articles and speeches on the late reformer, including a 48-part miniseries on his launching of economic reforms, reversing Chairman Mao Zedong's focus on class struggle and political campaigns.

2014-08-31 16:36

China polishes up itself

Two years ago, Hong Kong's market regulator, the Securities and Futures Commission, took accounting firm Ernst & Young to court to force it to reveal information on a Chinese utility company that had sought to be listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The firm, now known as EY, refused to provide audit work papers, citing legal restrictions in China. In May, a high court judge ruled in favor of the commission. EY has lodged an appeal.

2014-08-01 16:57

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