Miles Yu
Columns by Miles Yu
Inside China: Anti-Japan protests turn violent
The diplomatic row between China and Japan over the Senkaku Islands, which China calls the Diaoyudaos, stepped up this week as demonstrations in several major Chinese cities turned violent. Published August 22, 2012
Inside China: China tries 4 police chiefs
Four key aides to former Chongqing police Chief Wang Lijun, whose dramatic attempt to defect to the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu triggered a political tsunami in Chinese politics, faced prosecution in a show trial on Friday. Published August 15, 2012
Inside China: Aide to consulate defector charged
Wang Pengfei, the right-hand man of Wang Lijun, the former Chongqing police chief whose attempted defection to the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu in February triggered China's biggest political storm in several decades, was officially charged recently with dereliction of duty and corruption. Published August 1, 2012
Inside China: Russia detains 17 Chinese fishermen
Tensions between China and almost all of its maritime neighbors are at a historic high as a result of sovereignty and maritime rights disputes. Published July 25, 2012
Inside China: Armed fishermen
A leading Chinese fishing-industry official is urging the Chinese government to provide arms and military training for 100,000 Chinese fishermen to roam the South China Sea and defeat Vietnam and other countries in the region that are challenging China’s sweeping claims of sovereignty in those waters. Published July 18, 2012
Inside China: Nation is among most repressive
China has about one-quarter of the world's population but more than 80 percent of the world's people categorized as "not free" and denied the most basic rights, according to a recent Freedom House report. Published July 11, 2012
Inside China: China upset over RIMPAC snub
As China ratchets up military tensions with almost all of its neighbors in the Western Pacific, the United States is hosting its largest multinational maritime exercise and has excluded China from joining the maneuvers near Hawaii called Rim of the Pacific. Published July 4, 2012
Inside China: PLA says war with U.S. imminent
A Chinese general recently offered an alarming assessment that a future conflict with the United States is coming as a result of U.S. “containment” policies. Published June 27, 2012
Inside China: PLA hawks decry sellout by leaders
China's military is making bold accusations that self-described "heroic" anti-American hawks are being purged and betrayed by China's CIA-controlled civilian leaders. Published June 20, 2012
Inside China: China’s one million traitors
"China is a country with fertile soil to produce traitors. There were over 1 million Chinese traitors during the Resisting the Japanese War [World War II]. In today's China, there are more traitors than that number," said Rear Adm. Zhang Zhaozhong of the Chinese navy, who is the most well-known and most senior military commentator on China's state television. He is one of the most outspoken, hard core anti-American spokesmen. The revealing remarks were made June 7 in the online edition of the official Chinese newspaper the Global Times. Published June 13, 2012
Inside China: China and India play consulate game
India is taking advantage of China's desire to open a new diplomatic outpost in the strategically important port city of Chennai in South India. The Delhi government for its part wants the Chinese government to reopen the Indian consulate in Lhasa, Tibet, the Hindustan Times reported May 28. That consulate was forced to close in the aftermath of the 1962 Sino-Indian border war. Published June 6, 2012
Inside China: China sees conspiracy in sea law convention
The Chinese government reacted strongly recently to U.S. government efforts to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), calling the move a dangerous U.S. military plot to interfere further in Asia's regional affairs. Published May 30, 2012
Inside China: China and its exiles
As its influence continues to grow on the world stage, China has one major demand that the rest of the world is finding more and more difficult to accept: stay away from those people Beijing dislikes and views as undesirable. Published May 16, 2012
Inside China: Hobnobbing, war hysteria escalate
Billed as the most important and substantial military exchange visit with the United States in nine years, the grand tour from Friday through Thursday by a large Chinese military delegation – led by Defense Minister Gen. Liang Guanglie – received royal treatment at the Pentagon this week. Published May 9, 2012
Inside China: Admiral says China can destroy destroyers
The Navy's next-generation warship, the 15,000-ton Zumwalt-class destroyer, is no good and can be destroyed by Chinese fishing boats armed with explosives, according to a leading Chinese military commentator, People's Liberation Army Rear Adm. Zhang Zhaozhong. Published May 2, 2012
Inside China: Eroding press freedom
A routine Taiwanese legislative hearing on Chinese government advertising activities in Taiwan revealed alarming evidence that the communist government paid some of Taiwan's leading newspapers to produce pro-mainland news coverage. Published April 25, 2012
Inside China: China, Russia to hold drill near Korea
Chinese and Russian military forces are set to hold a large-scale, weeklong joint naval drill beginning Sunday, and the maneuvers will be held in sensitive waters of the Yellow Sea just west of the Korean Peninsula. Published April 18, 2012
Inside China: Murder, Xi wrote
The bizarre affair involving China's flamboyant princeling, former Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai, continues to dazzle the world following Bo's unceremonious ouster as the regional communist viceroy on March 15. Published April 11, 2012
Inside China: A powder keg in Northeast Asia
North Korea's planned launch of what it calls a Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite on a space launcher, scheduled to take place between April 12 and 16 to mark the 100th anniversary of the late dictator Kim Il-sung's birth, has dramatically intensified the already volatile security environment in Northeast Asia, causing a crisis that threatens to bring war to the region. Published April 4, 2012
Inside China: Red Songs curbed but not banned
A signature action of ousted Chongqing Communist Party chief Bo Xilai was to hold mass rallies for the singing of communist songs, or "red songs." Mr. Bo's program was officially curtailed by the new propaganda chief, who announced the move Monday in the southwestern metropolis of more than 30 million people. Published March 28, 2012
