20,000 refugees flee Myanmar to China
Politics & Current Affairs
Top politics and current affairs news for March 9, 2017. Part of the daily The China Projectย news roundup "The Taliban goes to Beijing.
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China says more than 20,000 from Myanmar seek refuge across borderย / Reuters
Earlier this week, about 30 people died in a battle between ethnic Chinese fighters and Myanmar government security forces in Kokang, which borders Chinaโs Yunnan Province. The Chinese government has called for calm and says that more than 20,000 people from Kokang have fled to China to escape the ongoing fighting. The South China Morning Postย reportsย that a shell fired in the conflict landed about 100 meters across the border in China, injuring one person. -
Duterteโs defense chief signals Scarborough Shoal is off-limits for Chinese rigsย / SCMP
Philippine defense chief Delfin Lorenzana today said that President Rodrigo Duterte had drawn โa red lineโ on Chinese construction or reclamation of Scarborough Shoal, a disputed reef in the South China Sea that the Chinese call Huangyan Island (้ปๅฒฉๅฒ huรกngyรกn dวo). The news is the first sign of trouble after a dramatic warming of the relationship between China and the Philippines that began when Duterte took office in June 2016. In January this year, China and the Philippines announcedย cooperation programs worth $3.7 billion; in February, Duterte said he would ask China for help fighting piratesย in his countryโs coastal waters.
- Beijingโs Basic Law stand in oath saga โa crushing deadly blowโย – an official says the National Peopleโs Congress interpretation of Hong Kongโs Basic Law that disqualified the two lawmakers was โvery encouragingโ and โa blowโ to the pro-independence advocatesย / SCMP
- Zambia on track to host Chinaโs next African railroadย / Caixin
- Chinaโs Gezhouba digs in for Pakistan damย / Caixin
- The long road to a simple Party styleย / China Media Project
- Online video games are the latest casualty of Chinaโs war against Korean businessesย / Quartz
