“

Xi keeps a tight grip on authority”

New “

journalistic ethics committees”

ordered for each province  

Beijing centralizing, consolidating environmental oversight;

Chinese group to build high-speed rail connecting Las Vegas, LA  

PLA miffed over troop cuts?;

China and Vietnam target drug trafficking  

China forced to defend yuan amid economic turmoil;

Europe concerned China’

s “

reform momentum has been lost”

Xi's reforms encountering “

unimaginably fierce resistance”

Spotlight on China’

s artificial islands  

Chinese hackers target Tibetans in India;

U.S. warns China on forced repatriations  

Crackdown on illegal mining of rare earth materials;

Thailand repatriates Uighurs to China  

Xi promotes former acolytes;

Opposition to textbook changes in Taiwan  

Protests follow death of imprisoned Tibetan monk;

Mitsubishi apologizes to China for World War II forced labor  

PLAN eyeing overseas “

strategic support points”

Journalism in Hong Kong enters “

darkest era”