3rd April 09

The Australian

Cyber warfare a real-time threat

THE Chinese state, especially the People's Liberation Army, has in recent years embarked on a huge cyber assault on Western targets, including Australia. The targets are both military and commercial, and the ambition is both to obtain secret information and to gain the ability, in the event of conflict, to sabotage or even disable key Western computer systems.

US and China agree on regular dialogue

US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao have established top-level structures to co-operate on key economic, political, military and environmental issues, as hopes for global recovery and international stability hinge increasingly on the two great powers.

New York Times

What the Chinese Want From Obama

We asked these experts, all of whom are based in China, what people there expect from the Obama administration and what issues they think should be on Mrs. Clinton’s agenda.
·Daniel A. Bell, professor at Tsinghua University
·Andy Xie, economist
·Zhang Haibin, professor at Peking University
·Michael Meyer, author and hutong expert

Asia Times Online

China secures Myanmar energy route
By Sudha Ramachandran

BANGALORE
- China and Myanmar have signed an agreement for the construction of fuel pipelines that will transport Middle East and African crude oil from Myanmar's Arakan coast to China's southwestern Yunnan province - short-circuiting the long sea voyage past Singapore - while also drawing from Myanmar's own gas reserves. Under the March 27 agreement, a gas pipeline will tap into Myanmar's reserves at the Shwe gas fields, and an oil pipeline will carry Middle East and African crude that is currently transported in tankers through the Malacca Strait to China.

China prepares for next surge
By Mark Selden

As all nations strive to respond to the financial gridlock that began in the US and quickly sent world industrial production and trade plummeting, there has been much discussion of the ability of the high-flying Chinese economy to weather the storm, of the prospects for the intertwined US and Chinese economies, even of the potential for China to rise to a position of regional or global primacy. The present article critically explores these possibilities.