China is shifting its space program into high gear, with recently announced goals to build a manned space station by 2020 and send a spacecraft to Mars by 2013 — all on the heels of its second robotic moon mission this year. Yet some space analysts worry that China’s ascendancy in space means the waning of American superiority in spaceflight. The United States is retiring its storied space... 

Cheng Jianping retweeted the comment as ‘wangyi09’ adding ‘Angry youth, charge!’ A Chinese Twitter user has been arrested, on her wedding day, over a tweet. One week after Paul Chambers lost his appeal in the so-called Twitter joke trial here in the UK, Amnesty International reports that Chinese activist Cheng Jianping has been sentenced to a year of ‘re-education’... 

Remember the 15-story hotel built in six days? Well, this 12-story apartment building fell down in three seconds. In fact, this apartment block was not built with pre-fab techniques and it’s certainly not Level 9 Earthquake-resistant. It’s just your typical brick and cement building. They first build the block, and then started to excavate an underground parking on the front. They placed... 

For 18 minutes in April, China’s state-controlled telecommunications company hijacked 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic, including data from U.S. military, civilian organizations and those of other U.S. allies. This massive redirection of data has received scant attention in the mainstream media because the mechanics of how the hijacking was carried out and the implications of the incident... 

Protesters chant slogans during an anti-China protest rally in central Tokyo. About 4,000 anti-China protesters rallied in Tokyo on Saturday, with their anger fuelled by a video capturing a collision between Chinese and Japanese vessels which sparked a diplomatic spat. About 4,000 anti-China protesters rallied in Tokyo on Saturday, with their anger fuelled by a video capturing a collision between Chinese... 

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gestures during a news conference with Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010 in Melbourne, Australia. The United States and Australia pledged Saturday to tighten security ties and work together to influence the behavior of an increasingly assertive China. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Australian Foreign Minister... 

You may remember an LA Times article from last year, titled Beijing Loves IKEA — But Not for Shopping. In summary, the article revealed why there’s a line to get in the front door of the Beijing IKEA, but not one to check out. The picture above tells part of the story — just as many locals visit IKEA to sleep — on chairs, sofas, and occasionally beds — as come for the $2 plates of lox and... 

Shi Tao, a freelance journalist, is serving a jail sentence for leaking a document banning coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests anniversary. Human rights groups and WikiLeaks itself warn that Government Leaks project is naive given China’s strict secrecy laws. Attempts to create a “Chinese WikiLeaks” project could result in lengthy jail sentences for internet users who send sensitive... 

A rare earth mine in China, which this week announced that it would cut its annual export quota for rare earths in 2011. China, which has been blocking shipments of crucial minerals to Japan for the last month, has now quietly halted some shipments of those materials to the United States and Europe, three industry officials said this week. The Chinese action, involving rare earth minerals that are... 

Man rescued after getting arm trapped down looUploaded by itnnews. – Up-to-the minute news videos. A man in Xixing City, China found himself engaged in a embarrassing moment after he dropped his mobile phone down a toilet. Rescue workers found the hapless gentleman hunched over the toilet with his arm trapped down the loo pipe. They had to break the bowl to free his arm, which was completely... 

Microsoft is vastly expanding its efforts to prevent governments from using software piracy inquiries as a pretext to suppress dissent. It plans to provide free software licenses to more than 500,000 advocacy groups, independent media outlets and other nonprofit organizations in 12 countries with tightly controlled governments, including Russia and China. With the new program in place, authorities... 

The United States believes the rebalancing of the global economy “is not progressing as well as needed,” Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, pictured on October 6, told world economic leaders Friday. The specter of a damaging global currency war hung over a meeting of economic powers in Washington Friday, as China and the United States again clashed over efforts to rebalance world trade. Finance... 

Fly in the sky: The Global Hawk, an unmanned spy plane, is unveiled at Edwards Air Force Base in California in January 2009. Spy planes sought amid regional rise in tensions. The Defense Ministry is looking to buy three Global Hawk reconnaissance aircraft from the United States to deal with China’s militarization and North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, Self-Defense Force... 

Protesters chanted: "We will not allow Communist China to invade our territory." Anti-China protesters gathered Saturday in Tokyo and six other major cities in Japan to rally against what it calls an invasion of disputed islands that both claim are part of their territories. Protesters held up Japanese flags and chanted, “We will not allow Communist China to invade our territory.” Beijing... 

Two Russian scientists are being held in a high-security Moscow prison while being investigated on suspicion of spying for China, a lawyer for one of the scientists said Wednesday. The two men, Svyatoslav Bobyshev and Yevgeny Afanasyev, who are both university academics, are being held in Lefortovo jail while being investigated for “high treason and espionage”, Bobyshev’s lawyer...