The young woman had met her husband when working at a restaurant in Shanghai in her late teens and decided to get married soon thereafter. Their marriage has been problematic; both live more or less equal distances from their hometowns, one to the north, one to the south. Because of their low-paying jobs and status, taking care of a child in the city where both of them live and work was out of the question.

Unfortunately, though hammered by China in the 1974 Xisha Island Battle and later the Sino-Vietnamese War in 1979, Vietnam’s insults in the South China Sea remained unpunished today. It encouraged nearby countries to try their hands in the “disputed” area and attracted the attention of the US so that a regional conflict gradually turned international.

China, concentrating on interior development and harmony, has been ultimately merciful in preventing such issue turning into a global affair so that regional peace and prosperity can be secured.

But it is probably the right time for us to reason, think ahead and strike first before things gradually run out of hands.

It seems all the countries around the area are preparing for an arms race.

Officials from the SEC and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) are due to meet with their Chinese counterparts in Washington, D.C. in October for a second round of talks on joint inspections of auditing firms in China.

"Not having proper accounting and reliable audit review for publicly traded companies with operations in China is just not acceptable. We have to find a path to resolution of this issue," Khuzami said. "It is … a big issue for us."

The financing problems affecting Chinese real estate developers could help an overheating sector let off steam and prevent a dramatic property market collapse, according to senior government officials.

Investors have reacted with alarm to signs that Chinese developers are struggling to fund their operations, fearing they could presage a collapse of the sector that would affect the entire country and hit one of the last remaining sources of growth for the global economy. The stocks and bonds of Chinese property developers have been battered this year, with the sell-off accelerating in recent weeks.

Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) is helping arm U.S. lawmakers for a renewed push to sell its new F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan, not just the Obama administration's planned $5.3 billion upgrade of old ones.

A Lockheed Martin official last week emailed an unsigned memo to lawmakers on Capitol Hill titled "Taiwan — The Benefit of New F-16 C/Ds," two congressional staff members said.

At issue is China's intensified effort to keep America's military out of its "Exclusive Economic Zone,"

It was an unusual scene for a Chinese riot — there was not a single policeman in sight.

In the southern village of Wukan, debris and smashed furniture littered the courtyard of a ransacked government office several days after villagers clashed with officials over illegal land requisition.

– Joint ventures with jet engine market leaders like General Electric (GE) have the potential to give the Chinese aerospace industry a 100 piece puzzle with 90 of the pieces already assembled. Enough is left out so that the exporting companies can comply with the letter of the export control laws, but in reality, a rising military power is potentially being given relatively low-cost recipes for building the jet engines needed to power key military power projection platforms including tankers, AWACS, maritime patrol aircraft, transport aircraft, and potentially, subsonic bombers armed with standoff weapons systems.

– While already a significant source of potentially damaging technology transfer, the imperative to prioritize quarterly profits today over long-term profits and strategic concerns may be exacerbated as long-term military spending constraints in Europe, Japan, and now even the U.S. may drive Western aeroengine manufacturers even further into Chinese joint ventures to replace revenue.

The astonishing thing is that some of the most powerful men of global media have agreed to sit down and be used as props in Beijing’s show.

Eleven heavyweight media executives including New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr, BBC director-general Mark Thompson and AP president Tom Curley attended the summit and discussed things such as the protection of intellectual property rights, journalists’ safety, the media’s role in disasters and media cooperation in the new media era.

Such was his influence at the market's peak that reports by his company, Beijing Shoufang Investment Consulting, republished in dozens of influential newspapers and websites, were themselves often cited as a reason for a particular share price rising.

China’s financial authorities made this claim in their responses to both the 2010 and 2011 IMF Article IV Reports.

What is implied by this rapid pace of productivity growth is that the real effective exchange rate should have been increasing even more rapidly during this period and therefore the renminbi might have quite a ways to go before reaching equilibrium.

住建部住宅产业化促进中心副主任文林峰9月28日在“2011年·中国首届保障性住房设计竞赛”颁奖典礼上对本报记者透露，出于促进保障房质量和降低成本的考虑，住建部推出了保障房部品采购信息平台。

“We warmly welcome you, the Coca-Cola delegation, with Mr. Schulze as your leader,” said Park Chol Su, the president of North Korea’s Taepung International Investment Group. “I hope this will be a good opportunity to make progress in the relations between the U.S. and Korea.”

But a recent CIA report reveals the vice president was one of a long list of current and former U.S. and foreign officials who exchanged information with Cui Liru, one of the five experts identified as a longtime Ministry of State Security (MSS) intelligence officer working undercover as the head of China’s most important intelligence-analysis group.

Mr. Cui is head of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, known as CICIR (pronounced “kicker”). CICIR has a long history of supplying information to the CIA through agency-paid U.S. consultants who are dispatched yearly to CICIR’s offices in Beijing for discussions, according to U.S. officials.

Headlined “The Time to Use Force Has Arrived in the South China Sea; Let’s Wage Wars on the Philippines and Vietnam to Prevent More Wars,” the article was written by Long Tao, a likely pseudonym literally translated as “The Dragon’s Teaching.” The name refers to the third chapter of the famous Chinese ancient military classic “Six Secret Military Teachings” that, among other things, promotes the idea that the best way to establish military awesomeness is to kill the highest-ranked dissenters.

Such was his influence at the market's peak that reports by his company, Beijing Shoufang Investment Consulting, republished in dozens of influential newspapers and websites, were themselves often cited as a reason for a particular share price rising.