Most residents interviewed in Beijing, the Chinese capital, thought war was unlikely but acknowledged the rising tensions. selling arms to Taiwan and deepening its ties with the government. Tensions have risen sharply recently, with China sending a growing number of warplanes on sorties near the island and the U.S. Taiwan is a self-governing island of 24 million people China regards as a renegade province that should come under its rule. The answer is probably not-most analysts think military hostilities are not imminent-but the posts on social media show the possibility is on people’s minds and drew out a flurry of war-mongering comments.

You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to -A seemingly innocuous government recommendation for Chinese people to store necessities for an emergency quickly sparked scattered instances of panic-buying and online speculation: Is China going to war with Taiwan? If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. Last November, China signed a deal with Russia to purchase 24 Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets, making it the first foreign buyer of one of Russia's most advanced warplanes.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: To cover manufacturing gaps, China has been outfitting its warplanes with engines made in Russia. China's own Defense Ministry acknowledged to Reuters that there's a gap between China's military technology and that of other developed countries. Which brings us to the question: Why does China want American military technology?Īlthough China has spent the past 30 years building an extremely sophisticated military machine, the engines in its warplanes still lag behind those made in the West. laws designed to safeguard our most sensitive materials serves to undermine our national security interests and we will aggressively pursue those who try to do so.' export laws by agreeing to illegally acquire and send to China fighter jet engines, a highly sophisticated military drone and related technical data,' Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Carlin said in a statement. 'Circumventing U.S. ' Man was convicted of conspiring to evade U.S. Wenxia Man faces up to 20 years in prison for violation of the Arms Export Control Act, which regulates the export of defense materials and services. A California woman was convicted in Florida on Thursday of conspiring to illegally export American military technology and technical weaponry data to China.

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