Chinese secession law may seek legal basis for use of force ...
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BEIJING,  - A secession law being drafted by China could provide the legal basis for using force against Taiwan, but it is unlikely to include a clear deadline for when reunification must take place, analysts said.
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Beijing, Dec 25 (PTI) China&#39;s parliament today discussed the first-ever law against secession aimed to prevent arch-rival Taiwan from declaring independence.
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China's parliament is to consider reforming a law that allows incarceration without trial, state media reports.
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Taiwan is considering applying to join the United Nations under the island's own name, a move that China would see as a provocative declaration of independence by a renegade province.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 20 (IPS) - International law is seen by many to have been  shunted aside by Western powers when launching their most  significant military operations in the past decade.
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When the leaders of the People&#39;s Republic of China insist that the pre-condition for the peaceful resolution of the decades-long face-off across the Taiwan Strait can only be &quot;one China,&quot; they are making it quite clear that &quot;unification,&quot; and not peace
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TAIPEI : Taiwan Vice President Annette Lu called for a &quot;legal battle&quot; on Saturday against rival China which is considering a new law against seccession that analysts say is aimed at preventing Taipei from formally declaring independence.
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Taiwan condemned China&#39;s proposed anti-secession law on Saturday, calling it a move to establish a legal basis to attack the island.
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Analysis: Border disputes and Chinese ties with Pakistan have long divided them, but business could bring them together
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BEIJING, March 8 -- China's legislature began examining a much-debated measure Thursday that is intended to help protect private property in an increasingly well-off society.
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The Standing Committee of the National People&#39;s Congress adopts draft anti-secession legislation. Congress is scheduled to discuss it in March.
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&quot;My own view is that people should be allowed to use what force is necessary and that they should be allowed to do so without any prosecution.
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Reports from Hong Kong say China has indicated its intention to take a more active role in the political affairs of the territory.
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This past Sunday the Washington Post ran a piece on the possibility of a nuclear war with China. To my knowledge it's the first to appear in such an auspicious publication, so I'll quote it at length:Given China's appetites and our alliances and interests, a war is not inconceivable in Taiwan, or in Korea. To remove American nuclear escalation from the equation, China would need not parity but only a deterrent such as it has long possessed. The Chinese, however, whose nuclear thresholds are dissimilar to ours, would have other options. They know that every facet of America's economy, military and society depends on individual and networked electronic devices. Were these to fail all at once and irreparably, the nation would seize up, perhaps for years.Faced with victory, or with loss, they might choose to -- and who would venture to guarantee that they would not? -- detonate half a dozen high-megatonnage nuclear charges in the mesosphere, in an electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) strike perhaps not even in American airspace, cooking almost every circuit and semiconductor, rendering the American government blind, deaf and dumber than it is already and the country unable to resist the inroads that would surely follow.  Heady stuff, written in a hawkish style reminiscent of the Cold War, but does it add up to a plausible scenario for toe-to-toe nuclear combat?
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China is determined and has the ability to crush any attempt by Taiwan to declare independence, Communist Party chief Hu Jintao said yesterday amid tensions with the self-ruled island over which Beijing claims sovereignty.
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BEIWU, China  - Ethnic rivalries have sparked  recent violent clashes in China, where the government has its  hands full trying to control a country of 1.3 billion people as  economic differences bubble into unrest with growing frequency.
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Taiwan said China&#39;s proposed anti- secession bill, aimed at setting up a framework for retaliation if the island declares independence, will escalate tensions and urged the rest of the world to lobby against its passage.