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China passed a wide-ranging new national security law on July 1, expanding its legal reach over the Internet and even outer space as concerns grow about ever-tighter limits on rights.

Former Chinese security chief Zhou Yongkang, the highest ranking ex-official to be investigated for corruption in decades, was sentenced on June 11 to life in prison at a secret trial, state-media said.

Authorities have detained an obscure Chinese artist after he posted online a humorous portrait of President Xi Jinping, his wife said May 28.

Judy Zhu said police accused her husband, Dai Jianyong, of "creating a disturbance" after detaining him Tuesday near their Shanghai home.

Chinese authorities have begun showing government officials and their families around prisons as a “warning” against corruption, according to China Daily newspaper.

70 members of the Communist Party and their wives or husbands visited “former prison officers and stayed in a cell for one day as an educational warning”, according to the newspaper.

Nine Russian and Chinese navy vessels have gathered in the Mediterranean Sea for a joint military drill that will continue until May 21, the Russian Defense Ministry has stated.

China and Russia are to hold their first-ever naval drills in the Mediterranean sea in May, international media sources report citing the Defense Ministry in Beijing.

Nine ships will take part in the exercises, with China deploying its vessels that are currently on anti-piracy missions off Somalia, Reuters quotes a spokesman for the ministry as saying.

Fireworks illuminated the skies across China as millions around Asia ushered in the Year of the Sheep on Feb. 19, kicking off festivities with an annual televised gala that got a thumbs down on social media for heavy Communist Party propaganda.
      

Railway "significant for Serbia, China, Hungary"

BELGRADE -- The project to build the rail line from Belgrade to Budapest is a priority for Serbia, China and Hungary, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said on Wednesday.

He made the remarks during a meeting in Belgrade with Xu Xianping, vice chairman of the Chinese National Development and Reform Commission.

When news got out that US President Barack Obama and China’s President Xi Jinping had reached an agreement on climate change, the American blogosphere lit up with negative comments.

US President Barrack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping reached a historic agreement on the reduction of their greenhouse gas emissions, at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit held in Beijing on November 10-12.

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