“É necessária sinceridade para resolver disputa do Mar do Sul da China”, concordam Vietnã e China

Sincerity needed to solve South China Sea dispute

People Daily / Zhang Haiwen, Liu Qing – 17/10/2011

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong paid a visit to China on Oct. 11. Leaders of the two countries have attached particular importance to China-Vietnam relations and made specific arrangements and plans for the further development of bilateral ties, showing that the relations between China and Vietnam have not derailed.

The proper resolution of the South China Sea issue is the precondition for the healthy and sustainable development of China-Vietnam relations and an unavoidable topic in Trong’s visit. One of the remarkable results of the visit is the signing of the “Agreement on Basic Principles Guiding the Settlement of Maritime Issues between China and Vietnam.”

Of all the conflicts surrounding the South China Sea, the disputes between China and Vietnam are the most serious. The agreement can be regarded as a step forward made by both sides in the course of addressing the issue and is of great significance to the stability and development of China-Vietnam relations.

Coreia do Norte rejeita proposta de cúpula com o Sul

North Korea says rejects South’s secret summits offer

Reuters- 02/06/2011

SEOUL — Isolated North Korea rejected a proposal by rival South Korea at a secret meeting last month to hold a series of three summits in a bid to defuse tension on the divided peninsula, the North’s KCNA state news agency reported on June 1.

South Korea had proposed in May holding three summits over the next 12 months, KCNA reported, citing a spokesman for the National Defense Commission.

“We have made it clear there would never be a summit meeting as long as the South maintains a hostile policy and insists (North Korea) should abandon its nuclear program and apologize over the two incidents,” KCNA said.

Al Qaeda captura outra grande cidade no sudeste do Iêmen

Al-Qaida seizes another large city in southeast Yemen

SANAA, June 1 (Xinhua) — Al-Qaida’s regional branch in Yemen took control over another large city in Yemen’s southeastern province of Shabwa on Wednesday, a week after they controlled the southern Abyan province, local officials and residents said.

“Following fierce battles with government forces, fighters of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) managed to seize the whole city of Azzan in the southeast province of Shabwa on Wednesday, announcing that the city of Azzan joins in their Islamic emirate,” one local official told Xinhua.

Some tribal leaders and residents confirmed the news in phone conversations with Xinhua.

PM Japonês sobrevive a voto de desconfiança

Japanese PM survives no-confidence vote on borrowed time

por Jonathan Day

TOKYO, June 2 (Xinhua) — Japan’s Lower House of Parliament on Thursday voted down a motion of non-confidence in Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s Cabinet at a plenary session on Thursday afternoon by 293-152, despite a number of ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) dissenters supporting the motion.

The embattled Prime Minister earlier in the day suggested he would step down once he had dealt with the ongoing nuclear crisis in Fukushima Prefecture, northeast Japan, and other matters concerned with restoration and reconstruction in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that pummeled the east and northeast coast of Japan.

Hillary diz que Bin Laden tinha apoio no Paquistão, mas não do governo

Hillary diz que Bin Laden tinha apoio no Paquistão, mas não do governo

Estadão – 2705/2011

ISLAMABAD – A secretária de Estado americana, Hillary Clinton, afirmou nesta sexta-feira que as autoridades paquistanesas admitiram que “alguém, em algum lugar” dava apoio a Osama bin Laden, mas reiterou que “não há nenhuma prova” de que o governo do país conhecesse seu paradeiro.

Em entrevista coletiva depois de se reunir com as autoridades paquistanesas, Hillary reconheceu que as relações entre os países estão em um “ponto de inflexão” após a morte do líder da Al-Qaeda por um comando especial dos Estados Unidos em Abbottabad, cidade perto de Islamabad, capital do país, em 2 de maio.

“Não há absolutamente nenhuma prova” de que alguém do alto escalão do governo (paquistanês) soubesse que Osama bin Laden “vivia a algumas milhas de onde estamos”, declarou Hillary.

China e Myanmar firmam parceria estratégica

China, Myanmar forge partnership, ink deals 

BEIJING, May 27 (Xinhua) — China and Myanmar on Friday upgraded their relationship to strategic partnership and inked economic agreements, the latest sign of stronger ties between the two neighbors.

“Once again I congratulate you on becoming the first President of Myanmar,” Chinese President Hu Jintao told his Myanmar counterpart U Thein Sein Friday afternoon.

Thein Sein arrived in Beijing Thursday for his first state visit since assuming presidency in March.

“This is my first talk with you since the new Myanmar government was installed. Hopefully your visit will cement mutual understanding and friendship,” Hu said at the start of talks.

During their hour-long talks, the two leaders reviewed the growth of China-Myanmar ties since the two countries forged diplomatic relations in 1950.

Navegação via satélite chinesa terá crescimento explosivo

Chinese satellite navigation to see explosive growth 

People’s Daily Online/ Por Wang Hanlu – 26/05/2011

At the recent Second Annual Conference on China’s Satellite Navigation, an official said China’s satellite navigation industry will enter an explosive period once relevant techniques grow mature, and the annual value of production of the industry is expected to hit 400 billion yuan by 2020.

Ran Chengqi, the director of China’s Satellite Navigation System Administration Office, revealed that: “China has already listed satellite navigation as one part of seven national major strategic new industries, and its application industries are meeting great opportunities.”

Índia avança com ‘Tríade Nuclear’

India pushes for nuclear triad – paper

Ria Novosti / Nova Dehli – 17/05/2011

India’s Nuclear Command Authority (NCA) has discussed the country’s progress toward creating a fully-fledged nuclear triad, the Times of India said on Tuesday.

An NCA meeting on Monday, presided by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, focused on the testing of the first domestically-built nuclear submarine and the development of a long-range ballistic missile, the paper said.

India is very close to completing a nuclear triad with the induction of the first Arihant class nuclear-powered submarine by 2012. The submarine was floated out on July 26, 2009 and is slated to go for sea trials once its 83-MW light-water reactor gains full capacity.

O momento da verdade para a diplomacia japonesa com vizinhos

The moment of truth in Japan’s diplomacy with its neighbors

Asahi Shimbun/ Por Hidehito Fujiwara – 26/05/2011

When the Great East Japan Earthquake hit on March 11, I was in Beijing on business, where I was once posted as a correspondent. The nightmarish images I saw on television were so shocking that I was speechless.

Soon, I remembered the following comment that was posted on the Internet after the 2008 Great Sichuan Earthquake: “If we enter a war against Japan, we would go to the front and fight. But if the Japanese are hit by a major earthquake, we would be among the first to go to Japan to help them.”

It was one of the comments by Chinese youths who expressed gratitude for Japan’s support in disaster relief.

I don’t know whether they actually went to Japan, but in China, many people responded quickly to help Japan.

Egito irá abrir sua fronteira com Gaza

Egypt to Open Border With Gaza, in the Face of Israeli Objections

The New York Times/ Por David D. Kirkpatrick – 25/05/2011

CAIRO — Egypt will permanently open its border with the Gaza Strip on Saturday despite Israeli protests, Egypt’s transitional government confirmed Wednesday, upending the dynamics of regional politics in a bid to shake up the deadlocked peace process and better respond to Egyptian public opinion.

The opening of the border will be the latest geopolitical aftershock of the Egyptian revolution, and it is likely to strengthen the militant group Hamas, while easing life for 1.6 million residents.

The border between Rafah and the Gaza Strip has been officially closed since Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007. At that time, the Egyptian government under President Hosni Mubarak effectively sealed the border at the same time that Israel imposed its own blockade aimed at weakening Hamas.

Egyptian officials at the time said that they wanted to prevent militants from slipping across the border and to pressure Israel to open its crossing. But the move was always extraordinarily unpopular with the Egyptian public, which distrusts Israel and sympathizes with the Palestinians.

EUA e Reino Unido levam “relacionamento especial” a outro nível

UK and US “special relationship” taken to a new level amid anti-war protests

RT – 25/05/2011

Gaddafi ‘must go’, UK Prime Minister David Cameron said at a joint press conference with US President Barack Obama on Wednesday. Obama said no US ground troops would be sent into the North African country.

PM David Cameron and President Obama, speaking with journalists in the wake of the US President’s two-day visit to London, underlined that the coalition’s actions in Libya fully comply with the UN resolution 1973. President Barack Obama said there would be no “let up” in the pressure on Libya’s Leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who has been resisting the coalition’s operation in the country for over two months.

Despite Cameron stating that he and Obama agreed on the need to turn up the heat on Libya, President Obama did not commit to send any US ground forces into the country. 

Cooperação econômica China/Coreia do Norte deve aumentar

China-North Korea economic cooperation expected to pick up steam

Asahi Shimbun/ Por Daisuke Nishimura – 25/05/2011

When a groundbreaking ceremony for a China-North Korea project takes place May 28, one prominent person attending will be Chang Song-taek, the brother-in-law of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

Chang, vice chairman of the National Defense Commission and the man believed in charge of foreign investment for North Korea, has increasingly been a focus of attention among observers of Beijing-Pyongyang relations.

Chang’s inclusion in the North Korean delegation for Kim’s third visit to China since last May indicates that Pyongyang is increasingly serious about strengthening economic cooperation with its powerful neighbor and ally in the coming years.

Indeed, some joint projects appear promising for the two countries. Yet other plans show that kinks still need to be worked out.

Sem previsão para modificações na lei Estadunidense sobre Taiwan

No review of U.S. law on Taiwan seen anytime soon

Reuters – 25/05/2011

WASHINGTON — A top Chinese general says there is interest in Congress in overhauling U.S. policy on arming Taiwan but U.S. lawmakers appear highly unlikely to revise legislation at the core of Sino-U.S. tensions.

Chinese General Chen Bingde, on a trip to the United States last week, said he had received assurances in private talks with lawmakers that some wanted to revise the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, which obliges the United States to help the self-ruled island defend itself.

Representatives of the lawmakers, however, did not confirm Chen’s account and some denied they expressed interest in changing the act.

China claims Taiwan as an illegitimate breakaway province that must unify with the mainland and sees the Taiwan Relations Act as meddling in its internal affairs. It cut off military ties with the United States for most of 2010 over a U.S. arms sale to Taiwan worth up to $6.4 billion.

Gigantes do Leste Asiático próximos de um acordo de livre comércio

East Asian giants move closer on FTA / Positive signs from China heighten prospects of trilateral pact with Japan, S. Korea

Yomiuri Shimbun/ por Koichi Uetake – 24/05/2011

Japan, China and South Korea are set to move quickly to decide on a framework for a trilateral free trade agreement, after Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao expressed a positive view on the proposal.

At a trilateral summit meeting in Tokyo that finished Sunday, Prime Minister Naoto Kan, South Korean President Lee Myung Bak and Wen agreed to finish a joint study on the FTA within this year–one year earlier than initially planned.

Completion of the study will pave the way for formal FTA negotiations to begin.

After the meeting, Wen told reporters he would be keen to start the negotiations next year.

Lee said during a meeting with leaders of economic organizations Sunday that negotiations could start next year if the three nations proceed wisely.

China pressiona por reformas na Coreia do Norte

Wen: China invited Kim Jong Il to press for reform

Asahi/por Tetsuya Hakoda, Koichi Furuya e Yoshihiro Makino – 24/05/2011

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao indicated that Beijing invited North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to again show how reforms and a policy of opening up can lead to rapid economic development.

Wen was quoted as telling South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in Tokyo on May 22 that China has given Kim “the opportunity to understand China’s development and use it for his country.”

Wen acknowledged that Kim was visiting China during his talks with Lee, a senior South Korean government source said.

Previously, the Chinese government had invariably kept Kim’s visits to China confidential and admitted them only after the North Korean leader left the country.

Nos EUA, Netanyahu fala hoje sobre processo de paz

Nos EUA, Netanyahu fala hoje sobre processo de paz

Agência Estado – 24/05/2011

Menos de uma semana depois de o presidente americano, Barack Obama, apresentar ao mundo sua proposta para a criação de um Estado palestino, o premiê de Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, terá hoje a oportunidade de mostrar sua visão de como seria este país em pronunciamento no Congresso dos Estados Unidos, onde ele conta com enorme apoio tanto entre democratas quanto entre republicanos.

Em outros discursos realizados em Israel nas últimas semanas, o primeiro-ministro aceitou que seja criado um Estado palestino, mas impôs uma série de condições. O novo país precisaria ser desmilitarizado, Israel tem de ser reconhecido como um Estado judaico e seria mantida uma presença militar na bacia do Rio Jordão, que separa a Jordânia da Cisjordânia.

Netanyahu também deixa claro que adota uma posição rígida nos três pontos mais delicados de um acordo. Jerusalém seria mantida unificada como capital de Israel. Em segundo lugar, os refugiados palestinos poderiam retornar para o novo Estado, mas não para o território israelense, de onde eram originalmente. Por último, as fronteiras seriam diferentes das de 1967. As informações são do jornal O Estado de S. Paulo.

Fonte: http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/internacional,nos-eua-netanyahu-fala-hoje-sobre-processo-de-paz,723345,0.htm

Japão, China e Coreia do Sul firmam pacto para prevenção de desastres

Japan, China, South Korea agree to disaster pact

Asahi – 22/05/2011

Leaders of Japan, China and South Korea announced in Tokyo on May 22 a declaration that pledges the three countries will strengthen their cooperation in preventing disasters and ensuring the safety of nuclear power generation.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak issued the declaration in response to the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and subsequent accidents at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

“Through cooperation among the three countries, we will support Japan’s measures to overcome the hardships,” the declaration said.

Questões do Oriente Médio irão transparecer na viagem de Obama a Europa

Mideast Questions Likely to Surface in Obama’s Trip to Europe

The New York Times, por Mark Landler – 22/05/2011

WASHINGTON — President Obama left behind a week filled with the strident passions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to fly to Europe on Sunday, where his first stop on a six-day tour is Ireland, another country once consumed by sectarian violence.

Mr. Obama was to head overseas late Sunday after speaking earlier in the day to a pro-Israel lobbying group that has expressed deep suspicions of his latest efforts to break the deadlock between the Israelis and the Palestinians. The upheaval in the Middle East is likely to figure prominently throughout a trip that will also take him to Britain, France and Poland.

Wen diz: vamos acelerar a conexão de transportes com o Sudeste Asiático

China’s Wen says to speed up transport links with SE Asia

Reuters – Jakarta 01/05/2011

China will speed up the development of transport connections with Southeast Asia, building roads, telecommunication and power links as it seeks to boost trade, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Saturday, April 30.

Wen, speaking in Jakarta during a two-day visit to Indonesia, said China would give financial support through credit aid and investment, to provide for better exchange of commodities, capital and people.

“In the next 10 years we will speed up the inauguration of land transport routes between China and ASEAN,” said Wen in a speech in Jakarta, adding it will also provide funds for air and sea transport. “Today we witness the rise of Asia.”

Hatoyama desiste de aposentadoria

Hatoyama steps back from planned retirement

Por: Shinobu Konno THE ASAHI SHIMBUN 26/10/2010

HANOI–Former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is stepping back from his plan to retire from politics when his term as a Lower House member ends, saying “the situation has changed.”

“I am leaning toward continuing to serve as a lawmaker,” he told reporters Sunday during a visit to Vietnam to promote nuclear power generation and other Japanese infrastructure technologies.

Índia ajudará Japão a diversificar importações de minerais raros

India to help Japan diversify imports of rare earth minerals

Por Yuzuro Takano THE ASAHI SHIMBUN 26/10/2010

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agreed Monday to provide much-needed rare earth minerals to Japan, which faces a blockage from its main supplier, China.

The agreement on rare earth supply cooperation came during a meeting in Tokyo between Singh and Prime Minister Naoto Kan.

Reunião de Cúpula do Leste Asiático está aberta à participação de EUA e Rússia

Marty Natalegawa, Ministro de Relações Exteriores da Indonésia

East Asia Summit to welcome U.S., Russia on board

POR: Kazuto Tsukamoto e Takeshi Fujitani THE ASAHI SHIMBUN 26/10/2010

The chairman’s statement for this weekend’s East Asia Summit (EAS) will welcome the addition of the United States and Russia from next year, according to a draft obtained Sunday.

The EAS will be held in Hanoi on Saturday, with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attending as special guests of the chairman.

Maehara, Clinton: Novas fontes de minerais raros é necessária

Maehara, Clinton: New rare earth sources needed

Por: Masahiro Tsuruoka THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

HONOLULU–Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed Wednesday on the importance of their countries and other nations to secure sources of rare earth metals other than China.

At a news conference after their meeting, Clinton said rare earth metals were a integral part of industrial production that affected not only the United States and Japan, but the entire world.

China has restricted exports of rare earth metals to Japan used in various high-tech products since the height of a bilateral row with Japan over the Senkaku Islands.

Divulgado relatório para revisão da política de defesa do Japão

Japan should ease arms export rules: panel report

Mainichi Japan – 27/08/2010

Japan should consider easing its arms export ban, an advisory panel to Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Friday, citing the need for the government to allow the country’s defense industry to join international projects.

The report¹, on which Kan will base the country’s future defense policy, also said Japan should maintain its non-nuclear principles while urging the Self-Defense Forces to play bigger roles in international peace cooperation and enhance their capabilities to respond to complex contingencies.

Míssil anti-navio chinês quase operacional

CSS5 DongFeng 21

China’s anti-ship missile is nearly operational

Por Yoichi Kato ASAHI SHIMBUN – 26/08/2010

A ballistic missile under development in China for the purpose of deterring and attacking U.S. aircraft carriers in the western Pacific is close to becoming operational, according to Adm. Robert Willard, commander of U.S. Pacific Command.

Willard provided the assessment in a recent round table discussion with Japanese media in Tokyo.

The Pentagon, in its annual report on China’s military, which was released last week, states, “China is developing an anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) based on a variant of the CSS-5 medium-range ballistic missile (alternative name is DF-21).”

It also said, “The missile has a range in excess of 1,500 kilometers, is armed with a maneuverable warhead, and when integrated with appropriate command and control systems, is intended to provide the PLA (People’s Liberation Army) with the capability to attack ships, including aircraft carriers, in the western Pacific Ocean.”

Eleições para liderança do PDJ

Primeiro Ministro Naoto Kan, ao fundo a imagem de seu antecessor Yukio Hatoyama

Eleições para liderança do PDJ

The Asahi Shimbum – 17/08/2010

With the Democratic Party of Japan’s leadership election only weeks away, it seems germane to consider what is at stake in choosing a party leader.

We imagine that a good number of people have misgivings about the leadership election to be held in September. There are two main issues.

First, if Prime Minister Naoto Kan loses, then the new party leader will automatically become prime minister. Since 2007, every prime minister has stepped down every year. Is the country now to lose yet another one after just three months? Is it really OK for Japan to have such a succession of short-lived governments?

Second, Kan did not resign as prime minister even after losing to the Liberal Democratic Party in the recent Upper House election. Why then must he resign as a result of what is, effectively, merely the DPJ’s internal party process?

Sinais de grandes mudanças na Coréia do Norte

Kim Jong Un around 1998

Sinais de grandes mudanças na Coréia do Norte

Por Yoshihiro Makino THE ASAHI SHIMBUN – 17/08/2010

SEOUL–With a big question mark about the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the isolated state has signaled that a major reshuffle of top posts in the ruling party is in the cards.

A key reason apparently is to ease the burden on Kim, 68, who reportedly suffered a stroke in August 2008, and to smooth the succession process.

The ruling Workers’ Party of Korea is set to convene a rare meeting of party representatives early next month, probably around the Sept. 9 national foundation day.

RDPC afirma: novas sanções estadunidenses violam declaração da ONU

DPRK says new U.S. sanctions violate UN statement

HANOI, July 22 (Xinhua) — The new sanctions the United States will impose on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) violated a UN statement issued after the sinking of a South Korean warship, a DPRK spokesman said Thursday.

Ri Tong Il, a spokesman for the DPRK delegation at the ASEAN Regional Forum, said the measures announced by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were in violation of the July 9 UN statement.