Links to sources on
US-China-Taiwan Relations
Reference of links on China: News and Media
Reference of links on Taiwan: News and Media
Official Media of China (remember that any official media of the Chinese
government or Communist Party are not really media in the sense that we know
them. They are simply statements of government policy in the guise of news.
They are useful in telling China watchers what the government and party thinks
of many issues and events.)
China
Daily
(official Chinese government newspaper)
People's Daily (official paper of the Chinese Communist Party)
People’s Daily in English (if this doesn’t work go
to the above Chinese link and find a link to the English version)
China Internet Corporation (run by Xinhua News Agency
an official government news service)
Chinese
News Agency (official government news service)
China Central Television (CCTV - official Chinese
government TV)
CCTV in English ((if this doesn’t work go to the above Chinese link
and find a link to the English version)
Official Taiwan news media
Government Information Office
Periodicals
Taiwan
Central News Agency (official gov’t news agency; English Version-Left Side.)
Independent news on China
and Taiwan (independent media from
regional and international sources)
Inside China (independent news on
China, published by the European Internet Network)
China News Digest (independent news
organization that compiles news on China from many sources; this is the best
daily news source on what is going on in China)
South China Morning Post (the best English language
daily newspaper in Hong Kong; still an independent newspaper to a certain
extent, but it can be influenced by Chinese and Hong Kong governments. Their
best political reporter on China, Willy Wo Lap Lam, was fired for being too
critical of the Communist party)
Hong Kong Standard (also an excellent free
and independent newspaper out of Hong Kong)
Taiwan Economic News (independent paper
covering business issues)
China Post (independent daily)
Apple Daily (independent tabloid
newspaper in Hong Kong -- flashy, sensationalized, with good investigative
reporting. In Chinese only as of now)
Chinese Government Description
Chinese Government Website
Chinese
Embassy to the US in Washington DC (a great place to look for information on the
Communist Party/Chinese government positions on most issues)
Official Government White Papers (policy statements on key
issues)
Ministry
of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation
2000 Chinese government White Paper on China’s National
Defense
2008
Chinese Government White Paper on China’s National Defense (Chinese)
2008
Chinese Government White Paper on China’s National Defense (English)
2000 Chinese government White Paper on
China’s Space Activities
2006 Chinese
Government White Paper on China’s Space Activities
Taiwan Government
American
Institute in Taiwan (The US government’s "Embassy" in Taiwan. It acts
as an unofficial embassy, since the US and Taiwan have no official diplomatic
relations.)
Chinese
Economic and Cultural Office Information division of the Chinese Information and
Cultural Center (a de facto consulate in New York)
Taiwanese Political Parties
Kuomintang (KMT - Nationalist Party)
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP mission in Washington
DC)
General Information on Taiwan (produced by lobby groups
or government-related organizations who want to make sure that Taiwan does not
get marginalized and forgotten in the world's rush to gain access to the
mainland Chinese market)
Taiwan in Washington DC homepage
Security (issues related to China, Taiwan, and the US)
Think Tanks
Taiwan Security Research (Department of Political
Science, National Taiwan University page which compiles everything written
about Chinese, Taiwanese, and Northeast Asian security)
Chinese Nuclear Weapons (Federation of American
Scientists)
Chinese Military Capabilities (Federation of American
Scientists)
Confidence-Building Measures for Asia (Stimson Center,
Washington DC)
US Government Sources
US China Economic and Security Review
Commission
US
Department of Defense East Asia Strategy Report 1998
US Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Cox Report (US House of Representatives report on Chinese espionage and
technology transfer to China)
Annual Report to the Congress on the
Military Power of the People’s Republic of China (written by the US
Department of Defense, June 2000)
Report to Congress on the Implementation of the Taiwan
Relations Act (US Department of Defense)
US Pacific Command (the military command that operates US military
capabilities in the Far East)
Critics of the Chinese
Government
Human Rights In China (New York based group that
monitors human rights violations in China)
US State Department Country Reports on Human Rights (China
included)
Tibet