Written by ReutersWednesday, 02 November 2011

Beijing has denied a US commission's claim that China may have been responsible for hacking incidents on US environment-monitoring satellites, saying the committee had “ulterior motives” in writing such a draft report.



At least two US environment-monitoring satellites were interfered with four or more times in 2007 and 2008 via a ground station in Norway, and…

BEIJING (AP) — China on Thursday denounced a decision by the United States to upgrade Taiwan's F-16 fighter jets, summoning the U.S. ambassador and warning that relations overall and recently warming military ties will suffer.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its website that Vice Minister Zhang Zhijun summoned U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke in Beijing to deliver the protest.…

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press

China expressed its opposition Monday to a reported deal between the United States and Taiwan to upgrade Taiwan's existing fleet of F-16 fighter jets, even though the U.S. apparently rejected the island's bid for a more advanced version of the…