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The article discusses the setback faced by American producers fighting for imposition of tariffs on imported Chinese paper. The ruling by the U.S. International Trade Commission stated that NewPage Corp. and other markers of glossy paper had not been materially injured from the subsidies and so the Chinese paper exports are not liable for the imposition of tariffs. Further, NewPage reports the decline in the domestic industry due to Chinese imports.

The article reports that the U.S. administration has been called on by China for the reversal of a decision to impose steep duties on Chinese exports of coated paper. Wang Xinpie, a spokesman of China's commerce ministry, said that China strongly needs the U.S. to reconsider the decision and make prompt changes. In 2006, the U.S. trade deficit was recorded $233 billion with China.

The Securities and Exchange Commission asked a federal court on Thursday to force a Chinese affiliate of Deloitte, the accounting giant, to produce documents related to an investigation into one of its former auditing clients, Longtop Financial Technologies. The affiliate, Deloitte & Touche Tohmatsu, which is based in Shanghai, has not provided any documents to the commission, which issued subpoenas to the firm on May 27, the agency said in a statement. As a result, the S.E.C. said, it has been unable to access critical information in its investigation into possible fraud at Longtop. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports that the White House released internal documents showing that President Bill Clinton approved the Chinese launching of an American satellite on February of 1997. How Clinton approved the launching after his top staff advised him that the economic and diplomatic advantages outweighed the opposition of Federal prosecutors; How Clinton overruled Justice Department objections; Why Republicans question the President's decision.

The article reports that thousands of tons of material left curbside for recycling in American cities and towns have gone to landfills after China banned in summer 2018 imports of various types of plastic and paper for recycling as part of its antipollution campaign. Topics covered include the difficulty of waste managers in finding a substitute for the Chinese market, and six ways to properly recycle to prevent the recyclable materials from being contaminated.

The article reports on the negative effect of free trade with China to the labor market in the U.S. based on the findings from academic papers such as from the working papers made by economists David Dorn, David Autor, and Gordon Hanson.

The article discusses that the American antimissile system built in South Korea, called the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), can erode its nuclear deterrent which worries China. It mentions Mao Zedong dismissed the atomic bomb as a “paper tiger & China built a nuclear arsenal of its own; China conducted first nuclear test in 1964, & has developed a stable of nuclear missiles.

CORRECTION APPENDED The Securities and Exchange Commission disclosed Wednesday that it was investigating another Chinese client of the Shanghai affiliate of Deloitte, the large accounting group, on suspicion of accounting fraud. It did not identify the company, but an official said the investigation, which began in 2010, was continuing. The S.E.C. filed an administrative action against Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd. of Shanghai for refusing to provide audit work papers related to the unidentified company. Deloitte said it had provided the work papers to Chinese regulators but could not provide them to United States regulators under Chinese law. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BEIJING -- The Chinese military said Thursday that while the security situation in Asia and the Pacific was generally stable, it was becoming ''more intricate and volatile,'' with no clear solutions for tension points like the divided Korean Peninsula and with the United States increasing its involvement in regional issues. The military's vision was laid out in a national defense white paper, a document published every two years since 1998. The paper tried to walk a line between trumpeting the modernization efforts of the Chinese military and assuaging the fears of foreign governments and analysts that the fast-growing People's Liberation Army would be used for expansionist purposes or regional dominance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Frail and dignified at 88, the man leaned on his cane and smiled as the story of his immigration in 1936 flashed behind him on a museum wall. Like tens of thousands of others who managed to come to the United States from China during a 60-year period when the law singled them out for exclusion, the man, Tun Funn Hom, had entered as a ''paper son,'' with false identity papers that claimed his father was a native citizen. For years, it was a shameful family secret. But Mr. Hom, a New York laundry worker who helped build battleships in World War II and put three children through college, outlived the stigma of an earlier era's immigration fraud. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

China said Tuesday that it faces threats from independence movements related to Taiwan, Tibet and the western desert region of Xinjiang, and that American arms sales to Taiwan jeopardize stability in Asia. The assessment came in a white paper on national defense released by the State Council, China's cabinet. The paper said that ''China's security situation has improved steadily,'' but that ''being in a stage of economic and social transition, China is encountering many new circumstances and new issues in maintaining social stability.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A civilian Defense Department employee who worked with the United States Pacific Command has been charged with conspiring to pass classified military information to China, according to a complaint unsealed on Wednesday by the Justice Department. The employee, James W. Fondren Jr., 62, a deputy director of the Washington liaison office of the Pacific Command, was charged with turning over several documents to an agent for the Chinese intelligence service between November 2004 and February 2008. The documents, taken from a classified computer, included opinion papers about Chinese military capabilities, according to a Justice Department official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because is not authorized to speak to the news media. Asa Hutchinson, a former Republican representative from Arkansas who is a lawyer for Mr. Fondren, said, ''Mr. Fondren did not knowingly at any time give any classified information to any agent of the People's Republic of China.'' Mr. Fondren, a former Air Force lieutenant colonel, is the second Pentagon employee to be caught up in what federal authorities called an espionage ring that had been run by Tai Shen Kuo, a naturalized United States citizen from Taiwan. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

-- One day in February 2005, F.B.I. agents fished a pile of paper scraps from the trash of Chi Mak, an engineer for a California defense contractor. Painstakingly reconstructed, the torn-up notes turned out to be what the bureau believed were instructions for Mr. Mak on what technical information to steal and deliver to China. Mr. Mak, who emigrated from China three decades ago and became a United States citizen in 1985, was sentenced last month to 24 years in prison for illegally exporting controlled information and lying about it. Addressing the judge who said he had betrayed the United States, Mr. Mak, 67, protested: ''I never intended to hurt this country. I love this country.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that the U.S. has reaffirmed its provisional policy of imposing tax on certain Chinese imports. Imposing duties on certain imports could pave the way for possible tariff increases on a variety of imports. The U.S. Commerce Department has decided to relax duties on glossy paper from China.

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium sponsored by the organization Asia Pacific-USA Chamber of Commerce on promoting business partnerships between Chinese and American companies is presented. Topics include promotion of trade talks, promotion of Chinese products and services and investment in the small businesses. The symposium featured several renowned people including Stacy Sun, Daniel Qian and Jiangsu TongDa.

The article reports that a ruling by Judge Gregory W. Carman of the U.S. Court of International Trade regarding tariff barriers on high-gloss paper products could lead to new trade barriers on import from China. The judge rejected a bid requested by China to block the U.S. President George W. Bush's administration from imposing tariffs on the Chinese products.

The article reports that the International Trade Commission has given its approval to an inquiry on Chinese government subsidies by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The department wants to look for the possibility of placing countervailing duties on coated paper from China to balance Chinese subsidies. Earlier, in one of its policy, the department stated that non-market economies like China would not come under the influence of countervailing duty laws.

Reports on China's announcement about the arrest of William Ping Chen, an American businessman, under suspicion of importing contraband the day before the scheduled trade talks with United States. United States official's theory on the reason behind the arrest; Possibility that Chen would be accused of importing contaminated waste paper; Chinese leaders' criticisms about United States' accusations against China.

Reports that a Chinese office-equipment maker has pleaded guilty in the United States to a federal charge of forced labor. Allied International Manufacturing (Nanjing) Stationery Co. Ltd., or AIMCO, which had women prisoners produce metal binder-clips; Importation of these clips by Edison, New Jersey-based Officemate International Corp. of Edison, New Jersey; Peter Chen, the owner of both companies; Market share held by his companies; How U.S. prosecutors got the evidence against AIMCO and Officemate.