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VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuanian cybersecurity experts are urging the country’s government agencies to abandon the use of Chinese-made smartphones after an investigation identified security vulnerabilities and censorship concerns with certain devices. Lithuania’s National Cyber Security Center said it found four major cybersecurity risks for devices made by Huawei and Xiaomi, including two relating to pre-installed apps and one involving personal data leakage, and warned against using these two brands. There’s also the risk of possible restrictions on freedom of expression with Xiaomi phones, which contain a content-filtering feature for 449 keywords or groups of keywords in Chinese characters. The...

Satellite surprise highlights US-China gap WASHINGTON: China's test of an anti-satellite weapon last month underscores US frustration in efforts to forge reliable communications with the secretive Chinese military, a senior Pentagon official said on Thursday. Richard Lawless, deputy assistant secretary of defence for Asian and Pacific security affairs, said the missile launch that destroyed an ageing Chinese weather satellite was a "quite unpleasant development" after years of US efforts to boost dialogue with China's military leaders. "The fact that the ASAT test took place in the absence of a strong dialogue is all the more concerning," he told the...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian, who on Monday scrapped guidelines on unification with China, is determined to draft a new constitution that better suits Taiwan's current situation, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily said on Saturday. China has sharply criticized Chen's independence-minded stance, and his abandoning of a council and guidelines focused on ultimate reunification drew harsh warnings from Beijing. In an interview with the conservative Yomiuri conducted in Taipei on Friday, Chen said he was resolved to draft a new constitution but avoided comment on whether the new document would include phrases changing the status quo in Taiwan, including...

/begin my translationTaiwan: Fingerprinting Chinese to Start in the Middle of This Month Taiwan would introduce the measure to fingerprint Chinese to virtually restrict their travel, starting possibly in the middle of this month. According to June 30th report of Hong Kong's Feng-huang TV, which quotes Taiwanese Media, Taiwan's Interior Ministry submitted the report titled, 'The Essential Points on the Project of Fingerprinting Chinese,' at the "Mainland Committee," which is in charge of Chinese affairs on June 28. The fingerprinting is apparently aimed at the improved monitoring of Chinese, and curbing illegal activities of Chinese in Taiwan. Liu De-xun, the vice manager...

Hu,Bush hold phone talks (Xinhua) Updated: 2004-05-30 08:39Chinese President Hu Jintao and US President George W. Bush had a telephone conversation Saturday evening on Iraq and Taiwan issues, said the Chinese Foreign Ministry. Bush briefed Hu on the draft resolution on the Iraq issue the United States submitted to the United Nations Security Council recently, and hoped the US side would continue cooperation with China on this issue. Bush said he understood China's concern over the Taiwan issue, and strongly reiterated that the United States would adhere to the one-China policy, abide by the three Sino-US joint communiques and oppose...

Senior Chinese military officers warned Taiwan it was staring into the abyss of war and the mainland was ready for "necessary" casualties if the island pursued its independence drive. The comments in the state-run Outlook Weekly magazine, carried by the Xinhua news agency and major websites, followed Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's plan to hold a referendum on the island's future. Two People's Liberation Army (PLA) officers quoted by the magazine said Chen would be held responsible if war breaks out and said separatists "will be treated the same way war criminals are dealt with elsewhere in the world". "Chen...