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Miles Yu is the director of the China Center at the Hudson Institute and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. His Red Horizon column appears every other Tuesday in The Washington Times. He can be reached at mmilesyu@gmail.com.

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Lei Feng, a half-real, half-fabricated man depicted by the Chinese government as the communist model soldier, has become a political icon. (Associated Press)

Inside China: Lei Feng and China’s zeitgeist

Lei Feng, the famed half-real, half-fabricated communist model soldier — killed when a telephone pole fell on him more than 50 years ago — is making a dramatic comeback in China's cultural and political life, thanks to vigorous promotion by the Communist Party's new leader, Xi Jinping.

March 14, 2013
Former Taiwan Vice President Lien Chan, waving to journalists in Beijing, has caused a stir with his words after his meeting with China’s leaders. (Associated Press)

Inside China: Taiwan VIP’s pilgrimage to Beijing

Lien Chan, a former vice president of Taiwan who holds an honorary chairmanship of the ruling Kuomintang party, has become entangled in a controversy that is placing the island democracy's politics on the edge.

March 7, 2013
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Inside China: China says Japan lied about radar

After days of silence, the Chinese government went public with a comment on Japan's protest over a Chinese navy missile frigate that twice beamed its targeting radar on a Japanese helicopter and a Japanese destroyer last month.

February 14, 2013

Inside China: English-speaking enemy

In a recent air-combat exercise, the drill master pulled a trick on the "Red Team" representing the Chinese air force by having pilots of the enemy "Blue Team" shout orders in English.

February 8, 2013
In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, a high-speed train G802 leaves for Beijing from Shijiazhuang, capital of north China's Hebei province, on Dec. 26, 2012. China has opened the world's longest high-speed rail line, which runs 2,298 kilometers (1,428 miles) from the country's capital in the north to Guangzhou, an economic hub in the Pearl River delta in southern China. (Associated Press/Xinhua)

Inside China: No airspace for holiday travel

The largest annual human migration occurs in China during the busy travel season around the Chinese New Year. More than 1 billion Chinese passengers will jam China's highways, railways and airlines in the weeks before and after Feb. 10, New Year's Day.

January 31, 2013

Inside China: U.S.-Taiwan weapons deal near

The United States is set to sell 30 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters to Taiwan this year, along with 60 Blackhawk helicopters next year and additional Patriot PAC-3 anti-missile systems in 2015, according to Sen. James M. Inhofe, who led a congressional delegation to Taiwan last week and met with key leaders including President Ma Ying-jeou and the speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Wang Jin-pyng.

January 21, 2013
**FILE** Two civilian contractors (right) in 2009 work on an AH-64 Apache helicopter in Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

Inside China: U.S.-Taiwan weapons deal near

The United States is set to sell 30 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters to Taiwan this year, along with 60 Blackhawk helicopters next year and additional Patriot PAC-3 anti-missile systems in 2015, according to Sen. James M. Inhofe, who led a congressional delegation to Taiwan last week and met with key leaders including President Ma Ying-jeou and the speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Wang Jin-pyng.

January 16, 2013
The new Chinese passport outlines all of the South China Sea as part of China’s territorial waters. The Philippines has protested China’s depiction of its claims. The potentially oil- and gas-rich waters also are claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Brunei and Malaysia. (Associated Press)

Inside China: China fortifies islands

The Chinese government has appropriated $1.6 billion to fortify islands in the South China Sea currently claimed by other nations, notably the Philippines. The fortification plan includes construction of airports, piers and other facilities that could have both civilian and military uses.

January 9, 2013

Inside China: PRC paper calls Philippines a ‘clown’

The People's Daily, the official mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, on Dec. 13 published an editorial that lambasted the Philippines with words that can be described as anything but diplomatic and cordial.

December 19, 2012

Inside China: Defense of Japan

The Senate last week unanimously passed an amendment to the 2013 Defense Authorization Bill that commits the United States to defend Japan should the Senkaku Islands come under attack by a third country -- a reference to China.

December 5, 2012
A Chinese People's Liberation Army Airforce's "Bayi Aerobatic Unit" J-10 fighter jet lowers its landing gears during an aerial demonstration at a base of the PLA Airforce's 24th Division in Yangcun, Tianjin, China, Tuesday, April 13, 2010. The media, along with about 51 military attaches from embassies in Beijing, including the United States, Britain and Israel, witnessed a 15-minute demonstration by four pilots from the 24th Air Division in China's domestically developed J-10 fighters. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

Inside China: China to revamp pilot training

The Chinese People's Liberation Army air force is feeling the heat from higher command for failing to produce enough qualified pilots and for spending too much on pilot training.

November 21, 2012
**FILE** China's only aircraft carrier, Liaoning, returns to port Oct. 30 after its first navy sea trial, in Dalian in northeastern China's Liaoning province. (Associated Press)

Inside China: Carrier set for drills

China's one and only aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, set sail again recently to test a routine but important maneuver: aircraft takeoff from its deck and a completely stopped landing back on deck.

November 14, 2012

Inside China: J-31 stealth jet takes to the skies

The 10-minute maiden test flight of China's newest stealth fighter jet, the J-31, sparked intense debate among the world's weapons and intelligence communities. That's because little is known about the aircraft, which China boasts is the only other fifth-generation stealth light combat aircraft in the world after the U.S. Air Force F-35.

November 7, 2012