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The following are paragraphs on five of the fifteen articles.

1. New York Times; China's Naval Ambitions

This article is about how china is driving to extend its military and territorial reach. This makes america very worried. It states " China seems increasingly intent on challenging United States naval supremacy in the Western Pacific". This is where Washington is, and they have to take action carefully, but firmly. The Pentagon has a long history of hyping the Chinese threat to justify expensive weapons purchases. This is very dangerous and America has to really try hard to make American naval forces in Asia less vulnerable to Chineese threats. They have to try to get them to aim further offshore.

2. China's New Stealth Fighter May Use U.S. Technology

This article is about how china has recently revailed a new stealth fighter. Theres a twist, this stealth fighter may use U.S. technology. The article states "military officials and other experts have told The Associated Press that in all probability the Chinese gleaned some of their technological know-how from an American F-117 Nighthawk that was shot down over Serbia in 1999." This article says how nighthawks were the world's very first stealth fighters. They are very hard to detect on a radar. There known as the "invisivble" fighters to many people. In 1999 a stealth fighter was hit in Serbia during the Kosovo war, and that was the first time ever that a stealth fighter had even been hit.

3. China Limits Manufacturers' Power Use

This article is about how China's power use and how it may be cut down in the coming months. China is revieving low river levels and rising coal prices. This is threating to bring China's worst worst seasonal power outages in several years. For, this reason Chinese authorities are hitting manufacturers with restrictions on electricity usage that they say will continue in coming months. The Yangzte River, which is one of Chinas most famous rivers, is running so low, that hydropowerproduction is slowing, shipping traffic has been reduced greatly, and agricultural output has been reduced. That is a bad situation! Power shortages are going to lead to factories closing down, and that will come to other countries that are trading partners with china to also be in trouble. Droughts are also common this time of year in China so that just adds on to all the other things that could go very wrong.

4. New Home Prices Up in Most China Cities

This article is about how alot of the new home prices in China are going up. This is because the central government is having cubic a big challenge with cubic prices. The chinnese popluation is so great that the land is limited and is getting very limited so prices have to become higher. The governent is faced with public anger over unaffordable house prices.

The article states that " Prices of newly built homes in 67 of the 70 cities covered by the survey rose in April from a year earlier, unchanged from the 67 recorded in March and lower than the 68 recorded in both January and February." It could be embarrasing for the Chineese government if they cant lower prices pretty soon. April is the fourth month for which China has released house price data for individual cities,

5. Government Urged to Strengthen Food Safety

This article is basically about that it says in the title. The people of China are expecting government officials to be more careful and take more responsibility ot ensure that thier food is safe. The government is now going to be graded on it. The food being consumed is sometimes being poisoined by illegal additaves. The poeple have no control on what is put into the food, they all cannot grow thier own vegetables, so they expect the government to ensure that the food is safe to eat. About 94 percent of respondents said food safety problems were related to passive enforcement, meaning the governments responded to violations only after they were exposed. From the looks of it, if the government doesnt step up and do something about this, there is going to be a big problem in China