Christopher Bodeen

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Female and male security guards march in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China, Saturday, May 31, 2014. A quarter century after the TiananmenSquare pro-democracy movementâs suppression, Chinaâs communist authorities oversee a raft of measures for muzzling dissent and preventing protests. They range from the sophisticated extensive monitoring of online debate and control over media to the relatively simple routine harassment of government critics and maintenance of a massive domestic security force. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

Security matrix prevents another Tiananmen

Christopher Bodeen · May 31, 2014 2:00 pm

Taiwan scholar turned away on arrival in Hong Kong

Christopher Bodeen · May 30, 2014 2:50 pm

China's Public Security Minister Guo Shengkun, center, talks with Xinjiang Party Secretary Zhang Chunxian, right, as they visit the site of an explosion in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang region, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Assailants in two SUVs plowed through shoppers while setting off explosives on a busy street market in China's volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang on Thursday, the local officials said, killing over two dozen people and injuring more than 90. The attack was the bloodiest in a series of violent incidents that Chinese authorities have blamed on radical separatists from the country's Muslim Uighur minority. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

What’s behind rising violence in China’s west?

Christopher Bodeen · May 22, 2014 6:03 pm

In this May 8, 2014 photo, Yi Xianliang, deputy director-general of Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs, attends a press conference in front of a map showing a disputed zone in South China Sea in Beijing. Chinaâs planting of an oil platform in contested waters off Vietnam drew strident complaints from Hanoi, a messy standoff between ships and violent protests among Vietnamese, but nothing to dislodge the rig and no broader pushback in the region. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

Few barriers to China’s push in South China Sea

Christopher Bodeen · May 22, 2014 2:46 am

China starts int’l hunt for train station attacker

Christopher Bodeen · May 19, 2014 5:19 am

Why there’s bad blood between China and Vietnam

Christopher Bodeen · May 16, 2014 9:09 am

In this photo released by Vietnam Coast Guard, a Chinese ship, left, shoots water cannon at a Vietnamese vessel, right, while a Chinese Coast Guard ship, center, sails alongside in the South China Sea, off Vietnam's coast, Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Chinese ships are ramming and spraying water cannons at Vietnamese vessels trying to stop Beijing from setting up an oil rig in the South China Sea, according to Vietnamese officials and video evidence Wednesday, a dangerous escalation of tensions in disputed waters considered a global flashpoint. (AP Photo/Vietnam Coast Guard)

Why China is putting an oil rig off Vietnam coast

Christopher Bodeen · May 8, 2014 12:31 pm

In this photo provided by China's official Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, watches drills of troops of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in northwest China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Thursday, May 1, 2014. Chinese President Xi demanded "decisive" action against terrorism after the Wednesday's terror attack at a train station, which came at awkward time for him, just as he was wrapping up a four-day tour of Xinjiang aimed at underlining the government's commitment to security in the region. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Li Gang) NO SALES

Attacks show bolder terror threat growing in China

Christopher Bodeen · May 2, 2014 5:13 am

Soldiers from the People's Liberation Army (PLA) 6th Armored Division carries the Chinese type 97 semi-auto machine guns march at their military base on the outskirts of Beijing, Tuesday, March 31, 2009. A government-backed science group says many of China's homemade weapons systems are world-class, reflecting the defense industry's new confidence and underscoring its ambitions of becoming a major arms exporter. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

National Security

China splurging on military as US pulls back

Christopher Bodeen · April 24, 2014 9:24 am

Norway restores, donates 1927 silent film to China

Christopher Bodeen · April 15, 2014 11:59 am

China’s top brass in show of support for president

Christopher Bodeen · April 3, 2014 11:06 am

Relatives of Chinese passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines, flight MH370, wait for news at a hotel room in Beijing, China, Saturday, March 22, 2014. A satellite spotted two large objects in the desolate southern Indian Ocean earlier this week, raising hopes of finding the Boeing 777 that disappeared March 8 with 239 people on board, although nothing was spotted in a sea search over the last two days. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Relatives of jet’s passengers struggle to cope

Christopher Bodeen · March 23, 2014 10:26 am