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Thursday 25 February 2016
Beijing overtakes US-China tensions persist despite regional progress
NYC as ‘Billionaire
Capital of World’ M. PENNINGTON ployed anti-aircraft missiles eign Minister Wang Yi, Sec- anti-aircraft missiles. Capt.
Associated Press on a disputed island in the retary of State John Kerry Darryn James, U.S. Pacific
GERRY SHIH WASHINGTON (AP) — The Paracels chain. Then on said that steps by China, Command, did not confirm
Associated Press U.S. and China showed no Monday, a U.S. think tank Vietnam and others have the report but said China
NEW YORK/BEIJING (AP) — sign of quelling tension in reported that China has created an escalatory has deployed some of its
Move over, New York City: the disputed South China built new radar facilities in cycle. “Regrettably there most advanced fighter air-
Beijing is the new “Billion- Sea as their top diplomats
aire Capital of the World.” met in Washington on Tues- Secretary of State John Kerry, right, shakes hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, left, at
The Chinese capital has day. A leading U.S. military the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016.
overtaken the Big Apple officer told Congress that
as home to the most bil- China was seeking to con- (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
lionaires — 100 to 95 — ac- trol East Asia.
cording to Hurun, a Shang- But there was progress on the Spratly Islands, which are missiles, fighter aircraft, craft to that island over the
hai firm that publishes a another front. Secretary of lie further south. guns, artillery and other last couple of years.
monthly magazine and re- State John Kerry and Chi- The commander of U.S. things that have been China denies it has aggres-
leases yearly rankings and nese Foreign Minister Wang forces in the Pacific, Adm. placed in the South China sive intent. Wang contend-
research about the world’s Yi said they were close to Harry Harris, confirmed Sea, and this of great con- ed that Beijing had shown
richest people and their agreement on a U.N. reso- Tuesday new radar on Cu- cern to everyone who tran- restraint. He accused other
spending habits. lution to punish North Ko- arteron Reef in the Spratlys. sits and relies on the South countries of military con-
The study, which comes rea after its recent nuclear He told the Senate Armed China Sea for peaceful struction on what he as-
months after reports sug- test and rocket launch. Services Committee that trade, commerce and serted were Chinese reefs
gested China now has China has been reluc- China’s construction and use,” Kerry told a joint news and atols.
more billionaires than the tant to impose the kind military facilities are chang- conference. He did not In a poke at recent U.S.
United States, highlights of tough sanctions on its ing the operational land- elaborate on who had freedom of navigation op-
how China’s elite are con- neighbor and traditional scape in the South China moved fighter aircraft to erations in the region, Wang
tinuing to accrue vast ally North Korea that the Sea. Harris said that China the region. said China does not want
wealth despite a wobbling U.S. has been seeking. But is militarizing the South Chi- Fox News reported Tuesday to see, “more close-up mili-
stock market and cooling an even more pervasive na Sea, “and you have to that China had deployed tary reconnaissance, or the
economy. source of strain in the rela- believe in a flat Earth to fighter jets to Woody Island dispatch of missile destroy-
Rupert Hoogewerf, the tionship between the two think otherwise.” — the location in the Para- ers or strategic bombers to
founder of Hurun, attrib- world powers has been After meeting Chinese For- cels where it had deployed the South China Sea.”q
uted China’s explosive over accusations over mili-
wealth creation to Chinese tarization in the South Chi-
market regulators allowing na Sea, an important thor-
a flood of new initial pub- oughfare for world trade.
lic offerings after holding China claims it has a histori-
back new IPOs for several cal right to most of those
years. strategic waters, and has
Had the calculations been undertaken a massive land
made at the market’s peak reclamation and construc-
last summer, the number of tion effort on land features
Chinese billionaires would although five other Asian
have been nearly 150, governments have ter-
Hoogewerf said. ritorial claims in the area.
Beijing took the title from The U.S. is not a claimant
New York after minting 32 but says it has an inter-
new billionaires last year, est in maintaining peace
while New York gained and stability, and freedom
four. of navigation and com-
Moscow came in third merce.
place, with 66 billionaires, The rhetoric has heated up
while Hong Kong and since it emerged last week
Shanghai came in fourth that China had Beijing de-
and fifth with 64 and 50, re-
spectively, Hurun said. US citizen found dead in north Dominican Republic
China’s richest man, real
estate tycoon Wang Ji- EZEQUIEL LOPEZ in 2014. Norton was be- nal forensic report to deter- New York’s Long Island,
anlin, came in 21st place Associated Press ing questioned about her mine the real cause of the among other publications,
globally behind Wal-Mart SOSUA, Dominican Repub- death, said Osvaldo Bo- death,” Bonilla said. and was a freelance writer
scions, the Swedish family lic (AP) — A U.S. citizen who nilla, a prosecutor for the Norton is an editor and at the time of her death.
that owns Ikea and Brazil- worked for more than a province of Puerto Plata. writer who has worked for The couple moved to
ian investor Jorge Paulo decade as a reporter for An initial police statement a number of U.S. publica- Sosua, an area popular
Lemann. The New York Times was said Kershaw appeared to tions. among expatriates in the
Other Chinese billionaires found dead at her home have died from asphyxi- He did not have a lawyer Dominican Republic, short-
in the global top 100 in- in a northern beach town ation, but Bonilla said a in the Dominican Republic ly after they married.
cluded Alibaba founder of the Dominican Republic, cause of death had not and could not be reached A neighbor, Tony Cuevas,
Jack Ma, beverage mag- officials said this week. been established. He said for comment. said Kershaw spent most
nate Zong Qinghou, and The body of Sarah Ker- an autopsy was expected Kershaw, 49, worked as a mornings writing on the
the tech bosses at phone shaw was found Monday to take several days and reporter for The New York balcony of the Trade Winds
maker Xiaomi, social me- at her apartment in Sosua, authorities had not ruled Times in 2000-2011. She apartments and the after-
dia firm Tencent and Bai- where she moved with her out suicide or homicide. previously worked for the noons by the pool with her
du, the search engine.q husband, William Norton, “We are waiting for the fi- newspaper Newsday on dog. q
