Wang Zhicheng

In his first state visit since his re-election as president, Putin will sign 17 major business and trade deals to boost bilateral trade to US$ 100 billion by 2015. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation can also enhance trade and security and build an influential Eurasian region that could shape reforms of the international monetary and financial system.

Afghanistan and Turkey are set to join the next meeting in June. Building a transnational transportation network and setting up a regional bank will top the agenda. The new SCO will compete with US plans for the Asia-Pacific region. Some urge greater co-operation among peoples and cultures in the region.

A week after the US and China informally agreed to allow Chen and his family to leave for the US, the blind activist remains de facto under house arrest in the hospital where he is being tread. The entire family cannot leave, and friends, diplomats and journalists cannot visit. Police "advises" human rights activist to stay away form Beijing for a few months. Chen wants the government to open an investigation into the violence by Shandong authorities against him and his family.

The blind activist cannot receive visitors, is threatened by China’s Foreign Ministry. His house is now occupied by police with CCTV cameras and electrified wire placed around the building. Obama and China remain silent. Part of US public opinion wants the United States to accept Chen as a political refugee. If he stays in China, his life is in danger. The US is offering a chance to study in a US university.

The blind activist has "changed his mind" after meeting his wife and the children who made him aware of recent threats and violence. At the hospital, contrary to promises, no US representatives: Chen is in the hands of Chinese police. The U.S. has "abandoned" Chen Guangcheng. Not true that the activist has left the embassy "of his own free will."

Brothers, nephews and cousins arrested. Activists who helped in his flight to Beijing missing, interrogation and arrest for lawyers and activists. China and the U.S. were hoping for a success of tomorrow’s strategic and economic talks, but they will be polarized by the Chen case. China raises the value of the Yuan and reduces imports of crude oil from Iran, it has criticized North Korea; and supported the UN plan on Syria.

The authorities are collecting information on members of the clergy and believers in order to force them into the official Protestant organisation, the party-controlled Movement of Three Autonomies. The process should be completed before the end of the year. Underground communities will thus be cleaned up and eliminated as a secret paper indicates. Catholics fear they are next in line.

Excommunicated bishop (Anhui), and the archbishop of Beijing, who is in an ambiguous position, present. Few faithful. Many government and the United Front officials present. The oath of the bishop according to the dictates of the Patriotic Association.

They will be forced to return the stolen money, about 45 thousand U.S. dollars. The inhabitants are not completely satisfied: the stolen money in decades of power is much more, such as the money involved in the corruption ring. The government continues to fear of social unrest (180 thousand in 2010). Doubts about the possibility of the " Wukan model” spreading.

The Vatican and the government recognise 51-year-old Qu Ailin. Doubts surround the celebrating prelate, the bishop of Beijing, as to whether he is excommunicated or reconciled with the Holy See. The main celebrant might change at the last moment.

Bishop Shao Zhumin was arrested for four weeks, interrogated, brought on "vacation" away from his diocese, "recommended" to join the Patriotic Association. The model to follow: the excommunicated bishop Lei Shiyin. Bishop Jin Lugang detained for four days so he would not celebrate the Easter Triduum with the community. Dozens of underground priests are held for weeks and subjected to "political sessions". First the security of Communist Party's Congress and plan to eliminate the underground Church.

Bo implicated in murder of Briton, Neil Heywood, a family friend, who was later killed by Bo’s wife. Rumors of a coup. The People's Daily calls for Party "unity" and reaffirms it’s his "holiness" and "purity." The internal struggle for power in anticipation of the Party Congress. Plots similar to those of Chen Xitong, Chen Liangyu and Lin Biao.