U.S. Applies Anti-Subsidy law again Chinese Imports

Today, U.S. Department of Commerce announced that U.S. will use Anti-Subsidy law to imports of coated free sheet paper from China. Read the full press release and fact sheets here.

Below are the other events that are gong on in DC:

7 p.m. -- (CHINA/ENGINEERS/CHAO) EVENT -- Labor Secretary Elaine Chao delivers remarks to a Chinese Institute of Engineers-U.S.A. reception.

Location: Hotel Washington, 15th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Sky Room

Contact: Jennifer Coxe or Matthew Faraci, 202-693-4676 or 866-422-1630

Note: This event is invitation only. Press should notify the Labor Department's Office of Public Relations at 202-693-4676.

8:30 a.m. -- (CHINA/MILITARY) HEARING -- The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission holds a hearing on "China's Military Modernization and its Impact on the United States and the Asia-Pacific." Friday's panelists include: Dr. Ehsan Ahrari, professor of Counterterrorism, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies; James Lewis, director and Senior Fellow of the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Michael P. Pillsbury, consultant at the Department of Defense; Eric Hagt, director of the China Program at the World Security Institute; and Dean Cheng, research fellow at the Center for Naval Analysis Corporation. Second and final day.

Highlights

8:30 a.m.: A discussion on "Information Warfare, Missile Warfare, Cyber Operations, and Other Disruptive Capabilities of the PLA."

10 a.m.: A discussion on "The PLA's Objectives in Space."

Location: 562 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Contact: Kathy Michels, 202-624-1409, kmichels@uscc.gov

+12:30 p.m. -- (CHINA/RIGHTS/FALUN GONG) EVENT -- Falun Gong practitioners hold a rally in front of the Russian Embassy to condemn "the Russian authority's unlawful repatriation" of two Falun Gong UN refugees on Wednesday, Ma Hui and her eight-year old daughter Ma Jing. Falun Gong adherent Ms. Ma Hui and her 8-year-old daughter, Ma Jing, were seized on March 27 by Russian Immigration officers at their St. Petersburg residence and forcibly put on a plane to China, according to Falun Dafa Information Center. Falun Gong practitioners and human rights activists say they are "deeply concerned for the safety of mother and child, as the action is said to result from pressure by visiting Chinese communist diplomats."

Location: In front of the Russian Embassy, 2650 Wisconsin Ave. NW

Contact: Tao Wang 202-422-8133

3 p.m. -- (DARFUR/CHINA/RIGHTS) RALLY -- Amnesty International USA holds a rally to urge China, the leading foreign investor in Sudan, to increase its efforts to confront the crisis in Darfur.

Location: The Chinese Embassy, 2300 Connecticut Avenue NW

Contact: Suzanne Trimel, 212-633-4150