China’s Role as U.S. Lender Alters Dynamics for Obama
New York Times - 2 hours 57 minutes agoChina’s position as the country’s largest foreign lender means that President Obama is likely to spend more time reassuring Beijing than pushing reforms.
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In China, Obama will glimpse world's new center of gravity
McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 14, 2:32 pm ETSHANGHAI — When President Barack Obama lands here Sunday night in China's largest city, he'll find many of its 20 million people intrigued by him and welcoming, but hardly deferential, and some openly skeptical of his promises of change.
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China, Russia presidents hail relations
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 14, 1:50 pm ETThe presidents of historically mistrustful neighbours China and Russia Saturday hailed the strength of Sino-Russian ties as they met on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit in Singapore.
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Obama Says U.S. Seeks to Build Stronger Ties to China
New York Times - Sat Nov 14, 12:37 am ETThe United States is not threatened by a rising China, President Obama said in a wide-ranging speech on his inaugural trip to Asia, but will seek to strengthen its ties with Beijing even as it maintains close ties with traditional allies like Japan.
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China's Hu meets with top Taiwan politician: official
AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 13, 11:35 pm ETChina's President Hu Jintao met with top Taiwan politician Lien Chan on Saturday, a Chinese official told AFP, in rare talks expected to have covered a landmark trade agreement.
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Former ambassador to China during Tiananmen dies
AP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 14, 4:05 pm ETJames R. Lilley, a longtime CIA operative and later the U.S. ambassador to China during the time of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, has died. He was 81.
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James Lilley, an ambassador to China, dies
UPI - Sat Nov 14, 3:18 pm ETWASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- James R. Lilley, a China-born CIA agent who was U.S. ambassador to Beijing during the Tiananmen Square uprising, has died at the age of 81.
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Obama urged to raise rights in China
AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 13, 3:56 pm ETFamilies and supporters of activists jailed in China are hoping that US President Barack Obama will fight for their freedom next week in Beijing, but many fear they will be disappointed.
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China Mayor Apologizes as Heavy Snows Kill 38 People (Update1)
Bloomberg - Sat Nov 14, 7:47 am ETNov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The mayor of China’s Shijiazhuang apologized for the response to the region’s heaviest snows in six decades as Beijing pledged funds to help people caught in the storms that have left 38 dead and thousands stranded.
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China’s Sprint for the Gold
New York Times - 2 hours 39 minutes agoChina has begun transforming itself from a global font of low-priced goods fueled by cheap labor into a much more diverse and complex economic power.
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China Rejects View PBOC Shifted on Yuan, Morgan Stanley Says
Bloomberg - Sat Nov 14, 11:09 am ETNov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- China’s government signaled it rejects interpretations of a central bank report this week as indicating a shift in the nation’s currency policy, according to Morgan Stanley.
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China arrests activists before Obama visit
UPI - Sat Nov 14, 3:03 pm ETBEIJING, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- China is preparing for U.S. President Barack Obama's visit by arresting dozens of political dissidents and reform advocates, human rights activists say.
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Taipei Home-Price Gains to Beat Hong Kong, China, CLSA Says
Bloomberg - Fri Nov 13, 12:11 am ETNov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Taipei’s house prices may rise 15 percent in 2010, more than in Singapore, Hong Kong and China, because there is more competition among homebuyers in Taiwan’s capital, according to CLSA Ltd. analyst Tayher Lim.
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China Focuses on Territorial Issues as It Equates Tibet to U.S. Civil War South
New York Times - Sat Nov 14, 5:53 am ETWhile much attention during President Obama’s visit will be focused on trade and climate change, questions of sovereignty and territory remain an obsession of Chinese foreign policy.
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In China, authorities turn their backs to ‘black jails’
The Wenatchee World - 31 minutes agoBEIJING — Kidnapping villagers who have traveled to Beijing to lodge complaints with China’s central government and keeping them in unofficial jails to silence them has evolved into a cottage industry that police refuse to crack down on, a human rights group said Thursday. The report by New York-based Human Rights Watch on China’s “black jails” is based mainly on interviews with 38 people who ...
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Lilley, Envoy to China During Tiananmen Crackdown, Dies at 81
Bloomberg - 1 hour 31 minutes agoNov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- James R. Lilley , who was U.S. ambassador to China during the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, has died in Washington. Lilley was 81 and died Nov. 12 from complications related to cancer treatment, the Washington Post reported.
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China's Hu calls for economic pact with Taiwan
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 14, 1:10 pm ETChinese President Hu Jintao called on Saturday for formal talks on a landmark economic pact with Taiwan to start by the end of the year, in a rare meeting here with a top politician from the island.
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China dissidents 'detained ahead of Obama visit'
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 14, 3:55 am ETChina has detained several dissidents and campaigners ahead of US President Barack Obama's much-anticipated first visit to the country, their relatives and close contacts told AFP Saturday.
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As Obama Arrives, China Suffers an Identity Crisis
Newsweek - Sat Nov 14, 2:58 pm ETOn the eve of Obama's visit, China reveals an identity crisis.
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Rolls-Royce wins big order from Air China
Market Watch - 5 minutes agoContract for jet engines to power 20 Air China Airbus A330 aircraft could be worth $1.5 billion.
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China investigates 2 deaths after flu vaccinations
AP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 14, 1:47 am ETTwo people in China who received swine flu vaccinations died in the past week but at least one death appears unrelated to the vaccine and the other was being investigated.
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