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China News Archive
From 2008
China Daily
China underscores common ground with India
BEIJING - China on Thursday highlighted common ground with India in the run-up to Indian Foreign Minister Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna's visit to Beijing.
"We believe the two sides will take the opportunity of Krishna's visit to carry out dialogue, promote cooperation and push forward China-India relations," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang.
Wen vows to deepen China's income reform
BEIJING - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has pledged to further reform of income distribution to narrow the gap between rich and poor and secure social stability.
"If the income gap continues to widen, it will pose a major threat to our economic development and social stability," Wen wrote. "We are poised and capable of gradually resolving this problem with a sound momentum of economic and social development and greater sustainability in various fields."
China seeks peaceful resolution of Iran nuclear issue
BEIJING - China reiterated on Thursday it will continue to work for a peaceful solution to the Iran nuclear issue, as it confirmed Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, is on a visit to China.
"China will continue to seek a diplomatic settlement to the Iranian nuclear issue through constructive efforts," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang at a regular news briefing.
Qin's remarks came as reports said six world powers - China, Russia, the United States, Britain, France and Germany - have discussed putting new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.
But Qin gave no indication about sanctions but said the six countries held a conference call on Wednesday evening and that "all parties agreed to continue to maintain contact through various channels".
Hu to attend Nuclear Security Summit in US
BEIJING - Chinese President Hu Jintao will attend the Nuclear Security Summit on April 12 and 13 in Washington, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said Thursday.
"China attaches importance to nuclear security, opposes nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism, and supports international cooperation," Qin said at a regular press briefing in Beijing.
China reaffirms openness to foreign investment
BEIJING - A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Thursday said the government would as always welcome foreign investment and that it would maintain the mutually beneficial strategy of opening-up.
Responding to questions at a regular press conference on doubts some foreign enterprises have about China's investment environment, Qin Gang said he did "not agree with such opinions."
"China will continue to welcome foreign enterprise investment and create an open, fair, transparent environment for them, providing various opportunities," Qin said.
The government was also willing to listen to their advice on investment in China.
Qin said China's large consumer base, labor resources and improving infrastructure had made it a big market that could not be neglected by entrepreneurs with strategic vision.
Qin said China had made more than 200 regulations or laws in regard to foreign investment.
US is the true money meddler
Editor's note: By tracking a series of financial policies of White House since last year, the article exposes the manipulation of dollar by U.S. who pursues its own recovery only.
Washington has chosen to depreciate the dollar as a tool to cut down on its foreign debts since World War II.
A group of 130 lawmakers from the United States sent a letter last Monday to the US Treasury calling on the Obama administration to pressure China on its exchange rate.
Accusing the Chinese government of subsidizing exports, they claimed that the "artificially undervalued" yuan is unfair to foreign competitors and puts China's exporters at an advantage.
This laughable accusation exposes Washington's conspiracy to mislead people from the real currency manipulator that has caused turbulences in the global financial market: the US. To transfer the impacts of the global financial crisis to foreign countries, the Obama administration has adopted a monetary policy that only aids its own economic recovery.
China's top 10 luxury homes
The World in Guangzhou, Nanjing Zhongshan International Golf Villa and Tomson Riviera in Shanghai ranked as the top three on the list of China's Ten Most Expensive Homes in 2010, released by World Executive Group on Wednesday in Beijing, Guangzhou Daily reported Thursday
Based on the fact the first batch houses of The World takes up 900 square meters each, the house would cost no less than 54 million yuan.
The Wall Street Journal China RealTime Report
Chinese Censorship Aims for Ambiguity
A temporary disruption in Google’s new Chinese search site left some scratching their heads over Beijing’s censorship methods. WSJ’s Loretta Chao explains how the censorship works, and why confusion might be part of the plan.
The New York Times
China Leader to Attend Nuclear Meeting in U.S
BEIJING — President Hu Jintao of China will attend a nuclear security summit meeting in Washington this month, an indication that strained relations between the United States and China may be easing.
Until the announcement on Thursday by the Chinese Foreign Ministry, American officials feared that Mr. Hu would boycott the talks to express China’s displeasure over a series of recent diplomatic clashes, including a White House decision to sell arms to Taiwan and President Obama’s meeting with the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader.
Kaixin – Good Article, setting out the issues for both China and the U.S.
Coming Visit May Signal Easing by China on Currency
They want the government to label China a currency “manipulator,” which would allow Washington to retaliate against China economically. But the announcement by Chinese authorities on Thursday that President Hu Jintao will be visiting Washington in two weeks is being seen as the beginning of a possible easing of the friction over the renminbi.
Countries Blame China, Not Nature, for Water Shortage
BANGKOK — In southern China, the worst drought in at least 50 years has dried up farmers’ fields and left tens of millions of people short of water.
But the drought has also created a major public relations problem for the Chinese government in neighboring countries, where in recent years China has tried to project an image of benevolence and brotherhood.
Kaixin – The comments on the following two articles are interesting as they show what the average person in America is thinking about the issues.
China Leader to Attend Nuclear Meeting in U.S.
BEIJING — President Hu Jintao of China will attend a nuclear security summit meeting in Washington this month, an indication that strained relations between the United States and China may be easing.
Op-Ed Columnist
Some 2,400 years ago, a Chinese king invited a legendary military strategist named Sun Tzu to give a demonstration in military training — using women from the palace.
Kaixin - From the Comments:
'I live and work in China with younger people, and frankly I detect no wide-based sympathy here for Google. A Chinese reader posted a comment on another NYT page last week saying while the west thinks it is fostering freedom of information with the Google issue, most Chinese use Google for a source of porno. That may be somewhat exaggerated, but it made me think of the rough parallel between the Opium Wars and the current standoff. In both the West was pushing a higher level cause - open trade and freedom of information-- while China was pushing back against what it perceived to be immediately harms to society: opium and now porno or social instability.'
The Age
Back to bad old landlords
Those characters signify a South Korean company, named on documents from the time as ''Guangxu Chemical Company'', which was supposed to have signed an agricultural joint venture with the Fujin government. But the South Korean investment company never came.
Instead, in a blur of government committee meetings and opaque private dealings, at least 570,000 mu (38,000 hectares) of land belonging to Yu and 40,000 other farmers was transferred to the ''joint venture'' company, then the Fujin municipal government and finally into the names of friends and relatives of the officials who ran the government. Most of that stolen land was rented straight back to the farmers who had just been dispossessed.
Kaixin – An indepth article on an issue that not only must by addressed in China, in many instances it must be re-dressed.
Asia Times Online
China joins imperialists in Guinea pressure play
MOSCOW - China has joined an English peer, a George W Bush administration retiree, and a special Kremlin envoy in attempts to persuade or pressure the Guinean government into halting court proceedings, and checks for fraud and tax evasion, involving international mining companies and restoring concession rights to Guinea's resource treasures.
At stake for China is access for Chinalco, the state-owned metals and mining company, to the Simandou concession, one of the world's largest unmined reserves of iron-ore.
Kaixin – The following articles are of direct relevance to China which is looking to form closer ties with Afghanistan. A move which obviously concerns the U.S greatly.
The alienation of Hamid Karzai
It must have been the first time in the history of the United States that an incumbent president had to undertake a 26-hour plane journey abroad with repeated mid-air refueling to meet a foreign leader - all for a 30-minute pow-wow.
The staggering message that came out of US President Barack Obama's hurried mission to the presidential palace in Kabul to meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai last Sunday afternoon is that his own AfPak diplomats have let him down badly.
Karzai's China-Iran dalliance riles Obama
Great moments in diplomatic timing are hard to distinguish when the practitioners are inscrutable entities. Afghan President Hamid Karzai's visits to China and Iran within the week rang alarm bells in Washington which were heard in the Oval Office of the White House.
Karzai's two days of talks in Beijing last week were scheduled exactly at the same time as the high-profile strategic dialogue taking place between the United States and Pakistan in Washington.
Ambassador Bhadrakumar was a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service. His assignments included the Soviet Union, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Germany, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kuwait and Turkey.
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