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• What’s a Little Pollution Between Friends

  Published: September 11, 2007, 6:52 am

  Tags: Environment, Russia, East Asia, Amur, Beijing, China, Compensation, Hu Jintao, Riverine Pollution, Russia, Songhua, Sungari, Vladimir Putin

  agreement made by President Hu Jintao in March. Trutnev also said that Russia’s insistence did not amount to interference in China’s internal affairs, but said Russia wanted to have a say about the quality of water flowing into its territory (Interfax, Itar-Tass, RIA-Novosti, September 3-4). The zeal Beijing shows about stopping

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• The Gathering NBN-ZTE Storm

  Published: October 4, 2007, 9:37 pm

  Tags: Business Economy, East Asia, Igos, Politics, Southeast Asia, Benjamin Abalos, China, Corruption, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Gma, Hu Jintao, Imf, Nbn Zte, Philippines, Prc, World Bank

  to inform PRC President Hu Jintao of the project’s cancellation looks like “kowtowing”, as if GMA were reporting to a superior for the actions of her subordinates in the Congress for the delays in implementing the deal. GMA suspended two Chinese-supported projects on September 22, after bribery allegations surfaced against

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• China Called Threat to World Peace

  Published: October 10, 2007, 5:24 am

  Tags: Australia, China, Japan, Ballistic Missiles, Chen, Defense, Hu Jintao, John Howard, Missiles, National Day, News, Politics, Strait, Taiwan, United Nations, White Paper

  With China's rapid rise and relentless military build-up, the China threat' is no longer confined to confrontation across the Taiwan Strait. In fact, it has already seriously impacted world peace, said...read more

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• China Brooks No Dissent Ahead of Party Congress

  Published: October 13, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: China, Brooks, Dissent, Ahead, Party, Congress, Beijing, Human Rights Watch, Gao Zhisheng, Hu Jintao, Li Heping, Lu Banglie, Yao Lifa, U S Congress

  BEIJING, Oct. 12 -- Li Heping's ordeal began when two men kidnapped him on a rainy afternoon about two weeks ago, he said. It ended seven hours later, when he was dumped in a Beijing suburb after a dozen assailants had spent the evening beating him and shocking him with a cattle prod.

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• Hu Poised To Lead China for 2nd Term

  Published: October 14, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Poised, Lead, China, For, 2nd, Term, Beijing, Guangzhou, Hu Jintao, Hong Kong, Guizhou Province, Jiangsu Province, Liaoning Province, Ibm Corporation, Central Military Commission, Communist Party Of China, Deng Xiaoping, Huang Weiding, Jiang Zemin, Jim Mcgreevey, Li Ch

  BEIJING, Oct. 12 -- When Hu Jintao took over as China's leader five years ago, many people inside and outside the country hoped he would become a champion for political opening. What they got instead was a cautious CEO of the Communist Party bureaucracy, pursuing economic reforms set in motion by...

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• 17th Communist Party Congress and Its Discontents

  Published: October 15, 2007, 7:40 am

  Tags: Business Economy, East Asia, Environment, Politics, 17th Communist Party Congress, China, Hu Jintao, Prc

  skyline and stockmarket, or Hu Jintao’s calls for reform and that Chinese salesman’s opinion? Even more disappointing is a return to consensus, instead of elections. And, censorship never seems to go out of fashion, covering up yet more socio-economic divisions within the country. Excellent commentary is available at Elite Chinese

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• What Is Hu? A 'Centrist' Communist?

  Published: October 16, 2007, 3:03 pm

  Tags: China, Labeling, Hu Jintao, Washington Post

  to Edward Cody's piece on Hu Jintao and the current Communist Party's National Congress was "Hu Set for Second Term at China's Helm: Political Middle-of-the-Roader Has Limited Reform Efforts to Economic Sphere." The story goes from page A-20 across to page A-21, where the headline is "Hu Poised for Five More Years Steering China

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• Bush Appears With Dalai Lama, Nudges China

  Published: October 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Bush, Appears, Dalai, Lama, Nudges, China, Dalai Lama, George W Bush, Tibet, Beijing, Nancy Pelosi, United States, Elie Wiesel, Himalayas, Hu Jintao, Jacqueline Salmon, Jerusalem, Peter Baker, Richard Gere, Robert Byrd, The White House, Australia, India, Vikramasila Foundation

  President Bush presented the Dalai Lama with Congress's highest civilian honor yesterday, pressing China to engage with Tibet's exiled leader in his most significant embrace of a man whose cause and global following have been a constant irritant to Beijing.

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• Party Looks Beyond China's 'Miss Fix-It'

  Published: October 21, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Party, Looks, Beyond, China S, Miss, Fix It, Henan Province, Fujian Province, China, Jiangsu Province, Qinghai Province, Russell Leigh Moses, Wu Yi, Beijing, Great Hall Of The People, Hu Jintao, Jiang Qing, Jin Ling, Li Jie, Liu Yandong, Mao Tse Tung, Nantong, Zhangzhou, Zhengz

  BEIJING -- Vice Premier Wu Yi, the only woman in China's 24-member Politburo, is known in the West as China's Miss Fix-It, a steely and capable problem solver often assigned to tackle high-profile issues such as food safety, contentious trade talks and the SARS health crisis.

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• Russia and China Stand Up

  Published: October 21, 2007, 5:07 am

  Tags: China, Iraq, Russia, Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad, Currency, Economics, Hu Jintao, Iran, News, Politics, Putin, World Economy

  While the U.S. read more

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• China and U.S. To Establish Military Hotline

  Published: November 6, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: China, And, U S, Establish, Military, Hotline, Robert Gates, United States, Taiwan, U S Armed Forces, Beijing, Central Military Commission, Asia, Cao Gangchuan, George W Bush, Guo Boxiong, Hu Jintao, Taiwan Strait, Zhang Qinshen, Chinese Ministry Of National Defense, Sing

  BEIJING, Nov. 5 -- China and the United States announced Monday that they will set up a military hotline between Beijing and Washington to avoid misunderstanding during any moments of crisis in the Pacific.

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• In Chinese Dam's Wake, Ecological Woes

  Published: November 15, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Chinese, Dam S, Wake, Ecological, Woes, Chongqing, Three Gorges Dam, China, Beijing, Yangtze River, Chongqing University, Hubei Province, Du Chenglong, East China Sea, Han Qinbi, Hu Jintao, Li Facheng, Li Peng, Shanghai, Tiananmen Square, Tibet, Wen Jiabao, Green Volunteer

  MIAOHE, China -- It was in this little village clinging to cliff sides over the Yangtze River that the environmental costs of China's Three Gorges Dam began to add up, a down payment on what experts predict will be billions of dollars and years of struggle to contain the damage.

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• Cracking Skulls

  Published: November 26, 2007, 6:08 am

  Tags: Business Economy, East Asia, Europe, Globalization, Politics, Subscriptions, Airbus, Boeing, China, Consumer Protection, France, Hu Jintao, Labor Unions, Nicolas Sarkozy, Peter Mandelson, Prc, Protests, Reforms, Renminbi, Revaluation

  Sarkozy and China’s Hu Jintao are discussing the intricacies of currency revaluation and consumer protection, or how to crush protests make profits? Meanwhile, back in gay Paris… alternate frame of changeRelated Post17th Communist Party Congress and Its DiscontentsThe Gathering NBN-ZTE StormFace Reality in JakartaSpace: The

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• China's Leader Puts Faith in Religious

  Published: January 20, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: China S, Leader, Puts, Faith, Religious, China, Vatican, Anthony Lam, Rome, Patriotic Catholic Association, Hong Kong, Mao Tse Tung, People S Daily, Beijing, Chan Kim Kwong, Hu Jintao, Liu Bainian, Pope Benedict Xvi, Tibet, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Chinese Academ

  BEIJING, Jan. 19 -- There was Hu Jintao, head of the Chinese Communist Party, warmly shaking hands at a party-sponsored New Year's tea party with one of the country's main Christian leaders. To make sure the message got through to China's 68 million party faithful, a large photograph of the moment...

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• Spielberg’s Advisory Message to Beijing

  Published: February 14, 2008, 9:47 am

  Tags: News, Entertainment, Movies, Beijing, Berlin, China, Darfur, Hu Jintao, Human Rights, Munich, Olympics, Spielberg

  attacks and crimes against humanity in Darfur. The Chinese Embassy in Washington responded to the snub with a statement: As the Darfur issue is neither an internal issue of China nor is it caused by China, it is completely unreasonable, irresponsible and unfair to link the two as one. Even on its mainland, China is not known for its care

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