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After Buying Spree, China Owns Stakes in Top U.S. Firms
The New York Times
| SHANGHAI - Flush with cash despite the global economic downturn, China's sovereign wealth fund quietly snapped up more than $9 billion worth of shares last year in some of the biggest American corporations, including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Citigroup. | Although most of the stakes were...
A Taiwan bank machine counts Chinese Yuan currency in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, June 30, 2008. On Friday, July 4, 2008,Taiwan will receive its first big wave of tourists from the China mainland after an ease in travel restrictions between the riva
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China defends currency after Obama criticism
China Daily
| BEIJING: China dismissed on Thursday US threats it would get tough with Beijing on trade and currency to ensure American goods did not face a competitive disadvantage, saying renminbi was at a reasonable level. | Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said renminbi was at a reasonable level, and t...
Hainan fears real-estate bubbles - again
Asia Times
| By Stephen Wong | SHANGHAI - Money has flooded into the tropical Chinese island province of Hainan for property speculation in the few weeks since the central government unveiled a plan to turn it into an international tourist resort. | More than 1...
China's strong central government and tremendous wealth makes quick work of quake recovery
Star Tribune
| WENCHUAN, China - Couples gather near dusk to practice ballroom dancing by the new cultural center, twirling leisurely in the heart of a city so devastated by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake that leaders had planned to simply seal it off and rebuild el...
China's strong central government and tremendous wealth makes quick work of quake recovery
Hartford Courant
WENCHUAN, (AP) — Couples gather near dusk to practice ballroom dancing by the new cultural center, twirling leisurely in the heart of a city so devastated by the 2008 Sichuan that leaders had planned to simply seal it off and rebuild elsewhere....
China's strong central government and tremendous wealth makes quick work of quake recovery
KDVR
WENCHUAN, China (AP) — Couples gather near dusk to practice ballroom dancing by the new cultural center, twirling leisurely in the heart of a city so devastated by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake that leaders had planned to simply seal it off and r...
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China Says Opposes Obama Meeting With Dalai Lama
CBS News
China Says It Strongly Opposes Any Meeting Of President Obama With Dalai Lama | Font size Print E-mail Share | (AP) | (AP) Previous slide Next slide (AP) BEIJING (AP) - Any meeting...
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
WN / Yeshe Choesang
China warns Obama against meeting Dalai Lama
The Times Of India
BEIJING: China on Tuesday warned US President Barack Obama against meeting the Dalai Lama, saying it would "seriously undermine" Sino-US ties -- the latest salvo in an escalating r...
A Chinese family looks inside the cockpit of a Chinese made fighter jet near the remains of U.S. made Taiwanese reconnaissance planes shot down by China in the 1960's on display at the military museum in Beijing, China, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010
AP / Ng Han Guan
U.S.-China Relations Cool on Arms Deal
Wall Street Journal
By Andrew Browne And Jason Dean | BEIJING—China's suspension of military exchanges with the U.S. in retaliation for a $6.4 billion arms sale to Taiwan heightens the risk of f...
South China Headlines
Chinese watch the stock market movements at a stock exchange in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China, Monday, Nov. 20 2006.
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Asian stocks mixed after Wall St decline
Lexington Herald-Leader
| Asian stocks were mixed Tuesday following Wall Street's overnight decline on lingering worries about high European debt levels. | Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney were down while Shanghai, Seoul and Singapore gained. | That came after the Dow Jones industrial average closed below 10,000 for the first time in three months on concerns that debt problems...
Diplomatic Issues
Haikou skyline, Hainan Province, China
(photo: Public Domain / Anna Frodesiak)
Hainan fears real-estate bubbles - again
Asia Times
| By Stephen Wong | SHANGHAI - Money has flooded into the tropical Chinese island province of Hainan for property speculation in the few weeks since the central government unveiled a plan to turn it into an international tourist resort. | More than 100 developers, including publicly listed China Vanke, Agile Property and Poly, are believed to be in...



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