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China's leverage on North Korea limited: analysts
Beijing (AFP) April 5, 2009North Korea's rocket launch on Sunday shows China does not have as much influence on Kim Jong-Il's regime as some believe, despite being its biggest economic and political ally, analysts said. In the lead-up to the rocket launch, China came under pressure from many fronts to use its influence on its communist neighbour to not go ahead with it. North Korea had said it was launching a comm ... more China's Korean War vets uneasy over rocket launch 
Dandong, China (AFP) April 5, 2009Gathering to remember fallen comrades, elderly Chinese veterans who have tasted war on the Korean peninsula voiced hope that North Korea's rocket launch would not lead to renewed conflict. "I come here every year to pay respects to my old army friends," a 78-year Korean War veteran surnamed Fan told AFP, turning his head to adjust his hearing aid as he stood in a cemetery for victims of the ... more Asia forking out on defence despite slowdown: experts 
Singapore (AFP) April 5, 2009Increased military spending by China and India is forcing other Asia-Pacific countries to modernise their armed forces despite the severe impact of the global financial crisis, experts say. Data from defence research firm Jane's Information Group estimates total military spending in the region rising year-on-year - from about 220 billion dollars in 2008 to 239 billion dollars this year and ... more Chinese workers abandon Beijing protest march: state media 
Beijing (AFP) April 4, 2009More than 1,000 workers Friday began a march towards Beijing in protest over job losses at a factory in the north of China, but later gave up after authorities intervened, employees and state media said. Demonstrators travelling by bicycle and on foot had attempted to make the 140-kilometre (90-mile) journey from Baoding city in Hebei province to the Chinese capital to present a petition to ... more China orders tighter controls on online videos 
Beijing (AFP) April 2, 2009China issued new rules Thursday aiming to crack down on "harmful" political or religious online videos, two weeks after footage of police allegedly beating Tibetan monks circulated on the Web. The rules specifically ban online clips that harm national stability, "instigate hatred between ethnic groups" or "maliciously disparage" the nation's police or armed forces, a notice on the government ... more |
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Washington (AFP) April 2, 2009President Barack Obama has taken a big step to broaden the US relationship with China with the launch of a new dialogue, but some experts warn more symbolism than substance could be at play. The new US leader, visiting London for the Group of 20 summit on the global economic crisis, met with Chinese President Hu Jintao and agreed to "strengthen ties at all levels." The world's most power ... more Man dies after detonating bomb in China: police 
Beijing (AFP) April 2, 2009A man died Thursday when he detonated a bomb in an office building in China's Muslim-populated Xinjiang region, police said. Two office workers were also injured when the man, who was apparently owed money, detonated his explosives in the building in Urumqi, capital of the northwestern region, a police official told AFP. The incident did not appear to be related to ethnic unrest in Xinji ... more Military Matters: China clash Part Two 
Washington, April 2, 2009 The U.S. Navy may argue that a Chinese-American war is unlikely to start over harassment of a survey ship like that experienced by the USNS Impeccable in international waters off of Hainan island on March 8, and it would be right. However, surveillance missions such as the Impeccable's send a message that the United States sees China as a likely enemy. Such messages, if repeated ... more Taiwan, China to collaborate in Antarctic research 
Taipei (AFP) April 2, 2009Taiwan and China will cooperate on research in Antarctica for the first time, scientists said Thursday, in a further sign of closer ties between the two rivals. Taiwanese researchers are expected to join China's icebreaker and research vessel Xue Long when it sets off for Antarctica in late October or November, said Wang Wei-hsien, director of Taiwan's Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium. ... more |
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Shanghai (AFP) April 2, 2009Bank of China said Thursday it had abandoned its bid to buy a stake in French private bank Edmond de Rothschild Finance Company after Chinese regulators failed to approve the deal. Bank of China, one of the country's big four state banks, announced in September it would pay 236 million euros (342 million dollars) for a 20 percent stake in the French private bank. "The agreement became in ... more Satellites Will Help Predict Disasters 
Beijing, China (XNA) Apr 02, 2009China's first two satellites dedicated to environment and disaster monitoring were delivered to their users yesterday. Both Huanjing-1A and Huanjing-1B have two charge coupled device cameras, with a 30-m resolution and a 720-km width, each on board, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense said in a statement. The Ministry of Civil Affairs, in ... more Nuke Sub Conflict Ramp Up As China Enters The Game Part One 
Washington (UPI) Mar 31, 2009 On March 8 a U.S. Navy survey ship, the USNS Impeccable, was harassed by the Chinese in waters off Hainan Island. The Chinese navy has built a major submarine base on the island, and the newest classes of Chinese nuclear submarines are based there. The Impeccable's obvious mission was to collect intelligence, including sonic and other "signatures," on the new Chinese submarines. Legally ... more China calls cyber espionage accusations 'lies' 
Beijing (AFP) March 31, 2009China Tuesday dismissed allegations that it was engaged in computer espionage worldwide as "lies" fabricated by people aiming to tarnish the rise of the Asian giant. "Some people outside of China are bent on fabricating lies of so-called Chinese computer spies," foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang told journalists. "Their attempt to tarnish China with lies is doomed to failure." Qin ... more
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