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the second hyperpower |
 Beijing (AFP) May 20, 2009 
Thousands of students clashed with local security forces in eastern China, in unrest coming just days before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, a rights group said. Students from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics took to the streets late Monday after local government security guards allegedly beat several students, the Information Centre for Human Rights and De ... read more
Prague (AFP) May 20, 2009China warned the European Union against meddling in its internal affairs on Wednesday at a summit in Prague, where the European side had hoped to move on from past tensions over the Dalai Lama. The summit was originally set for December last year but China called it off to protest against a meeting between the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who then hea ... more
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Shanghai (AFP) May 20, 2009China has lost its position as the world's lowest-cost components manufacturer to India and Mexico, a study indicated Wednesday, in a blow for the Asian giant as it fights the financial crisis. The United States has also significantly closed the gap to the degree that China's total manufacturing costs are now only six percent below those of American factories, the study by AlixPartners busi ... more  
Beijing (AFP) May 20, 2009China's state-owned firms saw their profits fall sharply in the first four months, the government said Wednesday, in yet another sign the Chinese economy continued to suffer from the global crisis. State-owned enterprises across the country made 323.6 billion yuan (47.4 billion dollars) in profit from January to April, down 32.3 percent from the same period of 2008, said a statement posted ... more 
Prague (AFP) May 20, 2009Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao called on the European Union on Wednesday to ease limits on exports of high-tech goods at an EU summit in Prague. "We hope that the European Union will relax its restrictions on the export of high-tech products to China and foster new growth areas in our business cooperation," he told journalists after the summit. He also reiterated Beijing's long-standing hope ... more  
Rotterdam, Netherlands (SPX) May 21, 2009The world's two most successful solar entrepreneurs have grown their companies from zero to global market leaders in less than eight years. Dr Anton Milner, one of the founders of Q-Cells, has built up the German company into the biggest solar cell manufacturer in the world today. Dr Zhengrong Shi, founder and CEO of China's Suntech Power, is hot on the heels of Q-Cells in the race ... more |
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Prague (AFP) May 20, 2009EU and Chinese leaders are to focus on tackling the economic crisis at a summit on Wednesday, but lingering tensions over the Dalai Lama will cast a long shadow over the meeting in Prague. The summit was originally set for last December but China called it off in protest at a meeting between Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Poland. France ... more 
Khabarovsk, Russia (AFP) May 19, 2009It's a 10-hour flight from Brussels, a week's ride from Moscow on the train but close enough to China by ferry for a day's cheap shopping. In fact, Russia's Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk is almost as far from what is usually defined as "Europe" as you can get. So why has Russia decided to hold a an EU summit in the city on the banks of the mighty Amur River this Thursday and Friday? ... more  
Hong Kong (UPI) May 19, 2009 One member of the Russian military delegation to last November's Zhuhai Air Show described the Chinese-Russian arms trade as being in a long and drawn-out winter. A representative of Rosoboronexport, the agency that handles exports of Russian defense equipment, declined to comment on China's possible export of J-10A fighters equipped with Russian AL-31F engines. China did have it ... more |
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