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the second hyperpower |
 Vienna, Austria (XNA) Jun 04, 2009 
China is ready to join the international community in efforts to maintain peace in outer space, a Chinese envoy said here at the 52nd plenary session of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS). "The Chinese government has always stood for and abided by the principle of peaceful use of outer space," Tang Guoqiang, China's Permanent Representative to the Uni ... read more 
Taipei (AFP) June 3, 2009Taiwan is planning to halve the number of troops deployed on three island groups near China, a report said Wednesday, amid easing tensions between the once bitter rivals. The military is considering reducing the number of soldiers stationed on the Kinmen, Matsu and Penghu islands to fewer than 10,000, the Liberty Times said, citing unnamed top military officials. The move is aimed at ... more
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Berlin (AFP) June 2, 2009The global financial crisis is resulting in a "geopolitical metamorphosis" that is likely to boost China's standing in the world, the head of Germany's foreign intelligence service said Tuesday. "If China recovers more quickly than other (countries), its weight will increase in the region compared to other players," Ernst Uhrlau, head of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), told the ... more  
Beijing (AFP) June 3, 2009Over 3,900 substandard milk collection stations have been shut down in China following a contamination scandal last year that left at least six children dead, state media said Wednesday. Song Kungang, head of the China Dairy Industry Association, said authorities had inspected all the nation's 20,393 milk stations between November 2008 and April this year, the official Xinhua news agency ... more  
Washington (AFP) June 3, 2009The chief US climate negotiator said Wednesday he would go to China to press the rapidly growing economy to commit to hard numbers on emission reductions under the next treaty on global warming. In the midst of climate negotiations in Bonn, US climate envoy Todd Stern said he would head Saturday to Beijing in the belief that any future agreement must include strong action by China. Stern ... more  
Paris (AFP) June 3, 2009Chinese researchers said on Wednesday they had created versatile stem cells from pigs, a ground-breaking achievement that could open up new paths for combatting human disease. Doctors led by Lei Xiao, of the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, took adult cells taken from a pig's ear and bone marrow and reprogrammed them so that they became so-called pluripotent stem cells. ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) June 2, 2009China on Tuesday took up US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's call to work together in battling the financial crisis as the Asian giant tries to position itself as a major force on the global stage. Beijing was eager to deepen efforts with Washington on dragging the world out of the economic slump, Vice Premier Wang Qishan told Geithner in a Monday meeting, the foreign ministry said. ... more 
Shanghai (AFP) June 2, 2009The China unit of automaker General Motors continues to expand despite the woes of its parent, which this week filed for bankruptcy, with new joint venture plans still on, an executive said Tuesday. GM's China business is self-sustaining and does not require financing from the struggling parent company in the United States, GM China President Kevin Wale told reporters. He said the firm ... more 
Beijing (AFP) June 2, 2009China's state press expressed opposition to massive purchases of US debt on Tuesday, the second day of a visit by US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. One of Geithner's goals is to reassure Chinese leaders that their nearly 800 billion dollars in US assets are safe despite a ballooning US budget deficit, and to urge Beijing to buy more, the China Daily said. As the largest holder of ... more  
Taoyuan, Taiwan (AFP) June 2, 2009Fork-lift trucks are buzzing around a terminal of Taiwan's first free trade zone despite the global economic crisis that has seen shipments from ports elsewhere on the island tumble. Farglory, the company that operates the bonded zone outside the northern city of Taoyuan, says the economic downturn is a crisis in theory only here, as business just keeps getting better. "Companies at the ... more |
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