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Police in southern China have struggled to contain riots by hundreds of migrant workers over several days in a city near Guangzhou after a young pregnant street hawker was harassed by security guards, media reports said Monday.
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China warns U.S. debt-default idea is "playing with fire ... Republican lawmakers are "playing with fire" by contemplating even a brief debt default as a means to force deeper government spending cuts
Google said Wednesday that hackers based in China gained access to hundreds of Gmail accounts, including some belonging to senior U.S. government officials and military personnel. The personal Gmail account of one Cabinet-level official was compromis
Chinese investors are snapping up gold bars and coins, buying more than ever before in the first quarter of 2011 and overtaking Indian buyers as the world's biggest purchasers of the metal.
In some disturbing ways, Sino-American competition is beginning to parallel the contest between us and the Soviet Union in the Cold War. This time, however, the United States is in the fiscally precarious position of the USSR, while China plays...
"Glorious Mission" begins deploying the player to an imaginary battleground to duke it out in close-quarters combat. Scores of Chinese troops dutifully gaming away in front of their computer screens. There’s one difference between the American and Ch
China, the biggest buyer of U.S. securities, trimmed its holdings for a fifth straight month. The Treasury Department said Monday that China cut its holdings by $9.2 billion to $1.14 trillion.
I have a little secret that I’m going to let you in on, it’s one of the ways that I meet people and get networked while traveling internationally. Over time, I’ve found that, if you want to connect with influential insiders, you have to go where infl
China is relying on Africa, principally Libya, Angola, and Nigeria, for future energy needs. In response to China’s economic engagement with Africa, Washington is engaging the continent militarily with the US African Command (AFRICOM)...
The Tibetan Mastiff, Big Splash, may not bite you, but his price will sure take a hefty bite out of your wallet. That's because Big Splash, or "Hong Dong" in Chinese, was recently sold to a wealthy owner of Chinese coal mines for the tidy sum of 1
This upward revision came almost exclusively at the expense of the UK, which saw its holdings decline by $269 billion, in other words a nearly dollar for dollar shift between the UK and China.
If you thought the Obama response to Libya was painfully slow and painfully impotent, how do you suppose he would deal with a social uprising taking place in China? The unrest in Libya was days old and increasingly violent before President Obama f
The cables show escalating Chinese pressure prompted a procession of soothing visits from the U.S.Treasury Department. In one striking instance, a top Chinese money manager directly asked U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner for a favor.
Rare earth elements (REE) - A nod is as good as a wink to a blind man, horse, donkey, country or world Rare earth elements (REE) - when will I stop beating this dead horse? Canadian rare earth element (REE) mining stocks move higher Wednesday o
China plans to tighten control over rare earths producers and restrict output in a five-year development strategy, the Cabinet said Wednesday, amid concern abroad about plans to reduce exports of the exotic minerals used in high-tech goods.
At issue are three kinds of Fannie and Freddie securities. The two companies' stock prices have plunged to nearly zero, but SAFE said in its statement Friday that China has never invested in the stock of the two companies, so it hasn't been...
Has the United States put itself between the proverbial rock and a hard place? Is the United States beholden to China for critical resources in the same way that we are beholden on countries for oil. I am going to throw out a term that I have u
China raised interest rates on Tuesday for the second time in just over six weeks, intensifying a battle in the fast-expanding economy against stubbornly high inflation that threatens to unsettle global markets. The timing was a surprise, coming o
The United States threatened to take military action against China during a secret “star wars” arms race within the past few years, according to leaked documents obtained by The Daily Telegraph.
While the US is hell-bent on meddling (at tremendous expense) in the affairs of at least 140 countries where its troops are stationed, China seeks to assimilate technology at little expense.
Having a lot of overbuilding would be a huge issue for a western real estate market. The difference is that they are not urbanizing at 20-30 million people per year and they do not have a political system where the government can go to the villages a
China's economy has been forging ahead at a sizzling rate. The last quarter of 2010 came in with a bang louder than Chinese New Year—analysts pegged the growth in their economy at more than 10 percent. Yet a leading Chinese economist sees warning si
A blood-soaked cartoon that marks the Year of the Rabbit by portraying a bunny revolt against brutal tiger overlords has proven an online hit, with its thinly veiled stab at China's communist rulers. The "South Park"-style video by animator Wang Bo,
South Korea's daily newspaper is reporting that what Western analysts have feared has happened: Chinese troops have been deployed into North Korea. The Chinese now have a presence in the rogue state for the first time in more than 15 years. China ha
Chinese President Hu Jintao has targeted the dollar's reserve currency status ahead of his big meeting with President Obama saying, "the current international currency system is the product of the past."
China is the worst state offender in terms of censorship but WikiLeaks is getting past its attempts to restrict access, the website's founder Julian Assange said in an interview published on Wednesday. Assange, whose website has angered and embar
Ahead of a state visit from Hu Jintao, Chinese Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai says his country is looking for some kind of "positive statement" about the safety of US dollar holdings.
China would welcome assurances its financial assets in the United States are safe, a senior diplomat said, ahead of President Hu Jintao's visit next week, but played down rifts between the two powers. North Korea and other issues would also come up d
On January 1, 2011, China's latest "five-year plan" began.
