Yahoo! News: World - China

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• French PM arrives in China (AFP)
• Thousands of Taiwanese protest China envoy's visit (AP)
• China to try prominent dissident on Wednesday: lawyer (Reuters)
• China: Climate talks yielded 'positive' results (AP)
• Thousands protest in Taiwan over China trade talks (Reuters)
• Chinese man's subversion trial to start this week (AP)
• Gas pipeline a symbol of China's power: analysts (AFP)
• Cambodia deports Uighurs despite criticism (Reuters)

French PM arrives in China (AFP) Posted: 20 Dec 2009 01:24 PM PST AFP - French Prime Minister Francois Fillon arrived in China Sunday for a visit aimed at pushing forward relations between the two countries following a rift over Tibetan issues that lasted one year.

Thousands of Taiwanese protest China envoy's visit (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2009 05:07 AM PST AP - Tens of thousands of opposition demonstrators marched through the streets of the central Taiwanese city of Taichung on Sunday, ahead of the arrival of a senior Chinese envoy for trade talks that some on the island fear could eventually lead to unification.

China to try prominent dissident on Wednesday: lawyer (Reuters) Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:55 AM PST Reuters - Chinese prosecutors will put Liu Xiaobo, one of the country's best-known dissidents, on trial on subversion charges on Wednesday in Beijing, Liu's lawyer and wife said on Sunday.

China: Climate talks yielded 'positive' results (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:28 AM PST AP - China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, lauded Sunday the outcome of a historic U.N. climate conference that ended with a nonbinding agreement that urges major polluters to make deeper emissions cuts — but does not require it.

Thousands protest in Taiwan over China trade talks (Reuters) Posted: 20 Dec 2009 03:43 AM PST Reuters - Thousands of people marched in Taiwan on Sunday to protest against warming ties with political rival China, a day before Beijing's top negotiator arrives on the island for talks on a landmark free trade pact.

Chinese man's subversion trial to start this week (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2009 02:59 AM PST AP - The long-awaited subversion trial of a high-profile Chinese dissident who has called for greater civil rights in the country and an end to the Communist Party's political dominance will start in a few days, the man's lawyer said Sunday.

Gas pipeline a symbol of China's power: analysts (AFP) Posted: 19 Dec 2009 11:23 PM PST AFP - China has quietly rewritten the geopolitical landscape in Central Asia in recent years, breaking Russia's monopoly over the export of the region's e nergy resources also coveted by the West, experts say.

Cambodia deports Uighurs despite criticism (Reuters) Posted: 19 Dec 2009 08:22 PM PST Reuters - Cambodia has deported back to China 20 Muslim Uighurs who fled the country after deadly ethnic violence this year, a government official said on Sunday, despite concerns they will face persecution by Beijing.

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