Yahoo! News: World - China

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• US vows to get China ties right (AFP)
• Medvedev and Hu meetings on Obama Asia agenda (Reuters)
• Obama, Hu to tackle trade, security in talks: White House (Reuters)
• Obama to meet China's Hu before G20 summit in Seoul (AFP)
• Daughter of missing China dissident urges help from Obama (AFP)
• China party newspaper criticizes Western democracy (AP)
• US, Japan hit back at China's muscle flexing (AFP)
• Twelve killed in China coal mine flood: state media (AFP)
• Coal mine flood kills 12 in China: report (Reuters)
• China 'to focus on promoting electric cars' (AFP)
• China warns Japan not to 'shift blame' (AFP)
• China promises action on trade surplus, emissions (AP)
• Chinese city offers cash for cigarette butts (AFP)
• China naval fleet expansion (AFP)
• Clinton hopes rare earth trade to continue unabated (Reuters)
• China says rare earths not a 'bargaining tool' (AFP)
• Mine flood kills 12 in China (AP)
• China says rare earths no "bargaining tool" (Reuters)
• China to boost maritime fleet amid tensions at sea (AP)

US vows to get China ties right (AFP) Posted: 28 Oct 2010 01:25 PM PDT AFP - The United States vowed Thursday to get its rocky relations with China "right" despite flaring rows, and announced that President Barack Obama would meet President Hu Jintao next month in Seoul.

Medvedev and Hu meetings on Obama Asia agenda (Reuters) Posted: 28 Oct 2010 10:51 AM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama will hold bilateral meetings with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Chinese President Hu Jintao and other leaders during his upcoming trip to Asia, White House officials said on Thursday.

Obama, Hu to tackle trade, security in talks: White House (Reuters) Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:20 AM PDT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao will discuss the global economy, trade, North Korea, Iran and human rights among other issues when they meet on November 11 on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Seoul, the White House said on Thursday.

Obama to meet China's Hu before G20 summit in Seoul (AFP) Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:07 AM PDT AFP - President Barack Obama will meet Chinese President Hu Jintao in South Korea next month as Sino-US economic tensions flare and territorial rows fester between Beijing and its neighbors.

Daughter of missing China dissident urges help from Obama (AFP) Posted: 28 Oct 2010 08:38 AM PDT AFP - The 17-year-old daughter of missing Chinese rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has appealed for help from US President Barack Obama, saying Beijing had kidnapped him and that police beat her as a child.

China party newspaper criticizes Western democracy (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2010 08:02 AM PDT AP - China's Communist Party newspaper issued a scathing attack on Western-style democracy Thursday amid growing calls for reform of the country's political system and a resulting push-back by party conservatives.

US, Japan hit back at China's muscle flexing (AFP) Posted: 28 Oct 2010 08:01 AM PDT AFP - The United States and Japan responded Wednesday to China's muscle flexing by reaffirming the strength of their security alliance and vowing to diversify sources of rare earths imports.

Twelve killed in China coal mine flood: state media (AFP) Posted: 28 Oct 2010 07:27 AM PDT AFP - Twelve workers were killed and one injured in a flood in a colliery in southwestern China, state media said Thursday, in the latest accident to hit the nation's notoriously dangerous mining industry.

Coal mine flood kills 12 in China: report (Reuters) Posted: 28 Oct 2010 07:08 AM PDT Reuters - Flooding in a Chinese coal mine killed 12 miners in southwestern Guizhou Province, state media reported on Thursday, the latest accident in the country's mining industry which is one of the deadliest in the world.

China 'to focus on promoting electric cars' (AFP) Posted: 28 Oct 2010 03:48 AM PDT AFP - Chinese authorities have agreed to promote electric cars to address the country's intensifying energy and pollution concerns, as auto sales surge, an official said Thursday.

China warns Japan not to 'shift blame' (AFP) Posted: 28 Oct 2010 03:27 AM PDT AFP - China on Thursday warned Japan not to "shift the blame" in their ongoing row, saying the arrest of a Chinese fishing boat captain in disputed waters was the "fundamental cause" of the problem.

China promises action on trade surplus, emissions (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2010 02:24 AM PDT AP - China's leaders are promising to narrow its huge trade surplus and curb surging emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases in an ambitious five-year plan to make its economy cleaner and more high-tech.

Chinese city offers cash for cigarette butts (AFP) Posted: 28 Oct 2010 12:41 AM PDT AFP - A northern Chinese city has come up with an innovative way to encourage residents to keep the streets clean -- it is paying five fen (just under one US cent) for every used cigarette butt they pick up.

China naval fleet expansion (AFP) Posted: 27 Oct 2010 11:54 PM PDT AFP - China is expanding its naval surveillance fleet to better protect its maritime rights, state media reported Thursday, amid bitter deep-sea territorial disputes with neighbouring nations.

Clinton hopes rare earth trade to continue unabated (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2010 11:53 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday she hoped a Chinese statement it would not use rare earth minerals as a bargaining chip meant their trade would continue uninterrupted.

China says rare earths not a 'bargaining tool' (AFP) Posted: 27 Oct 2010 11:47 PM PDT AFP - China will not use its near-global monopoly on the rare earths trade as a "bargaining tool", an industry ministry spokesman said Thursday, amid a row with Japan over the vital minerals.

Mine flood kills 12 in China (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2010 11:37 PM PDT AP - State media says a coal mine flood in southwestern China has killed 12 people, adding more casualties to the thousands killed each year in mining accidents.

China says rare earths no "bargaining tool" (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2010 10:30 PM PDT Reuters - China will not use its dominance of global rare earths supplies as a "bargaining tool" with foreign economies, a spokesman for the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Thursday.

China to boost maritime fleet amid tensions at sea (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2010 10:07 PM PDT AP - China announced it is expanding its surveillance fleet to better protect its interests in the South China Sea, where Beijing's aggressive moves have already raised concern among its Asian neighbors.

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