Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Gates says China moving fast on new weapons (AP)
• Economists foretell of U.S. decline, China's ascension (Reuters)
• Obama and Hu will seek to re-set ties at state visit (Reuters)
• US defence secretary arrives in China (AFP)
• Fire leaves over 270 people homeless in NW China (AP)
• Police nab suspect in China Carrefour bomb threat (AFP)
• Rise in abortions in China, young women targeted (AP)
• Chinese official suspended over lead poisoning (AP)
• China helped lower tensions with NKorea: US (AFP)

Gates says China moving fast on new weapons (AP) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 01:51 PM PST AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says China's rapidly developing defense capabilities are worrisome to the United States.

Economists foretell of U.S. decline, China's ascension (Reuters) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 09:32 AM PST Reuters - To hear a number of prominent economists tell it, it doesn't look good for the U.S. economy, not this year, not in 10 years.

Obama and Hu will seek to re-set ties at state visit (Reuters) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 07:46 AM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama and China's Hu Jintao will strive to put a rocky 2010 behind them and cast themselves as partners rather than rivals at a state visit this month between the world's two biggest powers.

US defence secretary arrives in China (AFP) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 03:45 AM PST AFP - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates flew into China on Sunday for a visit aimed at improving uneasy military ties between Beijing and Washington, suspended a year ago over US arms sales to Taiwan.

Fire leaves over 270 people homeless in NW China (AP) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 02:38 AM PST AP - A fire raced through hundreds of houses in a remote village in northwestern China on Sunday, leaving more than 270 people homeless in freezing temperatures, an official said. No casualties were reported.

Police nab suspect in China Carrefour bomb threat (AFP) Posted: 08 Jan 2011 10:56 PM PST AFP - Police in southwest China have arrested a man suspected of threatening to bomb an outlet of French retail giant Carrefour in an extortion attempt, state media said Sunday.

Rise in abortions in China, young women targeted (AP) Posted: 08 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST AP - The leaf-strewn median on Eternal Peace Road hides a grim secret: Numerous tiny fetuses lie in unmarked graves dug by women from the abortion clinic across the street.

Chinese official suspended over lead poisoning (AP) Posted: 08 Jan 2011 08:33 PM PST AP - An environmental official in eastern China was suspended after a battery factory sickened more than 200 children with lead poisoning, authorities said Sunday.

China helped lower tensions with NKorea: US (AFP) Posted: 08 Jan 2011 06:14 PM PST AFP - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said China has helped ease a crisis on the Korean peninsula after Pyongyang shelled a South Korean island.

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