Yahoo! News: World - China

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• New China-Vatican row brewing over bishops (AP)
• Chrysler eyeing China production through Fiat JV (Reuters)
• Clinton says U.S. opposes threats in South China Sea (Reuters)
• Four jailed for touting tainted milk in China (Reuters)
• China artist Ai freed but confined to Beijing (AFP)
• Chinese warships cross high seas off Japan island (AP)
• China pushing for end to renewed violence in Sudan (AP)
• Chinese artist Ai Weiwei: Free in body, not voice (AP)
• Sudan's Bashir likely keen to ease China investment (Reuters)
• Analysis: China economy resilient, for now (Reuters)
• Hong Kong scholar freed after China cuts sentence (AP)
• China says artist Ai still being probed for suspected crimes (Reuters)
• China artist Ai Weiwei stays quiet after freed on bail (Reuters)
• China, Vietnam hold joint sea patrols: ministry (AFP)
• Analysis: China's railway boom hurtles into the red (Reuters)
• Ai Weiwei: 'I'm very happy to be free' (AFP)
• Manila: US obliged to defend Filipinos in Spratlys (AP)

New China-Vatican row brewing over bishops (AP) Posted: 23 Jun 2011 05:21 PM PDT AP - China's state-controlled Catholic church says it will move swiftly to appoint new bishops in dioceses where there are none, in a step that is certain to worsen tensions with the Vatican.

Chrysler eyeing China production through Fiat JV (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jun 2011 03:44 PM PDT Reuters - Chrysler Group LLC is "aggressively" exploring the possibility of building more vehicles in China, where the company is on track to sell 40,000 cars and trucks this year, an executive said on Thursday.

Clinton says U.S. opposes threats in South China Sea (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jun 2011 01:03 PM PDT Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday the United States was concerned that recent events in the South China Sea could undermine stability and opposed any threat of force to advance territorial claims.

Four jailed for touting tainted milk in China (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jun 2011 10:38 AM PDT Reuters - Four people were sentenced to prison on Thursday for producing and selling melamine-tainted milk powder in north China's Hebei Province, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

China artist Ai freed but confined to Beijing (AFP) Posted: 23 Jun 2011 06:30 AM PDT AFP - Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is not permitted to leave Beijing "without permission", authorities said Thursday after his release from nearly three months of detention that triggered an international outcry.

Chinese warships cross high seas off Japan island (AP) Posted: 23 Jun 2011 06:24 AM PDT AP - Japan's Defense Ministry said Thursday 11 Chinese warships were spotted in international waters off the country's southern island of Okinawa.

China pushing for end to renewed violence in Sudan (AP) Posted: 23 Jun 2011 06:22 AM PDT AP - China is pressing both sides in Sudan to end renewed violence that is threatening a landmark peace agreement, Beijing's special envoy for African affairs said Thursday.

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei: Free in body, not voice (AP) Posted: 23 Jun 2011 05:55 AM PDT AP - Outspoken artist and government critic Ai Weiwei talked about giving himself a haircut Thursday but said little else in his first day out of detention, living under a gag order that underscores concerns about China's growing use of extralegal methods to muzzle dissent.

Sudan's Bashir likely keen to ease China investment (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jun 2011 04:31 AM PDT Reuters - Sudan's war crime-indicted president will seek to soothe his most powerful ally's worries about its investments when he visits China next week, days before Sudan's oil-rich south splits from the north.

Analysis: China economy resilient, for now (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jun 2011 03:54 AM PDT Reuters - China's growth is slowing under the weight of Beijing's anti-inflation campaign and weaker global demand, but any investors betting on a hard landing would be underestimating the resilience of the world's second-largest economy.

Hong Kong scholar freed after China cuts sentence (AP) Posted: 23 Jun 2011 02:57 AM PDT AP - A historian jailed in China for leaking military secrets — reportedly from books about the Korean War — was released two years early Thursday in what a rights group said was an increasingly rare act of clemency for a political prisoner there.

China says artist Ai still being probed for suspected crimes (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jun 2011 02:22 AM PDT Reuters - China said on Thursday dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who was abruptly released after more than two months in detention, is still under investigation for suspected crimes, suggesting Beijing will keep up the pressure to stop him from speaking out.

China artist Ai Weiwei stays quiet after freed on bail (Reuters) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 10:54 PM PDT Reuters - The dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, whose detention in April ignited an international uproar, was released on bail Wednesday under conditions likely to keep the outspoken critic of Communist Party controls silent for now.

China, Vietnam hold joint sea patrols: ministry (AFP) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 10:25 PM PDT AFP - China and Vietnam conducted two days of joint naval patrols earlier this week in the Gulf of Tonkin, the defence ministry in Beijing has said, amid tensions over territorial claims in the South China Sea.

Analysis: China's railway boom hurtles into the red (Reuters) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 07:40 PM PDT Reuters - The numbers for China's relentless push for a high-speed rail network are impressive -- in terms of debt, not passengers.

Ai Weiwei: 'I'm very happy to be free' (AFP) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 07:31 PM PDT AFP - Outspoken Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei said he was "very happy to be free" on bail after more than two months in police custody during a major government crackdown on dissent.

Manila: US obliged to defend Filipinos in Spratlys (AP) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:05 PM PDT AP - U.S. forces are obliged to help defend Filipino troops, ships or aircraft under a 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty if they come under attack in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, Philippine officials said, citing past American assurances.

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