Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Life Behind China's Great Firewall (Time.com)
• Campaign China-bashing obscures real problems (AP)
• China: Occupy Wall Street's issues worth thought (AP)
• Insight: Running Chinese finance, a different kind of banker (Reuters)
• Chinese succession highlights military's role (AP)
• Wal-Mart China CEO quits as retailer grapples with pork scandal (Reuters)
• Analysis: China watches nervously as Taiwan election nears (Reuters)
• Wal-Mart says China CEO stepping down (AP)
• Tourist bus overturns in China, 10 dead, 33 hurt (AP)

Life Behind China's Great Firewall (Time.com) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 02:15 PM PDT Time.com - You've Got Mail: Behind the Great Firewall of China

Campaign China-bashing obscures real problems (AP) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 04:46 AM PDT AP - It's open season on China in the Republican race for the presidential nomination, and Mitt Romney is leading the charge. Newt Gingrich and some other candidates are on his heels, painting China as the bogeyman responsible for America's economic ills.

China: Occupy Wall Street's issues worth thought (AP) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 04:40 AM PDT AP - China's foreign ministry said Monday the Occupy Wall Street movement highlights issues that are worth considering, but that debates generated by the protests should promote global economic growth.

Insight: Running Chinese finance, a different kind of banker (Reuters) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 04:16 AM PDT Reuters - The chairman of the world's most valuable bank was once a good communist, learning from the peasants in a collectivist commune in Jiangxi province and working to raise coal production as a teenage miner in Henan during the tumult of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution.

Chinese succession highlights military's role (AP) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 03:12 AM PDT AP - Maneuvering over China's leadership succession is providing an opportunity for the powerful military to exert greater influence over decision-making, potentially dragging the government into a more confrontational stance with its neighbors and the U.S.

Wal-Mart China CEO quits as retailer grapples with pork scandal (Reuters) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 12:09 AM PDT Reuters - The head of Wal-Mart Stores Inc's China business has resigned citing personal reasons, after the world's largest retailer ran into trouble with Chinese authorities leading to store closures and employee detentions.

Analysis: China watches nervously as Taiwan election nears (Reuters) Posted: 16 Oct 2011 10:39 PM PDT Reuters - China is steeling itself for another presidential election in rambunctiously democratic Taiwan, hoping a victory for the ruling Nationalists enables even better ties but also girding for an opposition win that may inflame tensions.

Wal-Mart says China CEO stepping down (AP) Posted: 16 Oct 2011 09:28 PM PDT AP - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday the president of Walmart China is stepping down. A company spokesman said the move was unrelated to a Chinese government food safety case against several Wal-Mart stores.

Tourist bus overturns in China, 10 dead, 33 hurt (AP) Posted: 16 Oct 2011 05:57 PM PDT AP - Chinese state media say that a tourist bus carrying many elderly passengers has overturned on a winding highway in southern China, leaving 10 people dead and 33 injured.

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