2011年10月13日星期四

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


Romney sharpens attack on China's economic policies (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:01 PM PDT

Reuters - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday threatened trade sanctions against China if the world's No. 2 economy does not halt what he said was currency manipulation, unfair subsidies and rampant intellectual property theft.

Analysis: Obama to challenge China on trade as election nears (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 03:29 PM PDT

President Barack Obama looks on as Chinese President Hu Jintao speaks during a joint press conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington, January 19, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - The Obama administration, under fire for not taking a harder line on China over its currency, appears set to move against the Asia export powerhouse on other fronts as next year's U.S. elections approach.


Analysis: How much Chinese investment is too much for Canada? (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 01:49 PM PDT

Reuters - China's big oil companies have steadily increased their stake in Canada's energy sector but have not yet tested the limits of a Canadian government that may recoil if they buy one of the nation's larger companies.

Chinese plane lands after passenger warns of bomb (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 06:57 AM PDT

AP - State media say a Chinese airliner flying from Beijing to the restive western city of Urumqi has made an emergency landing after a passenger said there was a bomb on board and threatened to blow up the plane.

Analysis: Last stand for Russia in China gas talks (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 06:51 AM PDT

Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin walk ahead of their talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing October 12, 2011. REUTERS/Takuro Yabe/PoolReuters - Risks are rising that Russia could lose a long-term deal to sell gas worth hundreds of billions of dollars to China as Beijing's pursuit of an expanding range of rival sources of supply strengthens its hand in the long-running talks.


China's trade growth slows, surplus narrows (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 03:49 AM PDT

In this photo taken Wednesday March 16, 2011, a container truck leaves from the container port in Dalian in northeastern China's Liaoning province. China's government said Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011 its trade growth decelerated in September 2011 amid weak global demand, and its politically sensitive trade surplus narrowed to US$14.5 billion. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTAP - China's export growth fell in September in a sign of the West's malaise and a setback for hopes Chinese demand will help prop up a shaky global economy.


Political motives seen in Wal-Mart's China trouble (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 03:48 AM PDT

AP - Wal-Mart is getting another public bludgeoning in China as popular anger over food safety makes the retail giant an easy target for political point scoring ahead of a central government leadership shuffle.

Magazine names Ai Weiwei most powerful artist (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 03:35 AM PDT

AP - Influential British magazine Art Review has named China's politically outspoken Ai Weiwei as its most powerful artist of 2011.

China activist charged with subversion languishes (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 01:46 AM PDT

AP - A Chinese activist accused of subversion for signing a 2008 democracy manifesto has been languishing in detention without trial for a year and a half, his lawyer said Thursday.

China trade surplus shrinks as global woes deepen (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 01:06 AM PDT

Reuters - China's trade surplus narrowed for a second straight month in September to $14.5 billion, with both imports and exports lower than expected, reflecting global economic weakness and domestic cooling that will deepen policy quandaries facing Beijing.
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