Yahoo! News: World - China

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• As US-Myanmar ties warm, China stands conflicted (AP)
• Deal by deal, U.S. ambassador turns salesman in China (Reuters)
• Slowdown sparks scramble to shore up China growth (AP)
• 1 killed in explosion outside central China bank (AP)
• China economy slowing despite policy easing (Reuters)
• US envoy criticizes China's controls on economy (AP)
• Analysis: China brings forward easing to stay in step (Reuters)
• China factory sector shrinks first time in nearly 3 years (Reuters)
• China, southeast Asian neighbors to patrol Golden Triangle (Reuters)
• China manufacturing contracts in November (AP)

As US-Myanmar ties warm, China stands conflicted (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 07:17 AM PST AP - China is a conflicted observer to Hillary Rodham Clinton's trip to Myanmar, caught between worries about U.S. encirclement in Asia and a desire to see its isolated, at times teetering neighbor become more stable.

Deal by deal, U.S. ambassador turns salesman in China (Reuters) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 05:23 AM PST Reuters - Businessmen in sober suits leapt to their feet, jostling with cameras and mobile phones to snap a quick shot as the new U.S. ambassador to China strode to the podium at a hotel ballroom in Jinan, in coastal Shandong province.

Slowdown sparks scramble to shore up China growth (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 04:39 AM PST AP - China's leaders are reversing their two-year effort to cool the economy, seeking to counter slowdowns in manufacturing and property that are dragging growth lower and threatening to spur unrest.

1 killed in explosion outside central China bank (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 04:14 AM PST AP - One person has died and several others have been injured in an explosion at a bank in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.

China economy slowing despite policy easing (Reuters) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 04:12 AM PST Reuters - China's economic growth will probably slow to 8 percent in 2012 and further to 7 percent in 2013 even though the government has started to relax policy, a prominent Chinese government economist said on Thursday.

US envoy criticizes China's controls on economy (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 02:41 AM PST AP - A U.S. trade envoy has accused China's government of increasing its role in the economy in violation of its free-trade pledges and he appealed to Beijing to reconsider its embrace of "state capitalism."

Analysis: China brings forward easing to stay in step (Reuters) Posted: 01 Dec 2011 02:33 AM PST Reuters - As the world's major central banks hurriedly announced measures to ease stresses in global funding markets, China may have felt compelled to bring forward a move to relax policy that it could otherwise have delayed for a few weeks.

China factory sector shrinks first time in nearly 3 years (Reuters) Posted: 30 Nov 2011 08:05 PM PST Reuters - China's factory sector shrank in November in the face of weakening demand both at home and abroad, two surveys showed on Thursday, underlining the central bank's move to cut bank reserve requirements to shore up the economy.

China, southeast Asian neighbors to patrol Golden Triangle (Reuters) Posted: 30 Nov 2011 07:23 PM PST Reuters - China and southeast Asian neighbors will start coordinated patrols of the violence-troubled Mekong River by mid-December, China's Ministry of Public Security said, after a meeting that also agreed to let Beijing send advisors to Myanmar and Laos.

China manufacturing contracts in November (AP) Posted: 30 Nov 2011 06:03 PM PST AP - China's manufacturing contracted in November for the first time since early 2009, as weak export orders and a slowing economy at home sapped demand for most products, a government survey shows.

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