Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Swagger, insecurity feed China crackdown: dissident (Reuters)
• Chinese premier stresses need to keep Hormuz open (AP)
• Suspicion grows China was behind hack of U.S. commission (Reuters)
• India, China seek to avoid border flare-ups (Reuters)
• Analysis: China's housing slowdown to cut a big hole in GDP (Reuters)
• China village rights in focus as new land grab sparks protest (Reuters)
• China says government to be more open (AP)
• China home prices fall for 3rd straight month (Reuters)

Swagger, insecurity feed China crackdown: dissident (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2012 03:35 PM PST Reuters - China's broad crackdown on dissent that has seen activists get lengthy jail terms and human rights lawyers disappear stems from a mix of arrogance and insecurity in Beijing, the most recently exiled Chinese dissident said on Wednesday.

Chinese premier stresses need to keep Hormuz open (AP) Posted: 18 Jan 2012 12:41 PM PST AP - China's premier, touring the oil-rich Gulf, on Wednesday stressed the importance of keeping the Strait of Hormuz open after threats by Iran to shut the strategic waterway.

Suspicion grows China was behind hack of U.S. commission (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2012 12:20 PM PST Reuters - Suspicion is growing that operatives in China, rather than India, were behind the hacking of emails of an official U.S. commission that monitors relations between the United States and China, U.S. officials said.

India, China seek to avoid border flare-ups (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2012 03:41 AM PST Reuters - India and China have agreed to try to avoid flare-ups along their disputed 4,000-km border through the Himalayas, a positive development in often fractious relations between Asia's emerging giants.

Analysis: China's housing slowdown to cut a big hole in GDP (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jan 2012 12:04 AM PST Reuters - China's cooling property market could shave more than 2 percentage points off 2012 growth, forcing Beijing to decide just how badly it wants to keep the economy expanding at more than 8 percent a year.

China village rights in focus as new land grab sparks protest (Reuters) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 11:35 PM PST Reuters - Around 1,000 villagers denouncing a suspected land grab protested outside a government building in southern China while a new local leader called for protection of farmers' rights, newspapers reported on Wednesday.

China says government to be more open (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 09:46 PM PST AP - China will be more open about the often secretive workings of the government and ruling Communist Party in the coming year, although strict controls over the Internet would remain in place, a senior propaganda official said Wednesday.

China home prices fall for 3rd straight month (Reuters) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 06:55 PM PST Reuters - China's new home prices fell in December from November, a third straight month of declines, and analysts expect prices will fall further as Beijing sticks to its tightening campaign against the once-hot real estate market.

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