Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Iowa gov says Chinese official will visit farm (AP)
• Obama eyes more money for China trade enforcement (Reuters)
• Tough calculus for Obama in Chinese leader's election-year visit (Reuters)
• China avoids clear support for UN peacekeepers in Syria (Reuters)
• China VP flies to US for getting-acquainted visit (AP)
• US, China face 'trust deficit' as China's heir apparent visits (The Christian Science Monitor)
• China's CIC brushes aside Merkel investment plea (Reuters)
• China CIC says wary of European govt bond investments (Reuters)
• Chinese diplomat urges Iran to cooperate with IAEA (AP)
• China is mum on call for Syria peacekeeping force (AP)
• Xi says frictions shouldn't define U.S.-China ties: report (Reuters)
• Analysis:China offshore yuan market booms even as yuan bets fade (Reuters)
• Teenage Tibetan nun sets herself on fire in China (AP)
• China urges closer cooperation from Iran in nuclear standoff (Reuters)

Iowa gov says Chinese official will visit farm (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 01:08 PM PST AP - Gov. Terry Branstad says Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping will visit a farm as part of his trip to Iowa this week.

Obama eyes more money for China trade enforcement (Reuters) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 01:00 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama, on the eve of a high-level Chinese visit to the United States, proposed $26 million in new funding to make sure China and other countries play by the rules of international trade.

Tough calculus for Obama in Chinese leader's election-year visit (Reuters) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 12:57 PM PST Reuters - Even as he greets China's vice president in the Oval Office on Tuesday, President Barack Obama is quietly overhauling U.S. economic policy toward Beijing, looking for new ways to extract results on issues such as market access and currency manipulation that have bedeviled him and his predecessors.

China avoids clear support for UN peacekeepers in Syria (Reuters) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 12:31 PM PST Reuters - China's Foreign Ministry Monday backed Arab League mediation in Syria but offered no clear sign of support for its call to send in peacekeepers to halt the Syrian government's violent crackdown on opposition groups.

China VP flies to US for getting-acquainted visit (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 08:55 AM PST AP - China's vice president left Monday for a crucial getting-acquainted visit to the United States before he takes over as leader of the world's most populous nation later this year, amid tensions over trade, currency and a sharpening competition for global influence.

US, China face 'trust deficit' as China's heir apparent visits (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 05:35 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor -  It is clearly not the prospect that Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping may sign a deal to buy more American soybeans that lends significance to his US tour this week.

China's CIC brushes aside Merkel investment plea (Reuters) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 03:21 AM PST Reuters - The head of China's $410 billion sovereign wealth fund CIC brushed aside a call by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to buy European government debt, saying such investments were "difficult" for long-term investors.

China CIC says wary of European govt bond investments (Reuters) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 01:25 AM PST Reuters - China Investment Corp (CIC) remains wary about investing in European government bonds despite a plea from Germany's chancellor, but will look for opportunities in infrastructure and real industrial projects, the head of the country's $410 billion sovereign wealth fund said on Monday.

Chinese diplomat urges Iran to cooperate with IAEA (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 12:49 AM PST AP - A senior Chinese diplomat on a trip to Iran has urged Tehran to cooperate more with the United Nations' nuclear watchdog body. The advice comes amid growing tensions over the Islamic republic's nuclear program and Western sanctions.

China is mum on call for Syria peacekeeping force (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 12:09 AM PST AP - China refused Monday to say if it backs an Arab League call for the U.N. Security Council to create a joint peacekeeping force for Syria, the latest bid to end the violence that has killed more than 5,000 there.

Xi says frictions shouldn't define U.S.-China ties: report (Reuters) Posted: 12 Feb 2012 10:42 PM PST Reuters - The United States should not let friction over economic and trade policies undermine the hugely important business relationship with China, Vice President Xi Jinping said in an interview published before a scheduled U.S. visit.

Analysis:China offshore yuan market booms even as yuan bets fade (Reuters) Posted: 12 Feb 2012 08:03 PM PST Reuters - Three years after China launched its most ambitious experiment yet to give its currency more global clout, some market watchers are writing its epitaph, saying Beijing is not loosening its grip on the yuan fast enough to attract sustained interest.

Teenage Tibetan nun sets herself on fire in China (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2012 07:52 PM PST AP - An 18-year-old Tibetan nun has set herself on fire in western China in the latest such protest against Beijing's handling of the vast ethnic Tibetan regions it rules, an overseas activist group said.

China urges closer cooperation from Iran in nuclear standoff (Reuters) Posted: 12 Feb 2012 07:49 PM PST Reuters - China has urged Iran to cooperate more closely with the global nuclear watchdog and rejoin talks on its nuclear program that has caused a rift with the West.

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