Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Getting to know you: Obama, Xi start relationship (AP)
• U.S., China agree to negotiate export credit deal (Reuters)
• Obama friendly but firm with China heir apparent (Reuters)
• China's Vice President Xi is in town: what 6 international newspapers say (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Xi Visits Washington: What the U.S. Can Expect from China's Next Leader (Time.com)
• Summary Box: EU asks China help on Iran, Syria (AP)
• Getting to know Xi: White House prepares to meet China's new man (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Biden pledges candor in talks with Xi (Reuters)
• EU leader pushes for Chinese help on Iran, Syria (AP)
• Another Tibetan monk sets himself on fire in China (AP)
• Asia shops for aircraft, arms under China's shadow (Reuters)
• China says envoy met Arab League head over Syria (AP)
• Scolded China takes Syria diplomacy to Arab League (Reuters)
• Insight: As Myanmar opens, China alliance starts to fray (Reuters)
• Chinese court indicts alleged smuggling kingpin (AP)

Getting to know you: Obama, Xi start relationship (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2012 04:59 PM PST AP - The man destined to be China's next leader won an extraordinary welcome across Washington on Tuesday, a finely scripted opening to one of the world's most important relationships. Trading kind words of cooperation, President Barack Obama and Xi Jinping also spoke directly about human rights and worsening foreign crises.

U.S., China agree to negotiate export credit deal (Reuters) Posted: 14 Feb 2012 03:58 PM PST Reuters - The United States and China agreed on Tuesday to open talks on setting guidelines for export-credit financing, an area where Beijing's aggressive practices have raised U.S. concerns.

Obama friendly but firm with China heir apparent (Reuters) Posted: 14 Feb 2012 03:43 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama told Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping on Tuesday that Beijing must play by the same trade rules as other major world powers and vowed to keep pressing China to clean up its human rights record.

China's Vice President Xi is in town: what 6 international newspapers say (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 14 Feb 2012 11:58 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor -

Xi Visits Washington: What the U.S. Can Expect from China's Next Leader (Time.com) Posted: 14 Feb 2012 08:55 AM PST Time.com - In January, China's Vice President Xi Jinping helmed a commemoration of the 40th anniversary of U.S. President Richard Nixon's landmark trip to China

Summary Box: EU asks China help on Iran, Syria (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2012 08:43 AM PST AP - CHINA APPEAL: European Union leaders urged China to open its markets, join in persuading Iran to negotiate over its nuclear program and help end bloodshed in Syria, as they held a summit delayed by Europe's debt crisis.

Getting to know Xi: White House prepares to meet China's new man (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 14 Feb 2012 06:46 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Who is Hu? That is a question US officials have been asking themselves for nearly a decade about China’s wooden and uncommunicative leader Hu Jintao. And they still don’t have an answer.

Biden pledges candor in talks with Xi (Reuters) Posted: 14 Feb 2012 06:38 AM PST Reuters - Vice President Joe Biden began a series of meetings with China's leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping pledging candor and acknowledging their two countries would disagree on some issues.

EU leader pushes for Chinese help on Iran, Syria (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2012 06:06 AM PST AP - European Union leaders urged China on Tuesday to open its markets, join in persuading Iran to negotiate over its nuclear program and help end bloodshed in Syria as they held a summit delayed by Europe's debt crisis.

Another Tibetan monk sets himself on fire in China (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2012 02:38 AM PST AP - A Tibetan monk set himself on fire in western China and was beaten by security forces as they put out the flames, a rights group said, marking the latest in a series of dramatic protests against China's handling of its vast Tibetan areas.

Asia shops for aircraft, arms under China's shadow (Reuters) Posted: 14 Feb 2012 02:37 AM PST Reuters - Asian nations shopped for aircraft and military hardware at the region's biggest aerospace and weapons bazaar on Tuesday as a new report said China's defense spending would exceed the combined spending of all major countries in the region within three years.

China says envoy met Arab League head over Syria (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2012 12:06 AM PST AP - China, which vetoed a U.N. resolution on Syria, said Tuesday that its envoy held talks with the head of the Arab League.

Scolded China takes Syria diplomacy to Arab League (Reuters) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 09:19 PM PST Reuters - A Chinese envoy has met the head of the Arab League to discuss Syria, as Beijing seeks to limit the diplomatic damage from its veto of a U.N. resolution on the country which has ignited Western and Arab anger.

Insight: As Myanmar opens, China alliance starts to fray (Reuters) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 05:33 PM PST Reuters - MANDALAY, Myanmar- When officials first turned up demanding Chen Ching-feng remove the Chinese sign above her clothing shop in Myanmar's biggest northern city, she ignored them.

Chinese court indicts alleged smuggling kingpin (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 05:22 PM PST AP - A court in eastern China has indicted the man long considered China's No. 1 fugitive on charges of bribery and running a $10 billion smuggling ring.

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