Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Analysis: U.S.-China discord remains after Xi's mood music (Reuters)
• AP Interview: Cardinal wants to be bridge to China (AP)
• Romney, Obama campaign spar over US-China policy (Reuters)
• China to send senior envoy for talks in Syria (AP)
• China open to U.S. religious envoy visit: White House (Reuters)
• Coal mine accident kills 15 in China (AP)
• Local scandal highlights China succession contests (AP)
• China Internet users strive to spare businesswoman from death (Reuters)
• Land dispute sparks protests in east China village (AP)

Analysis: U.S.-China discord remains after Xi's mood music (Reuters) Posted: 16 Feb 2012 02:07 PM PST Reuters - China's leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping won the kind of reception in the United States that suggests Washington sees his rise as a chance to narrow economic and political rifts.

AP Interview: Cardinal wants to be bridge to China (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2012 11:10 AM PST AP - The new cardinal from Hong Kong said Thursday that he wants to "keep the door open" between the Vatican and the Chinese government while acknowledging there are "lots of battles" ahead for the Catholic church.

Romney, Obama campaign spar over US-China policy (Reuters) Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:58 AM PST Reuters - Mitt Romney lashed out at Beijing and President Barack Obama's China policy on Thursday, criticizing the president for going in "precisely the wrong direction" and calling meetings this week with visiting Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping "empty pomp."

China to send senior envoy for talks in Syria (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:44 AM PST AP - China, which has been criticized for vetoing a U.N. vote aimed at pressuring Syria's leader to step down, said Thursday it will send a senior envoy to the country for talks on ending the violence there.

China open to U.S. religious envoy visit: White House (Reuters) Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:51 PM PST Reuters - Chinese officials have told the White House they are working on dates for a U.S. envoy for religious freedoms to visit China, White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Wednesday.

Coal mine accident kills 15 in China (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:21 PM PST AP - China's state news agency says 15 miners were killed and three others hurt when the mine carriages they were in plunged into a tunnel.

Local scandal highlights China succession contests (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:12 PM PST AP - Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping's U.S. visit this week shows he is all but certain to take over as China's next leader, but back home the competition is rough for the other top slots to run the country with him.

China Internet users strive to spare businesswoman from death (Reuters) Posted: 15 Feb 2012 09:42 PM PST Reuters - Thousands of Chinese Internet users have urged China's Supreme Court to spare a 31-year-old death row convict, once one of China's richest women, in a contentious fraud case that has sparked sympathy for the self-made daughter of a peasant.

Land dispute sparks protests in east China village (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2012 07:20 PM PST AP - State media say a lingering land dispute has sparked protests and clashes with police in a farming village in eastern China.

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