tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151272222011-12-14T19:03:06.882-08:00China is rising. Will the China era come? What does an awakening Giant mean for the rest of the world? This blog will focus on these questions and introduce current economic events and politic news of China.alife gamenoreply@blogger.comBlogger1241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15127222.post-1157872068281335982006-09-10T00:07:00.000-07:002006-09-10T01:40:21.663-07:00

China silent on 30th anniversary of Mao's death By Verna YuAgence France-Presse 09/09/2006BEIJING -- China officially ignored the 30th anniversary of the death of Mao Zedong on Saturday, a sign that observers say reveals authorities' fears that bitter memories could unleash a wave of discontent.In the capital Beijing, the central government did not organize any commemorations for the man who

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How happy are women in China? BEIJING, Sept. 2 -- The blue book "Report on Chinese Female Life 2006" was released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences recently. The report shows how happy females are in China. The happiness of Beijing females was ranked at 4.01.The highest score of 4.20 came from Harbin, followed by 4.06 from Shanghai. Since the end of 2005, the Huakun Women's

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China to spend 100 mln yuan on farmer trainingwww.chinaview.cn 2006-09-02 22:56:34 BEIJING, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- China has allocated 100 million yuan this year to train farmers in agricultural technology and knowledge, according to the Ministry of Agriculture here Saturday. The program has chosen 10,000 villages nationwide and given them 10,000 yuan each as subsidy for training, said Wei

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SIR — As scientists and ethicists who care about stem-cell research in China, we disagree with the statement in your News story “Panel clarifies stem-cell rules” (Nature 440, 9; 2006) that “China lacks clear national policies, with different institutes following different rules”.In fact, China’s government has issued several guidelines to regulate human stemcell research. These include guidelines

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(AP)Updated: 2006-08-02 11:01A Chinese family planning official has said the government will still punish people who intentionally abort baby girls even though the legislature decided in June not to make it a crime, state media reports.The Xinhua News Agency quoted Zhang Weiqing, an official with the State Commission for Population and Family Planning, as saying that the government would continue

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By You Nuo (China Daily)Updated: 2006-07-31 05:32Some readers wrote to me after my column was published two weeks ago about introducing some traditional wisdom into the curriculum of Chinese schools of business administration.Apart from debating how the modern Chinese should define what exactly their traditional wisdom is, there are also those who challenged the need. Confucianism, which most

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NEW DELHI (AFP) - India's petroleum minister called for a new era of energy cooperation with China to avoid costly competition for fuel assets as he prepared to visit Beijing.India has dubbed 2006 the "Year of Friendship with China" with which it has often been a bitter rival in the race for global fuel supplies and fought a brief border war over four decades ago."A cooperative relationship is

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DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2006--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c24869) has announced the addition of Consumer Electronics - Focus Report on Chinese Digital Television Industry Development 2005 to their offering China's digital television market has started, but it is still in the development stage. Since national standards and policies were not

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Larry ElliottWednesday December 14, 2005The Guardian China will overtake Britain as the world's fourth-biggest economy this year after the government in Beijing found it had underestimated output of the fastest-growing country in the world by as much as 20%. China's first national census will show that under-recording of the service sector meant that China was just behind Britain in the global

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C. P. ChandrasekharJayati Ghosh Spectacular economic growth in China has been accompanied by growing inequalities of income and wealth distribution. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh examine recent patterns of inequality in Chin a. THERE is much international interest in China's economy, because of its remarkable growth over the past quarter century. Recently,

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By Frank Ching The Chinese economy, which has been growing at about 9 percent a year, took a big leap forward last week when the government announced that, as a result of a year-long national economic survey, it had revised its GDP upward to about $2 trillion for 2004, an increase of 16.8 percent, making the economy the sixth largest in the world, overtaking Italy. Given the higher base for 2004,

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REUTERS Posted online: Monday, January 02, 2006 at 1103 hours IST Updated: Monday, January 02, 2006 at 1111 hours IST BEIJING, JANUARY 2: China's economy grew 9.8 per cent in 2005, a vice minister was quoted as saying on Sunday, revising up an earlier estimate and again confounding forecasts that the country's racing output growth had begun to slow at last. The higher growth rate, which may not

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China economic growth comes at a price SHANGHAI (AFP) - China's breakneck economic growth once more dominated global headlines this year but so did its tragic industrial accidents, fatal riots, protests and disastrous environmental pollution. Its export-driven economy barely paused for breath in 2005, galloping ahead in the first three quarters of the year at annualised rates of 9.4 percent, but

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By Benjamin Robertson in BeijingSaturday 03 December 2005, 13:14 Makka Time, 10:14 GMTChina is looking to the ancient wisdom of Confucius to address a growing spate of social ills that some blame on the country's rapid economic growth.Professor Kang Xiaoguang, social policy adviser to former premier Zhu Rongji, believes that Chinese society has lost many of its moral strengths, but may regain

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U.S. must take notice of China's emergence VALLEY VIEWSBy Seemi AhmadThe news of China's economic growth is pervasive.Every media outlet extols the pace of its gross domestic product growth (9.5 percent in 2004), of its construction activity (half the world's heavy machinery is in China) and its expanding exports (seven out of 10 goods sold at Wal-Mart are made in China).According to some

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China aims for moon landing by 2020THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HONG KONG - Budget permitting, China wants to be able to put a man on the moon and build a space station in 15 years, a space program official said.“I think about 10 to 15 years later, we will have the ability to build our own space station and to carry out a manned moon landing,'' Hu Shixiang, deputy commander in chief of China's manned

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Globalist Document > Global EconomyU.S.-China Relations: Many Interests at Stake      By The Globalist | Wednesday, November 30, 2005      As the U.S. debate over China continues, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission has just released its 2005 report to the U.S. Congress. In this Globalist Document, we present the report's main conclusion: While China is clearly focused on its

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Will China have the last laugh? By William Pesek Jr. Bloomberg News(image placeholder)(image placeholder)Sometimes it takes a bit of humor to make sense of the global economy. In that spirit, the American pop icon Ben Stein offers an amusing and useful view of China's rise.  Yes, his biography highlights roles in films like "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and mentions that he attended high school with

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By Saul Eslake, ANZ BankOctober 20, 2005THE emergence of China (and India) as significant influence in the world economy and in world markets for tradeable goods and services, commodities, labour and financial assets is, arguably, the most significant change in global macro-economics since at least the breakdown of the Bretton Woods currency system in the early 1970s.China is the second-largest

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A peacefully-rising China is a resolute force in maintaining world peaceBy Zheng BijianLadies and gentlemen, friends,   We are glad to have this opportunity to discuss regional cooperation in East Asia and Sino-American relations with American experts and academics prior to the China-US summit.   Many of you would have noted the speech on Sino-American relations made by US Deputy Secretary of

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As China Grows, More U.S. Schools Teach MandarinBROOKLINE, Mass., Nov. 21, 2005 — At the Driscoll public schools in Brookline, Mass., the kindergartners already know more Chinese than most Americans will learn in a lifetime. The second graders can string sentences together, and the eighth graders are nearly fluent. In this school system, learning Mandarin is mandatory. Carol Schraft, principal of

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China Rising: Get ready for China's century By MARCUS GEEBeijing — At the north end of Beijing's Imperial Palace stands Coal Hill, a man-made summit built with the sweat and blood of countless labourers. Climb it and you can absorb a sight that for 500 years, only emperors and their retainers could see: the inner precincts of the Forbidden City. With its arching, tiled roofs of mustard yellow

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China's dream of harmonious existenceLun TanChina Daily  Updated: 2005-11-10 05:57President Hu Jintao suggested in his September 15 speech at the United Nations General Assembly that a "world of harmony" be brought about by all nations on Earth. This signifies first of all the importance of the co-existence of diversified civilizations on our planet. About 6 billion people of 2,500 ethnic groups

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As China rises, so does Japanese nationalism Japan is stuck in its past, and its refusal to come to terms with it threatens to define its future and that of the whole of east Asia Martin JacquesThursday November 17, 2005The Guardian The past year might be described as the moment time of China's rise. Of course its rise long predates these years, but this fact has suddenly been recognised

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How China learned to love capitalism In the run-up to President Hu's visit to Britain, author James McGregor looks at how his country is changing Sunday November 6, 2005The Observer China is simultaneously the world's largest startup and the world's largest turnaround. The country can draw on a 2,000-year tradition, but also on Western business know-how and technology - that is why it has been

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US Shouldn't Fear Rise of China, IndiaAmerican leadership can survive and even gain from Asia's new stars as long as trade is freeRobert SamuelsonThe Business Times, 26 May 2005AMERICANS are having another Sputnik moment: One of those periodic alarms about some foreign technological and economic menace. It was the Soviets in the 1950s and early 1960s, the Germans and the Japanese in the 1970s and

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Health for the Masses: China's 'Barefoot Doctors'by Vikki Valentine NPR.org, November 4, 2005 · When doctors and money are in short in supply, how does a government provide health care for its people? Brenda Wilson has reported that at a time when they're needed most, physicians and nurses from developing countries are being recruited away in large numbers by Western countries. This shortage --

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Snow says China can move faster on forex Fri Nov 4,10:52 AM ETWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary     John Snow on Friday said China was in a position where it could move more swiftly toward greater currency flexibility. "I think that China remains committed to greater flexibility in their currency and opening of their financial markets," Snow said in an interview with CNBC. "It's an

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FROSTY CHINA TIES TO BLAMEPolitics menace panda programBy ANRI HIGAAfter Shuan Shuan, a female panda, returned home to Mexico following an unfruitful courtship at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo with male panda Ling Ling, zoo officials fret they may have no pandas at all soon due to worsening ties with China. Breeding staff at the zoo say that whereas 18-year-old Shuan Shuan was quite bold, the timid 20-

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ReutersMONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2005 BEIJING Chinese plans to turn an untamed river into a hydroelectric hub have sparked a war of words about national priorities as the government rethinks the balance between economic growth and environmental protection. Officials and experts in Beijing are debating a plan to harness the Nu River in southwest Yunnan Province with a chain of up to 13 hydropower

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CHINA'S RISING ECONOMYOctober 4, 2005The first report in a series on China focuses on the Asian nation's economy, which is the fastest growing in the world. But with its booming growth come challenges.PAUL SOLMAN: Traditional China, still on display in modern Beijing: Tai chi; calligraphy practiced using Chairman Mao's poems and his penmanship; a daily song to welcome the dawn. And yet, almost

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China astronauts blast confidently into spaceBy Ben Blanchard and Benjamin Kang Lim Wed Oct 12, 5:24 AM ET BEIJING (Reuters) - China's second manned spacecraft blasted off from a remote northwestern launch site on Wednesday, two years after the country joined an elite club of space powers. An elated Premier Wen Jiabao and other leaders were in Jiuquan to witness the launch, which has raised

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Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:42 PM ET By Wendy PughNEW YORK, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Australian stocks will lure investors despite recent rises because of caution toward U.S. stocks and as China's commodities appetite boosts Australia's resource firms, said fund managers.Australia's benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index has set a string of record highs, led by the world's top miners BHP Billiton Ltd./Plc. (BHP.AX:

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China economy seen weathering oil pricesBEIJING: A long-term rise in oil prices of $10 per barrel will shave 0.5 percentage point off China’s economic growth while slashing the trade surplus by as much as $32 billion, Deutsche Bank said on Wednesday. Higher oil prices would only have a limited impact on China’s overall economy, the seventh-largest in the world, but would eat even further away at

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By Richard McGregor Published: September 27 2005 03:00 | Last updated: September 27 2005 03:00China is gearing up for a massive investment in a homegrown fuel source to cut its growing reliance on imports - plants to turn coal into gas and oil. High oil and gas prices have made the coal-to-liquids (CTL) technology increasingly attractive to China, which has abundant reserves of the traditional "

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2005 05:56by Hun-Joo Cho (hanscho@donga.com)  A “Security and Guarding Plan” by Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) has been revealed to include a possible Chinese invasion. During the Cold War era, the plan mostly perceived an invasion by the former Soviet Union as threatening. It is the first time that a Chinese invasion has been confirmed to be included in the plan. The plan

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Sun Sep 25, 2005 07:50 PM ET (Add quotes, details)SHANGHAI, Sept 26 (Reuters) - China's central bank expects the economy to grow 9.2 percent this year and expand 8.7 percent in the first half of 2006, an official newspaper said on Monday.The People's Bank of China also forecast in a recent research report that consumer prices would rise 2.0 percent in 2005 and 2.1 percent in the first half of

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SHANGHAI BUND BY KATHY FONGCHINA as the world's factory has often been referred to as a thirsty nation. The country needs much electricity for its factories and what more now with many affluent Chinese driving instead of cycling. The surging energy consumption in this vast country has been blamed by the international community for partly causing the upward spiral in crude oil prices. China’s oil

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By Ross GittinsJohn Howard committed an embarrassing blooper in a speech he gave in New York last week. But not to worry - Peter Costello fixed it up in his own speech this week.Mr Howard predicted that "in the next decade, China will likely [sic] surpass Germany to become the third-largest economy after the United States and Japan".Oh dear. Did our Prime Minister say that? And to think he said

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By John Dillin, The Christian Science MonitorWASHINGTON — The warnings keep piling up. Author Paul Roberts cautions his readers about The End of Oil. National Geographic's cover story last month examined how the world might survive "After Oil." The Economist magazine asks, "Is the age of oil drawing to a close?"With the discomfort growing, consumers are considering fuel-efficient cars. Industry

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As Chinese President Hu Jintao prepares to visit New York for this week's UN summit, there appears to be anxiety in Washington over China's rapid rise. "Many US commentators are comparing China's rise to that of Japan early last century, the last time an Asian power seriously entered the big-power ranks," writes Hamish McDonald. With billions of dollars' worth of foreign reserves, increasing

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By Fong Tak-ho HONG KONG - Over the past 16 years, the Chinese leadership has tried its best to dodge democratic reform while looking for alternative measures to stamp out rampant corruption and increase government efficiency. However, it seems to have recently come to the conclusion that there is just no way other than democratic reform. Chinese President Hu Jintao has indicated that China will

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Better to Be Godzilla than Bambi - By John J. MearsheimerChina cannot rise peacefully, and if it continues its dramatic economic growth over the next few decades, the United States and China are likely to engage in an intense security competition with considerable potential for war. Most of China’s neighbors, including India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Russia, and Vietnam, will likely join

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Clash of the TitansBy Zbigniew Brzezinski, John J. MearsheimerIs China more interested in money than missiles? Will the United States seek to contain China as it once contained the Soviet Union? Zbigniew Brzezinski and John Mearsheimer go head-to-head on whether these two great powers are destined to fight it out.Make Money, Not War - By Zbigniew BrzezinskiToday in East Asia, China is

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by Quentin Sommerville BBC News, Shanghai China's growth shows no sign of slowing, according a new report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In its first analysis of China's economy, the OECD said the private sector now provided half its output. It found much to praise in one of the most rapid economic transformations of modern times but said there was also room

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You may have heard or read about the DoD's latest annual report to Congress on China's military power. There was a good story on NPR last week about it. I've only recently become interested in the "rise of China" debates. But the more I read, the more I'm convinced it's much ado about nothing. China wants to be seen as a great power. It recognizes that the road to take is through economic

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Shifts in Pacific force U.S. to adapt thinkingNew plans reflect reaction to China's growing power By Edward CodyUpdated: 5:31 a.m. ET Sept. 17, 2005ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam - Adull-gray B-2 bomber sat poised in a typhoon-proof air-conditioned hangar, its bat wings stretching 172 feet across. The bomb bay was fitted for 80 GPS-guided bombs, at 500 pounds each, that could be delivered to any

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By George JahnAssociated Press VIENNA, Austria — Fact: World oil production will peak someday, and supplies will start running out. But when will the tipping point come — in years, decades, or a couple of months from now?The oil industry says crude will be plentiful for at least another generation. But some experts argue reserves are overstated, oil technologies are limited and demand, sharply

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Will Our Next Oil Crisis Be With China? While America Focuses on Hurricane Katrina, China Quietly Buys Up Global Oil ReservesWhile U.S. oil companies focus on recovering from Hurricane Katrina and consumers are paying over $3 a gallon for gasoline in most parts of the country, America's next energy crisis is looming quietly in the background, according to Jim Trippon, editor of the China Stock

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Friday September 16, 2005, 2:24 pmBEIJING, Sept 16 Asia Pulse - The trade and economic co-operation between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been deepening and broadening, a Chinese commercial official said yesterday. He added that the implementation of the free trade agreement is in full swing.Fu Ziying, assistant minister of commerce, said the scale of

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Thursday September 15, 2005, 3:18 pmBEIJING, Sept 15 Asia Pulse - China's luxury goods market already the world's third largest is expected to grow by 20 per cent annually in the next three years.That's according to an Ernst & Young report released in Beijing yesterday.The booming economy coupled with more mature consumers has apparently led to an appetite for luxury goods.This translates into

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TO say that the China phobia is spreading is probably the understatement of the century. In the 1990s, many developing Asian countries viewed the emergence of China as a serious threat to their economic development. This sense of unjustified fear probably originated from the developed countries, in particular the US. The recent episode of political and government interference in CNOOC’s bid for

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By Debbie HarrisonIt’s no wonder that the “China story” has been dominating the press lately. Economic growth is pushing 10 per cent a year, per annum, double or treble the rates currently achieved by most western economies. Labour costs are one-twent-ieth of US and UK rates, and with its vast , cheap labour force China has justly earned its reputation as the factory – as well as the fake –

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Amity Shlaes: US begins rethink on ChinaBy Amity Shlaes Published: June 26 2005 20:09US concern about China is not going to go away. Haier may buy Maytag and China National Offshore Oil Corporation may manage to snatch up Unocal. But such bids have lawmakers and the nation as a whole reconsidering China. Observers tend to explain this by saying “America is becoming protectionist”.But what is

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By Chuck Hagel Published: August 9 2005 20:35China is a hot topic in Washington. Its currency, exports to the US, oil interests and military capabilities have all been significant issues in Congress. While these concerns are important and real, none should stand alone. Each is part of a larger and more complex US-China ­relationship. In that light, today’s overheated US rhetoric over China needs

alife gamenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15127222.post-1126741541993622962005-09-14T16:45:00.000-07:002005-09-14T16:45:42.036-07:00

By Martin WolfPublished: September 14 2005 20:34 | Last updated: September 14 2005 20:34 Ours is the second era of economic globalisation since the dawn of the industrial revolution. The first began in the second half of the 19th century and ended with a series of political and economic disasters in the first half of the 20th. If such calamities are to be avoided this time, much will depend on

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MATT MOOREAssociated PressFRANKFURT, Germany - China's burgeoning auto industry roared into the Frankfurt auto show, eager to create a splash with its new models and make inroads into competitive European and North American markets.Geely Automobile Co. Ltd., part of the Geely Holding Group, had the biggest presence, bringing five models, including a sports car called the CD, or "China Dragon."

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9/13/2005 10:21:22 AMSHANGHAI (MarketWatch) -- Citigroup Inc.'s (C) unit Citibank has formed a strategic alliance with China's UnionPay Co., allowing mainland China's bank-card holders to withdraw foreign currency using Citibank's automated teller machines worldwide, the companies said Tuesday. The alliance is the first of its kind between China UnionPay Co. and an international bank on a global

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From rural China to laptops and laundromatsOne student eager to go back home Monday, September 12, 2005He Mei's home in rural China had no electricity, and no roads. When she walked over the mountains to school at the beginning of every semester, her older sister escorted her before dawn with a torch.From this remote beginning, Mei has made it to a university in upstate New York.At the end of the

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China's first privately-run, provincial-level movie service on campus tailored for primary and high school students has recently set up in Puyang City, central China's Henan Province, company officials confirmed on Monday. Dubbed Henan Era School Education Film Company, the company was jointly established by a private company, Puyang Era Film/TV Culture Co., Ltd., and the state-controlled China

alife gamenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15127222.post-1126548940631603692005-09-12T11:15:00.000-07:002005-09-12T11:15:40.710-07:00

Why the world must watch out for India, ChinaPete Engardio, Businessweek | September 12, 2005It may not top the must-see list of many tourists. But to appreciate Shanghai's ambitious view of its future, there is no better place than the Urban Planning Exhibition Hall, a glass-and-metal structure across from People's Square.The highlight is a scale model bigger than a basketball court of the

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By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN; Published: September 11, 2005THE American economy is more open than Western Europe's, and may be better able to respond to challenges from China and elsewhere, says Gerard Kleisterlee, chief executive of Royal Philips Electronics, the multinational company based in Amsterdam. Here are excerpts from a conversation:Q. Many Americans think that Western Europe is growing very

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By Jamie GlazovThe recent China-Russia joint military exercises were clearly a symbol of China’s military objectives. Without doubt, the communist regime is in an arms race with the United States and is intent on overtaking the U.S. as the world’s superpower. Many observers also believe that China is preparing for war, knowing that the U.S. represents the only obstacle to its expansionist

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By Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING - Amid global shortages and price rises, what China is paying for its imported oil could involve much more than just cash. China's strategy of tapping new oil reserves in some countries, blacklisted by the US as troublesome, is meeting increasing political resistance from Washington. A week before Chinese President Hu Jintao's scheduled meeting with US President

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Oil focus shifting to XinjiangBEIJING - For the entire history of the Chinese oil industry, eastern fields have been the main contributors to production, while the northwest Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, with its rich reserves, took the role of a strategic substitutive zone. But nowadays, there are signs that the country is shifting its main focus of oil and gas resource development westward,

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US underrates China's rising power: Albright(05/12/05)       The United States administration underrates the growing economic and political power of China, former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright said.           Former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright said on May 10 the United States administration underrates the growing economic and political power of China. [AFP]  "I think that

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As President Hu visits US next week, negative views of US are rising.By Robert Marquand | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor BEIJING – As President Hu Jintao prepares to visit the US next week for the first time as China's leader, he represents a country whose popular understanding of America has become more diverse, yet whose negative impression of the US as a "bully" and "rival"

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Thu Sep 8, 2005 08:06 AM ET TOKYO, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The Chinese yuan has moved very little even after Beijing scrapped its decade-old dollar peg system in July, but it is still too early to demand further steps, Japan's top financial diplomat said on Thursday.The remarks by Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Hiroshi Watanabe chimed with later comments from European Central Bank

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BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. negotiators headed home on Thursday after failing to agree on China's surging textile shipments, a setback to efforts to showcase progress in bilateral ties when Chinese President     Hu Jintao heads to Washington next week. Officials from the two sides met again briefly on Thursday morning after two days of haggling over a sweeping deal to cap imports of Chinese

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2005-08-29 By Franz Schurmann SAN FRANCISCO -- Chinese leader Hu Jintao might visit President Bush at Crawford Ranch this fall but it's not inconceivable that, in coming years, America could consider using "Weapons of Mass Destruction"(WMD) against China. WMD include nuclear weapons.China has made great strides in power and wealth both internally and, recently, externally. Since dual victories

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The Philippine Star 08/30/2005A dramatic upsurge in the number of Chinese arrivals has made China one of the largest sources of tourists to the Philippines, according to figures released by the Department of Tourism (DOT). This growth has been fueled by the DOT’s initiatives in China, supported by Philippines Airlines (PAL) and Monitor Group, a leading global management consulting firm. As one of

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The finale of "Super Girls," an "American Idol"-type television pop star contest organized by a local satellite television service in central China, became one of the most widely watched TV programs in the country. Some 200 million people tuned in to Hunan Satellite Television,with headquarters in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, for the live, three-hour finale of "Super Girls

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Friday August 26, 2005, 3:24 pmBEIJING, Aug 26 Asia Pulse - China and the European Union failed to reach an agreement yesterday at talks in Beijing aimed at solving the current textile impasse. The two sides conducted serious talks towards an effective solution to the thorny issue, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) said in a statement. The Chinese side expressed great concern over the Chinese

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The awakening of an economic giant and, perhaps, a nascent superpower.By John PomfretSunday, March 13, 2005; Page BW05 Writing about China is never easy. The country is so vast and full of contradictions that almost anything said about it at any given time is true. Writing about China is also increasingly fashionable. The country's emergence into a global economic and diplomatic player has made

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By Anjana Menon, Channel NewsAsiaSINGAPORE : The tourism industry in Asia is set for exponential growth, according to analysts speaking at an industry event on Wednesday. They say there will be major changes, both in the type of travel and the profile of travellers. And some cities are finding that they may have to reinvent themselves to attract the numbers. Travel in Asia is set to shoot to

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By Chris CummingNapoleon once famously remarked, “China is a sleeping giant. Let her lie and sleep, for when she awakens she will astonish the world.” Attention world, the sleeping giant is now fully awake! First it was in trade, then technologies and now in an ever-increasing military build-up. China is truly becoming a superpower on the world stage.For decades, Garner Ted Armstrong proclaimed,

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23.08.05   BEIJING - Guan Anping remembers when Zhou Xiaochuan first urged China's leaders to let the yuan float in the world marketplace. He didn't know then that Zhou would get his message across - 10 years later. Zhou advocated freeing the yuan in late 1995, a few months after the Chinese Government had pegged the currency at about 8.3 to the US dollar. Zhou, now China's central bank Governor

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Internet Companies Set Their Sights On ChinaDavid Ng, 08.22.05, 10:21 AM ET Merrill Lynch noted that Internet stocks in its coverage universe have underperformed over the past two weeks, down 4.6% versus a relatively flat S&P. E-commerce stocks were all down slightly, with Priceline.com (nasdaq: PCLN - news - people ), IAC/InterActiveCorp (nasdaq: IACID - news - people ) and eBay (nasdaq: EBAY -

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By Peter S. Goodman, Washington Post Foreign ServiceMon Aug 22, 1:00 AM ETSHANGHAI -- For multinational companies grappling with stagnant sales, China has become a magnet for investment and a huge potential market beckoning with growth. Yet the lure of China profits combined with pervasive local corruption is tempting foreign companies and managers and bringing them into conflict with U.S.

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Courtesy of TechWeb News Novell is making major strides as it expands into China. The company announced plans Wednesday to create a research and development center, open new regional branches, offer local technology support, and strengthen ties with Asian partners. "Novell is increasing its investment in China because we believe we can have an enormous positive impact on economic growth in the

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Monday August 22, 8:00 am ET BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2005--Destinator Technologies (formerly Homeland Security Technology Corporation), a world-leading provider of GPS navigation, location-based solutions and value-added services, held a press conference on August 18, 2005 to celebrate its official entry into the China market. Several prominent business partners, including Microsoft,

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China raises U.S., HK dollar deposit ratesMon Aug 22, 2005 06:01 AM ET (Recasts, updates with details, background) BEIJING, Aug 22 (Reuters) - China raised interest rates on deposits of U.S. and Hong Kong dollars on Monday, a move that may help relieve upwards pressure on the yuan. The increase of 0.375 percentage points, is the second in just over a month and the third since mid-May. The

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By Pankaj Mishra The New York Times MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2005 In 2001, President George W. Bush restricted U.S. federal financing for stem cell research. The decision, which was shaped at least partly by the Republican Party's evangelical Christian base, and which disappointed many American scientists and businessmen, provoked joy in India.The weekly newsmagazine India Today, read mostly by the

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China is to maintain its opposition to human reproductive cloning, but will continue to allow closely monitored embryo stem cell research for the treatment and prevention of disease, a senior Chinese expert said. "Therapeutic cloning opens up prospects for the replacement of dead stem cells and will improve the health of individuals and mankind as a whole," said Wang Hongguang, president of the

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By Wendy Liu (City Weekend)Who the hell is Sister Furong? To answer, don't bother combing through pop singer and celebrity archives on Google or glue yourself to the glorious pop karaoke shows on TV.She's another blogger turned amateur celebrity like the sultry and sensational writer, Mu Zimei.Her detailed explorations into the sexual world of young Chinese men and women revealed that you don't

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Chinese Internet-born star Furong Jiejie aka Sister Furong dances on a roof in Beijing August 10, 2005. Furong, whose real name is Shi Hengxia, started the craze by posting pictures of herself on Internet bulletin boards of two top universities in Beijing. In late July, authorities told the country's top blog host to move Furong-related content to low-profile parts of the site. Picture taken

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By Hamish McDonaldBeijingAugust 22, 2005A PARACHUTE drop by Russian special forces at a Chinese Army training ground has signalled an intensifying challenge by two former communist rivals to the US strategic presence in Asia.The 86 Russian paratroopers dropped near Weifang City on the Shandong Peninsula, jutting out of China's north-east coast into the Yellow Sea, on Saturday as part of eight

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Review: China’s Space Programby Jeff FoustMonday, August 22, 2005China’s Space Program: From Conception to Manned Spaceflightby Brian HarveyPraxis, 2004softcover, 350 pp., illus.ISBN 1-85233-566-1US$34.95Some time in the next two months, in all likelihood, China will launch Shenzhou 6, its second manned mission. Like the Shenzhou 5 flight two years ago, this mission will capture the world’s

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ContentsBy the Numbers: China is an economic powerhouse that's growing, competing for resources and bursting with consumersGraphicLiving Large: A map of China's population growth and densityInteractiveThe Woman Who Made Your JacketThe world of Chinese garmet worker Liu LiAudioBehind the Cover Story: TIME's Dinda Elliott on the new ChinaWeb ExclusiveChanging the Game in China (China Rising) : From

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China Web GuideChina Travel GuideFrom the Great Wall of China to the Forbidden City, this site is a comprehensive guide for the traveler. The tours, cruises, hotels and city guide sections offer numerous possibilities for vacationing and traveling. A China Information BaseGeneral information about China including links to the country's top news sites. Other sections include trade and investments,

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Fri Aug 19,10:37 AM ETWASHINGTON (AFP) - US Secretary of StateCondoleezza Condoleezza Rice said in an interview published that China must modify its economic policies to shed its status as a "problem for the international economy."Though faulting China on its military buildup and human rights and religious freedom, Rice however told the New York Times that Beijing and Washington still enjoyed a "

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Commentary, Franz Schurmann,Pacific News Service, Aug 19, 2005Editor's Note: The U.S.-China relationship may experience an upswing when Chinese President Hu Jintao visits President Bush this fall. But by 2025, argues veteran Sinologist Franz Schurmann, it could deteriorate to dangerous levels.SAN FRANCISCO--Chinese leader Hu Jintao might visit President Bush at Crawford Ranch this fall but it's

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'The World' opens a new window on modern China By Bob StraussFilm Critic China's awakening from the long sleep of Maoism was bound to have profound social impact. And it was just as inevitable that serious filmmakers would set their penetrating gaze on the human dimension of all those changes. Jia Zhangke, whose latest movie is both ironically and quite straightforwardly called "The World,"

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Novell Expands Presence in China August 19, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Linux distributor Novell (novell.com) announced this week that it would expand its commitment to the market in China. The company plans to set up a research and development office, open regional branches, develop a technology support center and strengthen its ties to local partners. Novell says the moves will

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China's vanguard city in reform and opening-up is seeking to continue its decades-long boom, though Shenzhen no longer enjoys preferential treatment from the central government, the city's leader Li Hongzhong said in Shenzhen Wednesday."The Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is pursuing healthy, stable development," Li, secretary of the Shenzhen municipal committee of the Chinese Communist

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Tuesday August 16, 2:16 am ETBy Jonathan Bernstein, ETFzone Trading SpecialistIt is just over three weeks since the Chinese government announced the revaluation of its currency the yuan (also known as the renminbi). On July 21st, the yuan was taken off the dollar peg and tied to a basket of currencies -- primarily the dollar, euro, yen and South Korean won. Pegged for a decade at 8.28 yuan to the

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by David Shabelman in San FranciscoUpdated 06:11 PM EST, Aug-12-2005 The California gold rush had nothing on the stampede by U.S. Internet companies to stake their claim in that modern-day commercial phenomenon: China. Yahoo! Inc.'s $1 billion bet on Chinese Web auctioneer Alibaba.com Corp. and its swashbuckling CEO Jack Ma is only the latest move in what is a growing wave of

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  Marco Polo first arrived in China in 1275 A.D. I arrived in the summer of 2004 and doubt that Marco Polo was any more amazed. This journey profoundly impressed me, not so much as a tourist but as an agricultural and biological engineer. I saw sustainability in action in competition with a rapidly growing economy; the effect of population density on energy, environment, food

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