Tag: China

• Wednesday, March 20th 2013 - 08:08 UTC

  Chinese leadership pledges new relationship with US and demands respect for ‘core interests’

  

  Chinese President Xi Jinping told US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew in Beijing on Tuesday that he wants to build a new type of relationship with Washington centred on core interests.

• Monday, March 18th 2013 - 08:02 UTC

  China will provide 2bn dollars for Latam development projects through IDB

  

  China will provide up top 2 billion dollars for an Inter American Development Bank (IDB) fund, in support of projects for the public and private sector that promoted sustainable growth in the region.

• Monday, March 18th 2013 - 07:14 UTC

  New leadership pledges “a great renaissance of the Chinese nation”

  

  China's new President Xi Jinping will fight for a “great renaissance of the Chinese nation”, he said Sunday as the world's most populous country completed its once-in-a-decade power transition.

• Friday, March 15th 2013 - 06:42 UTC

  China names Li Keqiang as Premier at the helm of world’s second largest economy

  

  China's leaders have named Li Keqiang as premier, placing him at the helm of the world's second-largest economy. Mr Li, who already holds the number two spot in the Communist Party, takes over from Wen Jiabao.

• Monday, March 11th 2013 - 08:15 UTC

  China’s February inflation and exports with positive messages for the economy

  

  China's inflation rate hit a 10-month high in February, as Lunar New Year festivities drove up food prices. Consumer prices rose 3.2% from a year earlier, with food prices up by 6%. Likewise exports rose more than expected in February, probably indicating that the Chinese economy could be in an upturn.

• Monday, March 4th 2013 - 05:43 UTC

  Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands: Another Falklands?

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - Chinese survey vessels go into the waters around the disputed islands and Japanese patrol ships tail them much too closely. Twice last month Chinese maritime surveillance aircraft flew into the airspace around the Japanese-controlled islands and Tokyo scrambled F-15 fighters to meet them. On the second occasion, China then sent fighters too. Can these people be serious?

• Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 14:13 UTC

  Falklands’ situation attracts attention from China involved in Far East Asia islands dispute

  

  Interest in the Falkland Islands’ dispute with Argentina, assimilated to the current Senkakus/Diayous islands situation in Asia apparently has not been limited to the quotes made by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe before the Japanese Parliament but also in another minor experience precisely in the Falklands and involving the Editor of the Penguin News, the local weekly newspaper of the Islands.

• Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 14:06 UTC

  Japan appeals to Thatcher Falklands’ resolve quotes in islands dispute with China

  

  Japan's prime minister on Thursday quoted comments by former British premier Margaret Thatcher about the Falklands War with Argentina as he spoke about Tokyo's acrimonious islands’ dispute with China.

• Friday, February 15th 2013 - 05:36 UTC

  China became in 2012 the world’s biggest trading nation surpassing the US

  

  China surpassed the US to become the world's biggest trading nation last year as measured by the sum of exports and imports of goods, a milestone in the Asian nation's challenge to the US dominance in global commerce.

• Thursday, February 14th 2013 - 21:00 UTC

  Beijing's pollution alarms neighbours

  

  The good news for the Chinese leadership is that their fiscal policies have paid off, producing both the world's second largest economy and the globe's leading creditor nation in less than a generation.