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Unrest mounts as China mine death rises

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Manila Times - Nov. 23 (News Report) - Relatives of victims angrily demanded answers Monday as hopes of finding more survivors after China’s worst mining disaster for two years took a blow with the death toll rising to 104. Rescuers recovered 12 more bodies, a spokesman for the mine in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province said, leaving four miners still unaccounted for after the weekend blast.

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The New Arms Race

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - Nov. 20 (Opinion) - America will not win the arms race of the 21st century with rockets, but with robust investment in and support of U.S.-based green technology. While Congress dawdles, China is clobbering us.

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In Obama's China trip, stark contrast with past

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Andrew Higgins, Anne E. Kornblut - Nov. 18 (News Analysis) - The changes reflect not so much a policy shift by a new administration in Washington as a dramatic and much bigger change in the power dynamic, particularly in economics, over the past decade -- a change that has been the central undercurrent of Obama's swing through China this week.

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China Solar Panel Maker Sets First U.S. Plant

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Business Week - By Adam Aston - Nov. 16 (News Report) - China's Suntech Power Holdings (STP) is no newcomer to the U.S. Last May, President Barack Obama toured the U.S.'s largest solar panel installation at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. There, row upon row of shiny black Suntech solar panels span 140 acres, cranking out up to 14 megawatts of electricity on sunny days.

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China questions costs of U.S. healthcare reform

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - By James Pethokoukis - Nov. 16 (News Analysis) - A new study from the U.S. government’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finds that the healthcare reform bill recently passed in the House of Representatives would increase healthcare spending to 21.3 percent of GDP by 2019 compared with 20.8 percent under current law. That’s bending the curve the wrong way.

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Op-Ed Columnist: World Out of Balance

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Nov. 15 (Opinion) - But let’s hope that when the cameras aren’t rolling Mr. Obama and his hosts engage in some frank talk about currency policy. For the problem of international trade imbalances is about to get substantially worse. And there’s a potentially ugly confrontation looming unless China mends its ways.

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Obama China Trip: Human Rights Activists Face Detention, Warnings

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Peter Ford - Nov. 13 (News) - While President Obama meets Chinese leaders and converses with handpicked groups of youths on his visit to China next week, another group of citizens expect to be staring at the walls of their apartments.

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Evergreen shifts work to China

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Globe - By Erin Ailworth - Nov. 07 (News Report) - Little more than a year after cutting the ribbon at a new factory in Devens built with more than $58 million in state aid, Evergreen Solar said yesterday that it will shift its assembly of solar panels from there to China.

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China steps up, slowly but surely, to address emissions issue

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Steven Mufson - Oct. 24 (Special Report) - In a large greenhouse, hundreds of tubes hold strains of algae being tested for how much carbon dioxide they can suck from the air. Outside, half a dozen brands of solar panels are being matched for performance against the company's own. Next door,

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China leaving US behind in green energy

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Joan Fitzgerald - Oct. 22 (Opinion) - Though aspects of it may violate the WTO, China has a coherent industrial policy to capture global leadership, while US initiatives are fragmented. China recognized that the real economic development potential in renewable energy is in manufacturing, which comprises 70 -75 percent of the jobs in solar, and now has more than 100 solar companies that account for one-third of global solar component production.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Fie, Fatal Flaw!

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Maureen Dowd - Oct. 18 (Opinion) - President Obama’s legislative career offers cautionary tales about the toll of constant consensus building.

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Beijing’s Air Is Steadily Getting Cleaner, but the War Is Far From Won

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Michael Wines - Oct. 18 (News Report) - After tough measures by Chinese authorities to curb emissions, the trend toward clearer skies in Beijing — one of the most polluted cities in the world — is steady and undeniable.

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Biggest Obstacle to Global Climate Deal May Be How to Pay for It

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Elisabeth Rosenthal - Oct. 15 (Special Report) - The price of a climate agreement will be $100 billion a year by 2020, many economists estimate; some put the cost at closer to $1 trillion.

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Freedom From Foreign Oil

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

American Spectator - By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. - Oct. 01 - Freedom From Foreign Oil

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China, Iran and Sanctions: What's a Rising Power to Do?

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Elizabeth Lynch - Sep. 30 (News Analysis) - Why is China so hesitant to support sanctions against a country that is secretly developing nuclear capabilities? History, geo-politics and economic ties are what set China apart from its Security Council brethren in dealing with Iran. But China's growth as a world power has caused it to become a stakeholder in the current system. With this new-found power, China has begun to realize its actions, or lack of action, does in fact shape the world's future course and as a result, its own global prospects.

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Why China is unlikely to back Iran sanctions

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Peter Ford - Sep. 30 (News Analysis) - China is showing no appetite for the tougher sanctions that Western leaders have been threatening against Iran over its nuclear program, and would likely veto any United Nations effort to impose a stiffer embargo even if Thursday's talks between US Security Council members and Iran go badly.

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Chinese oil demand fueling Iranian defiance

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Steve Hargreaves - Sep. 30 (News Report) - The Obama administration is scrambling to tighten trade sanctions against Iran after the disclosure last week that Tehran was hiding a heavily fortified facility that many believe is designed to make material for nuclear weapons. But the kind of sanctions that would really hit Iran's economy - sanctions against its energy industry - are thought to be off the table because China and other nations are too reliant on Iran's oil.

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Oil and Ideology Keep China From Joining Effort to Press Iran

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jon Pomfret - Sep. 30 (News Report) - In its effort to muster support for sterner action against Iran, the Obama administration will have to overcome China's reluctance to punish a country that is one of its top oil suppliers and a major beneficiary of its energy-related investments.

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How to Press the Advantage With Iran

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett - Sep. 29 (Opinion) - Instead of relying on sanctions, the Obama administration should seek a strategic realignment with Iran, as President Nixon did with China.

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The Meaning of Freedom

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Sep. 29 (Editorial) - The question is far from academic, as illustrated poignantly by the case of brothers Bahtiyar Mahnut and Arkin Mahmud. As reported by The Post's Del Quentin Wilber, the brothers are Uighurs, Chinese Muslims who face oppression, intimidation and often

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Can Obama Save the Global Economy (and Globalization) at the G-20?

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Esquire - By Thomas P.M. Barnett - Sep. 25 (Opinion) - What does this "rebalancing" play from Washington amount to? In a nutshell, a near-term future in which America consumes less and China consumes a helluva lot more. But Obama's "framework" also promises diplomatic cover for all sides in this rebalancing process by empowering the International Monetary Fund to monitor G-20 member pledges and flag them for consultations if voluntary targets aren't being met. Since sanctions never work (even if Dmitri Medvedev and the West Wing think they're inevitable), this transparent approach is considered ideal — in effect, a multilateral version of the shaming technique historically employed by the IMF (and by the U.S. against mercantilist Japan in years past).

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Global Economic Forum to Expand Permanently

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Edmund L. Andrews - Sep. 25 (News Report) - Global leaders will announce Friday that the once elite club of rich industrial nations known as the Group of 7 will be permanently replaced as a global forum for economic policy by the much broader Group of 20 that includes China, Brazil, India and other fast-growing developing countries, American administration officials said.

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G-20 is set to replace Group of 8, U.S. says

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Don Lee, Jim Tankersley - Sep. 25 (News Report) - r the Group of 20 summit have agreed that the organization will replace the Group of Eight as a permanent body for international economic cooperation, the White House announced late Thursday. The change reflects the world's shifting economic powers and a need for the U.S. and the traditional European powers to secure the cooperation of fast-growing economies such as China, India and Brazil to make progress on pressing issues.

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G-20 to Assume Mantle as World’s Main Economic Body

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Bloomberg - By Hans Nichols, Simon Kennedy - Sep. 25 (Breaking News) - World leaders will today announce the Group of 20 nations is replacing the G-8 as the main forum for global economic coordination, reflecting a shift in power from rich countries to emerging markets.

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Copenhagen Climate Talks: Why They May Fail

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Sharon Begley - Sep. 24 (Opinion) - This is Climate Week here in New York City, so if you have been swept up in the excitement over Hugh Jackman's lending his celebrity to the cause of averting a catastrophic greenhouse effect ("people in developing countries have contributed the least to climate change and are suffering the most from it," he said at Monday's opening ceremony at the New York Public Library), or President Obama's speech at the United Nations Tuesday warning of “irreversible catastrophe" if the nations of the world do not cut carbon emissions, you might feel optimistic that the nations of the world will get their acts together enough to produce a climate treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. Forgive me for being the skunk at this greenhouse-gas-enhanced garden party.

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