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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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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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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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China poised to seize clean tech crown

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

businessgreen.com - By James Murray, - Aug. 21 (Special Report) - China's position as one of the world's pre-eminent clean tech hubs was underlined yesterday, with the release of a major new report from The Climate Group arguing that the country has already secured a lead over many of its global rivals in the race to develop and implement low-carbon technologies. The report, which updates a similar study from last year, concluded that despite the onset of the global recession, Chinese clean tech firms are continuing to record impressive growth, aided in no small part by the government's decision to focus much of its $585bn (£354bn) stimulus package on low-carbon projects.

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Lobbyists Paid Off by China vs. 30,000 US Workers: Which Side Will Obama Choose?

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Mike Elk - Aug. 10 (News) - President Obama has made a commitment in the past to uphold previously signed trade agreements. China, however, is violating these agreements by flooding the market with a massive 300 percent increase in tire imports in an attempt to wipe out American tire manufacturers.

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Life on Planet Uighur

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Kathleen E. McLaughlin - Jul. 15 (News Report) - At the heart of a deadly June toy factory clash that sparked mass protests and killings 2,000 miles away in China’s far west lies a government policy that sends thousands of young Muslim Uighurs to fill labor gaps in the southeast.

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Uighurs vs Han: China's West Side Story

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Link TV - Jul. 10 (News Analysis) - Uighurs are in the news: a handful were released from Guantanamo in June, and others rioted in western China in July. Huge numbers of Han Chinese have moved into the region, where the indigenous Uighers have been fighting domination by China since the 1800s. China let foreign reporters into the region, but immediately lost control of the story.

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Uighur workers held behind locked gates

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Kathleen McLaughlin - Jul. 10 (News Report) - SHAOGUAN, China — Three weeks after simmering racial tension escalated to mayhem and a double murder at a toy factory here, about 750 Uighur workers remain largely out of sight, behind locked gates and guarded doors. But their story has sparked violent clashes and brought international attention to a remote Chinese province.

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Uighur workers held behind locked gates

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

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Uyghur Protests Widen as Xinjiang Unrest Flares

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Nury Turkel, Amy Goodman - Jul. 07 (News Report) - New protests have erupted in China’s western Xinjiang region, two days after at least 156 people were killed and over 1,000 wounded in the country’s worst ethnic violence in decades. On Tuesday, some 200 ethnic Uyghurs–mostly women–took to the streets to protest over the mass arrest of more than 1,400 people following Sunday’s clashes. Later, hundreds of ethnic Han Chinese marched through the streets of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang province. The two sides blame each other for the outbreak of violence.

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Chinese Makers of Shoddy Goods Rarely Face US Sanctions

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Frank Greve, Grace Chung - Jun. 29 (News Report) - The long list of faulty products included Chinese-made highchairs whose seat backs failed, steam cleaners that burned their users, bikes whose front-wheel forks broke, saunas that overheated, illuminated exit signs that stopped working when commercial power failed, dune buggies whose seat belts broke on impact and coffee makers that overheated and started fires.

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Reporters' families seek mercy, N.Korea makes threats

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

news.asiaone.com - Jun. 09 (News Report) - Relatives of two U.S. journalists sentenced to 12 years hard labor in North Korea called on the reclusive state to show compassion, while Pyongyang threatened to use nuclear weapons to defend itself.

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Judge sides with censored blogger against Chinese ISP - Ars Technica

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Ars Technica - By Jacqui Cheng - May. 26 (News Report) - Do not adjust your monitors: a Chinese government critic has won a court case against his ISP in Beijing for taking his website offline. Economics professor Hu Xingdou's website was shut down by Beijing Xin Net for containing "illegal" content earlier this year, but a Daxing district court ruled last week that the ISP could not provide proof for its claims and ordered Xin Net to repay Hu's service fees from the past two years.

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“We hate you guys … but there is nothing much we can do”

Sun, 17 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Council on Foreign Relations - By Brad Setser - May. 17 (News Analysis) - Private Chinese savers presumably wouldn’t want to buy Treasuries at current rates. But China’s current exchange rate regime compels China to buy dollars when private Chinese investors don’t want them.*** The result: a strange world where China’s government ends up buying an asset that China’s people currently do not want …

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Mining Exploration in Vietnam: China's New Strategy of Expansionism

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New America Media - By Thi Lam - Apr. 12 (News Analysis) - In November 2007, Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung reportedly approved China's large-scale project to mine aluminum ore, or bauxite, in the Central Highlands in exchange for financial aid. The decision of the communist party triggered a torrent of criticisms and objections from scientists, intellectuals, military and religious leaders.

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Welcome to Pipelineistan

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Tomdispatch.com - By Pepe Escobar - Mar. 26 (Special Report) - The SCO has expanded its aims and scope since 2001. Today, Iran, India, and Pakistan enjoy "observer status" in an organization that increasingly aims to control and protect not just regional energy supplies, but Pipelineistan in every direction. This is, of course, the role the Washington ruling elite would like NATO to play across Eurasia. Given that Russia and China expect the SCO to play a similar role across Asia, clashes of various sorts are inevitable.

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A tough decision: Poke the dragon?

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By John Aloysius Farrell - Mar. 21 (News Analysis) - Analysts remember that the greatest damage caused by the Great Depression was not economic, but “political … it was World War II,” noted Stephen J. Stedman, a senior fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.

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As Chinese Troops Seal off Tibet, Dalai Lama Warns Tibetan Identity 'Near Extinction'

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Antoaneta Bezlova - Mar. 13 (News Report) - In the run-up to the anniversary, Beijing launched a blitz propaganda campaign designed to drum up support for its policies of heavy investment and tight political control in Tibet. An exhibit showcasing the "democratic reforms" brought by China into Tibet opened at the Cultural Palace of Nationalities in Beijing on Feb. 24, while the China Central Television (CCTV) aired a three-part documentary featuring Tibet’s evolution from "autocracy to democracy," according to the People’s Daily.

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China's view of Tibet

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Kathleen E. McLaughlin - Mar. 10 (Special Report) - One year ago, Tibet erupted in violent protests that shook China, stunned the world and made many think twice about perceptions of China as a changed, more tolerant nation. The March 10 riots erupted 49 years after Tibetans first tried to rise up against the fledgling rule of the Chinese Communist Party. It’s a politically thorny date for China, rife with emotion and misinformation for most Chinese.

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China: Hundreds of Tibetan Detainees and Prisoners Unaccounted for

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

hrw.org - Mar. 09 (Special Report) - The first extensive analysis of official Chinese accounts regarding the arrests and trials of Tibetan protesters from March 2008 shows that by the Chinese government's own count, there have been thousands of arbitrary arrests, and more than 100 trials pushed through the judicial system, Human Rights Watch said today. New Human Rights Watch research and analysis point to a judicial system so highly politicized as to preclude any possibility of protesters being judged fairly.

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Why Much of Asia Didn't Hear Sean Penn's "Homo-Loving" Speech

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By David Flumenbaum - Mar. 03 (News Report) - In recent days, journalists around the globe have reported on the efforts of Asian governments to censor speech and images in support of gay rights from the broadcast of last Sunday's Oscars. According to the AP, the Hong Kong-based, Murdoch-owned STAR network, reaching more than 300 million viewers in 53 countries, muted any mention of "gay" or "lesbian" during its tape-delayed, English-language re-broadcast of the Oscars.

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Fighter planes and fighting words

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Jonathan Adams - Jan. 16 (Special Report) - In recent years, a newly wealthy China has gone on a military shopping spree, buying state-of-the-art Russian fighter jets, destroyers and other lethal goodies, and building more of their own. Taiwan hasn't kept up. The result: the military balance is rapidly tipping in China's favor.

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Foreign Affairs - The Myth of the Autocratic Revival - Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberry

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Affairs - By Daniel Deudney, G. John Ikenberry - Jan. 01 (News Analysis) - Autocracies such as China and Russia do not represent a sustainable alternative to liberal democracy. In fact, the pull of liberal democracy is stronger than ever.

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Kulongoski lobbies to bring China's new hybrid car to Oregon

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

OregonLive.com - By Amy Hsuan - Nov. 21 (Special Report) - At BYD Auto Co., China's fast-growing automotive star, a plug-in electric hybrid sedan is just weeks from meeting millions of Chinese consumers. The F3DM, which runs up to 80 miles on a single charge and packs a 7-gallon tank, will probably launch in the United States by 2010. Kulongoski, who clinched a deal last week to bring Nissan's pure-electric cars to Oregon, is vying for BYD's bid for a North American pilot site. On Friday, he met with BYD President and Chairman Wang Chuanfu at the company's mammoth headquarters nearly two hours from China's booming industrial zone.

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Crash and Burn

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New Republic - By Joshua Kurlantzick - Nov. 18 (Special Report) - For years, the Beijing regime has stayed in power using a basic bargain with its citizens: Tolerate our authoritarian rule and we'll make you rich. And for years, this seemed to work, leading many China-watchers (myself included) to conclude that Beijing was rising into great-power status. But as the financial crisis shows, that bargain rests on weak foundations. And if Beijing breaks its end of the deal, its people, already holding rising numbers of protests, may well break theirs.

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