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US, China change tone but disputes lie aheadWashington (AFP) March 30, 2010 Weeks after warning that ties were in disarray, China is signaling a readiness to work with the United States but fresh disputes could set back relations just as quickly, analysts say. China on Monday praised the "positive attitude" of President Barack Obama after he voiced support for a greater relationship with the rising Asian power in receiving its new ambassador. More concretely, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her deputy, James Steinberg, said China was recognizing a threat from a n ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) March 27, 2010Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a major speech on Internet freedom two months ago, called on US technology firms not to support online censorship. "I hope that refusal to support politically motivated censorship will become a trademark characteristic of American technology companies," Clinton said. "It should be part of our national brand." Amid a host of trade disputes with China ... more  
Qixingcun, China (AFP) March 29, 2010Peasant farmer Dong Guicheng wakes up every morning hoping for rain, but each day a crippling drought instead brings more disappointment and desperation. In a scene repeated by millions of people in a vast area of China's parched southwest, Dong treks daily to a dwindling reservoir to fetch scarce water for his walnut and chestnut trees, which have seen almost no rain for half a year. Hi ... more  
Stockholm (AFP) March 29, 2010Chinese carmaker Geely's deal to buy Sweden's iconic Volvo brand offers a glimpse of a new world order clearly headed up by China, Swedish editorials said Monday. "A new chapter in industrial history is being written in Gothenburg," the southwestern Swedish city where the 1.8-billion-dollar (1.3-billion-euro) deal was announced Sunday, financial editorialist Patricia Hedelius wrote in the Da ... more |
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China gives 'harsh' jail terms to Rio Tinto fourShanghai (AFP) March 29, 2010 China jailed an Australian executive with mining giant Rio Tinto for 10 years and handed stiff terms to three of his colleagues Monday for stealing trade secrets and pocketing millions in bribes. The climax to the trial in Shanghai - which stoked foreign investors' anxiety about the rule of law in China - provoked protests from Australia, which said the prison term for Stern Hu was "very tough" and "harsh". But the Anglo-Australian mining firm, a prime supplier of the raw materials that China ... read more |
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