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Arms to Taiwan no reason to hold back US-China ties: GatesSingapore (AFP) June 5, 2010 Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Saturday chided China for suspending military ties over US arms sales to Taiwan, saying Beijing's stance "makes little sense". Renewing his call for stronger relations between the Chinese and US militaries, Gates said such a dialogue should not be "held hostage" over the long-running weapons sales. The arms sales had been going on for decades but Washington had made clear that it did not support independence for Taiwan, Gates said in a speech at a security confe ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) June 2, 2010Every week, He Shuzhong receives dozens of phone calls, emails and letters from people across China warning him that another piece of ancient architecture is about to be bulldozed. The former university professor has spent nearly three decades battling to save traditional hutongs (alleys formed by lines of courtyard houses) and temples, some dating back hundreds of years, from the wrecking b ... more  
Beijing (UPI) Jun 2, 2010 China has proposed further mining restrictions on rare earth minerals, elements that are essential for green technologies. The move would increase China's monopoly on the elements and comes just six months after China cut its target output from rare earth mines by 8.1 percent for 2010 and imposed a moratorium on all new mining licenses until June 30, 2011. China produces 97 perce ... more  
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 03, 2010A team of U.S. and Chinese physicists are zeroing in on critical effects at the heart of the latest high-temperature superconductors - but they're using other materials to do it. In new research appearing online in the journal Physical Review Letters, the Rice University-led team offers new evidence about the quantum features of the latest class of high-temperature superconductors, a famil ... more |
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China, Japan launch world's biggest online marketplaceTokyo (AFP) June 1, 2010 China's largest retail website Taobao and Yahoo! Japan launched a joint service Tuesday in a deal expected to create the world's biggest online marketplace by harnessing Asia's surging ranks of e-consumers. The service is expected to dwarf US rival eBay in terms of users and products on offer, attracting 250 million customers and offering 450 million products. "This marks the birth of the world's largest e-commerce market," Masayoshi Son, chairman of Yahoo! Japan and CEO of mobile phone carrier ... read more |
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