Daily Archives: January 3, 2012

Mitt Romney To Take His China-Bashing Campaign To Company That Touts Its Chinese Outsourcing

January 3, 2012

CLIVE, IOWA — Well, this is awkward. Mitt Romney, who’s been on the trail recently talking tough on China, is making his last campaign stop of the day before the caucuses at a business that touts the way it outsources much of its manufacturing to China. Competitive Edge is a firm headquartered near Des...

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China: Bird flu death not from human-human spread

January 3, 2012

BEIJING — The strain of H5H1 bird flu that killed a Chinese man cannot spread among people, a health agency said Monday, appealing for calm after the country’s first reported case of the disease in humans in 18 months. Genetic analysis indicated the virus spread directly from poultry to the victim, who died Saturday...

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China, an friendly neighbor committed to common development

January 3, 2012

by Wang Lei BEIJING, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — China has for long dedicated itself to building friendship and partnership with its neighbors and pursuing common development, and it will stick to the policy in the future. Beijing’s commitment to creating an amicable, secure and prosperous neighborhood was on full display when Chinese Vice President...

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China’s Equities Likely to Provide Positive Returns in 2012, Daiwa Says

January 3, 2012

China’s stocks may give positive returns in 2012 after a “volatile” first half of the year, Daiwa Capital Markets said. “From a market perspective, the 2012 risk/reward outlook is good,” Daiwa analysts led by Mingchun Sun wrote in a report dated today. The MSCI China Index is valued at a 33 percent discount to...

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Biden Gets China

January 3, 2012

A senior White House official has confirmed that Vice President Joe Biden will take the lead on the administration’s next phase China policy. While the Departments of State and Treasury have held important functional roles in conducting the China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue meetings, raising the bilateral status of US-China relations with ongoing meetings...

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China’s tomb raiders lay waste to history

January 3, 2012

China’s extraordinary historical treasures are under threat from increasingly aggressive and sophisticated tomb raiders, who destroy precious archaeological evidence as they swipe irreplaceable relics. The thieves use dynamite and even bulldozers to break into the deepest chambers — and night vision goggles and oxygen canisters to search them. The artefacts they take are often...

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