WASHINGTON — The United States and China are discussing the possible elimination of Chinese barriers to American films in the run up to Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping’s U.S. visit next week, a U.S. trade official said on Thursday. “China and the United States have been engaged in discussions regarding the possible resolution of issues...
Like us on Facebook North Korean border troops routinely kill would-be refugees trying to flee the isolated, poverty-stricken Communist state. According to a 2010 report in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, thousands of illegal immigrants from North Koreans are believed to be working on farms and building sites in northeast China. Migration Information (MI) once...
Fri Feb 10, 2012 5:15pm EST * Whirlpool pressing for duties on South Korea, Mexico * Wind tower case adds to U.S.-China trade frictions By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) – A U.S. trade panel on Friday approved investigations that could lead to steep import duties on more than $1 billion of washing...
Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) — China’s property stocks rose as the eastern city of Wuhu became the first to ease housing curbs this year, signaling similar moves by other local governments even as Premier Wen Jiabao reiterated plans to maintain restrictions. The mid-sized city in Anhui province will offer subsidies of 50 yuan ($7.90) a...
U.S. makers of wind towers such as Broadwind Energy Inc. (BWEN) are being harmed by cheaper imports from China and Vietnam, a trade panel ruled in the first step toward imposing tariffs on the shipments. The U.S. International Trade Commission voted today in a preliminary ruling on a petition from the Wind Tower Trade...
By Chris Buckley BEIJING | Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:42am IST BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese court jailed a veteran dissident to seven years in jail on Friday, his son said, in the latest blow to challengers of the Communist Party’s rule before its presumed next leader, Xi Jinping, visits the White House. Zhu...
BEIJING—Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told a government-installed Tibetan cleric Friday to uphold national unity in a meeting amid recurring anti-government unrest in Tibetan communities. The government’s account of Wen’s meeting with the Panchen Lama did not mention the unrest, which sparked two weeks ago with protests in southwest China. Chinese security forces shot dead...
By JEFFREY WASSERSTROM The Granger Collection Painting of Chinese government forces attacking a Taiping stronghold at Tientsin (now Tianjin) in northern China. In the early 1860s, a violent fight raged to determine the fate of a vast country. An insurrection had split it in two, leaving much of the southern half governed by men...
China’s space agency released an amazingly detailed map of the moon this week, marking the best view yet of the lunar surface as seen by a Chinese spacecraft, according to state officials. The new moon map is made up of many high-resolution photos snapped by China’s second lunar probe — the Chang’e 2 orbiter...
WASHINGTON — From the power centers of Washington to a soybean farm in Iowa and on to sunny Southern California, China’s president-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, will sample diverse slices of America during a major visit next week. But as the man who is set to run China until 2023 takes measure of the United States, he...
