BEIJING — China on Thursday welcomed North Korea’s agreement to suspend atomic tests and uranium enrichment as part of a preliminary deal with the United States that could pave the way to fresh nuclear disarmament talks. China is the host of the long delayed six-party disarmament talks, and its foreign ministry said that Beijing would...
The value of China’s holdings of U.S. Treasurys declined in the second-half of 2011, according to new data released by the Treasury Department on Wednesday. Using new reporting standards, the Treasury said China held $1.31 trillion at the end of June 2011. By the end of 2011 this had fallen to $1.15 trillion. The...
The Apple Inc. logo is displayed on the back of an iPad in Beijing, China. Photographer: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg Feb. 29 (Bloomberg) — Bloomberg’s Stephen Engle reports that Apple Inc., battling for ownership of the iPad trademark for its tablet computer in China, said allowing Proview International Holdings Ltd. to make products with that brand...
By John Kemp LONDON Feb 29 (Reuters) – China is destined to play a decisive role in the effectiveness of sanctions against Iran, and the possibility of eventual military confrontation. But the country’s attitude towards nuclear enrichment and regime change has gone mostly unexamined by the western-dominated media and think-tanks. Too many foreign policy...
Doug Young lives in Shanghai and writes about tech investment in China for Techonomy and at www.youngchinabiz.com. There’s quite a bit of telecoms news coming out this week from Barcelona, where China’s telcos and equipment makers are all showing off their latest wares at the world’s biggest annual telecoms show. Most of it looks...
By China Bureau SHANGHAI -(MarketWatch)- China’s “Big Four” state-run banks issued around CNY180 billion ($28.6 billion) in new yuan loans in February, the state-run Securities Times reported Thursday, citing an unnamed source. The paper said it estimated the whole banking system has extended around CNY500 billion new yuan loans, based on the big four’s...
The tensions have been growing during the past year in ethnic Uighur and Tibetan areas, and violence involving security forces and civilians is becoming a regular occurrence. Questions about the governing and security of those regions are expected to be raised next week during annual meetings here of the National People’s Congress and the...
TOLEDO, Ohio — Claiming momentum in the Republican presidential race the morning after his triumphs in Michigan and Arizona, Mitt Romney took his campaign promise of more jobs to this economically ravaged pocket of the country’s Rust Belt. View Photo Gallery: Mitt Romney campaigns in Toledo, Ohio the morning after his win in the Arizona...
