BEIJING (Reuters) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for annual talks with Chinese leaders that risk being upstaged by the case of a blind dissident said to be under U.S. protection in the Chinese capital. The fate of legal activist Chen Guangcheng, who escaped from house arrest while under...
The manufacturing index’s six-month contraction, if confirmed, would be the longest since the global financial crisis. Photographer: Keith Bedford/Bloomberg May 1 (Bloomberg) — Joy Yang, chief China economist at Mirae Asset Securities (HK) Ltd., talks about the nation’s economy and central bank monetary policy. China’s manufacturing expanded for a fifth month in April, reducing...
Workers assemble pick up trucks at the GoNow, a subsidiary of Guanzhou Auto Corporation, in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Photographer: Qilai Shen/In Pictures/Corbis China’s longest bear market since 2005 is ending as government efforts to bolster the economy spur a rally in stocks, say the strategists whose buy recommendations two years ago preceded...
Their bill never passed. But reducing China’s surpluses has remained at the top of the bilateral agenda ever since. Something unexpected has happened to China’s economy, however. Its surplus with the rest of the world has largely disappeared. China’s imbalance with the United States is still likely to take center stage when Treasury Secretary...
By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – China and Russia are resisting a Western push for the U.N. Security Council to threaten Sudan and South Sudan with sanctions if the two countries fail to comply with demands to halt their escalating conflict, U.N. envoys said on Tuesday. The U.N. negotiations on Sudan and South...
BEIJING, May 1 (UPI) — China invested $222 million in its shale gas sector last year, a government official said. Yet China’s investment in shale gas exploration and development is “very small” in proportion to the country’s overall oil and natural gas exploration and development, which totaled more than $9.5 billion last year, Wang...
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s official purchasing managers’ index (PMI) rose to a 13-month high in April, signaling the economy has found a footing and may be recovering from a first-quarter trough, but smaller factories are still struggling. The pick-up in the PMI to 53.3 from 53.1 in March indicated a further expansion in the...
HAMBURG, May 1 (Reuters) – China is likely to buy even more U.S.-origin soybeans in the near term because of poor South American crops, Hamburg-based oilseeds analysts Oil World said on Tuesday. “Chinese buyers will increasingly shift to U.S.-origin in the coming weeks because South American supplies are becoming tighter,” Oil World said. Chicago...
By Daniel Lovering and David Lague Tue May 1, 2012 9:51am EDT (Reuters) – Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng will be sidelined in his quest to defend human rights and press for change in China if he agrees to accept political asylum in the United States, exiled dissidents said. The combative, self-taught lawyer escaped...
(CBS News) Mitt Romney weighed in Tuesday on the formerly imprisoned Chinese dissident now possibly under American protection in Beijing, saying in an interview on “CBS This Morning” that President Obama should push the Chinese government to make “a real effort” to end abuses against the dissident and his family. Blind activist Chen Guangcheng...
