Chinese President Hu Jintao (R, front) meets with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (L, front) in Beijing, capital of China, July 18, 2012. Ban is in Beijing for an official visit from July 17 to 19, as well as to attend the opening ceremony of the fifth Ministerial Meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation...
BEIJING — China touted its close relations with Africa on Wednesday ahead of talks with the continent’s senior officials, even as some African countries grumble about problems that come from being locked in a tight embrace with the resource-hungry Asian economic power. Commerce Minister Chen Deming wrote in the China Daily newspaper that total...
Beijing (Financial Times) — China’s property market rebounded in June, with housing prices rising in many of the country’s major cities for the first time in a year following government moves to stimulate the economy. A sluggish real estate sector has been the biggest drag on Chinese growth, so an increase in prices is...
VIENNA (Reuters) – China may need to modernize its nuclear arsenal to respond to the destabilizing effect of a planned U.S.-backed missile defense system, a senior Chinese military officer said on Wednesday. “It undermines the strategic stability,” said Major General Zhu Chenghu of China’s National Defense University about the U.S.-led development of a missile...
BEIJING (UPI) — China’s slowing economic growth is “an uncomfortable ebbing,” for the country, the official Xinhua news agency said Thursday. Citing the second quarter’s 7.6 GDP growth, a Xinhua news analysis said it was sharply down from 9.5 percent a year earlier and half a percentage point below 8.1 percent in the first...
Maneuverings at ASEAN over South China Sea Dispute Leaves Hard Feelings China scored a diplomatic win this past week when foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations failed to agree on a unified approach to the territorial disputes in the South China Sea. But Beijing’s win wasn’t unqualified. The fervor of the...
Premier Wen Jiabao said China’s labor situation will become more “severe,” underscoring concern that the weakest economic growth since 2009 will lead to increasing job losses. The government will continue to implement a more “proactive” labor policy, Wen said yesterday at a government meeting on employment, according to a statement posted on the central...
HAIZIGOU, China — Zhang Lingmian was collecting walnuts in the countryside north of Beijing last autumn when a friend from a nearby village mentioned a mysterious structure in the mountains that had stumped locals. The retired cultural heritage official and his friend scampered uphill for two hours, whacking their way through the brambles after...
By Zhang Yuzhe BEIJING ( Caixin Online ) — China’s local government financing platform companies are making a comeback in the bonds market, but experts say the best way to let local governments raise funds is to let them directly issue bonds. In the first half of the year, more than 60 platform companies have...
Outside of Beijing, China (CNN) — Something isn’t quite right with this picture. There seem to be too many children here. Isn’t this the country famed for its one-child policy? Aren’t their big fines and penalties for having that second child? A man is watching two children play. “Are these children yours?” we ask....
