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BEIJING — A senior Chinese official said on Thursday that China would not bow to pressure from the United States to revalue its currency, which President Obama says is kept at an artificially low level to give China an unfair advantage in selling its exports.
The official, Ma Zhaoxu, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said at a [...]

Chinese leaders have urged the president not to meet the exiled leader
WASHINGTON – The White House says President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama will meet at the White House this month.
Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs confirmed to reporters Thursday that the meeting would be in February but didn’t specify a date. The Dalai Lama’s secretary [...]

Urban centers now see competition from companies in smaller areas
GUANGZHOU, China – Pulling suitcases and hefting heavy bags on their shoulders, millions of Chinese workers are boarding trains to head home for the Lunar New Year — a holiday that triggers the world’s biggest annual migration of people.
This year some may not come back from [...]

A favorite myth that pops up around this time each year is that the Super Bowl has a global audience of 1 billion people.
But if the National Football League has its way, Chinese football fans could turn that fiction into fact someday.
In a country where American sports imports have had mixed results – basketball being [...]

BEIJING – China’s crackdown on organized crime and government corruption is reaching a climax with the start today of the trial of the former senior police officer of Chongqing on charges of corruption, rape and protecting criminal gangs.
The high-profile investigation, which began last summer, has captivated the nation due to its gripping tales of top-level [...]

Each nation determines its own target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Reporting from Washington – The United States, China and dozens of other countries accounting for nearly 80% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions have signed onto a voluntary agreement to curb climate change.
If the countries make good on their pledges, they will dramatically reduce the [...]

The lucrative trade in newborns was fueled by an adoption frenzy that saw government-run orphanages paying for children who they then made available to Westerners.
Reporting from Changning, China – The telephones kept ringing with more orders and although Duan Yuelin kept raising his prices, the demand was inexhaustible. Customers were so eager to buy more [...]

Beijing could undermine its own aviation industries by punishing firms involved in the Pentagon’s plan to sell $6.4 billion in arms to Taiwan.
Shanghai – China’s threats to punish U.S. companies involved in a major arms sale to Taiwan are raising questions over whether Beijing could pull it off without undermining its own aviation industries.
China has [...]

The migrants are limited to jobs in restaurants, factories, construction fields or as domestic workers, but they are glad to be there. ‘There is nothing’ in China, one says.
Reporting from Seoul – [...]

Angered by a $6 billion U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, Beijing puts security exchanges with U.S. on hold and threatens sanctions against U.S. firms selling to Taipei.
Reporting from Beijing – The Chinese government Saturday announced a series of harsh retaliatory measures in protest of the Pentagon’s $6-billion arms sale to Taiwan, including a suspension of [...]

In Paris, the U.S. secretary of State tells Beijing to think about the longer-term consequences even though it may seem ‘counterproductive’ to sanction a country from which it gets key resources.
Reporting from Paris – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned China on Friday that it faced international pressure and increasing isolation unless it joined [...]

NEW YORK — Ford Motor Co. has halted production of some full-sized commercial vehicles in China because they contain gas pedals built by the same company behind the accelerators in Toyota Motor Corp.’s recent recall.
Ford spokesman Said Deep said Thursday the diesel version of its Transit Classic built by a Chinese joint venture contains accelerators [...]

(CHENGDU, China) — An elaborate welcome was ready Friday for two American-born giant pandas arriving at their new China home after a tearful send-off in Washington by adoring crowds.
Mei Lan and Tai Shan, carried in crates in a special cargo jet, were on their way to China for a special breeding mission in efforts to [...]

Beijing has fervently denounced U.S. President Barack Obama’s plan to sell more arms to Taiwan, and loudly demanded that he break his coming date with the Dalai Lama. Is this proof that China-U.S. relations have entered a radically new and deeply worrisome phase?
It’s tempting to see it that way. There has been much talk of [...]

(BEIJING) — China tried to increase control over its domestic media in 2009, issuing orders not to cover several topics including ethnic rioting in Xinjiang and corruption by government officials, an international press freedom group said.
In the report released Sunday by the Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists, the group gave details on 62 specific orders [...]

Now the world’s largest maker of wind turbines, solar panels
TIANJIN, China – China vaulted past competitors in Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States last year to become the world’s largest maker of wind turbines, and is poised to expand even further this year.
China has also leapfrogged the West in the last two years to [...]