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WASHINGTON — China and India formally agreed Tuesday to join the international climate change agreement reached in December in Copenhagen, the last two major economies to sign up.
The two countries, among the largest and fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, submitted letters to the United Nations agreeing to be included on a [...]

BEIJING – A Chinese proverb says women hold up half the sky. In the future, they’ll be doing it from space.
The Chinese space program’s first two women astronauts have been selected and may take part in missions to China’s planned space station, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday.
To be considered, the women had to [...]

DHARMSALA, India – The Dalai Lama lashed out at China on Wednesday, accusing it of trying to “annihilate Buddhism” in Tibet and rebuffing all his efforts to reach a compromise over the disputed Himalayan region.
China shot back, accusing the Tibetan spiritual leader of using deceptions and lies to distort its policy in the region. The [...]

Troops everywhere ahead of anniversary of 2008 protests
LHASA, China – The troops with automatic rifles patrolling the Tibetan quarter of the capital of Chinese-controlled Tibet are as ever-present as Buddhist pilgrims.
Two years after Lhasa erupted in a riot that set off anti-government protests across Tibetan areas of China, heavy security is the new normal. Helmeted [...]

BEIJING — The blame for friction in Chinese-United States relations “does not lie with China,” and it is up to the United States to take steps to repair the frayed ties, China’s foreign minister repeated Sunday.
The minister, Yang Jiechi, said at a news conference that the administration of President Obama had seriously disrupted the relationship [...]

BEIJING — China’s central bank governor indicated Saturday that the government was unlikely to detach the value of China’s currency from that of the dollar anytime soon, echoing Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s statement on Friday that exchange rates would remain “basically stable” for now.
Many Western economists and leaders, including President Obama, have called for China [...]

The nation’s exports grow for the third consecutive month compared with a year earlier. Critics of China’s artificially low currency are expected to increase demands for a hike in its value.
Reporting from Beijing – China’s exports rose 46% in February from a year earlier, beating expectations and setting the stage for more calls to increase [...]

A Chinese official says China has had no direct contact with Google over the company’s threat in January to shut down its China-based search service.
The China Daily newspaper reported Saturday that Miao Wei, the vice minister of industry and information technology, said there have been no negotiations with Google on that topic.
Some reports have said [...]

Reporting from Beijing – China on Thursday announced the smallest increase in its defense budget in years, in an apparent attempt to assuage international fears that its military is growing too powerful.
Coming after almost two decades of double-digit increases, the relatively modest 7.5% boost in the budget, to $78 billion, also highlights the Chinese leadership’s [...]

The strategy seeks higher earnings by acquiring assets while prices are depressed.
Reporting from Washington – Made [...]

Organizers say the U.S. pavilion will be ready by May 1 for the opening of the international fair in Shanghai. America’s absence might have been seen as a snub to China.
Reporting from Shanghai – Averting a diplomatic disaster, the United States says its trouble-prone pavilion at Expo 2010 should be ready for the opening May [...]

There may be good places to die in China, but Edinburgh isn’t one of them. This housing development on the outskirts of the city of Chongqing bears only passing resemblance to its Scottish namesake. Just over a decade old, the brick and gray stone façades already bear the dilapidated look of abandoned manors. Outside the [...]

Hundreds of Tibetans are being rounded up and detained in Lhasa and armed paramilitary groups are patrolling the streets in advance of the anniversary of fatal riots in 2008, The Times has learnt.
Authorities are anxious to avoid a repeat of the anti-Chinese attacks, in which about 20 people were killed when Tibetans [...]

China has hit back at a report in The Times that it is behind a surge in international cyber attacks, saying that it is as much a victim of such attacks as any other country and opposes internet warfare.
The Global Times, an English-language newspaper run by The People’s Daily, quoted Li Daguang, [...]

Urgent warnings have been circulated throughout Nato and the European Union for secret intelligence material to be protected from a recent surge in cyberwar attacks originating in China.
The attacks have also hit government and military institutions in the United States, where analysts said that the West had no effective response and that [...]

Human-flesh Search Engines in China
The short video made its way around China’s Web in early 2006, passed on through file sharing and recommended in chat rooms. It opens with a middle-aged Asian woman dressed in a leopard-print blouse, knee-length black skirt, stockings and silver stilettos standing next to a riverbank. She smiles, holding a small [...]