Jan
31

China – China Warns U.S. on Plans for Arms Sales to Taiwan – FOX News

China Warns U.S. on Plans for Arms Sales to Taiwan – FOX News
is “obstinately making the wrong decision,” China’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its Web site A notification of the planned sale posted Friday on a Pentagon Web site said it would include 60 UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters, 114 Patriot

China lifts veil of secrecy on right to info – IndiaTimes
Then China did what would once have been unthinkable it enacted an open-government policy, and last fall Wu Junliang pressed his moment, illustrating the potential of the fledgling Open Government Information regulation to allow Chinese

China blasts U.S. for arms sale – The Spokesman-Review
Denunciations from Beijing over arms sales to Taiwan have an element of ritual about them, but the threat of sanctions on U.S. arms contractors is a new Gates this year could be put off. But in various statements Saturday, the Chinese government

U.S., China lock horns – China Post
BEIJING — China and the United States were locked yesterday in an escalating row over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, with Washington rebuffing Chinese protests and insisting the deal promotes stability in the Taiwan Strait. The Pentagon Friday sparked

China HSBC Manufacturing PMI Hits Record High – RTT News
(RTTNews) – Markit Economics reported on Monday that the China HSBC Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) stood at a seasonally adjusted 57.4 in January, up from 56.1 in the previous month. A reading above 50 indicates expansion, while one

China To Halt Military Exchanges, Punish U.S. Companies For Arms Sales – Democratic Underground.com
BEIJING, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) — Chinese Foreign Ministry announced Saturday that China will postpone bilateral military programs and security talks and punish certain U.S. companies in response to the U.S. government’s greenlight on new shipments of

U.S.-Taiwan arms deal leads China to suspend military exchanges – Dubuque Telegraph Herald
China relations. “This is the strongest reaction we’ve seen so far in recent years,” said Stephanie T. Kleine-Ahlbrandt, northeast Asia project director for the International Crisis Group. “China is really looking to see what kind of reaction it’s

Drought hits China’s Guangxi – AsiaOne
have been sending water trucks to those villages that suffer severe shortages,’ it quoted a relief official as saying. ‘We are organising local residents to dig wells and divert water from elsewhere to the drought-hit areas of China’s sugar

Earthquake Jolts Southwest China, Toppling Homes – MyFox Philadelphia
A moderate earthquake jolted southwestern China on Sunday, killing one person and injuring 12 others, officials said. More than 200 houses were damaged or destroyed. The quake struck at 5:37 a.m. (2137 GMT Saturday; 4:37 p.m. Saturday EDT) in Sichuan

China bugs and burgles Britain – Canada Free Press
THE security service MI5 has accused China of bugging and burgling UK business executives and setting up honeytraps in a bid to blackmail them into betraying sensitive commercial secrets. A leaked MI5 document says that undercover intelligence