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Beijing

Type: City

Name: Beijing

Country: China

Latitude: 39.93

Longitude: 116.400002

population: 7,480,601

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 11 Documents

Beijing: Act Now or Risk a Trade War With the U.S.

President Obama’s eight day tour of China is over now, and both sides are probably breathing a sigh of relief. The idea of this visit was to move the US-China conversation beyond the usual economic conflicts and towards a broader range of global issues ... [MSNBC Newsweek - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Beijing, United States, China, Yu Yongding

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 19 hours ago - 9 Documents (in Politics)

Charles E Schumer

US lawmakers threaten sanctions on China over yuan

US lawmakers criticised US President Barack Obama’s administration on Thursday for not pressuring Beijing enough over its rigid currency as they set the stage for slapping import duties on goods imported from mainland.As Obama returned home without any ... [South China Morning Post - 19 hours ago]

Entities: China, Sanctions, Charles E Schumer, Beijing, Timothy F Geithner

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 2 hours ago - 7 Documents (in Internet & IT)

2012 storyline popular with Chinese audiences

In 2012, the Earth's core overheats, threatening humanity2012 pulls in US$225 million on opening weekendTop astro-historian rules out 2012 end of the world threatWhen the apocalypse comes, China will save the world.At least that is how Chinese audiences ... [3 News - 2 hours ago]

Entities: China, Hollywood, Refugees, Pro-Chinese, Military/Armed Forces

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 12 Documents

Barack Obama

Obama's Trip Lacked Notable Achievements

0 Play CBS Video Video One-on-One with ObamaAs President Obama reaches the final leg of his trip to Asia, he spoke to Chip Reid about Afghanistan deployment decisions, criticisms from Sarah Palin and more.Video Obama Wraps Up Trip to ChinaPresident ... [CBS News - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Barack Obama, China, South Korea

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 6 hours ago - 7 Documents

ABC: U.S. Grows More Dependent on China, China Builds SUPER COMPUTER : Tianhe, Obama Visits China th

The scientists at the National University of Defense Technology in Changsha, China, had plenty to celebrate: They had developed a supercomputer that could perform more than a quadrillion calculations per second. Global Crisis Makes US More Dependent on ... [World Market Media - 6 hours ago]

Entities: China, Barack Obama, Beijing

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 6 hours ago - 5 Documents (in Politics)

China: Activists under threat after Obama visit

Chinese authorities must stop the harassment and arbitrary detention of dozens of human rights lawyers and activists who were targeted during US President Obama's visit to the country earlier this week, Amnesty International said today.Security forces ... [Amnesty International UK - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Human Rights, Custody, Barack Obama

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 21 hours ago - 3 Documents (in Health)

Police chase A/H1N1 vaccine message scammers

(Beijing Time) China DailyPolice said yesterday they are tracking a 'vaccine rumor' spread online and through text messages since Wednesday that wrongly says the A/H1N1 vaccine program has been stopped.'The police are working with the health authority ... [SINA - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Beijing, Vaccine, Swine Flu Vaccine, Influenza A H1N1 Virus

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11 hours ago - 9 Documents

US concern on growing China spy force

CHINA is sharply stepping up espionage against the United States as the rising Asian power grows more sophisticated in cyber warfare and spy recruitment, a report to Congress has warned.''China is changing the way that espionage is being done,'' said ... [The Age - 11 hours ago]

Entities: China, CAROLYN BARTHOLOMEW, Beijing, Espionage Against The United States

First Reported 22 hours ago - Updated 50 mins ago - 6 Documents (in Politics)

U.S.-China relations more focused on global issues

BEIJING, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- China-U.S. relationship that by large was entering a period where our focus would be more and more on global issues, said U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman on Friday.Huntsman made the remarks at the Forum for America/China ... [Xinhua News Agency - 50 mins ago]

Entities: China, United States, Jon Huntsman

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 4 Documents

China to Obama: Kowtow!

Could there be anything worse than being the leader of a nation in decline meeting the leaders of the nation that will soon displace your country as the worlds pre-eminent power? That must be the sense with which US President Barack Obama met with his ... [EnerPub - 11/19/2009]

Entities: China, Barack Obama, Tenzin Gyatso, Tibet Autonomous Region, John F Kennedy

First Reported 21 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 5 Documents (in Market News)

Chinese central bank governor: Low rates could discourage financing real economy

BEIJING, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Low interest rates, especially the deposit rate, would discourage financial institutions from providing adequate financing to the real economy, Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People's Bank of China (PBOC), said Friday.He ... [Xinhua News Agency - 15 hours ago]

Entities: China, Federal Reserve System, Xinhua (China), Cheng Siwei

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 17 hours ago - 6 Documents

More than 450,000 millionaires in China by year-end

BEIJING: The personal wealth of the rich in China has continued to expand despite the global economic downturn, and a new study says their number could cross 450,000 by the year-end.The phenomenal growth comes despite the global economic slowdown, said ... [Times of India - 17 hours ago]

Entities: China, Beijing, Shanghai

Quotes

...Richard Whitman, associate fellow for Europe, said: "In Beijing, Moscow and Washington policy-makers and analysts will be hard pressed to discern anything from these appointments. Neither seems to signal any clear intent for a new direction and character for the EU or the future direction of its foreign policy."

Herman who? The world greets new EU President [The Independent - 31 mins ago]

Huntsman, who once lived in Taiwan and could speak Chinese called Chinese the '21st century language', saying diplomacy is ineffective without "investing a generation of professionals willing to invest their careers in turnturn in language, culture, regional studies." FACES, a forum held in Beijing from Nov...

U.S.-China relations more focused on global issues [Xinhua News Agency - 50 mins ago]

...China's wealth market offers an attractive window of opportunity for banks,' Frankie Leung, a BCG partner in Hong Kong, told reporters in Beijing. "How banks should act to capture the opportunities and establish competitive positions would be a key strategic issue to explore."

World banks in a race for Chinese wealth of $7.6 trillion [Ecommerce Journal - 2 hours ago]

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Blogs

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The Financial Times Has Nine Times the Quality ... [J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - 2 hours ago] So says John Judis. He does, however, tell one thing that I think is a lie: that the New York Times and the Washington Post "have their strengths in foreign news." ...
John Feffer: Obama's Asia Trip: Post-Mortem [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 2 hours ago] Critics of the Obama administration were delighted at the images from the president's recent trip to Asia. There was the deep bow before the emperor Akihito. ...
What Can the Chinese Do To Our Economy? To Theirs? [TAPPED - 4 hours ago] Matt Yglesias asks what, exactly, China is going to do to our economy if the U.S. government steps up its criticisms of their various human rights violations or ...
Beth Nonte Russell: "Oba-Mao", What D... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 5 hours ago] Just before Christmas in 1999, I got off a flight from Hong Kong to San Francisco with a frail, 13-month-old baby girl in my arms. Until a week before, ...
Addiction to Growth is China’s ‘Berlin Wall’: G... [The Moderate Voice - 7 hours ago] Can President Obama persuade China not to be so dependent on growth, particularly trade-dependent growth? Likening Beijing’s obsession with growth to a Chinese ...

Audio/Video

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President Obama, Chinese President Hu Meet in B... [The White House - YouTube - 3 hours ago]
Shanghai Manners [Slate Magazine - 11/19/2009]
Like New Yorkers, Chinese people just can't sto... [Slate Magazine - 11/19/2009]
Robert Gibbs checks in from Beijing [The White House - YouTube - 11/19/2009]
Students sing for Obama in China [Reuters Video: Top News - 11/18/2009]

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