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US debt ceiling: How risky for China and Japan?
A US default might lead China to buy American companies instead of American bonds, some analysts say.
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Ahead of UN human rights review, China activist goes missing
Cao Shunli’s arrest and disappearance is part of China’s efforts to conceal its ‘very troublesome human rights record,’ says Human Rights Watch in Hong Kong.
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Why disgraced Chinese official Bo Xilai may not quietly fade away
Bo Xilai’s trial transfixed China with its revelations of political skulduggery and murder. The once highly influential boss of Chongqing has two weeks to appeal his life sentence.
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US: China’s human rights situation is getting worse
The top US human rights official said she was particularly worried by the way the Chinese authorities harass the relatives of dissidents.
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With arrest, China signals limits to anticorruption campaign
Chinese lawyer and activist Xu Zhiyong was charged with disrupting order in a public place. But he’s been under house arrest since April.
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A tussle in China over the Communist Party bowing to the Constitution
A movement in China to make the Communist Party subordinate to the national constitution has conservatives fighting back.
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Why China is welcoming both Israel’s Netanyahu and Palestinians’ Abbas
The coinciding visits to Beijing of the Israeli prime minister and the Palestinian president this week speak to China’s growing interests in the Middle East.
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Family of blind activist Chen Guangcheng ‘tormented’ in China
Prison authorities have refused a medical request for the jailed nephew of the prominent human rights activist, highlighting a pattern of persecution of activists’ relatives.
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China cozies up to Iceland in race for Arctic resources
China has been paying a lot of attention to Iceland, a country with a population 5,000 times smaller than its own, as an effort to stretch its influence into the Arctic Sea.
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Friend or frenemy? For China, key issue is how US really views it
Both the US and China want to tamp down the North Korea crisis. But as Secretary of State John Kerry visits Beijing this weekend, an underlying issue is mutual suspicion over strategic aims in the Pacific.