From Daily Times, via China National News: Fresh from striking a historic partnership with India, China will next week sign a strategic deal, formalising an economic and security alliance with Indonesia, the foreign ministry said Monday. Chinese President Hu Jintao will sign the declaration in a meeting with his Indonesian counterpart Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono after […]
Read MoreFrom The Associated Press, via Forbes.com: China and Australia on Monday agreed to start talks on a free trade pact. Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai and Alan Thomas, Australia’s ambassador to China, signed a memorandum of understanding that opens the way for a formal free trade agreement between the two countries. No other details were […]
Read MoreFrom Dow Jones Newswires, via China National News: Chinese authorities in Shanghai have expressed readiness to pay damages to Japanese restaurants that were attacked by Chinese demonstrators in a massive anti-Japan protest, the Japanese Consulate General said Monday, Kyodo News Service reported. On Saturday in Shanghai, thousands of Chinese marched on the Japanese consulate, hurling […]
Read MoreFrom The People’s Daily: The Chinese government has donated 15,000 books valued at about two million yuan (240,960 US dollars) to more than 40 major libraries across nearly 20 countries in the past three years, according to the Information Office under the State Council. The government decided to donate the newly published books and picture […]
Read MoreFrom The Associated Press, via Thestar.com: Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew said heated disputes between China and Japan were unlikely to lead to war, a newspaper reported yesterday. “I don’t think they are going to come to war,” Lee said. “The dynamics are quite horrendous … therefore, I don’t think (a war) will happen.” […]
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