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From The Age: China wants the Holy See to sever ties with Taiwan before it resumes talks about religious freedom. The Vatican is reluctantly ready to cut ties with Taiwan and recognise China if Beijing can guarantee religious freedom, the head of the Hong Kong Roman Catholic diocese said yesterday. China and the Vatican have […]
Read MoreFrom the Standard: Ito-Yokado said its six stores in China are operating normally – two days after protesters opposed to Japan’s bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council smashed windows at an outlet in the country’s southwest… Sino-Japanese tension has been growing, fanned by rivalry over a disputed, potentially resource-rich territory […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: An uninhabited Pacific reef 1,000 miles due south of Tokyo makes an unlikely battlefield. But wars have been fought over less. And Okinotori Shima, as this hazard to shipping is known, is rapidly becoming a focal point of rising tension between China and Japan… Japan claims an exclusive economic zone around Okinotori […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Some 210,000 people were sent to work abroad in the first 11 months of 2004 itself, a 17.3% rise over the year before, and more than 532,000 Chinese workers were based overseas by the end of November last year. These figures indicate that China has emerged from the shadow of the severe […]
Read MoreFrom the IHT: China is applying diplomatic pressure on Australia to keep the Melbourne-based BHP Billiton from doubling what Chinese steel makers pay for the company’s ore shipments… BHP is asking Chinese steel makers to pay almost 20 percent more for its iron ore than they agreed to pay its main competitors, Rio Tinto and […]
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