Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:28 PM EST
President Barack Obama will have scant time to rest up from his eight-day Asia trip.
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Thu Nov 19, 2009 8:28 AM EST
Sometime into his long detention by China's feared state security agents, American geologist Xue Feng had something to show U.S. consular officials on their monthly visit. He rolled up his sleeve, revealing the burns where his interrogators pressed lit cigarettes into his arm.
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Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:45 PM EST
President Barack Obama's first visit to China underscored a shifting balance of power: two giants moving closer to being equals.
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Tue Nov 17, 2009 4:57 AM EST
Playing tourist on his first visit ever to China, President Barack Obama drew a chilly comparison between the Chinese capital and his Illinois hometown.
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Mon Nov 16, 2009 4:02 AM EST
Chinese students visiting Monday with President Barack Obama during a town hall-style meeting wanted to show off their language skills. The U.S. ambassador to China did the same.
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Sat Nov 14, 2009 8:46 PM EST
A senior Obama administration official says world leaders agree that next month's much-anticipated international summit on climate change will be a preliminary step that will require subsequent efforts to tackle global warming.
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Sun Nov 8, 2009 8:20 AM EST
Days after coming to power in September, Japan's new prime minister broached forming a new East Asian trading bloc with rival China — one that would exclude the United States.
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Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:04 PM EDT
Jets, tanks and missile-toting trucks thundered through Beijing on Thursday in a show of military muscle to celebrate six decades of communist rule and China's transformation from a war-battered regional player into global economic superpower.
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Fri Sep 18, 2009 7:39 AM EDT
Police cleared streets and office buildings in parts of China's capital Friday for a full dress rehearsal of celebrations for 60 years of communist rule, touching off a mixture of excitement and resentment among ordinary Chinese told to stay away.
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Wed Sep 2, 2009 10:51 AM EDT
Wrangling over the troubled global economy, climate change and security hotspots will test sometimes unsteady U.S.-China relations the rest of this year, the new U.S. ambassador to Beijing said Wednesday.
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Sat Aug 1, 2009 12:44 PM EDT
U.S. attempts to draw up a broad contingency plan in case North Korea's government collapses are being complicated by China's refusal to talk about potential chaos engulfing its dysfunctional neighbor.
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Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:03 PM EDT
Widening income gaps, corrupt local administrations and policies that seem to favor the well-connected few over the disadvantaged many are fueling spasms of violence that spring up in cities across China.
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Sun May 31, 2009 1:33 PM EDT
As a young poet, Cui Weiping was not much interested in politics. But she says she could never shake the image of her husband returning home on a June night 20 years ago, his pants mottled with the blood of people shot by the Chinese army.
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Sat May 9, 2009 12:35 PM EDT
When a powerful earthquake flattened Sichuan province a year ago, community organizer Zhang Guoyuan seized the moment.
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Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:21 PM EST
Chinese paramilitary police with riot shields and batons abruptly took up posts Monday on the main street of this Tibetan town, disrupting the bustle of Buddhist pilgrims in a reminder of China's determined control of the region.
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Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:17 PM EST
Li Xiaokai died of kidney failure on the old wooden bed in the family farmhouse, just before dawn on a drizzly Sept. 10.
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Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:25 AM EST
In between dispatching armies to secure the empire and building China into the richest country in the world, the Qianlong Emperor commissioned a retirement home for himself in the Forbidden City palace.
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Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:28 PM EDT
Premier Wen Jiabao promised Saturday to improve Chinese food safety, seeking to tamp down public anxiety in the widening scandal over tainted milk that has sickened more than 50,000 children.
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Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:34 PM EDT
Athletes competed, danced and in the most politically contentious Olympics in decades shied away from protest.
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Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:58 AM EDT
In the heady, waning days of Beijing's Olympics, young Chinese took to greeting each other gleefully: "How many gold medals have we won today?"
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Mon Aug 4, 2008 1:39 AM EDT
Two men rammed a truck into a group of jogging policemen and tossed explosives, killing 16 officers Monday in an attack in a restive province of western China just days before the Beijing Olympics, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
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Sat Aug 2, 2008 1:01 PM EDT
The short, catchy film commissioned by the Chinese government was designed to plant a new, positive image of China in foreigners' minds for the Beijing Olympics.
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Fri Aug 1, 2008 6:50 AM EDT
A week before the start of the Beijing Olympics, Chinese President Hu Jintao said Friday that the caliber of athletic competition and enhanced friendship among nations, not political disputes, will determine whether the games are a success.
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Mon Jul 28, 2008 5:11 PM EDT
Just over a week before the Beijing Olympics, a militant Islamic group's claims of responsibility for bombings in China have fueled unease about security. The government has assured its people and the Olympic community that heavy security will ensure a secure games.
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Sat May 17, 2008 5:20 PM EDT
China's deadliest earthquake in a generation has jarred Chinese who expected to be reveling in anticipation of the Beijing Olympics. In less dramatic ways, the disaster is shifting perceptions between China and the world, deflating the contentiousness building around the games.
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