2nd November 09

The New York Times

How New Buicks Took Shape in China

THE idea of creating a new Buick in a design studio in China, as General Motors has done with the 2010 LaCrosse, is not as loopy as it might sound. Buicks have a certain cachet in China, dating back some eight decades to when the emperor bought one.

Tempers Flare in U.S. Over Chinese Involvement in Wind Farm Planned for Texas

NEW YORK — News last week of the first major influx of Chinese capital and wind turbine manufacturing expertise into the renewable energy market in the United States — a 600-megawatt wind farm planned for the plains of west Texas — had many readers of the Green Inc. blog in a state of agitation.

The Age’

China's energy insecurity set to fuel exports

Australian coal to China has jumped dramatically, and natural gas and uranium will soon follow suit. THE first Australia-China export and investment boom was almost entirely about metal, particularly iron ore. The next one will be about energy, beginning with coal.

China climate talks centre stage for Obama trip

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama will use his first trip to Asia next week to underscore the United States' engagement in the region, and to redouble efforts to find common ground with China on a new climate change treaty.