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From 2008
China Daily
Wen heads 'super ministry' for energy
Commission oversees planning, security, international cooperation.
An overarching government agency has been set up to take charge of the country's energy policy for better coordination in formulating strategy and planning development.
Premier Wen Jiabao will head the agency, called the National Energy Commission (NEC), and Vice-Premier Li Keqiang will be the deputy, the State Council, or the Cabinet, announced yesterday.
The Wall Street Journal – China RealTime Report
China Examines Its Place in Obama’s State of the Union
China was only mentioned twice, in passing, in Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, but Chinese foreign policy minds are apparently carefully parsing the U.S. president’s words.
Here’s what the Obama said:
A few hours after Obama’s speech, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu responded to these references in carefully measured terms.
“We note China is mentioned in the State of the Union address. China would like to work extensively with the United States for mutual benefit,” he said at a regular press briefing in Beijing Thursday, according to Xinhua. “I can hardly give an overall, comprehensive and accurate review of the address as we are still studying it.”
The New York Times
As China Rises, Conflict With West Rises Too
DAVOS, Switzerland —As recently as 2008, when China was still an emerging economy eager to put its best foot forward for Western consumers, it lifted censorship, at least temporarily, on several Web sites before the Beijing Olympics. At the same time, it responded to pleas from U.S. and European politicians to cooperate on several other fronts.
China’s Growth, Measured in Feed
China needs fertilizer more than steel. If its industrialization follows the course of other nations, per capita demand for infrastructure like concrete and steel will peak long before meat consumption does.
This may explain why mergers and acquisitions activity in the agriculture sector has become so hot. For example, Vale, based in Brazil, just agreed to buy Bunge’s Brazilian fertilizer assets for $3.8 billion.
Exit America
But somewhere out there the feeling has coalesced that some of the billions spent in Kabul could be used to create jobs at home.
China, in its “peaceful rise,” has had no such distractions. Commentators on Chinese TV made much of how the Haiti sacrifice of the eight “heroes” was part of being “good global citizens.”
Asia Times Online
Hong Kong's cyber-dissenters get real
By Kent Ewing
HONG KONG - They call themselves the "post-1980s generation", and their anger is boiling over in the streets of this city. As many of them are well into their 20s, post-1980 is a more accurate description. Whatever they are called, they are making some noise.
They started speaking up years ago, but Hong Kong's old guard wasn't listening. Now they are screaming to be heard and literally trying to force their way into the corridors of power.
Silence on Tibetan talks is golden
By Francesco Sisci
BEIJING - On Tuesday, Beijing reopened the thorny and controversial talks with envoys of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan god-king. Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari (the Dalai Lama's right-hand man), Kelsang Gyaltsen, and three other officials of the Tibetan government in exile reached the Chinese capital, it was announced from the Dalai Lama’s the headquarters in Dharamsala, India.
Unlike previous occasions, the Tibetans did not release press statements, and no one leaked news of the contact - the first since talks at the time of the Beijing Summer Olympic Games in 2008 ended in stalemate.
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