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China News Archive
From 2008
China Daily
China urges concrete US actions for healthy ties
BEIJING: China urged the United States early Friday morning to take concrete actions for healthy development of bilateral ties after US President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama.
Ma demanded the US seriously consider China's stance, immediately adopt measures to wipe out the baneful impact and stop conniving and supporting anti-China separatist forces that seek "Tibet independence."
The US should stop interfering in China's internal affairs and make concrete actions to maintain healthy and steady growth of China-US relations, he said.
What's behind Obama-Dalai Lama meeting?
Pierre Picquart, an expert on China from the University of Paris, said Obama's meeting with political figures such as the Dalai Lama was intended to set up a barrier to China's development while securing the US dominance in the world.
Pierre Picquart said that the Westerners were sometimes so captivated by the Dalai Lama's preaching of "religion" and "freedom" that they took it for granted without looking into his real intention behind.
Swayed by an urge to please the public, Western leaders, more often than not, would make the unwise decision to meet the Dalai Lama, said the French scholar.
The Dalai Lama some times makes undisguised political advocacy while meeting Western politicians though he claimed to be merely a religious figure.
In 1992, for instance, he sent a letter to Bill Clinton, who just sworn in as the US president, overtly trying to enlist his support for "independence of Tibet."
He ( Ingo Nentwig, a renowned ethnologist from Germany) said that some political forces in the West tend to view China through a colonialist perspective, and is reluctant to face the reality that China, as a sovereign state, is not to be budged by the West on any issues.
Kaixin - see China & Tibet
China's high-speed railways hit 3,300 km
BEIJING: China's operational high-speed railways have exceeded 3,300 kilometers, leading the world in both length and technologies, the Ministry of Railways said on its official website Thursday.
Railway investment surged 80 percent to 600 billion yuan in 2009 boosted by the 4-trillion yuan stimulus package. The government has planned a record 823.5 billion yuan for 2010 to extend the network to 90,000 kilometers by the end of this year.
Kaixin - So, at the end of the stimulus packages Australia has a few tin sheds in school backyard and China has 90,000+ kilometres of high speed rail network.
Mobile use in China changes ways of life
The ever prevalent use of mobile phones in China has changed people's way of living and working, China'a telecom giant chief said here on Tuesday.
With a mobile phone, people can organize office work, read the news, watch TV programs, check e-mail boxes and take care of their daily lives, General Director and President of China United Network Communications Ltd (China Unicom) Lu Yimin told Xinhua on Tuesday at the Fifth Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
China Unicom invested 1 billion yuan (147 million U.S. dollars) in the country's mobile sector last year. China's telecommunications sector currently represents 7 percent of its gross domestic product, he said.
Kaixin - Mobile phones have also bought, what I term, 'tech-democracy' to China. I have seen this harnessed very effectively to spread a message. The messages have been to support China, not to undermine it.
Breaking the illusion of political and economic reality
In a recent essay, Immanuel Wallerstein, senior research scholar with Yale University, describes how common Americans think about China. The sociologist and world-systems analyst says Americans may have had similar opinions about China 30 years ago, but today their views differ. They are no longer sure whether China is a developing country or a world power, or whether it is a socialist country or a capitalist country.
This difference of opinion over China is not restricted to Americans. People in many other countries share their uncertainty. So is China a socialist country or a capitalist country.
The Wall Street Journal China RealTime Report
At White House, There Is No Ideal Dalai Lama Time
In Bill Clinton’s day they were billed as “drop-by” meetings: The president would pop into White House rooms where Vice President Al Gore, or Hillary Clinton, were receiving the Dalai Lama.
The diplomatic sleight of hand was clearly for Beijing’s benefit.
Kaixin - See China & Tibet
The New York Times
Risking China’s Anger, Obama Meets With Dalai Lama
WASHINGTON — President Obama met on Thursday with the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, for a low-profile meeting at the White House that nonetheless raised the hackles of China.
In a statement the White House said that Mr. Obama had expressed support for the preservation of Tibet’s “unique religious, cultural and linguistic identity and the protection of human rights for Tibetans in the People’s Republic of China.”
Kaixin – That is certainly a motherhood statement. So do the Chinese if you care to travel to Tibet and see for yourself rather than rely on the ill-informed western media or the propaganda put out by the supporters of the Dalai Lama.
See Kaixin's Tibet and China
The Australian
Obama relents on Dalai meeting
THE White House welcome mat was missing for the Dalai Lama's visit to Washington in October.
This time, Barack Obama will meet Tibet's exiled leader, but deference to China dictates that conditions have been attached to the invitation.
The Dalai Lama meets the US President today not with the status of a head of state but as an "internationally respected religious leader and spokesman for Tibetan rights".
Asia Times Online
Myths and US arms sales to Taiwan
By Bonnie S Glaser
In recent weeks Chinese newspapers and television interview shows have been replete with condemnations of the US$6.4 billion package of arms sales to Taiwan by the Barack Obama administration. Chinese scholars and pundits have attributed numerous motivations to the United States for this sale, most of which are inaccurate. Understanding the reasons for the US sale of weapons to Taiwan may not diminish China's opposition to them, but it is nevertheless important for assessing the broader US-China relationship and predicting future US policy decisions.
Bonnie S Glaser is a senior fellow in the Freeman Chair for China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC.
See Kaixin article on this issue
China diminishes US Treasury holdings
By Robert M Cutler
MONTREAL - Headline stories have announced that China is no longer the largest holder of United States Treasury holdings. As Bloomberg News noted, for example, "China's Treasury holdings peaked at $801.5 billion in May, and net sales in November and December were the first consecutive months of reductions since late 2007."
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