China advises millions to abandon travel plans

China is seeking to be the dominant power in cyberspace. The U.S. cyber-command is leading a new push to maintain its superiority in this area. But China is blatant in their plan to unseat the U.S. in cyberspace. The Pentagon has identified China's People's Liberation Army's units designated to develop viruses for attacking enemy computer systems a
What do mailing newspaper clippings to your husband, defending displaced tenants and writing a doctoral thesis using 50-year-old library records have in common? They're all apparently enough to get you thrown in jail in China for "revealing state secrets."
China warned Tuesday of unspecified countermeasures if the US Congress adopts a bill on Beijing's foreign exchange regime that could lead to higher US tariffs on Chinese imports.
"The change you see and hear is the flowers, and the leaves. But there is no change in the root. That is the party's control over everything, including control over the market. Money is to the leaders today what revolution was to Mao -- a tool to control the people," the 74-year-old former official told me.
China is considering halting efforts to make oil from coal due to concerns about the expense and energy demands as well as the greenhouse gases produced by the conversion, a state news agency on Sunday quoted an official as saying.
178,000 Are Left Homeless; Death Toll Expected To Rise With Landslides And Flooding
China's increased political and economic relations with Africa should not be regarded as a dangerous and bad thing, and it all depends on how Africa frames its relations with China, a senior South African official said on Thursday.
A rising middle class, cheap start-up costs, increasing penetration of PCs and Internet-enabled cell phones, and an ability to tap the local market better than multinationals like Google or Amazon.com, among other factors, is fueling a rush into Web sites, online games and companies with novel advertising pitches.
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The first study to rank nations and regions according to their peacefulness has put China at No 60 and the United States at 96.
So far we have not received any report of death resulting from using the toothpaste. The U.S. handling (of this case) is neither scientific nor responsible," China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said in a statement posted on its Web site over the weekend.
The same top Bush administration neoconservatives who leap-frogged Washington's foreign policy establishment to topple Saddam Hussein nearly pulled off a similar coup in U.S.-China relationsââ;¬"creating the potential of a nuclear war over Taiwan, a top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell says.
The influx of cheaply-made Chinese goods represent the same thing to 'America the Global Superpower' as the smallpox-infected blankets of the early American settler did to the Plains Indians of the day.
The government warned consumers on Friday to avoid using toothpaste made in China because it may contain a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze.
China is conquering Africa as it becomes the preferred trading partner of the continent's dictators. Beijing is buying up Africa's abundant natural resources and providing it with needed cash and cheaply produced consumer goods in return.
Great cartoon by Morin in The Miami Herald. Masterpiece of humor showing our trading position before China. It interesting how our Congress is questioning treaties of trade with Colombia, Panama, Peru and S Korea arguing problems with human rights and labor unions. Why not with China??
China lashed out at the United States on Sunday, rejecting a Pentagon report about Beijing's defense buildup as exaggerated and misleading, and saying that such rhetoric threatened attempts to improve military and trade links.
China is modernizing its military in ways that give it options for launching surprise attacks, potentially far from its borders, the Pentagon said Friday.
"Analysis of China's weapons acquisition ... suggest(s) China is looking beyond Taiwan as it builds its force," states the Defense Department's annual report to Congress on "Military Power of the People's Republic of China."
US President George W. Bush, meeting a top-level Chinese trade delegation at the White House, said Thursday that China should import American beef, while repeating his administration's years-old demand that Beijing needs to rake up the value of its currency.
China appeared to go on the defensive Friday in response to rising concern about the safety of its food and drug exports, asking the United States to clarify its regulations on the use of antibiotics that turned up in Chinese catfish in three southern states.
China delivered a three-combo punch in order to rein in their economy. All three moves, when looked at separately, will have an ever so slight effect on the economy. But pushing all three through on the same day may deliver an impact....
China on Wednesday said it was investigating reports that toothpaste containing a potentially deadly chemical had been exported to Central America, the latest in a series of scandals involving tainted Chinese products.
FIFTEEN months out from the Beijing Olympics, China is wallowing in the toxic by-products of its lightning economic expansion, prompting fears for athletes and tourists who will travel there, as well as the Chinese population.
Foot binding was practiced in China for 1000 years. Young girls would have their feet wrapped, thus limiting the normal development and essentially crippling them.
Olympic Dream for Darfur is not a boycott operation. Its focus is on organizing activities to put pressure on China to force Sudan to end the mass murders and mass rapes. Among such actions are international teach-ins, rallies, vigils, and counter Olympic relays in a series of countries to vividly call attention to China's complicity in genocide.
China agreed to take a $3 billion stake in U.S. private-equity giant Blackstone, which marks an unusually aggressive start to the country's long-anticipated campaign to diversify how it invests massive foreign-exchange reserves.
How does China make such cheap TVs? By silencing, arresting and even torturing labor activists.
China plans to launch a lunar probe in the second half of 2007, Xinhua news agency quoted the director of the National Space Administration as saying.If the Chang'e 1 orbiter succeeds in orbiting the moon, it would attempt to land and collect samples before returning to earth, Sun Laiyan said in a speech at Beijing Communications University.








