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Western companies use rock music to tap into China's youth market

As China's youth excercise their new-found wealth and independence the battle for their custom is hotting up. Engine of change: rock band The Wheels are example of a newly expressive youth in China It could have been any other...

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US Envoy Pans Media Coverage of Obama China Visit

US ambassador criticizes negative coverage of Obama's China visit by US media By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press Writer BEIJING November 20, 2009 (AP) The Associated Press Post a Comment Washington's ambassador to Beijing...

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Indian officials wary after perceived White House slights

Days before India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is to be welcomed in the White House for his first state visit with President Obama, two perceived missteps by the Obama administration have concerned Indian officials that New...

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New EU chief good for ties with China

Belgium's Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy attends a press conference after an EU summit at the EU Council headquarters in Brussels, capital of Belgium, Nov. 19, 2009. Van Rompuy was elected the first full-time EU President...

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Photo exhibition held in Beijing to celebrate Universal Children's Day

Zhou Xisheng (C-Front), vice president of Xinhua News Agency addresses the launching ceremony of a photo exhibition titled "The World's Children and the Children's World" in Beijing, Nov. 20, 2009. The exhibition, a mark of the...

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Ambassador: U.S.-China relations more focused on global issues

BEIJING, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- China-U.S. relationship that by large was entering a period where our focus would be more and more on global issues, said U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman on Friday. Huntsman made the remarks...

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Visa rider on Mirwaiz's China visit

NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR: Outmanoeuvring the wily red dragon, India on Friday declared it had no objection if moderate Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq wanted to visit China but made it clear that stapled visas on passports would...

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Chinese activist who tried to meet Obama was detained and questioned twice

WASHINGTON - A leading Chinese human rights lawyer who tried unsuccessfully to meet with President Barack Obama in Beijing this week was detained and interrogated twice during Obama's visit to China, ...

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US lawmakers press on Taiwan arms sales (AFP)

AFP/File – A demonstrator holds upright a protest banner reading "No arms purchase! We want peace!" during … WASHINGTON (AFP) – Supporters of Taiwan in the US Congress on Friday pushed for President Barack Obama to move toward...

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Obama in Asia - building block or bow?

Barack Obama's first presidential trip to Asia was also his first big step in recasting U.S. ties with a region in flux, and showed this will demand patience and compromise from a superpower used to pushing its weight around.

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