Jan 24, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via CNS News: (CNSNews.com) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday will celebrate the launch of a newly rebranded organization called the “100,000 Strong Foundation,” which aims to have 100,000 American students studying in China by 2014. Thursday's event will "underscore the importance of study abroad in China and the benefits to our strategic relationship with ...
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Nov 27, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel
Excerpted from Bloomberg: China isn’t a currency manipulator under U.S. law, though the yuan “remains significantly undervalued” and needs to rise further, the Treasury Department said. China “has substantially reduced the level of official intervention in exchange markets since the third quarter of 2011,” the Treasury said in a statement accompanying its semi- annual currency report ...
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Oct 25, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER: The Chinese government has blocked access to the obama.com Web domain in the wake of an investigation by the conservative Government Accountability Institute (GAI) into the Obama re-election campaign’s alleged acceptance of foreign donations, the New York Post reports. GAI has published a series of reports in the past month ...
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Oct 20, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER: Barack Obama and his supporters continue to slash at Gov. Mitt Romney for keeping some of his private-sector wealth overseas, even though the president’s Illinois pension is also invested in Chinese companies and a fund in the Cayman Islands. “When he talks about getting tough on China, keep in mind that ...
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Sep 18, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(FREE BEACON) China’s most powerful military leader, in an unusual public statement, last week ordered military forces to prepare for combat, as Chinese warships deployed to waters near disputed islands and anti-Japan protests throughout the country turned violent. Protests against the Japanese government’s purchase of three privately held islands in the Senkakus chain led to ...
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Aug 27, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(FT) Fellow Financial Times columnist Niall Ferguson has received some fierce criticism for a piece he wrote in Newsweek, under the provocative headline: “Hit the road, Barack”. Among various complaints, critics cried foul over a graph showing that the International Monetary Fund predicts that, on current trends, China will overtake the US to have ...
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Aug 16, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(WEEKLY STANDARD) North Canton, Ohio "It's great to be here in North Canton today," Paul Ryan said as he took the stage Thursday morning at Walsh College. "Or, as Joe Biden might say, 'It's great to be here in Nevada!'" After the light-hearted dig at the vice president, who mixed up Virginia and North Carolina the ...
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Aug 14, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(AP) -- Just a few years after Chinese companies lined up to sell shares on Wall Street, a growing number are reversing course and pulling out of U.S. exchanges. This week, Focus Media Holding Ltd., announced its chairman and private equity firms want to buy back its U.S.-traded shares and take the Shanghai-based ...
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Aug 6, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(THE TELEGRAPH) The Chinese Foreign Ministry's over the weekend condemned a U.S. State Department statement that said Washington was closely monitoring territorial disputes in the South China Sea, and that China's establishment of a military garrison for the area risks "further escalating tensions in the region". The mosaic of rival territorial claims in ...
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Aug 4, 2012 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
(LAS VEGAS REVIEW) Say this about U.S. Sen. Harry Reid: He really believes in renewable energy. Reid has beat up NV Energy pretty good in recent years. In the closing days of the George W. Bush administration, Reid blocked plans to build coal-fired power plants in Nevada. He said in April on the "Nevada Newsmakers" ...
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Jul 31, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(DAILY MAIL) Watching the new ‘Mandarin Mermaid’ glide to another suspiciously easy victory yesterday - the prelude to what will doubtless be her second gold medal of these Games - my thoughts returned to the disturbing interview I conducted with another swimming sensation many years ago. Just like China’s Ye Shiwen, East German Petra Schneider ...
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Jul 31, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(THE GUARDIAN) The father of the Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen has hit back at the "biased" reaction to her record-breaking performance at the London Olympics after an American swimming coach branded her gold medal performance "suspicious". China's anti-doping chief has also spoken out to defend the 16 year old, who smashed the world record as ...
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Jul 31, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
( BIG GOVERNMENT): Well, this seems fair -- perfectly in line with Obama's socialist drive to spread the wealth. After hundreds of innocent Mexicans died as a result of the Obama Administration flooding that country with thousands guns through the cynical and politically motivated Fast and Furious program, it's only fair for the White House to ...
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May 28, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from ABC News: Counterfeit electronic parts from China are "flooding" into critical U.S. military systems, including special operations helicopters and surveillance planes, and are putting the nation's troops at risk, according to a new U.S. Senate committee report. A year-long investigation conducted by the Senate Armed Services Committee found more than one million suspected counterfeit ...
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May 13, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The BBC: China has denied reports its military forces are preparing for war amid tensions over a disputed territory in the South China Sea. The defence ministry statement comes despite warnings to the Philippines that military conflict is possible over a reef known as the Scarborough Shoal. Ships from China and the Philippines have been ...
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May 13, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Telegraph: As a dispute over South China Sea territory threatens to boil over, a reporter plants the Chinese flag on the "island" at the centre of the row as Filipinos protest in Manila. Footage aired by Chinese broadcaster Dragon TV showed Zhang Fan hoisting the flag during his report from Huangyan island as he explained the ...
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May 3, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Mitt Romney condemned the Obama administration’s handling of blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, calling the episode “a dark day for freedom” and “a day of shame” for President Obama if, he couched, reports are true that American officials communicated threats to Chen’s family. Several times on Thursday, Romney couched his comments with disclaimers ...
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Apr 12, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Disney has teamed up with China's Ministry of Culture and China's largest Internet company to help develop the nation's animation industry.
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Dec 29, 2011 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Financial Times: China has declared its intention to land an astronaut on the moon, in the first official confirmation of its aim to go where Americans last set foot nearly 40 years ago. While Chinese scientists have previously discussed the possibility of a manned lunar mission, a government white paper published on Thursday is the first public ...
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