Premier Wen Jiabao ordered all dairy products to be checked for contamination as melamine-tainted milk powder was revealed to have caused more than 6,200 infants to fall ill, the South China Morning Post reported. A third baby was also reported to have died after drinking milk made from the contaminated powder. Health Minister Chen Zhu […]
Category: Politics & Society
I was in a bar with a friend last week and we got talking to a stock trader, recently arrived from the US. He was one of many casualties from the Bear Stearns meltdown and had decided to look for a job in Asia. The premise seems logical enough: If funds are flowing into Asia […]
The US and China held cabinet-level trade talks in California yesterday amid tensions over China’s export surplus, a WTO auto parts dispute and deteriorating global financial markets, AFP reported. US Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez and US Trade Representative Susan Schwab hosted Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan at the Richard Nixon presidential library in Yorba […]
China said UN-imposed sanctions would not be effective in dealing with Iran over its nuclear program, AFP reported. "I don’t think sanctions are the way out. The ultimate solution of the Iranian nuclear issue is through negotiations and dialogue," foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters in Beijing yesterday. Jiang’s comments came one day after […]
Security, economics and the environment were the key topics for US presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama as they offered insights into how US-China relations would be managed under their respective administrations, Reuters reported. The candidates laid out their views in position papers published on Monday by the American Chamber of Commerce in China. […]