Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping hailed earthquake relief efforts in Sichuan as a "great success" and said Beijing would be ready for to host the Olympics in spite of the disaster, the Wall Street Journal reported. Xi, who is widely tipped to succeed Hu Jintao as president in 2012, made the remarks at an Asia […]
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A senior Chinese banking regulator said Western governments must improve their oversight of financial markets and improve cross-border regulatory cooperation in order to stave off future global financial crises. In an interview with the Financial Times, Liao Min, director-general and acting head of the general office of the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), said Western […]
Taiwan’s Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman, Wu Poh-hsiung, arrived in Nanjing on Monday for the start of the highest-level contact between Taiwan and the mainland in 60 years, AFP reported. As head of a 16-member KMT delegation, Wu is scheduled to meet with President Hu Jintao in Beijing on Wednesday. A key issue for discussion is […]
The Dalai Lama fears losing the support of his followers in Tibet because of Beijing’s refusal to negotiate with him over the future of the territory. Speaking to the Financial Times, the Dalai Lama said Tibetans have recently showed "clear signs of frustration" with the lack of progress he has made in talks with the […]
China said on Thursday that it was preparing for the first direct talks with Taiwan in over a decade, AFP reported. In Beijing’s first official reaction to the inauguration of new Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, the head of the Communist Party Central Committee’s Taiwan Work Office, Chen Yunlin said, "Currently, good developing momentum is emerging […]