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 Live Fish Dinner 
 on YouTube 
 Sparks 
 Uproar 

PETA rips cruel food video

Nov 19, 09 4:34 AM CST
(Newser) - Footage of Chinese diners tucking into a still-breathing fish has outraged animal rights groups. The video, which has attracted thousands of viewers on YouTube, shows the fish being picked apart with chopsticks as diners laugh and the fish gapes. It had been kept alive during cooking with a wet towel... More »

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China • YouTube • animal cruelty • fish • PETA • Chinese food



 Obama: 
 We Won't 
 Make Gitmo 
 Deadline 

Pres tells Fox's Major Garrett prison will close after Jan 2010

Nov 18, 09 5:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Guantanamo Bay prison won't close by the January deadline he set when he took office, President Obama admitted today, but he still hopes to shut it next year. Obama is "not disappointed" in missing the deadline, he says in a FoxNews interview airing this morning, since closing the facility... More »

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China • Barack Obama • Guantanamo Bay • Fox News • Guantanamo prisoners • Uighurs • Gitmo • guantanamo deadline • closing guantanamo • obama fox news

ANALYSIS

 Obama Tone in China 
 Reflects New Power Realities 


US needs China's help as never before

Nov 18, 09 5:20 AM CST
(Newser) - President Obama's starkly different tone in his visit to China—more congratulatory than confrontational—is less a shift in policy from his predecessors than a change in the two country's roles, write Andrew Higgins and Anne Kornblut in the Washington Post . When President Clinton visited in 1998, the US was... More »

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China • Barack Obama • diplomacy • US-China trade deficit • Hu Jintao • President Obama

 Great Wall of China 
 'Magical': Obama 

President visits landmark, heads to South Korea

Nov 18, 09 4:33 AM CST
(Newser) - Following in the footsteps of Richard Nixon and every president since then, Barack Obama today wound up his visit to China with a stop at the Great Wall, where he stoked his hosts' pride in ancient Chinese civilization by reflecting on the wall's enduring nature. "It's magical," Obama... More »

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China • Barack Obama • Richard Nixon • Great Wall of China • obama great wall • obama china

analysis

 Obama's China Visit 
 Achieves Little 

In fact, it just illustrates the 'yawning' economic differences

Nov 17, 09 4:48 PM CST
(Newser) - President Obama and Chinese leader Hu Jintao paid lip service today to the idea of stronger US-China relations, but Obama's visit has done nothing but highlight the "yawning differences" between the two nations on economic issues, writes Dexter Roberts. "Lofty statements of common interests aside, the all-important Sino-US... More »

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China • US-China trade deficit • trade deficit • yuan • Hu Jintao • President Obama

DETENTE?

 Fox News Lands 
 Obama Interview 

Prez will sit down with Garrett in Beijing

Nov 17, 09 12:57 PM CST
(Newser) - President Obama has apparently softened on Fox News and will grant the network an interview while in Beijing. “I will interview POTUS on camera,” tweets Fox’s Major Garrett. “4 other networks will too. 10 mins per. Many had asked. Can say now.” Though the White... More »

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China • White House • Beijing • Fox News • Fox • Obama administration • President Obama • Major Garrett • Obama interview

 Obama, Hu Begin 
 Bridging Divide 

Superpowers work to find common ground on nukes, climate, economy

Nov 17, 09 6:08 AM CST
(AP) - President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao emerged from intense talks today determined to marshal their combined clout on crucial issues, but still showing divisions over economic, security, and human rights issues that have long bedeviled the two powers. "The relationship between our two nations goes far beyond... More »

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China • Barack Obama • North Korea • human rights • US-China trade deficit • Hu Jintao • President Obama • Copenhagen climate change conference • Iranian nuclear program

DAVID BROOKS

 US Needs to Regain 
 Faith in the Future 

China shouldn't have monopoly on dynamism

Nov 17, 09 4:00 AM CST
(Newser) - America needs to overcome its "crisis of faith" caused by China's phenomenal growth, writes David Brooks. Today's China is optimistic, forward-looking, and dynamic in the way America once was and should hope to be again, he points out in the New York Times . Surveys show that 86% of... More »

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China • US economy • Chinese economy • optimism • David Brooks • future

 China Censors Obama Speech 

National coverage of school event cut after a few minutes

Nov 16, 09 2:41 PM CST
(Newser) - President Obama’s entreaty for greater personal freedoms in China did not reach most of nation’s residents, apparently because of a last-minute decision by censors. Though authorities initially agreed to broadcast the speech, which Obama hoped would be the central event of his China visit, all national transmission was... More »

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China • Barack Obama • censorship • Beijing • freedom of speech • control

 US Innovation 
 Stagnates: Survey  

Americans think China is winning—and China thinks we're on top

Nov 16, 09 2:08 PM CST
(Newser) - Most Americans are anxious about a future they believe will be fueled by innovation—innovation they are doubtful will come easily in this country without major changes to the education system. Nearly two-thirds of Americans say the recession has hobbled the country’s ability to innovate, and just 41% see... More »

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China • innovation • US economy • science education • survey • opinion polls • math • energy sector

 Obama: I Don't Really Do Twitter 

But the president wants the Chinese to be able to

Nov 16, 09 1:34 PM CST
(Newser) - If you’re one of Barack Obama’s 2.6 million Twitter followers, you’ve been suckered—the president says he’s never sent a tweet in his life. In a Q&A session in Shanghai, Obama was asked what he thought of China’s restriction of Twitter. “I... More »

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China • Barack Obama • social networking • Shanghai • Internet censorship • Great Firewall of China • Twitter • President Obama • Barack Obama Twitter

UPDATED

 Obama Nudges 
 China on 
 Internet Freedom 

Openness makes nations stronger, president tells students

Nov 16, 09 5:37 AM CST
(Newser) - China and the US don't have to be adversaries and can work out their differences, President Obama told students in Shanghai today. "More is gained when great powers cooperate than when they collide," Obama said. But the president also prodded for more freedoms in China, reports CNN , telling... More »

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China • Barack Obama • Asia • Beijing • Shanghai

 Obama: China No Threat to US  

President promises ties to Japan won't suffer

Nov 13, 09 8:00 PM CST
(Newser) - President Obama wrapped up his visit to Japan today with a speech in which he said the US would maintain its relationships with longtime allies in the region—like the host country—while pursuing stronger bonds with China. Indeed, Obama said, an ever-stronger China is not a threat to the... More »

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 China Snowstorms Kill 38 

Heaviest snow in decades causes chaos in northern China

Nov 13, 09 4:51 AM CST
(Newser) - The heaviest snow in northern China in at least 60 years has killed at least 38 people and caused half a billion dollars in damage. At least two deaths were caused by building collapses, according to state media. The unusually early winter storms have caused chaos in Beijing and the... More »

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Chinese Complainers Kidnapped

People routinely held
in 'black jails,' journalists beaten

Nov 12, 09 4:44 AM CST
(Newser) - Chinese citizens en route to Beijing to lodge complaints with China's central government are routinely nabbed by thugs and tossed into makeshift "black jails" where they are illegally detained for days or months, deprived of food and water, beaten and threatened—then sent back home without filing their complaints.... More »

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China • Beijing • corruption • freedom of press • Human Rights Watch • human rights violations

 China Executes 9 
 Over Uighur Riots 

Executed were convicted of murder during Xinjiang province unrest

Nov 9, 09 1:59 PM CST
(Newser) - Nine people convicted of murder and arson during July riots in China’s Xinjiang province were executed today. Chinese news services did not identify the executed, but previous statements suggest that they are Uighurs. The riots in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region, left 197 people dead as Uighurs... More »

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China • riots • ethnic conflict • ethnic violence • ethnic tensions • Han Chinese • Xinjiang • Uighurs • Chinese Muslims • Urumqi

 Web Protests Win Surprise   
 Traction in China 

Some fear official tolerance is surveillance in disguise

Nov 9, 09 9:20 AM CST
(Newser) - The usually repressive Chinese government has been surprisingly tolerant of—and even responsive to—a wave of Internet petitions protesting local injustices and corruption. Online campaigns have gotten accused killers freed, officials fired, and charges dropped against a motorist who cut off his own finger to protest police entrapment, then... More »

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China • Internet • corruption • surveillance • anonymous • online activism • freedom of speech • petition

 Taiwan Panda 
 Keepers Seek 
 Love Doc's Advice  

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, expert counsels

Nov 8, 09 2:51 PM CST
(Newser) - Ahead of breeding season in February, the Taipei Zoo is soliciting expert advice for getting its two giant pandas in the mood. A researcher dispatched from their native China found Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan—presented last year as a symbol of thawing relations between the countries—just a little... More »

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China • breeding • Taiwan • Taipei • Wolong National Nature Reserve • giant pandas • Tuan Tuan • Yuan Yuan • Taipei Zoo

China Offers Africa Billions
in Aid, Debt Forgiveness

Beijing gives back
amid flak over greed

Nov 8, 09 8:09 AM CST
(AP) - Chinese premier Wen Jiabao today pledged $10 billion in low interest loans to African nations over the next three years and said Beijing would cancel the government debts of some of the poorest of those countries. The Asian powerhouse, at the start of a two-day China-Africa summit, looked to deflect... More »

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China • Africa • foreign aid • Wen Jiabao

chinese double-bind

 No Sex Ed = 13M+ Abortions 

In China, sexual freedom not accompanied by information

Nov 5, 09 12:41 PM CST
(Newser) - The liberalization of Chinese attitudes toward sex, despite the near-absence of sex education, has led to a sort of bedroom farce that would be hilarious if it didn’t result in at least 13 million abortions a year. College students in particular feel comfortable having sex; now, if only someone... More »

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China • abortion • contraception • pregnancy • Internet • sex education • liberal • college student

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