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North Korea, China's problem child
BEIJING — In Washington, it is said, the definition of a gaffe is accidentally saying what you really think. That may be doubly true in Beijing, as Deng Yuwen can attest. Deng, an editor at the weekly newspaper run by the Central Party School,...
Tags: Kim Jong Il, Korean War (1950-1953), Political Systems, Colleges and Universities, United Nations
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North Korea poised to launch up to five missiles, South Korea says
BEIJING -- North Korea is poised to launch as many as five missiles from its east coast, South Korean intelligence officials said Thursday. But security analysts said they believed the launches would be part of a military exercise and would not pose an...
Tags: South Korea, Missile Systems, Kim Jong Un, G8, North Korea
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China pollution may hold silver lining for California
BEIJING — As Gov. Jerry Brown tours some of China's economic hubs this week, he is breathing the kind of heavy, soiled air that blanketed Los Angeles decades ago. The soot and smog that are byproducts of this country's industrial progress are...
Tags: Air Pollution, Regional Authority, Passenger Cars, University of California, Davis, Environmental Pollution
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In China, Jerry Brown forced to cope with formalities
BEIJING -- Staff entourages and scores of high-level security. Police escorts and long motorcades of dark sedans. This is not how Jerry Brown typically rolls. But those are among the governor's new realities this week as he moves from boardrooms to...
Tags: Regional Authority, China, Politics, Government, Jerry Brown
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Cimarron Group closes office in Beijing
The Hollywood entertainment marketing company the Cimarron Group has closed its office in Beijing after less than a year in operation. The development underscores the challenges American companies face when trying to do business in China, where movies...
Tags: Iron Man 3 (movie), Marketing, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Career and Workplace, China
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Brown touts $1.5-billion Chinese investment in Oakland project
BEIJING -- Gov. Jerry Brown went to the American Embassy on Wednesday to celebrate a new $1.5-billion investment from a Chinese developer in a massive new Oakland waterfront housing project. The single deal amounts to roughly the total of all Chinese...Tags: Travel, Trips and Vacations, Regional Authority, China, Politics
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China's Middle East footprint
Security in the Forbidden City across the street from the Great Hall of the People was tight last month when Li Keqiang was installed as premier of China. But the uniformed guards weren't armed with automatic weapons. Instead, they were equipped with fire...
Tags: Trade Agreements, Islam, Bashar Assad, Energy, Iran
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China quake kills at least 179
BEIJING — When their beds began to shake and the dishes clattered off the shelves, people knew what to do this time. The temblor Saturday morning in Sichuan province was a lesser replay of a killer quake that struck along the same fault line...
Tags: Xi Jinping, World Vision, U.S. Geological Survey, September 11, 2001 Attacks, China
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Brown wants China aboard California's high-speed rail project
SHANGHAI — Gov. Jerry Brown's trade mission to China this week is intersecting with one of the most controversial issues of his governorship: California's $68-billion bullet train. The governor has staked part of his legacy on the rail network,...
Tags: Finance, Shanghai (China), Regional Authority, Amtrak, U.S. Congress
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North Korea marks founder's birthday with flowers, not missiles
BEIJING -- North Korea celebrated the 101th anniversary of its founder's birth Monday with flowers and dancing instead of missiles, raising hopes that the regime may be climbing down from the furious rhetoric of recent weeks. Even the fire-breathing...
Tags: Kim Jong Il, United Nations, Kim Jong Un, Defense, North Korea
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California, China and railroads -- history pulls a switcheroo
A century and some change ago, more than a quarter of a million Chinese lived in California, most of them men and many of them veterans of the Gold Rush, and of the mining and railroad boom that followed. They were barred from owning property and from...
Tags: Travel, Career and Workplace, China, Immigration, Employees
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Kerry affirms U.S.-Japan bond as North Korean threat looms
TOKYO — Secretary of State John F. Kerry pledged a strong and continuing U.S. commitment to the defense of Japan in the final stop of an Asia tour that was dominated by North Korea's threats of an attack with nuclear weapons. Speaking before a...
Tags: Kim Jong Il, Tokyo (Japan), Culture, Kim Jong Un, Arts and Culture
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