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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: Government, Politics, Economy, Business and Finance, Jerry Brown, Railway Transportation
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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: China, Employees, Jerry Brown, Railway Transportation, Career and Workplace
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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 Il Sung, North Korea, Kim Jong Il, Tokyo (Japan), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Kerry visits China to urge action on North Korea
BEIJING — U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry arrived in Beijing on Saturday in hopes of turning the Chinese government's obvious frustration with North Korea's nuclear program into decisive action. Kerry's debut trip to East Asia as secretary...
Tags: Government, Xi Jinping, Politics, Park Geun-hye, Kim Il Sung
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Jerry Brown delays China trip to celebrate birthday at home
SAN FRANCISCO -- Dozens of Gov. Jerry Brown's friends and campaign donors along with state business officials were off to Beijing on Sunday for the beginning of a weeklong trade mission -- but the governor was not among them. Brown, who turns 75,...Tags: China, Government, Politics, Jerry Brown, Regional Authority
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Kerry: Beijing to work with U.S. to quell North Korea nuke threat
BEIJING -- After meeting with top Chinese leaders Saturday, Secretary of State John Kerry said Beijing had pledged to work with the United States to urge North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons. "There is no question in my mind that China is...
Tags: Xi Jinping, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Kim Il Sung, North Korea
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In Seoul, Kerry stresses 'possibilities of peace' for Koreas
BEIJING -- Secretary of State John F. Kerry hinted at the possibility of dialogue with North Korea on the first leg of a sprint through East Asia that has been shadowed by threats from Pyongyang. At a Friday news conference in Seoul with South Korean...
Tags: NATO, Park Geun-hye, George W. Bush, North Korea, Seoul (South Korea)
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North Korean motives, strategy remain mysteries
Contrary to the adage, what we don’t know about North Korea could hurt us. It’s not known whether the intermediate-range Musudan missiles poised for imminent firing could reach U.S. bases on Guam or Japan, though at least the latter is...
Tags: Ban Ki-moon, Barack Obama, Park Geun-hye, Kim Il Sung, U.S. Congress
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'Django Unchained' abruptly pulled from China theaters
This post has been corrected. See below for details.BEIJING -- Just a few minutes after the lights dimmed and the credits rolled, Chinese censors on Thursday yanked Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" from cinemas around the country. A Shanghai cinema company posted to its official Weibo account...Tags: Django Unchained (movie), China, Sony Corp., Kill Bill (movie)
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Chinese hail planned return of bronze heads by French billionaire
BEIJING-- The rabbit and the rat are finally coming home. Two bronze heads that were looted from Beijing’s old Summer Palace in 1860 are to be returned to China this year by a French billionaire who acquired them from Christie’s auction...
Tags: Museums, Ai Weiwei, Francois-Henri Pinault, Gucci Group NV, Animals
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'Dragon Angel' aims for organic cinematic blend of China, West
BEIJING -- Stephen Lang of “Avatar” fame has signed on to play a pivotal role in the Chinese-German co-production “The Dragon Angel,” which will be shot in Beijing and the southern Chinese province of Sichuan this year. One-name...
Tags: China, Iron Man 3 (movie), Film Festivals, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Igor (movie)
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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: Xi Jinping, United Nations, Politics, Kim Il Sung, Colleges and Universities
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