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Treasury names U.S.-China point man (AP)

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:49:36 GMT | Yahoo! News

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson addresses the media at the G7 Finance Ministers Meeting in Essen, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007. The world's major developed economies are showing solid growth, G-7 finance officials said Saturday, but expressed concern about foreign exchange fluctuations, the rising power of hedge funds and energy supplies. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)AP - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is setting up a telephone hot-line connecting him directly with the vice premier of China and naming a new deputy to oversee high level talks amid agitation in congressional quarters for a tougher line with Beijing on trade issues.



China's "last cave dwellers" refuse to leave (Reuters)

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:51:58 GMT | Yahoo! News

An ethnic Miao man walks inside a huge cave at a remote Miao village in Ziyun county, southwest China's Guizhou province February 12, 2007. The village of Zhongdong, which literally means 'middle cave', is build in a huge, aircraft hanger-sized natural cave, carved out of a mountain over thousands of years by wind, water and seismic shifts. (Jason Lee/Reuters)Reuters - For Wang Fengguan, a man's cave is his castle.



Bush talks to China's Hu about N. Korea deal (Reuters)

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:34:31 GMT | Yahoo! News

North Korean nuclear envoy Kim Kye Kwan (C) and his aides clap hands after unseen Chinese envoy Wu Dawei read the details of an agreement during the closing ceremony of the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programme in Beijing, 13 February 2007.   South Korea agreed to resume high-level talks with North Korea that could restart major aid shipments despite calls for caution over an international deal on Pyongyang's nuclear programmes.(AFP/Pool/Andrew Wong)Reuters - President Bush told Chinese President Hu Jintao on Thursday that North Korea must live up to its commitments under a deal calling for Pyongyang to take steps toward nuclear disarmament.




China, Japan seek to keep rapprochement on course (Reuters)

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:35:30 GMT | Yahoo! News

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao in Berlin, September 14, 2006. Japan and China began smoothing the way for a red carpet visit by Wen during talks in Tokyo that began on Thursday, but regional rivalry and friction over their wartime past lurked in the background. (Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)Reuters - Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing expressed hope on Friday that a rapprochement in ties with Tokyo would stay on course, but also mentioned the wartime past that haunts relations.



Japan, China agree to cooperate on Korea (AP)

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:45:48 GMT | Yahoo! News

A F/A-22 Raptor. Two US air force F-22A stealth fighters have flown into the southern Japan island of Okinawa in the first overseas deployment of the aircraft, witnesses said.     The fighters touched down at the US Kadena air force base on the main Okinawan island, strategically located in the East China Sea within striking distance of China and the Korean peninsula, an AFP photographer said.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Win McNamee)AP - Japan and China will cooperate closely to ensure that North Korea follows through on its agreement to dismantle its nuclear weapons programs, Japan's prime minister said Friday.



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