With greenhouse gas emissions hitting record levels and passing climate scientist's worst predictions, a new group of Chinese activists, traditionally silenced by an authoritarian government, is making its voice heard at the United Nations climate talks, the COP17, which began this week in Durban, South Africa.
China is...
Posted April 4, 2011 | 14:50:42 (EST)
Posted March 15, 2011 | 15:03:24 (EST)
Days before the opening of the meeting of China's top decision-making government bodies last week in Beijing - the annual convening of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Congress - Prime Minister Wen Jiabao called for a cap on China's growth rate at 7%,...
Posted February 14, 2011 | 14:30:35 (EST)
As China bids farewell to the Year of the Tiger and rings in the Year of the Rabbit this month many Americans are wondering: Is China eclipsing the US and taking over as the world's new superpower? In last year's midterm election 29 candidates from both parties were
Posted January 30, 2011 | 21:12:36 (EST)
The most concrete goods delivered by last week's bilateral state summit between President Obama and China's President Hu Jintao came not from heads of state but from CEOs, as US and China-based businesses signed a deal through which China agreed to buy $45 billion worth of American exports.
President Obama...
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