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Xiang Xi, Editor At Chinese Newspaper, Demoted After Obama Interview Over Communist Party Censors' Anger, Source Claims

Reuters | Chris Buckley | Posted 12.13.2009 | World

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BEIJING (Reuters) -- The top editor of a Chinese newspaper that interviewed U.S. President Barack Obama has been demoted, sources said, in a move they...

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Why Twitter is the Most Popular Word of 2009

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 11.30.2009 | Technology

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Jose Antonio Vargas

Of course Twitter is the most popular English word of 2009. In a world made smaller by the Internet and new technologies, Twitter forces us to become each other's witnesses, one tweet at a time.

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Dalai Lama: Obama Not Soft On China

AP | Posted 11.22.2009 | World

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NEW DELHI — The Dalai Lama defended President Barack Obama from criticism that he has been too soft on China, saying Sunday that the U.S. leader...

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"Oba-Mao", What Do We Do Now?

Beth Nonte Russell | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

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Beth Nonte Russell

Just before Christmas in 1999, I got off a flight from Hong Kong to San Francisco with a frail, 13-month-old baby girl in my arms. The future for her, I felt sure, would be far different now that she was in America.

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Obama's Asia Trip: Too Focused On Common Ground?

TIME | Michael Scherer | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

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Let it be known without apology: Barack Obama is not above the bow. He dipped his head all through Asia -- greeting Japan's Emperor with a deep bend a...

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Making Young People Our Ambassadors

Julian Baird Gewirtz | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

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Julian Baird Gewirtz

We may not have the full knowledge, experience and wisdom of our elders, but we have ideas to contribute in the search for common ground -- and the policy issues facing our two countries address the world that we young people are about to inherit.

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Obama's China Trip Ends; Currency, Trade Issues Unresolved

guardian.co.uk | Tania Branigan | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

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Speaking before his meeting today with the Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, he told reporters that the American relationship with China was deepening beyo...

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Mark Ndesandjo: Obama Says He Met With Half Brother While In China

AP | TINI TRAN | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

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BEIJING — President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he met briefly with a half brother who lives in China and who recently wrote a semi-autobio...

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Obama and Hu Jintao Talk Climate Change: "We Must Rally The World" For Climate Deal In Copenhagen

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN and ARTHUR MAX | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green

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BEIJING — President Barack Obama, with China's leader at his side, lifted his sights Tuesday for a broad interim accord at next month's climate ...

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China Pushes Back On Obama

New York Times | HELENE COOPER and EDWARD WONG | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

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President Obama made a big effort Tuesday at presenting his first visit to China as a step forward in America's evolving relationship with its fastest...

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Navigating China: Ten Months On, and a Lot to Show for It

Steve Orlins | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

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Steve Orlins

I continue to be optimistic that close, frequent contact between American and Chinese leaders will add muscle to the kinds of cooperative agreements that are necessary to tackle major shared issues of the day.

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Obama Tours Forbidden City (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.17.2009 | World

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(AP) BEIJING � Playing tourist on his first visit ever to China, President Barack Obama drew a chilly comparison between the Chinese capital and his...

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U.S. Must Solve Its Own Economic Problems

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

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Mark Weisbrot

Deficit hawks and other fear-mongers in the U.S. have used the Chinese accumulation of U.S. debt as another weapon to try and persuade people that we must sacrifice growth and employment during a deep recession.

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Obama's China Town Hall: Handshakes And Vetted Questions

TIME | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

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It was a Town Hall, but this time Barack Obama was not in Iowa or New Hampshire. There were no hay bales, no bunting, and no activists with questions ...

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Obama China Town Hall (VIDEO): Tells Students That Uncensored Society Is Healthy

Posted 11.17.2009 | World

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(AP) BEIJING President Barack Obama sat down with the Chinese leader Monday night, hours after he pointedly nudged his host country to stop censoring ...

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Twitter: Obama Admits He's Never Tweeted, Fingers 'Too Clumsy'

Posted 11.16.2009 | Technology

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At a town hall event during Obama's trip to China, the web-savvy President admitted to a group of Chinese youth in Shanghai that he's never used Twitt...

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Carbon Management: A Call to Action for the U.S. and China

Scott Daniels | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green

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Scott Daniels

As President Obama prepares to set foot on Chinese soil for the first time today, the United States and China, the globe's leading greenhouse gas producers, are engaged in a classic standoff.

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Obama's Trip to China: a New Interest in Clean Energy and a New Spirit of Cooperation

Frances Beinecke | Posted 11.13.2009 | Green

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With a kind of focus that would have been unthinkable during the Bush administration, President Obama has directed federal agencies and urged Congress to take real action on climate change.

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Shame! Shame! China Shame!

Kenneth Kales | Posted 11.12.2009 | Books

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Kenneth Kales

Why are we as a nation giving a free pass to Mr. Obama on his avoidance to confront human rights atrocities in China? I am baffled sometimes when I see in the media those stories gushing about how great China is.

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Tripping in China: Barack Obama's Challenge

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

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Robert L. Borosage

For Obama's trip to Asia, the White House paints a full agenda -- Afghanistan, human rights, North Korean nukes, climate change, trade relations, and the economy. But it's really just the economy, stupid.

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China Hacks U.S. Networks, Proves Aggressive Cyberspace Foe

washingtonpost.com | Ellen Nakashima and John Pomfret | Posted 11.12.2009 | Technology

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China is significantly boosting its capabilities in cyberspace as a way to gather intelligence and, in the event of war, hit the U.S. government in a ...

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Obama's Asia Trip: Day-To-Day Highlights

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

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A day-by-day look at President Barack Obama's weeklong trip to Asia: Thursday, Nov. 12:...

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Obama Travels To More Countries In First Year Than Any Other U.S. President

McClatchy | Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON -- With his visit to Denmark to pitch Chicago as the site for the 2016 summer Olympics, President Barack Obama has now visited more countri...

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Will The U.S. and China Ever See Eye-To-Eye?

Julie Farby | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

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Julie Farby

To show the world we're not going to risk relations with our favorite creditor on account of a couple of crushed Uighurs, Obama dropped the whole human rights spiel in favor of sports!

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The Debtor's Dance: the U.S.-China Exchange

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

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Robert L. Borosage

The U.S., the world's largest debtor, met this week with the confident leaders of its largest creditor, the communist government of China. President Obama, exercising his remarkable gift for presenting a sea change as a gentle current, laid out the fundamental challenge almost in passing: The U.S. cannot go back to the old economy where we borrowed $2 billion a day, largely from the Chinese, to be the consumer of the world by living far beyond our means. We must consume less, produce more, sell more abroad and balance our trade.

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