Chinese father punished for food safety activism
Christopher Bodeed Associated Press BEIJING – A father who organized a support group for other parents whose children were sickened in one of China’s worst…
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China’s Lead Credit Rating Agency Downgrades U.S., Second Time This Year
Joshua Fellman and Ye Xie Bloomberg China’s Dagong Global Credit Rating Co. reduced its credit rating for the U.S. to A+ from AA, citing a…
China says G20 should monitor US Fed
Editor’s Note: China wants the G20 to have the authority to “monitor” the Fed. Since the Fed has battled an audit by our own Congress…
Obama returns fire after China slams Fed’s move
Dees Illustration Patricia Zengerle and Krittivas Mukherjee Reuters President Barack Obama defended the Federal Reserve’s policy of printing dollars on Monday after China and Russia…
France To Sell China Nuclear Material, Technology
Angela Doland Associated Press PARIS — France announced euro16 billion ($22.8 billion) in deals Thursday to sell uranium, technology and more than 100 Airbus planes…
G20 struggles to find common ground on currency war, triggers US push for trade caps
Finance ministers from the Group of 20 nations struggled to agree on how to prevent a currency war on Friday, with the United States switching…
China Said to Widen Embargo of Minerals
Keith Bradsher NY Times HONG KONG — China, which has been blocking shipments of crucial minerals to Japan for the last month, has now quietly…
Winning The Currency War: The Unleashing of a “Financial Nuclear War”
Dees Illustration Matthias Chang Global Research Let us be very clear about the impact of the coming massive Quantitative Easing (QEII) by the FED, the…
China rejects clean energy probe, calls US unfair
Joe McDonald Associated Press BEIJING — A senior Chinese official rejected a U.S. trade complaint about Beijing’s clean energy policy and said Sunday that Washington…
The currency war is phoney
At the US recession’s core is a collapse in investment. America should sort out its own economic policy, not attack China’s John Ross Guardian The…
Administration Launches China Trade Investigation
Martin Crutsinger Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Obama administration announced Friday it will delay a scheduled report on whether China is manipulating its currency to…
China stakes claim to S. Texas oil, gas
Monica Hatcher Houston Chronicle State-owned Chinese energy giant CNOOC is buying a multibillion-dollar stake in 600,000 acres of South Texas oil and gas fields, potentially…
Currency Wars: The Phantom Financial Menace
AgentOgden Illustration Giordano Bruno NeitherCorp Press War, almost every kind of war, is first and foremost a production. A piece of live-action theater with “good…
Finance Leaders Call for IMF Role in Averting Protectionist `Currency War’
Sandrine Rastello and Iuri Dantas Bloomberg Global governments tasked the International Monetary Fund with calming the recent outbreak of tensions over currencies amid signs they…