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Clinton set to smooth Obama’s visit to China
The US secretary of state is on course to raise $61m needed to build a pavilion in next year’s Shanghai Expo and clears a main foreign policy obstacle ahead of the president’s state visit
Analysis: Burning ambition
Energy: As China’s state oil companies seek ever bigger foreign deals, fears are growing at the extent of the sway it holds in the developing world – but the reality is rather more complex
China general sees military space race
Air force chief calls military competition in space ‘inevitable’, a departure from Beijing’s past insistence that it is not pursuing space programmes for military purposes
Global Insight: Beijing has played climate cards beautifully
In the frantic round of talks ahead of Copenhagen, Beijing’s negotiators can take comfort from the fact that the real pressure on climate change is being felt in other capitals
Guantánamo Uighurs sent to Palau
The Obama administration has sent six Uighur Chinese detainees from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay to the Pacific island nation of Palau
India warned on potential threat from China
Chinese claims to the north-eastern India state of Arunachal Pradesh could add a new territorial threat to the one India already faces from Pakistan, said New Delhi’s former national security adviser
China to investigate US car subsidies
Beijing is preparing to launch a trade probe into whether US carmakers are being unfairly subsidised, a move that comes at a time of heightened trade tensions between the two countries
US envoy rules out climate deal with Beijing
China and the US will not sign a landmark agreement on climate change policies when Barack Obama visits Beijing next month, the US president’s climate change envoy said, in spite of high hopes this year among US officials
Bridge builders seek to calm Sino-US waters
An influential retired Chinese general has warned that Sino-US military ties are failing to keep pace with the two nations’ rapidly evolving economic and political relationship
China’s appetite boosts South Africa
China, the fifth-largest export market for South Africa a year ago is now the most important destination for the country’s goods. Its emergence as South Africa’s number one export market coincides with signs of growing Chinese investment interest
