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Analysis: The people’s police
Competition: Amid a spate of rulings that affect foreign business, it is becoming clear that China’s new monopoly laws will have an impact well beyond its borders
China sets targets for 2020 carbon cuts
China made an important commitment to restraining the rise in its greenhouse gas emissions, announcing that it had set a target for reducing its carbon intensity by 40-45 per cent by 2020
Analysis: A high-wire act
Climate change: As a result of its pledges on energy use, China no longer risks pariah status at Copenhagen – but ever bigger snags will hinder the roll-out of its plans, write Geoff Dyer and Fiona Harvey
Hong Kong outlines plan for poll reform
A majority of Hong Kong’s legislators will be popularly elected for the first time in its history under proposed electoral reforms that could lead to universal suffrage in 2017. Pro-democracy groups have said the measures do not go far enough
Chinese court rules against Microsoft
A Chinese court has ruled that Microsoft infringed a Chinese software maker’s intellectual property rights in a surprise decision that has renewed
worries among foreign patent experts about China’s management of IPR disputes
China says Fed policy threatens global recovery
The US is fuelling ‘speculative investments’ and endangering recovery through loose monetary policy, Beijing warned ahead of President Barack Obama’s arrival
Opinion: Beijing seeks a head start in the race to go green
A low-carbon road map proposed for inclusion in China’s 12th five-year plan (2011-2015) has been developed by a task force of Chinese and international experts, writes its co-chair Gordon Conway
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 settles monopoly test cases
Two pioneering legal actions involving high-profile companies have been settled, with one case highlighting the fresh powers of consumers under new anti-monopoly laws
Public backing for deep China emission cuts
Public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic is firmly in favour of China taking on the lion’s share of cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and lukewarm on providing funds to the developing world to adapt to climate change
