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A Muddy 6-Square-Mile Piece Of Chinese Land Has People Wondering If Hong Kong...
Just about an hour’s drive northwest of Hong Kong, in a corner of the bustling Chinese city of Shenzen, there’s a roughly 6-square-mile piece of muddy reclaimed land known as Qianhai that has morphed...
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Enforcing Its New 'Air Defense' Zone Will Stretch China's Air Force And Navy
HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - China's military could struggle to cope with the demands for intensified surveillance and interception if it tries to enforce the rules in its new air defense zone over...
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China's One-Child Policy May Be Harder To Reverse Than First Thought
By promising to relax its “one child policy” the Chinese government has sounded the death knell for one of its most unpopular edicts, demographers here and abroad agree.“This marks the beginning of the...
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HAGEL: America Will Help Japan Defend Those Tiny Islands
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States pledged support for ally Japan on Wednesday in a growing dispute with China over islands in the East China Sea as senior U.S. administration officials said...
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8 Charts That Explain What's Really Happening With Chinese Demographics
China announced that it would loosen its decades old one-child policy at the third plenum. Couples will be allowed to have more than one child if at least one of them is an only child.Not only did the...
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CHINESE OFFICIAL: Our Censorship Has Finally 'Cleaned' Up The Internet
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's campaign against online rumors, which critics say is crushing free speech, has been highly successful in "cleaning" the Internet, a top official of the country's internet...
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China Raises Stakes Near New 'Air Defense Zone' With Fighter Jet Patrol
BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China sent several fighter jets and an early warning aircraft into its new air defense zone over the East China Sea, state news agency Xinhua said on Friday, raising the...
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Here's Why People Are Calling Chinese President Xi Jingping A Mao-Style...
Chinese president Xi Jinping has been compared with the ruthless chairman Mao Zedong.His moves to consolidate power and his ideology have both come under scrutiny.The crackdown on corruption and Xi's...
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Ambitious Mexican Drug Cartels Have Started Exporting Iron Ore To China
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican drug cartels looking to diversify their businesses long ago moved into oil theft, pirated goods, extortion and kidnapping, consuming an ever larger swath of the country's...
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China Scrambles Jets After US And Japan Fly Over Contested Islands
BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China scrambled jets on Friday in response to two U.S. spy planes and 10 Japanese aircraft, including F-15 fighters, entering its new air defense zone over the East China...
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China And India Are Treading Delicately Over Disputed Land Between The Two...
NEW DELHI/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China on Saturday urged India not to aggravate problems on the border shared by the two nations, a day after the Indian president toured a disputed region and called it...
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Chinese Manufacturing Slightly Beats Expectations
China's official manufacturing index for November slightly beat explanation.The PMI reading came in at 51.4, slightly ahead of the 51.1 that was expected.Last month was 51.4 as well.This year, as in...
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India's Mars Mission Enters Second Stage, Outpaces Space Rival China
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's first mission to Mars left Earth's orbit early on Sunday, clearing a critical hurdle in its journey to the red planet and overtaking the efforts in space of rival Asian...
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China Launches Its First Rover To The Moon
China's first-ever mission to land a rover on the moon has begun its journey to the lunar frontier.Riding atop a modified Long March 3B rocket, China's Chang'e 3 moon lander and its rover Yutu toward...
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The Freeze On Chinese IPOs Is About To Thaw
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's securities regulator could streamline its approvals process for some initial public offerings (IPO) by next January, the regulator said on Saturday, mapping out reform...
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MORGAN STANLEY: Five Big Things Need To Happen For The Global Economy To Boom
Morgan Stanley's Global Economics research team has a fascinating new note out looking ahead at 2014 titled Five Key Transitions.In it, they identify five big themes that characterize what the regions...
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China Punishes 20,000 Politicians For Being Too Bureaucratic
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has punished almost 20,000 officials in the last year for breaching rules to cut down on bureaucracy as well as pomp and ceremony, the government said on Monday.President Xi...
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U.S. Sends New Submarine-Hunting Jets To Japan Amid East Asia Tension
TOKYO (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy's first advanced P-8 Poseidon patrol aircraft has arrived in Japan, the start of a deployment that will upgrade America's ability to hunt submarines and other vessels in...
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Here's What A $588,000 Root Looks Like
Take a look at the photo above. I took it at a "pharmacy" in a tourist-y district of Beijing, near Tiananmen Square.It's a photo of a box inside a glass display counter. In the box, there's a massive...
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In One Paragraph, Here's Everything That Happened In Asia This Weekend
There was a decent amount of news and data out of Asia this weekend.Morgan Stanley's Hans Redeker wraps it up in one concise paragraph:Asian data mix. Stronger-than-expected Chinese PMI data (51.4)...
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