China has invented its answer to the Nobel Peace Prize, the "Confucius Peace Prize" and will bestow it a day before the Nobel.
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/ 19 September 2010
China suspended high-level exchanges with Japan on Sunday and promised countermeasures after a court extended the detention of a Chinese captain.
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/ 13 September 2010
Japan on Monday freed the crew of a Chinese fishing boat held in disputed waters, but held on to the captain at the centre of a territorial rift.
A passenger plane overshot a runway while landing at a new airport in north-east China late on Tuesday, bursting into flames and killing 42 people.
South African President Jacob Zuma, struggling with sluggish growth and worker discontent at home, seeks to boost trade on Monday on a trip to China.
Outward normality has returned to Lhasa. But, more than two years after ethnic violence erupted there, residents still talk of fear and suspicion.
The Xinhua news agency launched a new broadside against Google on Monday, saying that the company had reneged on promises to abide by Chinese law.
With speculation that Google will soon announce the closure of its China-based internet portal, the reaction from some has been hurry up and leave.
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/ 2 February 2010
Chinese state media blasted the United States on Monday for a planned $6,4-billion arms package for Taiwan.
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/ 30 January 2010
China threatened to impose sanctions on US arms firms and cut cooperation with Washington unless it cancels a $6,4-billion arms sale to Taiwan.