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/ 12 January 2010
North Korea will not return to nuclear disarmament negotiations unless the United States agrees to peace treaty talks and lifts sanctions.
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/ 26 November 2009
China unveiled its first firm target to curb greenhouse gas emissions on Thursday, a goal that Premier Wen Jiabao will take to climate talks.
China pledged to strengthen bonds with isolated North Korea on Monday, calling their relationship a boon to peace.
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/ 12 September 2009
China lashed a US decision to impose duties on Chinese-made tyres, calling them flagrant protectionism.
Refugees who fled to China from armed clashes in north-east Burma began going back on Monday, overcoming worries about safety.
Chinese prosecutors have formally arrested four employees of Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto on suspicion of obtaining commercial secrets.
Police fanned out in the far-flung Chinese city of Urumqi on Wednesday to try to stifle unrest days after 156 people were killed in ethnic violence.
Hundreds of Uighur clashed with police in the capital of China’s Muslim region of Xinjiang on Tuesday, two days after ethnic unrest left 156 dead.
China said a riot that shook Xinjiang on Sunday killed 140 people and the government called the ethnic unrest a plot against its power.
China’s ambitions to strengthen control of the internet with filtering software became a show of the limits of its power on Wednesday.