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/ 25 February 2012
Brazil plans to impose strict quality control on imports from China and other Asian nations to prevent the influx of cheap goods.
Zimbabwe and China on Monday signed a raft of agreements worth $585-million aimed at reviving the southern African country.
Unscheduled talks seen as a bid to address US concerns.
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/ 11 February 2009
The G7 meet in Rome this week to kick off a run of high-profile meetings among leaders wrestling to get recession-hit economies back on their feet.
China urged the United States to understand the true nature of the Dalai Lama clique — which it blames for stirring up last month’s violence in Tibet — and support China’s ”just position”, state media said on Thursday. China blames Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, whom it labels a separatist, for stirring up the Lhasa violence.
China’s Parliament re-elected Wen Jiabao as premier on Sunday, but a next-generation leader was passed over for promotion to a top military job. The rubber-stamp National People’s Congress gave Wen, ranked third in the Communist Party hierarchy, a second five-year mandate with 2 926 votes for, 21 against and 12 abstentions.