Liu Weimin News
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Steps by Taiwan to raise its profile in East Asia’s maritime-boundary disputes threaten to escalate tensions just as the region’s leaders prepare to gather for an annual summit.
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China warned nations to avoid mentioning territorial disputes with the Philippines and Vietnam at a security meeting this week, rebuffing U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s call for talks on the issue.
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The first defection of a member of President Bashar al-Assad’s inner circle highlights the growing isolation of the Alawite-dominated regime as the United Nations considers next steps to usher in a transitional government.
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The U.S. Commerce Department set duties from 13.74 percent to 26 percent on imports of wind towers from China used by the energy industry, siding with U.S. manufacturers including Broadwind Energy Inc.
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Oracle Corp.’s patent lawsuit against Google Inc. over Android software may start as early as April or as late as September, a federal judge said.
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The U.S. added seven economies to the list of nations qualifying for an exemption from financial sanctions on Iranian oil imports, penalties intended to pressure Iran’s leaders to abandon any nuclear weapons ambitions.
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On Wednesday evening, Exercise Book, a user of the Sina Weibo microblog, posted a message for his 2.5 million followers: “I’ve finally figured out where the safest place in China is…”
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International efforts to find a political solution to the violence in Syria are failing, United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan told French newspaper Le Monde.
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China is “strongly dissatisfied” over U.S. comment about the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin told a briefing today in Beijing.
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China said Chen Guangcheng can apply to study abroad, signaling the government may be seeking to resolve a crisis that flared after the legal activist fled house arrest for the American embassy.
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