Mar 05
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China rhetoric raises threat concerns
By Bill Gertz
Friday, March 5, 2010
Recent statements by Chinese military officials are raising concerns among U.S. analysts that the communist government in Beijing is shifting its oft-stated “peaceful rise” policy toward an aggressive, anti-U.S. posture.
The most recent sign appeared with the publication of a government-approved book by Senior Col. Liu Mingfu that urges China to “sprint” toward becoming the world’s most powerful state.
Mar 05
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China May Have to Accept Higher Iron Ore Prices, Angang Says
March 05, 2010, 7:07 AM EST
March 5 (Bloomberg) — Steelmakers in China, the world’s biggest buyer of iron ore, may have to accept a price increase higher than the 20 percent they expected for this year, Angang Steel Co. said.
“The price talks aren’t optimistic,” Chairman Zhang Xiaogang said in Beijing today while attending the National People’s Congress. Angang Steel is China’s biggest Hong Kong- listed steelmaker.
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Mar 05
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China Premier Details Economic Plan
By MICHAEL WINES
Published: March 5, 2010
BEIJING — Prime Minister Wen Jiabao crafted a portrait of a China on a steady course toward greatness on Friday, telling his nation’s unelected legislature that the government could expand social spending, increase lending, pour money into strategic industries and still meet its traditional 8 percent economic growth target in 2010.
But he also sounded a cautionary note, warning that the nation faced structural economic and social problems, and that China still confronts “a very complex situation” in the wake of last year’s global financial collapse.
Mar 05
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Even if Google Uncensors Its Chinese Search, Microsoft has no Plans to Follow
Talks between Google and the Chinese government quietly continue
Censorship is the name of the game in China’s media market. If you aren’t willing to filter out content the government finds unacceptable, you aren’t allowed to do business with the nation’s over 1 billion people. For most companies, that’s too tempting a target to miss. Blind compliance has been a typical precedent in the past.
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Mar 05
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Brutal DEA agent murder reminder of agency priority
Budget still put on back burner
By Jerry Seper
Friday, March 5, 2010
Twenty-five years ago today, the brutally beaten body of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Enrique S. “Kiki” Camarena was discovered wrapped in plastic bags and dumped along a road near a ranch 60 miles southwest of Guadalajara, Mexico – a death that continues to echo even now throughout the agency.
The veteran agent, along with his pilot, Capt. Alfredo Zavala Avelar, had been viciously tortured by the bosses of a Mexican drug cartel fearful that he had uncovered a multimillion-dollar smuggling operation tied to top officers in the Mexican army, along with Mexican police and government officials.
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