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(David Gray / AFP/Getty Images / November 18, 2009) November 19, 2009 Reporting from Washington and Beijing - As President Obama's trip to Beijing proved, the days when U.S. leaders could jawbone China into making major changes in...

In this article: Barack Obama, China, United States, Asia, Nationalism, Tax, Wen Jiabao, and International Monetary Fund

China resident 'over the moon' after rare, emotional gathering Beijing -- President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he met briefly with a half brother who lives in China and who recently wrote a semi-autobiographical novel about the...

In this article: Barack Obama Sr., Barack Obama, China, White House, Asia, Stanley Ann Dunham, and Kansas

That can make for awkward, even humiliating, body language. But whether on the renminbi or on Tibet, Beijing will sign up only to change it can believe in. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. You may share using our article...

In this article: Barack Obama, China, Richard Nixon, US, Mao Zedong, Taiwan, Asia, Tibet, and Cadre

...Afghanistan as the top general there has asked. After six days on the road, a handful of reporters finally gained access to Obama in Beijing Wednesday morning and asked him about the still-looming announcement. "I will announce that...

In this article: Barack Obama, Afghanistan, United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Washington, Taliban, Hamid Karzai, and Robert Gibbs

...key quotes by U.S. President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, President Hu Jintao, from their joint statement to the media in Beijing on Tuesday. ECONOMY HU JINTAO: "We reiterated that we will continue to increase dialogue...

In this article: Barack Obama, Hu Jintao, Iran, Coal, Climate change, Dalai Lama, and United States

...that reverted to Chinese rule in 1997 with the guarantee of a high degree of autonomy, is the most politically liberal city in China. While Beijing has promised to grant universal suffrage in 2017, the city's pro-democracy political...

In this article: Hong Kong, Democracy, Donald Tsang, China, Alan Leong, Chris Patten, and London

President Obama started his Wednesday in Beijing, on what was Tuesday night in Washington, by sitting down with reporters from CBS, CNN, Fox and NBC. He also met with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao. In the evening, he...

In this article: Barack Obama, Seoul, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Michelle Obama, White House, Jill Biden, Eric H. Holder Jr., Wen Jiabao, and Labor Department

"I look forward to having an in-depth relationship," Hu told Obama at the start of their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, following a formal welcome ceremony complete with a military honour guard and brass band. "We...

In this article: Barack Obama, Hu Jintao, United States, Washington, China, Gary Locke, Shanghai, and Climate change

Obama, Hu open key talks in Beijing AFP - A worker hoists an US flag on Tiananmen Square, ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama in Beijing. … by Stephen Collinson Stephen Collinson - 22 mins ago BEIJING (AFP) - US President...

In this article: Barack Obama, Hu Jintao, United States, China, Washington, Gary Locke, Agence France Presse, and Shanghai

...today's standard indie-rock outfit -- Chuck Taylors, ripped jeans, tattoos, perfectly disheveled hair. But the scene isn't Brooklyn. It's Beijing, where a nascent underground rock scene is starting to make an impact on the Chinese capital...

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