Amid tensions over trade, Tibet and climate change, US President Barack Obama insisted the US was not trying to contain China's economic rise while addressing students at a town-hall style meeting in Shanghai.
Asia-Pacific leaders including US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao vowed on Sunday to reject trade protectionism and to pursue a new model for economic growth after the world's most severe economic crisis in decades.
Chinese Web censors have blocked sites with information about a bribery investigation into a company linked to Hu Haifeng, the sun of President Hu Jintao.
Chinese troops poured into the capital of Xinjiang region, restoring a semblance of normality after days of deadly ethnic clashes. President Hu Jintao has cut short his trip to the G8 summit in Italy due to the unrest.
The violent clashes that have erupted between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese in China’s northwest Xinjiang region have shed new light on a deep ethnic divide that the Chinese government is eager to keep in check.
Chinese President Hu Jintao (centre) has cut short his trip to Italy and will miss this week’s G8 summit due to the violent unrest in China’s north-western Xinjiang region, where troops have poured into the riot-stricken capital of Urumqi.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy will invite his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao to France, a top offical in Paris has announced. The two nations vowed to put a bitter row over the Dalai Lama behind them at a G20 meeting three weeks ago.
On the sidelines of the G20 summit in London on Thursday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao held talks to clear the air about Tibet, to enable a new, more cooperative, phase in Franco-Chinese ties.
US President Barack Obama and Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao have agreed to "strengthen ties at all levels" ranging from the economy to fighting terrorism. Obama also accepted "with pleasure" an invitation to go to China later this year.
