Louise Watt

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In this photo taken Monday Dec. 10, 2012, earth moving vehicles are seen in Baidaoping area in Lanzhou in northwest China's Gansu province. China's campaign to shave off mountaintops and fill in valleys to make way for cities may come at too high a price in the pollution, erosion and flooding unleashed by the unprecedented redistribution of earth, Chinese researchers warned Thursday June 5, 2014. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

Warning on bulldozing hills for Chinese cities

Louise Watt · June 5, 2014 1:47 am

In this photo taken on Tuesday, May 27, 2014, Chinese residents and officials attend a public sentencing of 55 people dressed in orange vests in a stadium in Yili, in northern Xinjiang province of northwest China. In the stadium filled with 7,000 people, a Chinese court announced guilty verdicts for 55 people on charges of terrorism, separatism and murder as the government tries to display its determination to combat unrest in the troubled northwest region. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

China holds public rally to punish 55 in northwest

Louise Watt · May 29, 2014 4:59 am

Chinese people use their smartphone on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China Wednesday, May 28, 2014. China is targeting popular smartphone-based instant messaging services in a month-long campaign to crack down on the spreading of rumors and what it calls "hostile forces at home and abroad," the latest move to restrict online freedom of expression. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China cracks down on instant messaging services

Louise Watt · May 28, 2014 5:40 am

FILE - In this May 23, 2014 file photo, paramilitary policemen with shields and batons patrol near the People's Square in Urumqi, China's northwestern region of Xinjiang. So far this month, police in China's restive western region of Xinjiang have broken up 23 terror and religious extremism groups and caught over 200 suspects, state media reported Monday, May 26. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China: 23 terror, extremist groups busted in May

Louise Watt · May 26, 2014 4:18 am

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a press briefing at the end of the fourth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit in Shanghai, China Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Xi called for the creation of a new Asian structure for security cooperation based on a regional group that includes Russia and Iran and excludes the United States. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China treads carefully as it pursues influence

Louise Watt · May 22, 2014 12:34 pm

China’s Comac set to deliver first passenger jets

China’s Comac set to deliver first passenger jets

Louise Watt · May 21, 2014 6:03 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before the opening ceremony at the Expo Center at the fourth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit in Shanghai Wednesday, May 21, 2014. China's president has called for creation of a new Asian structure for security cooperation based on a regional group that includes Russia and Iran and excludes the United States. (AP Photo/Mark Ralston, Pool)

China calls for new Asian security structure

Louise Watt · May 21, 2014 4:40 am

Russia's President Vladimir Putin, right, and China's President Xi Jinping review an honor guard during a welcome ceremony at the Xijiao State Guesthouse ahead of the fourth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit, in Shanghai, China, Tuesday, May 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Carlos Barria, Pool)

China gives Putin a diplomatic boost

Louise Watt · May 20, 2014 10:11 am

In this Monday, Nov. 15, 2010 photo, PetroChina workers perform their routine check on the Moxi Natural Gas Purification Plant in Suining in southwest China's Sichuan province. The presidents of China and Russia are expected to sign a natural gas deal years in the making next week that would come at a sensitive time as the West is trying to isolate Russia for its annexation of Crimea. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

China, Russia on verge of gas deal

Louise Watt · May 16, 2014 7:03 am

Yi Xianliang, deputy director-general of Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs, stands up, in front of a map showing a disputed zone in South China Sea, to leave a press conference in Beijing, China, Thursday, May 8, 2014. Chinese and Vietnamese ships were locked in a tense standoff Thursday in disputed waters where Beijing is trying to set up an oil rig, a Vietnamese commander said, as the United States urged both sides to de-escalate tensions in the most serious incident in the South China Sea in years. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

China insists it has right to put rig off Vietnam

Louise Watt · May 8, 2014 1:47 pm

Activists urge China to end sex worker detentions

Activists urge China to end sex worker detentions

Louise Watt · May 5, 2014 10:26 am

An online streaming website shows a description of American TV show "The Big Bang Theory" but it no longer have access to episodes in the series on a computer screen in Beijing Sunday, April 27, 2014. Chinese authorities have ordered video streaming websites in the country to stop showing four popular American TV shows, including "The Big Bang Theory" and "The Good Wife," representatives from two sites said Sunday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China video site: US TV show ban not policy change

Louise Watt · April 28, 2014 12:38 pm