Tag: China

A Filipino vendor uses candles to illuminate bananas during a power outage a day after strong winds from Typhoon Rammasun damaged power supplies, in suburban Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines, Thursday July 17, 2014. Parts of the capital and some provinces remain without power after Typhoon Rammasun barreled through northern Philippines leaving dozens of people dead and forcing more than half a million people to flee its lethal wind and rains, officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Powerful typhoon hits southern Chinese island

Washington Examiner · July 18, 2014 10:25 am

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, right, and China's President Xi Jinping watch a ceremony before their meeting at the Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, July 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

China, Russia leaders seek South American inroads

Joshua Goodman · July 18, 2014 4:01 am

Cybersecurity as Arms Control?

Cybersecurity as Arms Control?

Ken Jensen · July 17, 2014 6:55 pm

Iraqi civilians gather the morning after a car bombing that killed many people and wounded tens of others in a crowded outdoor market in the Shiite neighborhood known as Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Beltway Confidential

5 places where Obama hasn’t improved the ‘tranquility of the global community’

Blake Seitz · July 17, 2014 10:00 am

Oil price rises on inventory draw, China growth

Oil price rises on inventory draw, China growth

The Associated Press · July 16, 2014 8:41 pm

FILE - In this May 7, 2012 file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Haiyang Shiyou oil rig 981, the first deep-water drilling rig developed in China, is pictured at 320 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Hong Kong in the South China Sea. China on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 moved an oil rig that it had deployed in a section of the South China Sea, triggering a dispute with Vietnam. Beijing deployed the massive rig in early May close to the Paracel Islands, triggering a furious reaction in Hanoi and the most serious uptick in tensions in the waters in years. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Jin Liangkuai, File) NO SALES

Energy and Environment

China moves oil rig out of waters Vietnam claims

Chris Brummitt · July 16, 2014 7:49 pm

A Chinese man smokes inside his tricycle as he waits for customer outside a shopping mall in Beijing, China Wednesday, July 16, 2014. China's economic growth edged up in the latest quarter and more than 7 million new jobs were created in the first half of the year, easing pressure on communist leaders as they try to prevent a precipitous slowdown in the world's second-largest economy. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China growth pickup reassuring but no game changer

The Associated Press · July 16, 2014 10:04 am

A Chinese government propaganda billboard showing the slogan which reads "China Strong, China Forward!", is displayed near the building of China Central Television (CCTV) headquarters in Beijing, China Tuesday, July 15, 2014. For months, Chinese state television has publicized a steady drumbeat of accusations of bribery and other abuses by a string of officials. Now, the national broadcaster faces allegations of graft in its own ranks. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China’s state TV targeted in anti-corruption drive

Didi Tang · July 16, 2014 3:27 am

In this Tuesday, July 15, 2014 photo released by Bobfu, imprisoned Chinese pastor Zhang Shaojie's daughter Zhang Huixin, second from left, her husband Sun Zhulei, left, and their daughter Sun Jiexi take photo with church members after they arrived at the Midland International Airport in Midland, Texas. Three members of an imprisoned pastor's family have sneaked out of China to the U.S. with the help of activists after complaining about an extended campaign of harassment by Chinese authorities, a Christian rights group said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Bobfu)

Jailed Chinese pastor’s family escapes to US

Louise Watt · July 16, 2014 3:18 am

Pro-democracy lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung, wearing a red T-shirt in center, is stopped by security guards as he throws a plastic hammer towards Hong Kong Chief Secretary Carrie Lam, third from right, during a meeting on proposing electoral reforms at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong Tuesday, July 15, 2014. The chief executive has submitted a report to the National People's Congress Standing Committee on political reform, saying that the majority of Hong Kong people are eager to have universal suffrage in the chief executive election in 2017. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Hong Kong asks Beijing for greater democracy

Washington Examiner · July 15, 2014 10:44 am

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Beltway Confidential

World still warm toward US but sees rising power of China

Becket Adams · July 14, 2014 8:30 pm

Director and Anchor, China Central Television, Rui Chenggang moderates a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. More than two dozen senior officials from key economies will try Saturday to agree on whether to send a political signal that a new global trade deal can, at last, be completed this year as the World Economic Forum gradually comes to a close. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

China’s popular TV journalist taken by prosecutors

Washington Examiner · July 12, 2014 12:28 pm