http://www.mail.com/people/222546-xi-jinping.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.23/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/people/222546-xi-jinping.html http://www.mail.com/news/world/1850470-japan-ex-china-envoy-tokyo-erred-islands-row.html TOKYO (AP) — Japan's former envoy to China says his country erred in choosing to buy islands claimed by both Japan and China last fall, infuriating Beijing, and now both sides have no choice but to allow the issue to cool. Uichiro Niwa, a former trading house executive who served as ambassador to Beijing from mid-2010 until late last year, told reporters ... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:16:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1850470-japan-ex-china-envoy-tokyo-erred-islands-row.html 2013-01-28T09:16:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1845828-us-us-china-oppose-north-korea-nuclear-test.html BEIJING (AP) — Washington and Beijing agreed Friday that any North Korean nuclear test will lead to North Korea's further isolation and set back efforts to restart regional talks, a U.S. envoy said. After talks in Beijing with senior Chinese officials, U.S. envoy for North Korea Glyn Davies said that both sides are opposed to North Korea's conducting a nu... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:34:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1845828-us-us-china-oppose-north-korea-nuclear-test.html 2013-01-25T14:34:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1845138-japan-letter-to-chinas-xi-island-dispute.html BEIJING (AP) — A senior envoy handed China's leader a cordial letter from Japan's prime minister Friday in the highest-level contact between the sides since tensions spiked in September over an island dispute, though the meeting yielded little beyond commitments to hold further contact. The letter from Shinzo Abe to Xi Jinping, as seen by The Associated P... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 08:14:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1845138-japan-letter-to-chinas-xi-island-dispute.html 2013-01-25T08:14:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1844940-10-china-officials-sacked-sex-tape-scandal.html BEIJING (AP) — A scandal involving Chinese city officials having sex with women hired by developers who secretly videotaped the trysts to extort construction deals broadened Friday with state media announcing that 10 more officials have been fired. The first high-profile case broke in November when online video clips went viral of a 50-something official,... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:15:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1844940-10-china-officials-sacked-sex-tape-scandal.html 2013-01-25T07:15:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1840400-official-china-recovering-soft-landing.html DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — China's economy is now recovering from a "soft landing," but the big challenge in 2013 will be to prevent overheating while still promoting growth, the head of China's National Economic Research Institute said Wednesday. Fan Gang told a session on China's growth prospects at the World Economic Forum in this Swiss Alpine resort th... Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1840400-official-china-recovering-soft-landing.html 2013-01-23T20:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1839786-china-elder-jiang-zemin-takes-public-step.html BEIJING (AP) — Influential Chinese ex-President Jiang Zemin has been moved down the top leadership's pecking order — at least in public — as the ruling Communist Party prepares for the final stages of a generational handover in power. The official Xinhua News Agency said Wednesday in a brief dispatch that Jiang asked party leaders to group him with other ... Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:00:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1839786-china-elder-jiang-zemin-takes-public-step.html 2013-01-23T08:00:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1836500-ousted-chinese-politicians-lawyers-close-to-party.html BEIJING (AP) — Ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai, who is accused of corruption, will be represented by two Beijing-based attorneys from a large Chinese law firm that enjoys national prestige — and close ties to the ruling Communist Party. Bo was once a high-flying contender for a top post until a scandal surrounding his wife's murder of a British busines... Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:20:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1836500-ousted-chinese-politicians-lawyers-close-to-party.html 2013-01-22T00:20:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1828854-chinas-growth-rebounds-vulnerable.html BEIJING (AP) — China's economy is finally rebounding from its deepest slump since the 2008 global crisis but the shaky recovery could be vulnerable to a new downturn in global trade. Growth rose to 7.9 percent in the three months ending in December, up from the previous quarter's 7.4 percent data showed Friday. For the year, the economy grew by 7.8 percen... Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1828854-chinas-growth-rebounds-vulnerable.html 2013-01-18T12:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1813280-censorship-row-chinas-tight-grip-media.html GUANGZHOU, China (AP) — China's new Communist Party leaders want to appear more open, but they're not about to give up control of the media. That's the lesson of a dustup involving an influential newspaper whose staff briefly rebelled against especially heavy-handed censorship. The staff of Southern Weekly returned to work after some controls were relaxed... Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:03:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1813280-censorship-row-chinas-tight-grip-media.html 2013-01-11T08:03:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1803484-china-newspaper-publishes-deal-ends-standoff.html GUANGZHOU, China (AP) — An influential weekly newspaper whose staff rebelled to protest heavy-handed censorship by Chinese government officials published as normal Thursday after a compromise that called for relaxing some intrusive controls but left lingering ill-will among some reporters and editors. The latest edition of the Southern Weekly bore no hint... Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:09:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1803484-china-newspaper-publishes-deal-ends-standoff.html 2013-01-10T09:09:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1803396-official-china-to-labor-camp-sentences.html BEIJING (AP) — China will stop handing down labor camp sentences this year under a system that allowed police to lock up government critics and other defendants for up to four years without trial, the country's top law enforcement official said Monday. The move would be a key step in reforming China's judicial system, though details remained unclear, incl... Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1803396-official-china-to-labor-camp-sentences.html 2013-01-07T09:39:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1787946-china-tightening-controls-internet.html BEIJING (AP) — China's new communist leaders are increasing already tight controls on Internet use and electronic publishing following a spate of embarrassing online reports about official abuses. The measures suggest China's new leader, Xi Jinping, and others who took power in November share their predecessors' anxiety about the Internet's potential to s... Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1787946-china-tightening-controls-internet.html 2012-12-27T10:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1778274-chinas-airing-v-vendetta-stuns-viewers.html BEIJING (AP) — Television audiences across China watched an anarchist antihero rebel against a totalitarian government and persuade the people to rule themselves. Soon the Internet was crackling with quotes of "V for Vendetta's" famous line: "People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people." The airing of the... Thu, 20 Dec 2012 06:03:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1778274-chinas-airing-v-vendetta-stuns-viewers.html 2012-12-20T06:03:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1777266-us-china-economies-inseparable-china-official.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The economies of China and the U.S. have become "interdependent and inseparable," a top Chinese official said Wednesday after high-level trade talks which were being watched for signs of how the two powers will cooperate after their respective political transitions. Vice Premier Wang Qishan was speaking after the annual U.S.-China Joint ... Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1777266-us-china-economies-inseparable-china-official.html 2012-12-20T00:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1770864-japan-china-stocks-higher-stimulus-hopes.html HONG KONG (AP) — Stock markets in Japan and China, Asia's two biggest economies, rose Monday after Japanese conservatives who favor greater economic stimulus returned to power in a landslide election victory and China's new leaders promised more spending if needed to underpin a wobbly economic recovery. Other stock markets around the globe were more restr... Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1770864-japan-china-stocks-higher-stimulus-hopes.html 2012-12-17T08:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1769676-chinese-leaders-promise-reform-spending-needed.html BEIJING (AP) — China's new Communist Party leaders are promising reforms aimed at reducing reliance on exports and more spending if needed to prop up a shaky economic recovery. In the first statement of their economic goals since taking power in November, the new party leaders pledged continuity Sunday with long-term plans aimed at nurturing self-sustaini... Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:46:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1769676-chinese-leaders-promise-reform-spending-needed.html 2012-12-17T07:46:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1760354-china-revokes-shanghai-catholic-bishops-title.html BEIJING (AP) — In a fresh challenge to Vatican authority, China has revoked the title of a new Catholic bishop in Shanghai who outraged Chinese officials by immediately dropping out of the government agency that oversees the country's officially sanctioned church, religious officials said Wednesday. Ma Daqin, who was jointly named for the post in a rare c... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:56:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1760354-china-revokes-shanghai-catholic-bishops-title.html 2012-12-12T09:56:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1760562-nkorea-rocket-gift-to-leaders-warning-to-world.html Why would North Korea launch a rocket into space now? The act invites additional sanctions for a country where the U.N. says millions are going hungry, and the bitter cold had only increased the risk of the launch becoming the latest of several embarrassing failures. Some of Pyongyang's reasons are calendar-related: It's been 100 years since the birth of ... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1760562-nkorea-rocket-gift-to-leaders-warning-to-world.html 2012-12-12T09:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1752550-chinas-xi-leads-campaign-to-cut-pomp.html BEIJING (AP) — New communist leader Xi Jinping is on a mission to soften the image of Chinese officialdom, winning kudos for his breezy personal style and ordering leaders to take a knife to the pomp, formality and waste that have alienated many among the public. With his silky baritone, glamorous wife and daughter at Harvard, Xi cuts a very different fig... Sat, 08 Dec 2012 07:34:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1752550-chinas-xi-leads-campaign-to-cut-pomp.html 2012-12-08T07:34:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1725544-sex-tape-used-to-bribe-chinese-official-viral.html BEIJING (AP) — A 5-year-old sex tape of an 18-year-old woman allegedly hired by developers to sleep with a city official is causing yet another scandal for China's ruling Communists in the city formerly led by fallen politician Bo Xilai. The 50-something official, Lei Zhengfu, was fired from his position as district party secretary after the video, an app... Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1725544-sex-tape-used-to-bribe-chinese-official-viral.html 2012-11-27T08:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1716056-dark-side-thriving-china-5-kids-die-trash.html BEIJING (AP) — On the day China unveiled its new leadership in Beijing with promises of a better life for all, five runaway boys died in a garbage bin where they had sought shelter and warmth on a cold, damp night in the south. The boys were all brothers or cousins aged 9 to 13. Surnamed Tao, they were the sons of three brothers — two of whom are migrant ... Thu, 22 Nov 2012 03:54:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1716056-dark-side-thriving-china-5-kids-die-trash.html 2012-11-22T03:54:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1710638-chinas-economy-recovering-torrid-growth.html BEIJING (AP) — Zhang Hanzhong, who supplies locks for auto manufacturers, is part of a swath of China's economy that is lagging in a two-speed recovery. Business for retailers, hotels, photo studios and other service industries is picking up as China limps out of its deepest slump since the 2008 global crisis. But exporters and manufacturers who drove its... Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:02:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1710638-chinas-economy-recovering-torrid-growth.html 2012-11-19T12:02:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1710630-chinas-xi-warns-party-corruption-scourge.html BEIJING (AP) — China's new leader Xi Jinping is highlighting corruption as a scourge that could bring down the Communist Party, though he has yet to offer any specific new proposals to stop it. In a weekend speech that was carried Monday by the official Xinhua News Agency, Xi told the new 25-member Politburo that the party must be vigilant against graft, ... Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:46:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1710630-chinas-xi-warns-party-corruption-scourge.html 2012-11-19T10:46:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1704794-chinas-military-pledges-loyalty-to-leader-xi.html BEIJING (AP) — China's massive military pledged its loyalty to new Communist Party leader Xi Jinping on Friday, while reiterating its mission to follow the party's "absolute leadership" despite scattered calls for it to come under government control. The men and women of the 2.3 million-member People's Liberation Army also thanked President Hu Jintao and ... Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:45:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1704794-chinas-military-pledges-loyalty-to-leader-xi.html 2012-11-16T07:45:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1702712-xi-takes-chinas-helm-with-tough-challenges.html BEIJING (AP) — Long-anointed successor Xi Jinping assumes the leadership of China at a time when the ruling Communist Party is confronting slower economic growth, a public clamor to end corruption and demands for change that threaten its hold on power. The country's political elite named Xi to the top party post on Thursday, and unexpectedly put him in ch... Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1702712-xi-takes-chinas-helm-with-tough-challenges.html 2012-11-16T02:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1701652-xi-jinping-takes-helm-china-amid-reform-calls.html BEIJING (AP) — Xi Jinping succeeded Hu Jintao as China's leader on Thursday, assuming the top posts in the Communist Party and the powerful military in a once-a-decade political transition unbowed by scandals, a slower economy and public demands for reforms. Xi was formally appointed as general secretary after a meeting of senior Communists that capped a ... Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:54:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1701652-xi-jinping-takes-helm-china-amid-reform-calls.html 2012-11-15T10:54:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1701892-chinas-leaders-apex-ruling-body.html BEIJING (AP) — China's once-in-a-decade power transition crested Thursday with 59-year-old Xi Jinping taking over as the general secretary of the ruling Communist Party. He will be assisted by six technocrats in the Standing Committee, the apex of power in China. Here are the new leaders in order of how they were presented at Beijing's Great Hall of the People. ... Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:37:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1701892-chinas-leaders-apex-ruling-body.html 2012-11-15T09:37:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1701658-china-leaders-brings-affability-to-job.html BEIJING (AP) — In his travels abroad, Xi Jinping has often been something unusual for a Chinese communist leader: an ordinary guy. In Ireland, he stopped at a stadium to kick a soccer ball around. On a key getting-to-know-you visit to the U.S., he took several hours to visit with Midwestern families who had hosted him more than a quarter-century before. W... Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1701658-china-leaders-brings-affability-to-job.html 2012-11-15T09:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1702006-xi-takes-helm-china-powers-problems-grow.html BEIJING (AP) — Xi Jinping succeeded Hu Jintao as China's leader Thursday, assuming the top posts in the Communist Party and the powerful military in a once-a-decade political transition unbowed by scandals, a slower economy and public demands for reforms. Xi was formally appointed as general secretary after a morning meeting of senior communists that capp... Thu, 15 Nov 2012 08:18:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1702006-xi-takes-helm-china-powers-problems-grow.html 2012-11-15T08:18:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1699194-asia-stocks-fall-talks-us-budget-deal-stall.html BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stocks tumbled Thursday as hopes began to fade for a quick agreement among U.S. leaders to avoid a "fiscal cliff" that could derail the world's biggest economy. Unless President Barack Obama and Congress reach a compromise, a series of expiring tax cuts and across-the-board spending reductions will take effect in 2013 — at a cost of a... Thu, 15 Nov 2012 04:18:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1699194-asia-stocks-fall-talks-us-budget-deal-stall.html 2012-11-15T04:18:00Z