links for 2007-04-18

Interesting detail to note.

Japan will urge the United States to abolish a dumping calculation method that artificially inflates dumping margins and which the World Trade Organization says is incompatible with global trade rules, according to a government report released Monday.

While it was natural that the IMF discussed exchange rates at its recent Washington meeting, that did not mean its views on China and the yuan were welcome, the official China Daily said in a piece entitled “IMF Meddling Disturbing.”

Japan welcomes the rise of China under the basic recognition that China’s economic development is an opportunity and Japan’s basic policy that it will strive to develop future-oriented Japan-China relations remains unchanged.

(Reuters) — Japan and China are working to set up a 24-hour hotline between their armed forces to make emergency contact easier, the daily Yomiuri Shimbun reported in its evening edition on Monday.

Chinese producers of everything from socket wrenches to sport utility vehicles say that their fastest growth these days lies in Europe, Africa, the Mideast, South America and elsewhere in Asia. In other words, practically anywhere other than the United St