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(Reuters) – President George W. Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday discussed an upcoming visit to Washington by a senior Chinese official aimed at bridging trade differences.

President Bush and China’s President Hu Jintao agreed on Wednesday that North Korea must fulfill its pledge to abandon nuclear weapons.

Arnett says he has found none of the expected limitations on what he can say in his classes during a four-month stint as visiting lecturer at the university’s Cheung Kong School of Journalism and Communication.

CDT Bookshelf: Joshua Kurlantzick Recommends “China and the Developing World: Beijing’s Strategy for the Twenty-First Century”

The United States remains the world’s most competitive economy but China is gaining ground, the Swiss-based International Institute for Management Development (IMD) said on Thursday.

(Kyodo) _ A U.S. House panel on Wednesday heard a chorus of denunciations of Japan and China for manipulating their currencies to maintain a competitive edge of the country’s automakers and other manufacturers.

Kyodo News Japan and China are ready to start full negotiations this year on two possible treaties for prisoner transfers and extradition of criminals, following another being discussed to boost cooperation in criminal investigations, according to Japanes

The 40-year-old former company president, currently residing in Osaka, is suspected of misappropriating 1 million yuan ($131,500) from a government-funded trading company in Northeast China’s Liaoning Province.

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki said Wednesday that Japan remains committed to building friendly relations with China, according to Kyoto News.

Two damages appeals filed by Chinese, one seeking compensation over germ warfare during World War II and the other over the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, were both dismissed by the Japanese Supreme Court on Wednesday.

(AFP) – More than 100 US lawmakers signed a robustly worded letter calling on China’s President Hu Jintao to take immediate action to stop bloodshed in Darfur, a senior lawmaker said Thursday.

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Congressman Tom Lantos (news, bio, voting record) (D- CA), chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, gathered the support of 107 of his House colleagues — including the Majority Leader — to send a strongly-worded let

U.S. Rep. Sander Levin of Michigan today accused China and Japan of “rigging” the global trading competition by manipulating their currencies while U.S. automakers and other manufacturers wait helplessly for the U.S. government to react.

(Kyodo) _ China overtook Japan in this year’s world competitiveness rankings by the Swiss-based business school IMD for the first time since it launched the annual list in 1989, IMD said Wednesday.