links for 2007-11-13

The Dalai Lama is expected to visit Japan this week, organizers said, despite China’s protests over other trips overseas by the Tibetan religious leader. But top government officials are not expected to meet …

China plans to end a 20-year ban on foreigners with HIV entering the country, the health ministry says.

US Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson looked ahead to the SED (strategic economic dialog) in December and outlined his and the Bush administration’s collective views on the state of China-US relations … at the China Institute Executive Summit.

Mr. Yue, 45, was in New York in October for the opening of an exhibition of his paintings and sculptures that continues through Jan. 6 at the Queens Museum of Art.

the biggest concern in Southeast Asia is the forests, and ASEAN’s position is that forests must be harvested in a systematic way.

Asia, America and the Transformation of Geopolitics is the latest book by William H. Overholt, director at the RAND’s Center for Asia Pacific Policy

Four elderly Japanese left behind in China at the end of World War II in 1945 arrived in Japan on Monday to locate their kin.

However, given that “the prime minister is now Mr. Fukuda and it is unclear when we can have a summit meeting with China,” reaching some agreement in autumn will be difficult, Kitabata noted.

US President George W. Bush will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda in Washington on Friday, the White House confirmed Monday, with the two leaders set for key talks.

Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda affirmed on Monday the singular importance of Japan’s alliance with the United States, but also made it clear that his government’s reach in global security affairs would not be as expansive as the Bush administration wants.

Some of the biggest and most powerful dealmakers in the United States have found a way to keep the buyout boom going: by aggressively pushing into China.

via Japan Probe: The government confirmed Tuesday it will not unconditionally accept a U.S. demand that Tokyo repeal the age limit on U.S. beef imports, government officials said.