Newsvine - hu-jintaohttp://www.newsvine.com/hu-jintaoNewsvine - hu-jintaoen-usCopyright 2013Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:47:28 +0000Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:51:40 +0000http://www.newsvine.comhttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssXi takes China's helm with many tough challenges http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/14/15159183-xi-takes-chinas-helm-with-many-tough-challengeshttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/14/15159183-xi-takes-chinas-helm-with-many-tough-challengeschinacongresscommunist-partyworld-newsus-newsashu-jintaoas-chinaxi-jinpingWed, 14 Nov 2012 11:27:21 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>China's top leaders raise their hands to approve work reports during the closing ceremony for the 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Wednesday Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, center in front row, keeps his hand up during a show of approval for a work report during the closing ceremony for the 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Wednesday Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>Chinese leaders from left, Vice President Xi Jinping, Chairman of the Chinese People's Political  Consultative Conference Jia Qinglin, National People's Congress Chairman Wu Bangguo, Chinese President Hu Jintao, former Chinese President Jiang Zemin and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao applaud during the closing ceremony for the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>Chinese vice President Xi Jinping, center, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection head He Guoqiang, left, and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Chairman Jia Qinglin raise their hands to show approval for a work report during the closing ceremony for the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Wednesday Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Delegates attend the closing ceremony for the 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Wednesday Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Vinecnt Yu)</p><p>Delegates raise their hands to show approval for a work report at the closing ceremony of the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, right, and Chinese President Hu Jintao attend the closing ceremony of the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Senior party members from left, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection head He Guoqiang, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, People's Political Consultative Conference Chairman Jia Qinglin, National People's Congress Chairman Wu Bangguo and Chinese President Hu Jintao stand singing of the Internationale, the international communist anthem, at at the closing ceremony of the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping attends during the closing ceremony for the 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. Designated as successor five years ago, Xi will take over as party general secretary from Hu Jintao on Thursday, Nov. 15 and as president next spring, in only China’s second orderly transfer of power. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Chinese President Hu Jintao raises his hand to show approval for a work report during the closing ceremony for the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Wednesday Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Chinese plain clothes security personnel watch over a corridor during the closing session of the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>A People's Liberation Army officer walks down stairs with a document holder inside the Great Hall of the People where the closing ceremony for the 18th Communist Party Congress is held in Beijing Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. President Hu Jintao stepped aside as Communist Party leader to clear the way for Vice President Xi Jinping to take the helm in China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>A People's Liberation Army officer walks down stairs with a document holder inside the Great Hall of the People where the closing ceremony for the 18th Communist Party Congress is held in Beijing Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. President Hu Jintao stepped aside as Communist Party leader to clear the way for Vice President Xi Jinping to take the helm in China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>Chinese Communist Party delegates hold red voting ticket holders while they leave the Great Hall of the People after the closing ceremony for the 18th Communist Party Congress in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. President Hu Jintao has stepped aside as Communist Party leader to clear the way for Vice President Xi Jinping to take the helm in China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>A Chinese Communist Party delegate holds a red voting ticket holder while leaving the Great Hall of the People with other delegates after the closing ceremony for the 18th Communist Party Congress in Beijing Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. President Hu Jintao stepped aside as Communist Party leader to clear the way for Vice President Xi Jinping to take the helm in China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>Red flags flutter on Tiananmen Square, front, and on top of China's National Museum, back, near the Great Hall of the People, where the closing ceremony of the 18th Communist Party Congress is being held, in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. President Hu Jintao has stepped aside as Communist Party leader to clear the way for Vice President Xi Jinping to take the helm in China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>From left, members of the new Politburo Standing Committee Zhang Dejiang, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang meet journalists in Beijing's Great Hall of the People Thursday Nov. 15, 2012. The seven-member Standing Committee, the inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media on the first day following the end of the 18th Communist Party Congress. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>From left, members of the new Politburo Standing Committee Zhang Gaoli, Liu Yunshan, Zhang Dejiang, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Yu Zhengsheng and Wang Qishan meet journalists in Beijing's Great Hall of the People Thursday Nov. 15, 2012. The seven-member Standing Committee, the inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media on the first day following the end of the 18th Communist Party Congress. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>A mall screen shows Chinese Communist Party new General Secretary Xi Jinping speak at a press conference in Beijing Thursday Nov. 15, 2012. Xi became leader of China on Thursday, securing the Communist Party's top spot and oversight of the military in a political transition upset by scandals that have added fuel to public demands for change as the country faces slower economic growth. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>(121115) -- BEIJING, Nov. 15, 2012 (Xinhua) -- Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, center, poses with other newly-elected members of the Standing Committee of the 18th Communist Party's Central Committee Political Bureau, from left, Tianjin party secretary Zhang Gaoli, propaganda chief Liu Yunshan, Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang, Xi, Presumptive Premier Li Keqiang, Shanghai party secretary Yu Zhengsheng and Vice Premier Wang Qishan for journalists at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. Xi became leader of China on Thursday, securing the Communist Party's top spot and oversight of the military in a political transition upset by scandals that have added fuel to public demands for change as the country faces slower economic growth. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Xie Huanchi) NO SALES</p><p>In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, China's new leaders, from left, Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, Liu Yunshan, Wang Qishan, and Zhang Gaoli, arrive for a press conference after being elected members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 18th Central Committee of China's Communist Party at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. Xi will lead a new seven-member collective leadership of technocrats: Li, the presumptive premier; Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang; Shanghai party secretary Yu; propaganda chief Liu; Vice Premier Wang; and Tianjin party secretary Zhang Gaoli. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Ding Lin) NO SALES</p><p>New General Secretary of Communist Party of China Xi Jinping's press conference is telecast live on a mall screen, center, in Beijing, China, Thursday Nov. 15, 2012. Xi became leader of China on Thursday, securing the Communist Party's top spot and oversight of the military in a political transition upset by scandals that have added fuel to public demands for change as the country faces slower economic growth. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>New General Secretary of Communist Party of China Xi Jinping's press conference is telecast live on a mall screen, center, in Beijing, China, Thursday Nov. 15, 2012. Xi became leader of China on Thursday, securing the Communist Party's top spot and oversight of the military in a political transition upset by scandals that have added fuel to public demands for change as the country faces slower economic growth. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A bus driver smokes inside a bus as a screen showing a live broadcast of China's new Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping speaking during a press event to introduce the newly-elected members of the Politburo Standing Committee, is reflected in the window, in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. The seven-member Standing Committee, the inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media on the first day following the end of the 18th Communist Party Congress. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)</p><p>A taxi driver sits inside his car watching a TV screen showing a live broadcast of China's new Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping speaking during a press event to introduce the newly-elected members of the Politburo Standing Committee, at a shopping mall in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. The seven-member Standing Committee, the inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media on the first day following the end of the 18th Communist Party Congress. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)</p><p>A huge TV screen shows a live broadcast of China's Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, left, speaking as other new members of the Politburo Standing Committee, from second left, Zhang Gaoli, Liu Yunshan, Zhang Dejiang, Li Keqiang, Yu Zhengsheng and Wang Qishan, listen in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. The seven-member Standing Committee, the inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media on the first day following the end of the 18th Communist Party Congress. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)</p><p>People gather at a park watching TV live broadcast of China's new Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping speaking during a press event to introduce the newly-elected members of the Politburo Standing Committee, in Shanghai, China, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT</p><p>This combination of file photos from Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, shows new members of China's Politburo Standing Committee, from left to right, Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, Vice Premier Li Keqiang, Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang, Shanghai party secretary Yu Zhengsheng, propaganda chief Liu Yunshan, Vice Premier Wang Qishan, and Tianjin party secretary Zhang Gaoli, at a press event held at Beijing's Great Hall of the People. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, Files)</p><p>Chinese soldiers march outside the Great Hall of the People where China's new leaders meet the press in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. The seven-member Standing Committee, the inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media on the first day following the end of the 18th Communist Party Congress. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>New Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping clap hands during a press event to introduce the newly-elected members of the Politburo Standing Committee at Beijing's Great Hall of the People Thursday Nov. 15, 2012. The seven-member Standing Committee, the inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media on the first day following the end of the 18th Communist Party Congress. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>New Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping smiles as the new members of the Politburo Standing Committee applaud in Beijing's Great Hall of the People Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. The seven member Standing Committee, the inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media on the first day following the end of the 18th Communist Party Congress. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>A bus driver smokes inside a bus as a screen showing a live broadcast of China's new Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping speaking during a press event to introduce the newly-elected members of the Politburo Standing Committee, is reflected in the window, in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. The seven-member Standing Committee, the inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media on the first day following the end of the 18th Communist Party Congress. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)</p><p>In this Nov. 15, 2012 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Hu Jintao, right, shakes hands with Xi Jinping as they meet with delegates, special delegates and observers to the recently concluded 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), in Beijing, China. Xi succeeded Hu 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. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Li Xueren) NO SALES</p>China delegates swoon at their proximity to power http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/12/15104711-china-delegates-swoon-at-their-proximity-to-powerhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/12/15104711-china-delegates-swoon-at-their-proximity-to-powerchinacongresscommunist-partyworld-newsashu-jintaogreat-hallas-chinadelegatesdazzledli-jianMon, 12 Nov 2012 08:46:43 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>Public security volunteers patrol the streets during the 18th Communist Party Congress held in Beijing, China, Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>In this Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 photo, Communist Party delegate Yan Pa, wearing medals and a red sash emblazoned with characters "Model Worker," and "Glory," poses for photos outside the Great Hall of the People, after the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress in Beijing Along with government officials, managers of state industries and military officers, delegates of the 18th Communist Party Congress also include migrant workers, peasants, factory technicians, teachers, doctors, artists and Olympic gold medalists. Many of the rank and file delegates are brought to Beijing to make the roughly 2,300-member congress more representative, and have no real political clout. They ratify decisions made by a few dozen party insiders in backroom deals. Still, they believe in the cause and swoon at the prestige of being chosen to be a national delegate. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>In this Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 photo, Communist Party delegate Cai Cengma, center, in traditional Mongolian ethnic minority dress, walks with other delegates to the Great Hall of the People, where the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress is held in Beijing. Along with government officials, managers of state industries and military officers, delegates of the 18th Communist Party Congress also include migrant workers, peasants, factory technicians, teachers, doctors, artists and Olympic gold medalists. Many of the rank and file delegates are brought to Beijing to make the roughly 2,300-member congress more representative, and have no real political clout. They ratify decisions made by a few dozen party insiders in backroom deals. Still, they believe in the cause and swoon at the prestige of being chosen to be a national delegate. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>In this Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 photo, Communist Party delegate Shan Dan, in a traditional Mongolian ethnic minority dress, walks to the Great Hall of the People, where the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress is held in Beijing. Along with government officials, managers of state industries and military officers, delegates of the 18th Communist Party Congress also include migrant workers, peasants, factory technicians, teachers, doctors, artists and Olympic gold medalists. Many of the rank and file delegates are brought to Beijing to make the roughly 2,300-member congress more representative, and have no real political clout. They ratify decisions made by a few dozen party insiders in backroom deals. Still, they believe in the cause and swoon at the prestige of being chosen to be a national delegate. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>In this Nov. 9, 2012 photo, Liao Defang, a delegate of China's 18th Communist Party Congress, poses for a photo after a group discussion meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Along with government officials, managers of state industries and military officers, delegates of the 18th Communist Party Congress also include migrant workers, peasants, factory technicians, teachers, doctors, artists and Olympic gold medalists. Many of the rank and file delegates are brought to Beijing to make the roughly 2,300-member congress more representative, and have no real political clout. They ratify decisions made by a few dozen party insiders in backroom deals. Still, they believe in the cause and swoon at the prestige of being chosen to be a national delegate. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>In this Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012 photo, Wu Juping, a delegate of Chinese Communist Party's 18th National Congress, speaks to journalists during an interview in a teahouse in Beijing, China. Dubbed China's “most beautiful mother” - Wu shot to national fame when she caught someone else's 2-year-old girl with her bare arms when the baby fell from a 10th floor window. Wu became a symbol of selfless morality after the July, 2011, rescue crushed her left arm. Chinese calligraphy at left is a Tang dynasty poem describing the Tang Emperor taking part in a ceremony worshipping nature. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>In this Nov. 9, 2012 photo, Li Jian, 55, delegate of Chinese Communist Party's 18th National Congress, poses for a portrait photo in Beijing. Li is one of the rank-and-file delegates attending the weeklong party congress that will start to install a new generation of leaders to run the world’s No. 2 economy and newest power. Brought to Beijing largely to make the roughly 2,300-member congress appear more representative, delegates like Li have no real power. They ratify decisions made by a few dozen party insiders in backroom deals. Still, the honor and being so close to power makes them swoon. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>In this Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 photo, a People's Liberation Army (PLA) Communist Party delegate shakes hands with another delegate outside the Great Hall of the People after the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress in Beijing. Along with government officials, managers of state industries and military officers, delegates of the 18th Communist Party Congress also include migrant workers, peasants, factory technicians, teachers, doctors, artists and Olympic gold medalists. Many of the rank and file delegates are brought to Beijing to make the roughly 2,300-member congress more representative, and have no real political clout. They ratify decisions made by a few dozen party insiders in backroom deals. Still, they believe in the cause and swoon at the prestige of being chosen to be a national delegate. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>In this Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 photo, a Communist Party delegate in a traditional Uighur ethnic minority dress walks to the Great Hall of the People, where the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress is held in Beijing. Along with government officials, managers of state industries and military officers, delegates of the 18th Communist Party Congress also include migrant workers, peasants, factory technicians, teachers, doctors, artists and Olympic gold medalists. Many of the rank and file delegates are brought to Beijing to make the roughly 2,300-member congress more representative, and have no real political clout. They ratify decisions made by a few dozen party insiders in backroom deals. Still, they believe in the cause and swoon at the prestige of being chosen to be a national delegate. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p>China's incoming premier a cautious bureaucrat http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/11/15083899-chinas-incoming-premier-a-cautious-bureaucrathttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/11/15083899-chinas-incoming-premier-a-cautious-bureaucratchinacongressnextcommunist-partyworld-newsashu-jintaopremieras-chinaif-chinaxi-jinpingli-keqiangSun, 11 Nov 2012 07:23:13 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>FILE - In this file photo taken Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010, Li Keqiang, Chinese vice premier, adjusts his headphones before addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In line to take over Chinese Premier and oversee China’s massive but rapidly slowing economy for the coming decade, Li speaks English and comes from a generation of politicians schooled during a time of greater openness to liberal Western ideas than their predecessors. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)</p><p>FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011, China's Vice Premier Li Keqiang smiles during a welcoming dinner at a hotel in Hong Kong. In line to take over Chinese Premier and oversee China’s massive but rapidly slowing economy for the coming decade, Li speaks English and comes from a generation of politicians schooled during a time of greater openness to liberal Western ideas than their predecessors. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)</p><p>FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011, China's Vice Premier Li Keqiang makes a toast during a welcoming dinner at a hotel in Hong Kong. In line to take over Chinese Premier and oversee China’s massive but rapidly slowing economy for the coming decade, Li speaks English and comes from a generation of politicians schooled during a time of greater openness to liberal Western ideas than their predecessors. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, Pool, File)</p><p>FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011, a woman from Henan in central China shows cards bearing a photo of her son and the words "I'm an AIDS victim, we want to live, we want safeguard judicial justice" while speaking to journalists inside a medical clinic near the Ministry of Finance in Beijing, China. Li Keqiang, the man lined up to be China's next Premier was governor of the agricultural province of Henan in 1998 during an unusual explosion of AIDS cases. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)</p><p>In this photo taken Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, bottom right seats next to Communist party propaganda chief Li Changchun, bottom center, and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, bottom left, during the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. In line to take over Wen as Chinese Premier and oversee China’s massive but rapidly slowing economy for the coming decade, Li speaks English and comes from a generation of politicians schooled during a time of greater openness to liberal Western ideas than their predecessors. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008, Chinese infected with HIV from the Henan province, beg for help on a street in Beijing, China. Li Keqiang, the man lined up to be China's next premier was governor of the agricultural province of Henan in 1998 during an unusual explosion of AIDS cases. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)</p><p>In this photo taken Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang attends the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. In line to take over Chinese Premier and oversee China’s massive but rapidly slowing economy for the coming decade, Li speaks English and comes from a generation of politicians schooled during a time of greater openness to liberal Western ideas than their predecessors. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>Li Keqiang, one of the seven newly elected members of the Politburo Standing Committee, attends a press event at Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Thursday Nov. 15, 2012. The seven-member Standing Committee, the inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media on the first day following the end of the 18th Communist Party Congress. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>A huge TV screen shows a live broadcast of Li Keqiang, one of the seven newly elected members of the Politburo Standing Committee, waving during a press event, in Beijing Thursday Nov. 15, 2012. The seven-member Standing Committee, the inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media on the first day following the end of the 18th Communist Party Congress. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)</p><p>Li Keqiang, one of the seven newly elected member of the Politburo Standing Committee, waves during a press event at Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Thursday Nov. 15, 2012. The seven-member Standing Committee, the inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media on the first day following the end of the 18th Communist Party Congress. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>New members of the Politburo Standing Committee, from left, Zhang Gaoli, Liu Yunshan, Zhang Dejiang, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Yu Zhengsheng and Wang Qishan stand together at Beijing's Great Hall of the People Thursday Nov. 15, 2012. The seven-member Standing Committee, the inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media on the first day following the end of the 18th Communist Party Congress. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Li Keqiang, one of the seven newly elected members of the Politburo Standing Committee, attends a press event at Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Thursday Nov. 15, 2012. The seven-member Standing Committee, the inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media on the first day following the end of the 18th Communist Party Congress. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p>China's Hu clears way for Xi to take party helm http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/07/14989657-chinas-hu-clears-way-for-xi-to-take-party-helmhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/07/14989657-chinas-hu-clears-way-for-xi-to-take-party-helmchinacongresscommunist-partyworld-newsashu-jintaoas-chinabo-xilaichina-communist-partycentral-committeecommunist-party-congressxi-jinpingli-keqiangWed, 7 Nov 2012 10:21:59 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>Paramilitary policemen guard Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, a road between Tiananmen Square and Great Hall of the People, where Chinese Communist Party's 18th National Congress will be held from Thursday in Beijing, China. The once-a-decade event installs a new leadership to run the world's second largest economy and newly assertive global power. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>A Chinese paramilitary policeman stands guard at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. The Chinese Communist Party's 18th National Congress is scheduled to begin Nov. 8 in the Chinese capital. The once-a-decade event will install new leadership to run the world's second largest economy and newly assertive global power. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Paramilitary policemen guard Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, a road between Tiananmen Square and Great Hall of the People, where Chinese Communist Party's 18th National Congress will be held from Thursday in Beijing, China. The once-a-decade event installs a new leadership to run the world's second largest economy and newly assertive global power. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>Chinese paramilitary policemen march under a portrait of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong to a flag lowering ceremony on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. The Chinese Communist Party's 18th National Congress is scheduled to begin Nov. 8 in the Chinese capital. In addition to selecting members of leading party bodies, the 2,270 delegates hear and deliberate over the work of the party over the last five years, a party discipline report and revisions to the party constitution. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>Chinese soldiers dressed as ushers march Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, at the Great Hall of the People in Bejing, China, where the Chinese Communist Party's 18th National Congress is scheduled to begin Thursday. The once-a-decade event installs a new leadership to run the world's second largest economy and newly assertive global power. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Chinese paramilitary policemen march at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. The Chinese Communist Party's 18th National Congress is scheduled to begin Thursday, Nov. 8 in the Chinese capital. The once-a-decade event installs a new leadership to run the world's second largest economy and newly assertive global power. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Chinese paramilitary policemen lower the Chinese national flag near a portrait of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong during a ceremony on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. The Chinese Communist Party's 18th National Congress is scheduled to begin Nov. 8 in the Chinese capital. In addition to selecting members of the leading party bodies, the 2770 delegates hear and deliberate over the work of the party over the past five years, a party discipline report and revisions to the party constitution. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>A Chinese military band member rehearses before the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>A woman, center, yells after she threw protest papers on Tiananmen Square after a flag raising ceremony while a plainclothes security person, in red, stops a journalist, right, from taking videos, near the Great Hall of the People, where the 18th Communist Party Congress will be held later in the morning, in Beijing, China, Thursday Nov. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>Paramilitary policemen patrol Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, in front of Tiananmen Gate, near the Great Hall of the People where Chinese Communist Party's 18th National Congress begins Thursday in Beijing, China. The once-a-decade event installs a new leadership to run the world's second largest economy and newly assertive global power. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>Paramilitary policemen stand in attention and salute while Chinese national flag is lowered at sunset Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, on Tiananmen Square, near the Great Hall of the People, where Chinese Communist Party's 18th National Congress is scheduled to begin Thursday in Beijing, China. The once-a-decade event installs a new leadership to run the world's second largest economy and newly assertive global power. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>In this Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Hu Jintao, right, and Xi Jinping walk together after the first meeting of the presidium of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Beijing, China. China's ruling Communist Party on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 has opened a congress to usher in a new group of leaders faced with the challenging tasks of righting a flagging economy and meeting public calls for better government. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Lan Hongguang) NO SALES</p><p>Chinese President Hu Jintao addresses the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. China's ruling Communist Party opened a congress Thursday to usher in a new group of younger leaders faced with the challenging tasks of righting a flagging economy and meeting public calls for better government. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, right, seats next to Chinese President Hu Jintao during the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. China's ruling Communist Party opened a congress Thursday to usher in a new group of younger leaders faced with the challenging tasks of righting a flagging economy and meeting public calls for better government. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>A Chinese paramilitary policeman stands guard in front of the Great Hall of the People where the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress is held, in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. China's ruling Communist Party opened a congress Thursday to usher in a new group of younger leaders faced with the challenging tasks of righting a flagging economy and meeting public calls for better government. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, third from left in front, is helped to his feet by Chinese President Hu Jintao, second from left, as delegates stand for the national anthem during the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. China's ruling Communist Party opened a congress Thursday to usher in a new group of younger leaders faced with the challenging tasks of righting a flagging economy and meeting public calls for better government. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, right, gestures at Chinese President Hu Jintao, left, during the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. China's ruling Communist Party opened a congress Thursday to usher in a new group of younger leaders faced with the challenging tasks of righting a flagging economy and meeting public calls for better government. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>Journalists, firemen, buses, and red flags on Tiananmen are reflected in a glass door of the Great Hall of the People, where opening ceremony of the 18th Communist Party Congress is held, while a soldier dressed as an usher, seen through the glass, keeps watching in Beijing, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. China's ruling Communist Party opened a congress Thursday to usher in a new group of younger leaders faced with the challenging tasks of righting a flagging economy and meeting public calls for better government. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>An attendant serves tea while Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping attends the opening session of 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. Preparing to hand over power after a decade in office, China's President Hu Jintao called Thursday for sterner measures to combat official corruption that has stoked public anger while urging the Communist Party to maintain firm political control. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>Delegates in ethnic minority costumes walk past a hostess after the end of the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. China's ruling Communist Party opened a congress Thursday to usher in a new group of younger leaders faced with the challenging tasks of righting a flagging economy and meeting public calls for better government. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Communist leaders stand before the national anthem during the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. China's ruling Communist Party opened a congress Thursday to usher in a new group of younger leaders faced with the challenging tasks of righting a flagging economy and meeting public calls for better government. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A man walks past an official propaganda to welcome the Chinese Communist Party's 18th Congress which held in Beijing, at a bookstore in Shanghai, China, Thursday Nov. 8, 2012. China's ruling Communist Party opened a congress Thursday to usher in a new group of younger leaders faced with the challenging tasks of righting a flagging economy and meeting public calls for better government. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)</p><p>Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin gestures during the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>A huge screen shows a broadcast of Chinese President Hu Jintao speaking at the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. China's ruling Communist Party opened a congress Thursday to usher in a new group of younger leaders faced with the challenging tasks of righting a flagging economy and meeting public calls for better government. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Journalists, firemen, buses, and red flags on Tiananmen are reflected in a glass door of the Great Hall of the People, where opening ceremony of the 18th Communist Party Congress is held, while a soldier dressed as an usher, seen through the glass, keeps watching in Beijing, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. China's ruling Communist Party opened a congress Thursday to usher in a new group of younger leaders faced with the challenging tasks of righting a flagging economy and meeting public calls for better government. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>Chinese President Hu Jintao, third from left, shakes hands with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, front left, as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, right in the back, follows after the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. Preparing to hand over power after a decade in office, China's President Hu called Thursday for sterner measures to combat official corruption that has stoked public anger while urging the Communist Party to maintain firm political control. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>China's communist leaders bow in silence in remembrance of the late leaders during the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. Preparing to hand over power after a decade in office, China's President Hu Jintao called Thursday for sterner measures to combat official corruption that has stoked public anger while urging the Communist Party to maintain firm political control. Front row from left to right, Li Peng, former Chinese Premier, He Guoqiang, head of Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Xi Jinping, Chinese Vice President, Jia Qinglin, Chairman of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Wu Bangguo, Chairman of National People's Congress, Hu Jintao, Chinese President and Communist Party chief, Jiang Zemin, former Chinese President and the party chief, and Wen Jiabao, Chinese premier. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>Chinese Public Security Minister Meng Jianzhu, center, rubs his eyes during the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. The week-long congress starts a carefully choreographed but still fraught power transfer in which President Hu Jintao and most of the senior leadership will begin to relinquish office to a new slate of leaders for the coming decade headed by the appointed heir, Vice President Xi Jinping. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>Xu Caihou, right, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, sits next to his recently announced replacement Fang Changlong during the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. China's ruling Communist Party opened a congress Thursday to usher in a new group of younger leaders faced with the challenging tasks of righting a flagging economy and meeting public calls for better government. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>Delegates from China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region attend a meeting at the Great Hall of the People as part of the 18th Communist Party Congress in Beijing, China, Friday, Nov. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Qiangba Puncog, left, chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Padma Choling, Tibet government chief attend a meeting at the Great Hall of the People as part of the 18th Communist Party Congress in Beijing, Friday, Nov. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>China's Director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office Wang Guangya waves to reporters before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People as part of the 18th Communist Party Congress in Beijing, Friday, Nov. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Qiangba Puncog, left, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Padma Choling, Tibet government chief attend a meeting held at the Great Hall of the People as part of the 18th Communist Party Congress in Beijing, Friday, Nov. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Wang Jingqing, vice minister of the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, answers reporters' questions during a press conference at a press center of the 18th Communist Party Congress in Beijing, Friday, Nov. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Moderator Chen Wenjun, left, invites questions from reporters next to Liang Wengen, Chairman of the board of the SANY Group at a press conference with the theme of “implementing innovation strategies to accelerate transformation and development” as part of the 18th Communist Party Congress at the media centre in Beijing, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>A man, under an umbrella, walks near a huge electronic screen reflected on the wet ground at Tiananmen Square during the 18th Communist Party Congress in Beijing, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>A hostess waits for journalists to arrive for a press conference held as part of the 18th Communist Party Congress in Beijing, China, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>China's Minister for Environmental Protection Zhou Shengxian answers a reporter's question during a press conference at the media center of the 18th Chinese Communist Party Congress in Beijing Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>China's Minister for Environmental Protection Zhou Shengxian wipes his face with a wet towel during a press conference at the media center of the 18th Chinese Communist Party Congress in Beijing Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Visitors wait in queue to get their security check near Tiananmen Square during the 18th Communist Party Congress in Beijing Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A Chinese policeman stands guard on a popular retail street near a banner which reads: "With excellent results welcome the opening of the 18th Chinese Communist Party" in Beijing Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>In this photo taken Monday, Nov. 12, 2012, a woman poses for photos near floral decorations with the Chinese characters for "Patriotism, Innovation" set up for the 18th Communist Party Congress held in Beijing, China. The Chinese capital's administrators have bedecked the city with towers of flower installations and other eye-catching landscaping decorations. State media say 20 million pots of flowers are being used in more than a hundred locations in preparation for the once-a-decade party congress to usher in a new generation of leaders. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Chinese paramilitary policemen march as police officer rides a bicycle during the 18th Chinese Communist Party Congress in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Chinese paramilitary policemen lower a Chinese national flag near a portrait of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong during the 18th Chinese Communist Party Congress held at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>In this photo taken Monday, Nov. 12, 2012, a woman cycles by a floral decoration set up for the 18th Communist Party Congress held in Beijing, China. The Chinese capital's administrators have bedecked the city with towers of flower installations and other eye-catching landscaping decorations. State media say 20 million pots of flowers are being used in more than a hundred locations in preparation for the once-a-decade party congress to usher in a new generation of leaders. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>China's top leaders raise their hands to approve work reports during the closing ceremony for the 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Wednesday Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, center in front row, keeps his hand up during a show of approval for a work report during the closing ceremony for the 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Wednesday Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>Chinese leaders from left, Vice President Xi Jinping, Chairman of the Chinese People's Political  Consultative Conference Jia Qinglin, National People's Congress Chairman Wu Bangguo, Chinese President Hu Jintao, former Chinese President Jiang Zemin and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao applaud during the closing ceremony for the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>Chinese vice President Xi Jinping, center, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection head He Guoqiang, left, and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Chairman Jia Qinglin raise their hands to show approval for a work report during the closing ceremony for the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Wednesday Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Delegates attend the closing ceremony for the 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Wednesday Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Vinecnt Yu)</p><p>Delegates raise their hands to show approval for a work report at the closing ceremony of the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, right, and Chinese President Hu Jintao attend the closing ceremony of the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p>China's leadership change: Why it matters http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/01/14855016-chinas-leadership-change-why-it-mattershttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/01/14855016-chinas-leadership-change-why-it-matterschinapoliticsitcommunist-partyus-newsaswhyhu-jintaomattersThu, 1 Nov 2012 14:09:37 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_postChina's leadership change: Why it matters http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/24/14662930-chinas-leadership-change-why-it-mattershttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/24/14662930-chinas-leadership-change-why-it-matterschinapoliticsitcommunist-partyus-newsaswhyhu-jintaomattersWed, 24 Oct 2012 09:36:46 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_postEnvoy says China seeks better ties with Manila http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/19/14554608-envoy-says-china-seeks-better-ties-with-manilahttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/19/14554608-envoy-says-china-seeks-better-ties-with-manilachinaphilippinesworld-newsashu-jintaoscarborough-shoalfu-yingFri, 19 Oct 2012 11:14:04 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_postAPEC vows to fend off euro woes, boost finances http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/06/13712845-apec-vows-to-fend-off-euro-woes-boost-financeshttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/06/13712845-apec-vows-to-fend-off-euro-woes-boost-financesapecpacific-rimworld-newshu-jintaovladimir-putinFri, 7 Sep 2012 01:01:05 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>Delegates arrive on the opening morning of presentations at the APEC summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A panel of experts address delegates on the opening morning of the APEC summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>Delegates sleep during the opening morning of presentations at the APEC summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, right, smiles after his arrival at the airport for the APEC summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012.(AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>In this photo released by APEC 2012, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key addresses the APEC summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012, . (AP Photo/APEC2012)</p><p>Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a plenary session at the APEC summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)</p><p>In this photo released by APEC 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, meets with Chinese President Hu Jintao during the APEC summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012, . (AP Photo/APEC2012)</p><p>In this photo released by APEC 2012, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera delivers a speech on the tarmac after his arrival for the APEC summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012, . (AP Photo/APEC2012)</p><p>South Korean President Lee Myung-bak arrives at the airport for the APEC summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012.(AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the arrival ceremony for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>Russian President Vladimir Putin, guides Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to her chair during their meeting at the APEC summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, Pool)</p><p>Russian President Vladimir Putin waits for other leaders during the arrival ceremony the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>Russian President Vladimir Putin waits for other leaders during the arrival ceremony the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, greets Philippines President Benigno Aquino III at the APEC summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, Pool)</p><p>Chines President Hu Jintao, right, is greeted by his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during the arrival ceremony for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>A police officer patrols the central business district of Vladivostok, Russia, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. Leaders from the APEC countries are attending their annual summit in the eastern Russian city till Sept. 9. (AP Photo/Alexander Khitrov)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, shake hands during a bilateral meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Vladivostok Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool) </p><p>Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, chats with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key during their meeting at the APEC summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, Pool)</p><p>Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, talks with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera during a bilateral meeting at the APEC summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Anatoly Maltsev, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks during a press conference at the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok, Russia Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reacts as she meets fellow leaders for the group photo on the final day of the APEC summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks during a press conference at the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok, Russia Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>Leaders, from left, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang (obscured), Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Peruvian President Ollanta Humala (obscured) pose for a group photo on the final day of the APEC summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, top left, chats with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, top right as Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, left, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper look on as they gather with other leaders for a group photo on the final day of the APEC summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p>Clinton in East Timor on democracy push http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/31/13581553-clinton-in-east-timor-on-democracy-pushhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/31/13581553-clinton-in-east-timor-on-democracy-pushasiaclintonunited-statessoutheast-asianworld-newsashu-jintaoeast-timorsouth-china-seasouth-pacificstate-hillary-rodham-clintonFri, 31 Aug 2012 05:47:03 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2012 file photo, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in Johannesburg, South Africa. Clinton will try to reassert American interests in the Asia-Pacific region in the face of China's growing influence as she kicks off a six-nation trip to the region. She left Washington Thursday on a trip that will keep her half a world away from U.S. politics at the height of the presidential conventions. But her travels will put her at the center of rising tensions over territorial disputes involving China and its neighbors in the South China Sea. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File, Pool)</p><p>US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, center, speaks with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, left, and Cook Island Prime Minister Henry Puna, right, while posing for the family photo during the Pacific Island Forum Post-Forum Dialogue in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers remarks during the Pacific Island Forum Post-Forum Dialogue in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, center, waves with other Pacific Island leaders while posing for the family photo during the Pacific Island Forum Post-Forum Dialogue in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a joint press conference with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key at the New Zealand high commissioner's house in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks as U.S. Navy's Pacific Command Commander Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III, left, listens during an event on peace and security in the Pacific, in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton wears her black pearl necklace, a gift from Cook Island Prime Minister Henry Puna, during an event on sustainable development and conservation, in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton adjusts her black pearl necklace, a gift from Cook Island Prime Minister Henry Puna, left, during an event on sustainable development and conservation, in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton prepares to speak during an event on peace and security in the Pacific, in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, shakes hands with Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter Charles Paire O'Neill after a bilateral meeting during the Pacific Island Forum Post-Forum Dialogue in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, poses with female participants of the "Dialogue on Gender Equality" in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key kiss each other after a joint press conference at the New Zealand high commissioner's house in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, shakes hands with New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully, center, and Australian Parliamentary Secretary Richard Marles during a trilateral meeting at the New Zealand high commissioner's house in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, gestures as she talks with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, second from left, at the New Zealand high commissioner's house in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>US State Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, walks with Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa after their meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)</p><p>US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, talks to the media as Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa listens during a press conference after their meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)</p><p>US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, talks to the media as Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa listens during a press conference after their meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, talks with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono after their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Clinton is in Beijing to press Chinese authorities to agree to peacefully resolve disputes with their smaller neighbors over competing territorial claims in the South China Sea. (AP Photo/Feng Li, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Clinton is in Beijing to press Chinese authorities to agree to peacefully resolve disputes with their smaller neighbors over competing territorial claims in the South China Sea. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, shakes hands with U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, center, and Director General for North American and Oceanian Affairs Xie Feng, second left, upon her arrival at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool) </p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, waves as she departs Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool) </p><p>U.S. flag and China's flag flutter in winds at a hotel in Beijing Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Beijing to press Chinese authorities to agree to peacefully resolve disputes with their smaller neighbors over competing territorial claims in the South China Sea. But as she began her meetings here, China questioned the stated neutrality of the United States. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Clinton is in Beijing to press Chinese authorities to agree to peacefully resolve disputes with their smaller neighbors over competing territorial claims in the South China Sea. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, second from left, meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, right, during her visit to Beijing, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Clinton is in Beijing to press Chinese authorities to agree to peacefully resolve disputes with their smaller neighbors over competing territorial claims in the South China Sea. (AP Photo/Feng Li, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, meets Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, not in photo, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Clinton is in Beijing to press Chinese authorities to agree to peacefully resolve disputes with their smaller neighbors over competing territorial claims in the South China Sea. (AP Photo/Feng Li, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, right, meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, not visible, during her visit to Beijing, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Clinton is in Beijing to press Chinese authorities to agree to peacefully resolve disputes with their smaller neighbors over competing territorial claims in the South China Sea. (AP Photo/Feng Li, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, meets Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, right, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Clinton is in Beijing to press Chinese authorities to agree to peacefully resolve disputes with their smaller neighbors over competing territorial claims in the South China Sea. (AP Photo/Feng Li, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, speaks with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi during a joint press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, listens to translation during a joint press conference with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, right, talks with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton after attending the press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Feng Li, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, speaks with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi during a joint press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, speaks with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi during a joint press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, shakes hands with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during a bilateral meeting at the Zhongnanhai leadership compound in Beijing, China, on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo, right, hands a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, during a bilateral meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton autographs a coffee bean sack while visiting the Timor Coffee Cooperative in Dili, East Timor Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in East Timor to offer the small half-island nation support as it ends its reliance on international peacekeepers. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton drinks a cup of coffee while visiting the Timor Coffee Cooperative in Dili, East Timor Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in East Timor to offer the small half-island nation support as it ends its reliance on international peacekeepers. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, 2nd right, watches coffee beans come out of a sorter during a tour of the Timor Coffee Cooperative in Dili, East Timor Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in East Timor to offer the small half-island nation support as it ends its reliance on international peacekeepers. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, talks with Agribusiness Advisor Bency Isaac, left, as she tours the Timor Coffee Cooperative in Dili, East Timor Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in East Timor to offer the small half-island nation support as it ends its reliance on international peacekeepers. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, claps to the music as dancers pose with her while visiting the Timor Coffee Cooperative in Dili, East Timor Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in East Timor to offer the small half-island nation support as it ends its reliance on international peacekeepers. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, speaks with East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao during a joint press conference at the Government Palace in Dili, East Timor Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in East Timor to offer the small half-island nation support as it ends its reliance on international peacekeepers. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)</p>Japan leader sends letter to Beijing amid tension http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/27/13505678-japan-leader-sends-letter-to-beijing-amid-tensionhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/27/13505678-japan-leader-sends-letter-to-beijing-amid-tensionjapanchinaworld-newsashu-jintaojapanese-embassyMon, 27 Aug 2012 14:36:21 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba speaks to journalists at his office in Tokyo Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. Gemba on Tuesday demanded an investigation into an incident in which a man in Beijing ripped the Japanese flag off of a car carrying the country's ambassador to China. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE</p>Senior North Korean leader meets Chinese leaders http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/16/13330631-senior-north-korean-leader-meets-chinese-leadershttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/16/13330631-senior-north-korean-leader-meets-chinese-leaderschinakoreanorth-koreanorth-koreanworld-newsashu-jintaopremier-wen-jiabaochina-north-koreakim-jong-unFri, 17 Aug 2012 03:00:32 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_postChinese VP says consensus reached in US meetings http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/24/12921903-chinese-vp-says-consensus-reached-in-us-meetingshttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/24/12921903-chinese-vp-says-consensus-reached-in-us-meetingsuschinamiddle-eastsecuritybarack-obamaworld-newsashu-jintaoas-chinaxi-jinpingTue, 24 Jul 2012 09:04:55 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>U.S. National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, left, introduces his entourage while Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, prepares to shake hands during their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, July 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, Pool)</p><p>U.S. National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, left, shakes hands with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Wednesday, July 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, Pool)</p><p>U.S. National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, left, talks with China Central Military Commission Vice Chairman Gen. Xu Caihou upon arrival for a meeting at the Ministry of Defense in Beijing, China Wednesday, July 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, Pool)</p>China pledges $20 billion in credit to Africa http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/18/12801209-china-pledges-20-billion-in-credit-to-africahttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/18/12801209-china-pledges-20-billion-in-credit-to-africachinaafricaworld-newsashu-jintaochina-africaWed, 18 Jul 2012 04:35:29 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, meets with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Wednesday, July 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, Pool)</p><p>United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, right, bows as he arrives to meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao, not in picture, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Wednesday, July 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, Pool)</p><p>U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Hu Jintao before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Wednesday, July 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, Pool)</p><p>South African President Jacob Zuma, centre, holds talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao, unseen,) following a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Wednesday, July 18, 2012. Zuma is in Beijing at the invitation of Chinese President and will attend the opening ceremony of the fifth Ministerial Meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) on 19 July. (AP Photo/Diego Azubel, Pool)</p><p>Chinese delegate led by President Hu Jintao, left, and South African counterpart led by President Jacob Zuma hold talks following a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Wednesday, July 18, 2012. Zuma is in Beijing to attend the opening ceremony of the fifth Ministerial Meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) on Thursday. (AP Photo/Diego Azubel, Pool)</p><p>Chinese Prewsident Hu Jintao, second left, meets with Djibouti's counterpart Ismail Omar Guelleh, unseen, following a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Wednesday, July 18, 2012. Guelleh is in Beijing to attend the opening ceremony of the fifth Ministerial Meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) on Thursday. (AP Photo/Diego Azubel, Pool)</p><p>Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, right, shakes hands with Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga during their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Wednesday, July 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, Pool)</p>Cuba's Raul Castro visiting trading partner China http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/04/12554818-cubas-raul-castro-visiting-trading-partner-chinahttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/04/12554818-cubas-raul-castro-visiting-trading-partner-chinachinacubaworld-newsashu-jintaoraul-castroWed, 4 Jul 2012 06:14:39 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_postHong Kong holds big protest as new leader sworn in http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/30/12502290-hong-kong-holds-big-protest-as-new-leader-sworn-inhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/30/12502290-hong-kong-holds-big-protest-as-new-leader-sworn-innewhong-kongleaderworld-newsashu-jintaoas-hong-kongnew-leaderleung-chun-yingSun, 1 Jul 2012 01:10:57 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>The Hong Kong Chief Executive-elect Leung Chun-ying, left, speaks besides the newly appointed principal officials during a news conference to announce the lineup in Hong Kong Thursday, June 28, 2012. Chinese President Hu Jintao is due in Hong Kong for weekend ceremonies marking the 15th anniversary of the end of British colonial rule and the inauguration of its third post-colonial leader, Leung Chun-ying. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)</p><p>Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang, right, hugs with chief executive-elect Leung Chun-ying, after the grand variety show as part of the ceremony on the 15th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong, in Hong Kong Saturday, June 30, 2012. Chinese President Hu Jintao is in Hong Kong to install a new but already unpopular governor of the semiautonomous Chinese territory. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)</p><p>A protester, center left, is ushered away by security officials after he shouted "(for China) To reverse its condemnation of the brutal June 4, 1989 crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square and to end to one-party rule in China " before Chinese President Hu Jintao's address after Hong Kong's new Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying was sworn in at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center Sunday, July 1, 2012. Hong Kong's new Beijing-backed leader was sworn in on Sunday amid a rising tide of public discontent over widening inequality and lack of full democracy in the semiautonomous southern Chinese financial center. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Hong Kong's new Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying smiles during the flag raising ceremony to mark the 15th anniversary of the Hong Kong handover to China in Hong Kong Sunday, July 1, 2012. Leung was sworn in on Sunday amid a rising tide of public discontent over widening inequality and lack of full democracy in the semiautonomous southern Chinese financial center. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)</p><p>Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, administers the oath to Hong Kong's new Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, left, as he is sworn in for a five-year term in office at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center Sunday, July 1, 2012. Hong Kong's new Beijing-backed leader was sworn in on Sunday amid a rising tide of public discontent over widening inequality and lack of full democracy in the semiautonomous southern Chinese financial center. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, shakes hands with Hong Kong's new Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying after Leung was sworn in, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center in Hong Kong Sunday, July 1, 2012. Hong Kong's new Beijing-backed leader was sworn in on Sunday amid a rising tide of public discontent over widening inequality and lack of full democracy in the semiautonomous southern Chinese financial center. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Hong Kong's Chief Executive-elect Leung Chun-ying, right, and his wife Regina shake hands with supporters during a flag raising ceremony to mark the 15th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China, Sunday, July 1, 2012, in Hong Kong. Leung was sworn in as Hong Kong's third leader amid growing discontent with China's rule over the Asian financial center. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)</p><p>Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents take part in an annual pro-democracy protest march in Hong Kong, Sunday, July 1, 2012. The march was an occasion for ordinary people to air their grievances over a range of issues. There is rising public discontent over widening inequality and lack of full democracy in the southern Chinese financial center. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)</p><p>Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents pack a street during a pro-democracy protest march in Hong Kong, Sunday, July 1, 2012. The march was an occasion for ordinary people to air their grievances over a range of issues. There is rising public discontent over widening inequality and lack of full democracy in the southern Chinese financial center. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)</p>HK reporter asks about Tiananmen, upsets Hu visit http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/30/12491070-hk-reporter-asks-about-tiananmen-upsets-hu-visithttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/30/12491070-hk-reporter-asks-about-tiananmen-upsets-hu-visitchinahong-konganniversarytensionstiananmen-squareworld-newsashu-jintaoSat, 30 Jun 2012 05:02:04 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>Chinese President Hu Jintao inspects People's Liberation Army soldiers at a camp in Hong Kong Friday, June 29, 2012. Hu arrived here on Friday to install Hong Kong's new but already unpopular leader, whose swearing-in on Sunday's anniversary is expected to draw large-scale protests. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Chinese President Hu Jintao inspects People's Liberation Army soldiers at a camp in Hong Kong Friday, June 29, 2012. Hu arrived here on Friday to install Hong Kong's new but already unpopular leader, whose swearing-in on Sunday's anniversary is expected to draw large-scale protests. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>People's Liberation Army soldiers march before Chinese President Hu Jintao during his inspection at a camp in Hong Kong Friday, June 29, 2012. Hu arrived here on Friday to install Hong Kong's new but already unpopular leader, whose swearing-in on Sunday's anniversary is expected to draw large-scale protests. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Chinese President Hu Jintao inspects People's Liberation Army soldiers at a camp in Hong Kong Friday, June 29, 2012. Hu arrived here on Friday to install Hong Kong's new but already unpopular leader, whose swearing-in on Sunday's anniversary is expected to draw large-scale protests. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>People's Liberation Army Navy sailors march before Chinese President Hu Jintao during his inspection at a camp in Hong Kong Friday, June 29, 2012. Hu arrived here on Friday to install Hong Kong's new but already unpopular leader, whose swearing-in on Sunday's anniversary is expected to draw large-scale protests. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Chinese President Hu Jintao waves to reporters during a visit to the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal Building in Hong Kong Saturday, June 30, 2012. A Hong Kong reporter has briefly thrown Chinese President Hu Jintao’s tightly scripted visit to the semiautonomous city off course by asking about the 1989 military crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square. The reporter for the Apple Daily newspaper was detained on Saturday for about 15 minutes by several security officers, who told him he was noisy and broke rules. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>A police officer is surrounded by reporters and photographers after a reporter was detained by asking Chinese President Hu Jintao about the 1989 military crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square during a visit by to the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal Building in Hong Kong Saturday, June 30, 2012. The reporter for the Apple Daily newspaper was detained on Saturday for about 15 minutes by several police officers, who told him he was noisy and broke rules. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Chinese President Hu Jintao reacts during a visit to the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal Building in Hong Kong Saturday, June 30, 2012. A Hong Kong reporter has briefly thrown Chinese President Hu Jintao’s tightly scripted visit to the semiautonomous city off course by asking about the 1989 military crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square.The reporter for the Apple Daily newspaper was detained on Saturday for about 15 minutes by several security officers, who told him he was noisy and broke rules. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Police officers stand guard during Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal Building in Hong Kong Saturday, June 30, 2012. A Hong Kong reporter has briefly thrown Chinese President Hu Jintao’s tightly scripted visit to the semiautonomous city off course by asking about the 1989 military crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square. The reporter for the Apple Daily newspaper was detained on Saturday for about 15 minutes by several police officers, who told him he was noisy and broke rules. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>A protester shouts slogans during a protest outside the exhibition center where Chinese President Hu Jintao was scheduled to attend a concert in Hong Kong, Saturday, June 30, 2012. Police used pepper spray on the demonstrators, who had been corralled into a small protest zone across the street from the site. They were far outnumbered by hundreds of police ringing the venue. The placard reads "End the one party rule " (AP Photo/Wally Santana)</p><p>Protesters chant slogans in front of police blockades during a protest rally in Hong Kong Saturday, June 30, 2012. Protesters demanded a full investigation into the death of China's labor activist Li Wangyang, who was released last year after serving 20 years in prison. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)</p><p>Chinese President Hu Jintao waves to reporters during a visit to the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal Building in Hong Kong Saturday, June 30, 2012. A Hong Kong reporter has briefly thrown Chinese President Hu Jintao’s tightly scripted visit to the semiautonomous city off course by asking about the 1989 military crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square. The reporter for the Apple Daily newspaper was detained on Saturday for about 15 minutes by several security officers, who told him he was noisy and broke rules. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p>15 years after China takeover, Hong Kong uneasy http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/29/12471301-15-years-after-china-takeover-hong-kong-uneasyhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/29/12471301-15-years-after-china-takeover-hong-kong-uneasyhong-konganniversarytensionsworld-newsashu-jintaoFri, 29 Jun 2012 05:17:58 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>Chinese President Hu Jintao is accompanied by Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang, left, after arriving at Hong Kong international airport Friday, June 29, 2012. Hu is in Hong Kong to install a new but already unpopular governor of the semiautonomous Chinese territory. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) </p><p>Chinese President Hu Jintao, second from right, speaks next to Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang, second from left, and Chief Executive-elect Leung Chun-ying, left, and Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong, right, after arrivng at Hong Kong international airport Friday, June 29, 2012. Hu is in Hong Kong to install a new but already unpopular governor of the semiautonomous Chinese territory. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) </p><p>Chinese President Hu Jintao, center, speaks after arriving at Hong Kong international airport Friday, June 29, 2012. Hu is in Hong Kong to install a new but already unpopular governor of the semiautonomous Chinese territory. Others in foreground are Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang, fourth from right, Chief Executive-elect Leung Chun-ying, fifth from right, and Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong, second from right. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) </p><p>FILE - In this June 25, 2012 file photo, members of the media use cranes to take pictures and videos of the home of Chief Executive-elect Leung Chun-ying in Hong Kong ahead of his swearing-in scheduled for July 1, 2012. His popularity tumbled since he was chosen in March because of a scandal over illegal additions to his mansion and persistent fears that he's an underground Communist Party member. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p>China promises measures to boost Hong Kong economy http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/27/12428132-china-promises-measures-to-boost-hong-kong-economyhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/27/12428132-china-promises-measures-to-boost-hong-kong-economybusinesschinahong-kongashu-jintaochina-cabinetWed, 27 Jun 2012 04:18:19 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_postObama hopes US, China can cooperate on Syria http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/19/12304737-obama-hopes-us-china-can-cooperate-on-syriahttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/19/12304737-obama-hopes-us-china-can-cooperate-on-syriachinaobamabarack-obamaworld-newshu-jintaoltTue, 19 Jun 2012 22:30:12 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_postChina vows change in trade, finance at US talks http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/02/11510638-china-vows-change-in-trade-finance-at-us-talkshttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/02/11510638-china-vows-change-in-trade-finance-at-us-talksbusinessuschinaeconomyunited-statesashu-jintaotimothy-geithnerThu, 3 May 2012 02:19:08 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>Chinese President Hu Jintao speaks at the opening of the U.S.- China Strategic and Economic Dialogue at the Diaoyutai state guesthouse in Beijing Thursday, May 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Shannon Stapleton, Pool)</p><p>Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan, right, talks to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as they attend a group photo after the opening ceremony of U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue at the Diaoyutai state guesthouse in Beijing, Thursday, May 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Jason Lee, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, second from left, introduces an official to Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo, second from right, as they attend a group photo session after the opening ceremony of U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue at the Diaoyutai state guesthouse in Beijing, Thursday, May 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Jason Lee, Pool)</p><p>Chinese President Hu Jintao, left, shakes hand with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner during the opening ceremony of the U.S.- China Strategic and Economic Dialogue at The Diaoyutai state guesthouse in Beijing, Thursday, May 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, smiles next to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, left, and Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan, right, during a photo session after the opening ceremony of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue at the Diaoyutai state guesthouse in Beijing Thursday, May 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Shannon Stapleton, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, talks to Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Friday, May 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Jason Lee, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, second from left, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, fourth from left, and U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, second from right, arrive at the Great Hall of the People for a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao, unseen, in Beijing Friday, May 4, 2012. Geithner told Hu on Friday that China's moves toward a more market-oriented exchange rate are "very promising" and said economic relations are improving despite occasional tensions. (AP Photo/Jason Lee, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Hu Jintao during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Friday, May 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Jason Lee, Pool)</p><p>From left, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan and Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo, pose together before a meeting at the Great Hall of the people in Beijing Friday, May 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Jason Lee, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, second from left, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, fourth from left, and U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, right, arrive at the Great Hall of the People for a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao, unseen, in Beijing Friday, May 4, 2012. Geithner told Hu on Friday that China's moves toward a more market-oriented exchange rate are "very promising" and said economic relations are improving despite occasional tensions. (AP Photo/Jason Lee, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Hu Jintao prior to a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Friday, May 4, 2012. Geithner told Hu on Friday that China's moves toward a more market-oriented exchange rate are "very promising" and said economic relations are improving despite occasional tensions. (AP Photo/Jason Lee, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, looks at U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, left, shake hands with Chinese President Hu Jintao prior to a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Friday, May 4, 2012. Geithner told Hu on Friday that China's moves toward a more market-oriented exchange rate are "very promising" and said economic relations are improving despite occasional tensions. (AP Photo/Jason Lee, Pool)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Hu Jintao prior to a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Friday, May 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Jason Lee, Pool)</p>US, China forge tentative deal on Chinese activist http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/02/11497218-us-china-forge-tentative-deal-on-chinese-activisthttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/02/11497218-us-china-forge-tentative-deal-on-chinese-activistuschinapoliticslawyerunited-statesstate-departmentblindworld-newshu-jintaoamerican-embassychina-foreign-ministrychen-guangchengstate-hillary-rodham-clintonstate-hillary-clintonblind-chineseWed, 2 May 2012 07:48:36 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>This undated photo provided by the China Aid Association shows blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangchen, left, with his son, Chen Kerui, center, and his wife Yuan Weijing in Shandong province, China. Chen, a well-known dissident who angered authorities in rural China by exposing forced abortions, made a surprise escape from house arrest on April 22, 2012, into what activists say is the protection of U.S. diplomats in Beijing, posing a delicate diplomatic crisis for both governments. (AP Photo/www.ChinaAid.org)</p><p>This undated photo provided by the China Aid Association shows blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangchen in Shandong province, China. Chen, a well-known dissident who angered authorities in rural China by exposing forced abortions, made a surprise escape from house arrest on April 22, 2012, into what activists say is the protection of U.S. diplomats in Beijing, posing a delicate diplomatic crisis for both governments. (AP Photo/www.ChinaAid.org)</p><p>FILE - In this April 24, 2012 file photo, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the State Department in Washington. Clinton heads to Beijing, scene of a tense human rights showdown over the fate of a blind Chinese lawyer said to be under U.S. protection there after escaping from house arrest. Activists say both sides are working to come up with a deal to diffuse the crisis ahead of U.S.-China talks on a host of global issues. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)</p><p>Chinese paramilitary police patrol outside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived Wednesday in Beijing, where a tense human rights showdown awaits over the fate of a blind Chinese lawyer said to be under U.S. protection after escaping from house arrest. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>People wait outside the U.S. Embassy for their visa application interviews in Beijing, China, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived Wednesday in Beijing, where a tense human rights showdown awaits over the fate of a blind Chinese lawyer said to be under U.S. protection after escaping from house arrest. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>ADDS U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT LEGAL ADVISOR HAROLD KOH AT LEFT In this photo released by the US Embassy Beijing Press Office, blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng is wheeled into a hospital by U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, right, and an unidentified official at left, in Beijing Wednesday May 2, 2012. At left is U.S. State Department Legal Advisor Harold Koh. (AP Photo/US Embassy Beijing Press Office, HO)</p><p>In this photo released by the US Embassy Beijing Press Office, blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, center, holds hands with U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, right, as U.S. State Department Legal Advisor Harold Koh, left, applauds, before leaving the U.S. embassy for a hospital in Beijing Wednesday May 2, 2012. (AP Photo/US Embassy Beijing Press Office, HO)</p><p>In this photo released by the US Embassy Beijing Press Office, blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng makes a phone call as he is accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke in a car on the way to a hospital in Beijing Wednesday May 2, 2012. (AP Photo/US Embassy Beijing Press Office)</p><p>FILE - In this undated photo released by supporters of Chen Guangcheng, blind activist Chen Guangcheng, center, is seen in a village in China. Guangcheng says a U.S. official told him that Chinese authorities threatened to beat his wife to death had be not left the American Embassy. Speaking by phone from his hospital room in Beijing on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, a shaken Chen told The Associated Press that U.S. officials relayed the threat from the Chinese side. Chen, who fled to the embassy six day ago, left under an agreement in which he would receive medical care, be reunited with his family and allowed to attend university in a safe place. He says he now fears for his safety and wants to leave. (AP Photo/Supporters of Chen Guangcheng, HO)</p><p>FILE - In this undated photo released by supporters of Chen Guangcheng, blind activist Chen Guangcheng, center, is seen in a village in China. Guangcheng says a U.S. official told him that Chinese authorities threatened to beat his wife to death had be not left the American Embassy. Speaking by phone from his hospital room in Beijing on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, a shaken Chen told The Associated Press that U.S. officials relayed the threat from the Chinese side. Chen, who fled to the embassy six day ago, left under an agreement in which he would receive medical care, be reunited with his family and allowed to attend university in a safe place. He says he now fears for his safety and wants to leave. (AP Photo/Supporters of Chen Guangcheng, HO)</p><p>This undated photo provided by the China Aid Association shows blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng, right, with his son, Chen Kerui, with his wife Yuan Weijing, left, in Shandong province, China. Chen, a blind activist said Wednesday, May 2, 2012, that U.S. officials told him that Chinese authorities would have beaten his wife to death had he not left the American Embassy, where he sought sanctuary after fleeing persecution by local officials in his rural town. A senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, denied that the administration had passed on to Chen Guangcheng any threat of violence to his family, but did say that Chen was told that if he stayed in the embassy indefinitely, his family would be returned to their home province. (AP Photo/www.ChinaAid.org)</p><p>This undated photo provided by the China Aid Association shows blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng, right, holding his son, Chen Kerui, with his wife Yuan Weijing, second from left, and his mother, left, in Shandong province, China. Chen, a blind activist said Wednesday, May 2, 2012, that U.S. officials told him that Chinese authorities would have beaten his wife to death had he not left the American Embassy, where he sought sanctuary after fleeing persecution by local officials in his rural town. A senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, denied that the administration had passed on to Chen Guangcheng any threat of violence to his family, but did say that Chen was told that if he stayed in the embassy indefinitely, his family would be returned to their home province. (AP Photo/www.ChinaAid.org)</p><p>In this photo released by the US Embassy Beijing Press Office, blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, front left, holds hands with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell, as U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, back center, looks on, before leaving the U.S. Embassy for a hospital in Beijing Wednesday May 2, 2012. (AP Photo/US Embassy Beijing Press Office, HO)</p><p>In this photo released by the US Embassy Beijing Press Office, blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, left, is helped by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell, right, and U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke as they leave the U.S. Embassy for a hospital in Beijing Wednesday May 2, 2012. (AP Photo/US Embassy Beijing Press Office, HO)</p><p>In this photo released by the US Embassy Beijing Press Office, blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, obscured, is embraced by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell, as U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, right, looks on, before leaving the U.S. Embassy for a hospital in Beijing Wednesday May 2, 2012. (AP Photo/US Embassy Beijing Press Office, HO)</p><p>A Chinese man holds up a sign which reads "Freedom Guangcheng, Democracy China" at a hospital where blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng is believed to be seeking treatment in Beijing, China, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Chen who sparked a diplomatic tussle by holing up in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing for six days emerged Wednesday after U.S. officials said China had assured his safety. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>A Chinese man holds up a sign which reads "Freedom Guangcheng, Democracy China" at a hospital where blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is believed to be seeking treatment in Beijing, China, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Chen who sparked a diplomatic tussle by holing up in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing for six days emerged Wednesday after U.S. officials said China had assured his safety. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>A child wearing sunglasses peeks through a group of onlookers and journalists gathered outside a hospital where blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is believed to be seeking treatment in Beijing, China, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Chen who sparked a diplomatic tussle by holing up in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing for six days emerged Wednesday after U.S. officials said China had assured his safety. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>A child wearing sunglasses tries to get past onlookers and journalists gathered outside a hospital where blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is believed to be seeking treatment in Beijing, China, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Chen who sparked a diplomatic tussle by holing up in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing for six days emerged Wednesday after U.S. officials said China had assured his safety. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>A Chinese police officer uses a video camera to record the press identity card of a foreign journalist outside a hospital where blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is believed to be seeking treatment in Beijing, China, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Chen who sparked a diplomatic tussle by holing up in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing for six days emerged Wednesday after U.S. officials said China had assured his safety. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>A Chinese man holds up a sign which reads "Freedom Guangcheng, Democracy China" at a hospital where blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng is believed to be seeking treatment in Beijing, China, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Chen who sparked a diplomatic tussle by holing up in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing for six days emerged Wednesday after U.S. officials said China had assured his safety. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>A U.S. Embassy vehicle leaves from a hospital where blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is believed to be seeking treatment in Beijing, China, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Chen who sparked a diplomatic tussle by holing up in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing for six days emerged Wednesday after U.S. officials said China had assured his safety. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>Human rights activist Jiang Tianyong speaks to journalists outside a hospital after his failed attempt to see blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng who is believed to be seeking treatment in Beijing, China, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Chen who sparked a diplomatic tussle by holing up in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing for six days emerged Wednesday after U.S. officials said China had assured his safety. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, stands with Chinese President Hu Jintao during the opening ceremony of the U.S.- China Strategic and Economic Dialogue at the Diaoyutai state guesthouse in Beijing Thursday, May 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)</p><p>In this photo released by the US Embassy Beijing Press Office, blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, in wheel chair, meets his wife Yuan Weijing, right, daughter Chen Kesi, in blue shirt at second right, and son Chen Kerui, left, at a hospital in Beijing, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. U.S. ambassador to China, Gary Locke stands at Chen's right, and man at back in dark suit is language attache James Brown. (AP Photo/U.S. Embassy Beijing Press Office, HO) </p><p>Chinese police officers watch over journalists outside the hospital where blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is recuperating in Beijing, China, Thursday, May 3, 2012. U.S. officials said Thursday they are still trying to help Chen who says he fears for his family's safety, and denied he was pressured to leave the American Embassy to resettle inside China.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>Du Yanling wears sunglasses, similar to those of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, over his normal glasses outside the hospital where Chen is recuperating in Beijing, China, Thursday, May 3, 2012. Du said he is there to show support for Chen who fled persecution by local officials in his rural town and sought refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing for six days. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>A security guard shouts to a driver trying to get through the locked gates of a hospital where blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng is recuperating in Beijing, China, Thursday, May 3, 2012. The Obama administration's diplomatic predicament deepened Thursday when Chen who took refuge in the American Embassy told the U.S. he now wants to go abroad, rejecting a deal that was supposed to keep him safely in China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>In this photo released by the US Embassy Beijing Press Office, blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, center, accompanied by U.S. ambassador to China, Gary Locke, left, talks on a cell phone in a car en route from the U.S. Embassy to a hospital in Beijing, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. At second left is language attache James Brown and at right is U.S. State Department legal advisor Harold Koh. (AP Photo/U.S. Embassy Beijing Press Office, HO) </p><p>Robert S. Wang, center, deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Beijing, gestures as he walks with an unidentified U.S. embassy staff, left, outside the hospital where blind activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng is recuperating in Beijing Friday, May 4, 2012. The Chinese activist at the center of a diplomatic standoff between the United States and China said Friday his situation is "dangerous," and that American officials have been blocked from seeing him for two days and friends who have tried to visit have been beaten up. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>Chinese residents sit near a hospital where blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng is recuperating, in Beijing Friday, May 4, 2012. The diplomatic disarray deepened Thursday after Chen reversed course and asked to leave China with his family, abandoning an arduously negotiated agreement even though he had left the protection of the U.S. Embassy and was in the hospital ringed by Chinese police. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>In this photo released by the US Embassy Beijing Press Office, family members of blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, wife Yuan Weijing, back row second right, daughter Chen Kesi, front row center, and son Chen Kerui, front row left, pose for photo with U.S. officials in Beijing, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. With the family are U.S. ambassador to China, Gary Locke, crouching, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, Kurt Campbell, back row second left, and U.S. State Department legal advisor Harold Koh, right. At left is not identified. (AP Photo/U.S. Embassy Beijing Press Office, HO) </p><p>In this photo released by the US Embassy Beijing Press Office, blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, left, chats with U.S. ambassador to China, Gary Locke as they leave the U.S. embassy for a hospital in Beijing, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. (AP Photo/U.S. Embassy Beijing Press Office, HO) </p><p>Robert S. Wang, center, deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Beijing, walks with an unidentified U.S. embassy staff, left, outside the hospital where blind activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng is recuperating in Beijing Friday, May 4, 2012. The blind Chinese activist at the center of a diplomatic standoff between the United States and China said Friday his situation is "dangerous," and that American officials have been blocked from seeing him for two days and friends who have tried to visit have been beaten up. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>Robert S. Wang, center, deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Beijing, walks with an unidentified U.S. embassy staff outside the hospital where blind activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng is recuperating in Beijing Friday, May 4, 2012. The blind Chinese activist at the center of a diplomatic standoff between the United States and China said Friday his situation is "dangerous," and that American officials have been blocked from seeing him for two days and friends who have tried to visit have been beaten up. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>In this photo released by the US Embassy Beijing Press Office, U.S. ambassador to China, Gary Locke, left, makes a phone call as he accompanies blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, right, in a car en route from the U.S. Embassy to a hospital in Beijing, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. At center is language attache James Brown. (AP Photo/U.S. Embassy Beijing Press Office, HO) </p><p>A police officer stands guard in the middle of two images featuring blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng during a protest in front of the Chinese central government's liaison in Hong Kong Friday, May 4, 2012. Chen at the center of a diplomatic standoff between the United States and China said Friday his situation is "dangerous," and that American officials have been blocked from seeing him for two days and friends who have tried to visit have been beaten up. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)</p><p>Chinese residents flash the victory signs at journalists as they are asked to move by a Chinese police officer outside the hospital where blind activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng is admitted in Beijing Friday, May 4, 2012. China hinted at a possible, face-saving way out of a diplomatic standoff with the United States over Chen, saying Friday that he could apply for permission to study abroad. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>In this photo released by the US Embassy Beijing Press Office, blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, center, holds hands with U.S. ambassador to China, Gary Locke, right, and U.S. State Department legal advisor Harold Koh, left, at a hospital in Beijing, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. (AP Photo/U.S. Embassy Beijing Press Office, HO) </p><p>In this photo released by the US Embassy Beijing Press Office, blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, left, talks with U.S. ambassador to China, Gary Locke, right, before leaving for a hospital at the U.S. embassy in Beijing, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. At center is language attache James Brown. 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Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:21:26 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>In New Delhi, a man set himself on fire in protest against a visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao.</p>Obama, Hu meeting to focus on North Korea http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/26/10862482-obama-hu-meeting-to-focus-on-north-koreahttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/26/10862482-obama-hu-meeting-to-focus-on-north-koreachinanorth-koreaobamabarack-obamaworld-newsashu-jintaoMon, 26 Mar 2012 06:57:24 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_postFlashy style seen behind downfall of China's Bo http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/09/10620416-flashy-style-seen-behind-downfall-of-chinas-bohttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/09/10620416-flashy-style-seen-behind-downfall-of-chinas-bochinascandalpoliticalunited-statescommunist-partyworld-newsashu-jintaobo-xilaichina-communist-partyFri, 9 Mar 2012 11:35:38 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai reacts during a plenary session of the National People's Congress held in Beijing, China, Friday, March 9, 2012. Under fire over a scandal that threatens his career, Bo confidently hit back Friday, admitting lapses in judgment while defending the controversial anti-mafia crackdown that made him and his ex-police chief popular. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai, right shakes hand with a Chinese police officer after a plenary session of the National People's Congress in Beijing, China, Friday, March 9, 2012. Under fire over a scandal that threatens his career, Bo confidently hit back Friday, admitting lapses in judgment while defending the controversial anti-mafia crackdown that made him and his ex-police chief popular. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>In this photo taken Friday, March 9, 2012, Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai rubs his face during a session of the National People's Congress held in Beijing. China's state news agency announced Thursday, March 15, 2012 that Bo resigned amid a scandal involving his former police chief and replaced by Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>In this photo taken Friday, March 9, 2012, Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai rubs his face during a session of the National People's Congress held in Beijing. China's state news agency announced Thursday, March 15, 2012 that Bo resigned amid a scandal involving his former police chief and replaced by Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>In this photo taken Friday, March 9, 2012, Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai, right, sits next to Xu Caihou, vice chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission, as Wang Yang, Guangdong party secretary, left gestures at Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang during a session of the National People's Congress held in Beijing. China's state news agency announced Thursday, March 15, 2012 that Bo resigned amid a scandal involving his former police chief and replaced by Zhang. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p><p>FILE - In this file photo taken on March 11, 2012, Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai, looks as he attends a plenary session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. China's Communist Party sidelined Bo, a powerful, charismatic politician Thursday, March 15, following a messy scandal that saw a trusted aide flee to a U.S. consulate and that threatened to cast a shadow over a looming leadership transition. Bo's removal as party chief of the huge inland city of Chongqing appears to end the upward trajectory of a political celebrity who months ago seemed headed for the uppermost ranks of power. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)</p><p>FILE - In this March 14, 2012 file photo, Bo Xilai, Chongqing party secretary attends the closing session of the annual National People's Congress in the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing, China. China's Communist Party sidelined Bo, a powerful, charismatic politician Thursday, March 15, following a messy scandal that saw a trusted aide flee to a U.S. consulate and that threatened to cast a shadow over a looming leadership transition. Bo's removal as party chief of the huge inland city of Chongqing appears to end the upward trajectory of a political celebrity who months ago seemed headed for the uppermost ranks of power. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)</p><p>In this photo taken Friday, March 9, 2012, Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai, walks past other Chinese leaders from left, Zhou Yong Kang, China's Communist Party head of Political and Legislative affairs committee, Vice Premier Li Keqiang and propaganda chief Li Changchun during a session of the National People's Congress held in Beijing. China's state news agency announced Thursday, March 15, 2012 that Bo resigned amid a scandal involving his former police chief and replaced by Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)</p>