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Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square protests could all be accessed through Google’s Chinese search engine Tuesday in defiance of Beijing’s censorship rules.

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THE fourth quarter earnings reporting season has so far achieved all that investors could have hoped for, but the good news has all been obscured by a wave of worrisome events from Washington and Beijing and Europe.
‘The corporate side of the stock market’s fundamental picture has been a true success story in the early going in 2010,’ said Nick Colas, chief market strategist at Convergex Group. ‘E… more

President Obama’s trip to Asia is one part introduction, one part diplomatic dialogue and eight parts competitive economics. Whatever agreements are met with leaders of Japan, and South Korean or communiqués are issued from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference (APEC) in Singapore, it is the visit to Beijing that matters….

The Peninsula Hotel in Beijing has far more staff than its counterpart in New York. Squads of doormen hail cabs, busboys compete for baggage, water glasses are filled in the restaurant without asking. In the department store nearby dozens of sales clerks idly rearrange the merchandise and getting there is…

Have the Chinese engineered a spectacular economic recovery, the envy of the industrial world or has Beijing created a version of the American housing and credit bubble of the past decade? So far the China jury is out. But despite the evident confidence in the mainland story shown by the…

Reuters – China’s Beijing Auto said intellectual property issues were behind its failure to reach an deal with General Motors over its Opel unit.