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Sometime in the afternoon of July 5, agents from the Shanghai State Security Bureau - the agency that pursues cases of espionage within China - arrested and detained Stern Hu, an Australian citizen who is a senior Shanghai-based executive for Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto. Three of Hu's deputies, who are Chinese, were also detained that day. On July 8, Rio confirmed that Hu and his colleagues had been detained on suspicion of selling "state secrets." The Chinese government confirmed the detentions only on July 9, and the Australian Consulate in Shanghai said its representatives would be able...
...relatively ordinary case of suspected industrial espionage. But the timing, the people and the company involved in this case make it anything but routine. The arrests have thrown already-fraught relations between Australia and China - its largest trading partner - into an uproar, and for good reason: Stern Hu and his deputies were in charge of Rio Tinto's negotiations over the price of iron ore with Chinese steelmakers. China is now the word's largest consumer of iron ore, and Rio its largest supplier - shoveling vast amounts of high-quality ore from its huge mines in western Australia. The price...
...left 156 dead in the city of Urumqi, the Chinese government is still struggling to bring calm and order to the Xinjiang capital. On July 8, Communist Party leader Li Zhi announced that the government would seek the death penalty for anyone found responsible for the killings as President Hu Jintao flew home from Italy, cutting short his visit to the G-8 summit. While the city hasn't seen a return to fighting on the scale it witnessed on July 5, scattered outbursts are stoking fears that violence could erupt again, and tensions on all sides of the conflict...
...Since Hu's return from Italy, the country's top officials are now focused on the Xinjiang unrest. Minister of Public Security Meng Jianzhu addressed more than 100 police officers clad in all-black riot gear on a street near the People's Square in Urumqi, telling them that they were responsible for the people's safety. Security forces have come from as far away as central Shanxi and eastern Anhui provinces, and the influx of troops has brought the city largely under control. (See TIME's coverage of the G-8 summit...
...economies - China has already promised a $10 billion soft loan to its SCO allies, including Russia, which has been hit particularly hard by the fallout of the world's financial crisis. Few will raise thornier questions of political reform. After all, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, can hardly hold the moral high ground and chide Ahmadinejad for jury-rigging the democratic process. (Watch a video on a Russian road trip...