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...epochal moment for the region? LEE: It happened in an unplanned, almost accidental, way. Abdullah Badawi, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, offered to host an East Asia summit: ASEAN plus three - the three being China, Japan and South Korea. China's premier, Wen Jiabao, then offered to host the second summit. That would move the center of gravity away from Southeast to Northeast Asia and make some countries anxious. We agreed that we should also invite India, Australia and New Zealand and keep the center in ASEAN; also, India would be a useful balance to China's heft. This...
...Mining is chaotic and safety enforcement isn't in place." WEN JIABAO, Chinese Premier, after an explosion at a mine in northeastern China on Nov. 27 killed 170 workers. This week, as many as 100 died in a separate incident...
...surprising that this nationalist animosity reaches the highest levels of government. The Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, recently created shockwaves by saying he would refuse to meet with Japan's prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, at a ground-breaking summit of East Asian nations that begins Monday. Reasons include rising Japanese nationalism and a recent visit by the Japanese Premier to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which commemorates Japan's war dead, including some war criminals from the time of Japan's invasion of China in the 1930s. But underneath that diplomatic spat over history is a struggle for power and influence...
...authorities seemed to have learned a lesson. When a smaller petrochemical factory in Chongqing blew up last week, resulting in another benzene leak (and forcing the evacuation of 6,000 residents), the government announced the news almost immediately. On Saturday, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao made a surprise visit to Harbin to thank paramilitary troops distributing water-filtration kits in the city. "We must not allow the masses to be short of water," he said...
...tough talk on what they call the Three Ts: trade, terrorism and Taiwan. But there could be surprises: British Prime Minister Tony Blair wound up a two-day trip to Beijing last week in which he spent eight hours interacting with Hu's number two, Premier Wen Jiabao. Blair praised Wen's "frankness and openness...