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...Chinese Premier Hu Jintao began his four-day visit to India -the first by a Chinese head of state in more than a decade - there was plenty of talk about the good ties between the two countries, about the free trade agreement they hope to sign and about the fact that 2006 is "India-China Friendship Year." But what you won't hear as much about this week, at least not officially, are the tensions that remain between Beijing and New Delhi...
...Minh City is one of Asia's best-performing this year, up 70%. To top it all off, Hanoi is hosting this year's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, on Nov. 18-19, which is expected to be attended by U.S. President George W. Bush and China President Hu Jintao. Salzman, who toughed out the lean years and built an industrial-materials distributorship with annual turnover of $100 million, says he thinks Vietnam has finally arrived as a modern economy. "Before, people said [the Vietnamese] weren't ready," he says. "Now, I think they're ready...
...last year alone, three top Chinese leaders, including President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, have made extended trips to the continent. Nor is the relationship simply one of political solidarity among developing nations: China's trade with Africa has quintupled since 2000 and its annual total is expected to hit $50 billion in 2006, and then to double again by 2010. China now imports about a quarter of its crude oil from Africa...
When China's President Hu Jintao appeared last weekend on a flag-bedecked dais alongside his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, and called for national unity, many Chinese instead heard evidence of discord...
...Party boss Chen Liangyu had multiple meanings. On one level, the purge of a prominent Politburo member-over allegations that Chen allowed associates to milk Shanghai's pension accounts to fund investments in the city's booming real estate-was widely seen as a political move by President Hu Jintao to consolidate power ahead of next year's Party Congress. On a second level, Chen's arrest, along with the news late last week that real estate speculation was also under scrutiny in other parts of the country, reflected Beijing's seriousness about taking China's overheated property markets...