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...Americans have many virtues-we are a hardworking, innovative people-but we are also impatient.' HENRY PAULSON, U.S. Treasury Secretary, opening a two-day U.S.-China trade summit in Washington D.C. by warning that the talks needed to address "immediate concerns" such as the effects of China's trade surplus and its undervalued currency on the U.S. economy...
...RECORDS 8,848 Altitude, in meters, at which the world's highest mobile phone call was made, on May 21, by climber Rod Baber from the summit of Mount Everest -30 Temperature, in degrees Celsius, when Baber made the call. The phone's batteries were taped to his body to ensure they would stay warm enough to work...
CONTEXT German authorities have said potentially violent activists could face up to two weeks of preventive detention during June's Group of Eight summit in Heiligendamm...
...vast stores of natural resources. It now supplies around a quarter of Europe's natural gas and a rising proportion of its oil. Human rights, however, are in shorter supply. Earlier this month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel chided Putin for restrictions on opposition rallies during an E.U.-Russia summit. Putin's response: "What is pure democracy? It is a question of ... whether you want to see the glass half-full or half-empty." While Litvinenko's murder remains unsolved, many fear the levels in that glass will continue to fall...
...meetings between the U.S. and China were meant to be high-minded affairs, where long-term, structural issues of interest to both countries would be thoughtfully discussed. But no matter how much U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi try to cast this week's summit as an intellectual exercise, the main issue confronting them is by no means academic. China's trade surplus with the rest of the world is now at a projected $400 billion, and there is no sign that it is going to shrink anytime soon. The surplus this year will...