The Caucus: Retreat on Chinese Toy Statement
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The Obama campaign went to work qualifying his remarks on banning toys imported from China, a pledge that a spokesman for Chinaâs Foreign Ministry called âunwise.â.
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China hit back after Mattel's massive toy recall on Monday, saying designers and importers should also take responsibility for product safety, but promised to punish its own manufacturers who flout standards.
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An executive reportedly apologized for maligning Chinese manufacturers in the course of toy recalls, but the company said the remarks were misconstrued.
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Frank Hsieh, the candidate of Taiwan&#39;s ruling Democratic Progressive Party in next March&#39;s presidential election, pledged Tuesday to loosen regulations covering the transfer of Taiwanese technology to China.Taiwanese companies face various hurdles in moving their operations to China and typically have to receive government approval before making chip investments on the mainland. The two nations separated in 1949 amid civil war, and Beijing has long threatened the use of force to take the island if it moves towards formal independence.Intel and other non-Taiwanese chip-makers investing in China face fewer administrative barriers.&quot;The degree of regulation is a problem so in terms of technology transfer I would like to loosen it if I become president and make it as loose as Intel,&quot; Hsieh said at a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents&#39; Club of Japan in Tokyo.The exchange of chip-making technology to China is a hot issue in Taiwan, whose economy is influenced by major semiconductor makers.In October the founder and former chairman of United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), the world&#39;s second largest contract chip maker, were found not guilty of investing in and transferring technology to a Chinese chip maker. Earlier in the year a Taipei court overturned an NT$5 million (US$154,000) fine against UMC over the same deal with He Jian Technology (Suzhou) Co. Ltd.Taiwan&#39;s presidential election is scheduled to take place on March 22, 2008.
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Tycho:   It has become the Saturday tradition to do the next strip upon the expo's stark and terrifying stage, but since Armadeaddon needed its proper epilogue it got moved out to Wednesday.  Gabe was highly indulgent of audience suggestions in the final version, far more than he is to me, adding many, many things based on them being called out from the microphone - he has a version with more additions still that he'll be putting up later today.  But there are things in there like the blue ball in the last panel - to say nothing of the official "Hot-Dog Fairy" merchandise! - that began as anecdotes and have now graduated to true PAX lore.
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Tycho: Sorry about that. Kiko digests the audio files for that, and I forgot that there President's Day was a holiday that people took seriously. Before today, I was not aware just how seriously Kiko took the concept of presidency. Also, I fixed an offensive and aggressively stupid typographical error in the post above. Now, it's only aggressively stupid in the ways I originally intended.(CW)TB
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Chen made the remarks yesterday when meeting a group of Canadian officials. The group was led by David Kilgour of Canada's Liberal Party, who is a member of the Canadian House of Commons.
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China has banned &quot;sexually provocative sounds&quot; on television and pulled the plug on a show reconstructing infamous crimes by women ahead of a major Communist Party meeting next month.
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China highlighted Mattel's apology over its recall of huge numbers of toys on Monday to press its claim that Chinese exports are generally safe and foreign politicians and media have unfairly hyped quality scares.
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The Fourth Plenum of the 16th CPC Central Committee in the Communist Party in China was closed on September 19. In this meeting, Jiang Zeminâs resignation as the CPC`s top military official was the top story.
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The executive reportedly apologized for maligning Chinese manufacturers in the course of toy recalls, but the company said the remarks were misconstrued.
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The move was aimed at braking what many inside and outside China now see as a stock market bubble.
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U.S. officials say a Chinese vice prime minister may not have the influence to challenge the party apparatus that is tied to the sprawling state-owned export industries.
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Democratic presidential candidate  Barack Obama on Sunday stepped back from a pledge to halt U.S.  imports of Chinese-made toys because of safety concerns.
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Toy makers are instituting tougher quality controls in China and elsewhere to try to avoid repetition of the  recalls that damaged the industry last year.
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The toy maker is on the defensive over recalls, but are assurances of good sales believable?
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By Michael Casey, Associated Press  ZHEN