China Pulls Up the Drawbridge
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Over the summer, a number of high-profile building projects by foreign firms were halted, scaled back or savaged in the press.
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&quot;Arise, ye who refuse to be slaves!&quot; go  the stirring words that open China&#39;s national anthem.
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Thundering fighter jets streamed the blue, white and red of the French tricolor as President Jacques Chirac on Tuesday dedicated the world's tallest bridge, a skyway span dwarfing the Eiffel Tower by more than 50 feet.
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MILLAU, France  - President Jacques Chirac  inaugurated the world's highest bridge Tuesday, a creation  taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer then the Champs Elysees  and designed to end a traffic bottleneck in southern France.
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MILLAU, France  - President Jacques Chirac  inaugurated the world's highest bridge on Tuesday, a creation  taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer than the Champs Elysees  and designed to end a traffic bottleneck in southern France.
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China won both singles matches on the first day of their Federation Cup World Group tie against France here on Saturday to go 2-0 up and stake a strong claim for a place in the last four of the competition.
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President Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world's highest bridge Tuesday, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer then the Champs Elysees and designed to end a traffic bottleneck in southern France.
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Pressure mounted on China to allow its currency to float freely as the IMF's top official urged Chinese authorities to make the move now, while their economy is booming.
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China has again aroused the attention of Taiwan and the rest of the world by announcing it will enact an &quot;anti-secession law.
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China is ratcheting up pressure for the lifting of its EU arms embargo to remove the stigma of sanctions but also because it needs the technology to upgrade its existing systems, analysts say.
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World News &gt; Islamabad, Oct 11 : Pakistan today described the abduction of two Chinese engineers by Al Qaeda-linked militants in the tribal South Waziristan agency bordering Afghanistan as a &quot;serious incident&quot; and said it was taking all measures for their
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PINGXIANG, China  - At a dusty border crossing on a remote section of the China-Vietnam border, Puzhai looks more like a railway crossing than an entry point into the world's most resource-ravenous economy.
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QINYANG BASE, China, Sept. 15 -- The Chinese military put on a display of its first Darfur-bound peacekeepers Saturday, having troops throw up Bailey bridges and feign combat to dramatize Beijing's desire to be seen as a partner in bringing peace to the violence-torn corner of Sudan.
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The new China is driven by tensions between authoritarianism and something beyond.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 11 September: China's State Council, or Cabinet, has authorized the Three Gorges power plant to raise the water level of the reservoir from the current 135 metres to 156 metres.
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French President Jacques Chirac inaugurated Tuesday the world&#39;s tallest bridge, the viaductof Millau of 270 meters above ground.
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As air force jets screamed overhead, French President Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world's tallest bridge Tuesday, a stunning masterpiece of engineering that will carry drivers 270 metres (885 feet) above ground.