The World From Berlin: China's Neurotic Petulance over Tibet
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel received the Dalai Lama in Berlin on Sunday, knowing full well that it would infuriate Beijing. The German press welcomes her firm stance on human rights issues and plays down any long-term damage to relations between Germany and China. The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader spent an hour with the chancellor in what were described as private and informal talks. After the meeting Merkel's spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm said that she had assured the Dalai Lama of "her support in his efforts to maintain the cultural identity of Tibet and in his policy of non-violent striving toward religious and cultural autonomy." There have been concerns, particularly among German businesspeople with interests in China that Sunday's meeting could damage Berlin-Beijing relations. China's Foreign Ministry had called in Germany's ambassador to Beijing earlier this month to protest the impending visit and China cancelled a two-day meeting scheduled for this weekend on legal issues with German Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries citing "technical reasons." The German press on Monday played down the risk of any long-term damage to relations with Beijing and praises the chancellor for her emphasis on human rights in her foreign policy.
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CHONGQING, China  - China's western metropolis of Chongqing is typically described as gritty and industrial. Its new Communist Party boss, Bo Xilai, is known as worldly and sophisticated.
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People gather at the gate of No2 Senior Middle School in Ruzhou, near Pingdingshan, in China&#39;s central Henan province. Photograph: Xinhua/Zhu/Reuters.
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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam -- Northerners are rude, they talk funny, they are lousy drivers and have bad taste.
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China assailed the United States on Monday for listing it as a country that violates religious freedoms. The State Department list released last week included China among Myanmar, North Korea, Eritrea, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Sudan as places where people cannot practice their faiths freely.
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China is booming and Beijing is its cosmopolitan heart. What's the platform of choice for the city's new tech and media elite? Well, it's not the Mac. But China's Macophiles are banding together. Hector Mackenzie reports from the Chinese capital.
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BERLIN, Dec. 13 -- The world's perception of China as a major global power is growing, with many people believing it will rival the United States in influence by 2020, according to a major survey released this week.
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BEIWU, China  - Ethnic rivalries have sparked  recent violent clashes in China, where the government has its  hands full trying to control a country of 1.3 billion people as  economic differences bubble into unrest with growing frequency.
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Chinaâs military modernization, particularly its drive to develop advanced weaponry, has been raising concerns.
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I am a professor of geography visiting Taiwan, and have read about the proposed construction of a freeway from Taipei to Hualien. The experience of communities in North America and Europe has been fairly consistent
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FENGHUA, China  - The enemy of my enemy is my  friend. It is such an enemy that China's communist leaders are  bringing into play as they struggle to counter the drive for  independence by an island it views as a renegade province.
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27 November 2004 -- China today indirectly criticized Russia&#39;s decision to agree in principle to issue a visa to the Dalai Lama.
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ELEANOR HALL: To China now, and authorities in Beijing have released an Australian man arrested for unfurling a banner that read &quot;No Olympics In China Until Tibet Is Free&quot;.
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Zhou Fenying is a living witness  to the dark history that still poisons China&#39;s relations with  Japan more than 60 years after World War Two.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel angers China with a planned meeting with the Dalai Lama in Berlin.