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President Ma praises briefing by Obama envoy Burghardt
Taipei :: Taiwan | 1 day ago
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President Ma Ying-jeou said yesterday that the briefing by American Institute in Taiwan Chairman Raymond Burghardt about U.S. President Barack Obama's China trip was one of the smoothest and most comprehensive ever. Burghardt visited Ma at the Presidential...
Tags: U.S. Taiwan, American Institute for Taiwan, Barack Obama, Raymond Burghardt, chairman raymond, arms sales, president barack, taiwan chairman, Beijing, Taiwan, Taipei, Political status of Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou, Taiwan Relations Act, Republic of China, Politics of the People's Republic of China, American Institute in Taiwan, Republic of China ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, Politics, Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jin-pyng, Democratic Progressive Party, Kuomintang, Hakka, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Taiwan shares close down 0.21 percent
Taipei :: Taiwan | 26 days ago
Credibility Taiwan share prices closed down 0.21 percent yesterday after profit-taking reversed early gains on a Wall Street recovery overnight, dealers said. The weighted index fell 15.61 points to 7,340.08 on turnover of NT$101.32 billion(US$3.12 billion). Losers...
Tags: Land Bank of Taiwan, Taiwan Strait, Taiwan Cooperative Bank, Soros-China, China Daily, arms sales, central banks, taiwan share, share close, wall street
US expands sales of arms
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility WASHINGTON: The United States expanded its role as the world's leading weapons supplier, increasing its share to more than two-thirds of all foreign armaments deals, The New York Times reported late Sunday. Citing a new congressional study, the newspaper...
Tags: United States, arms sales, The New York Times, U.S, Russian, global arms, global sales, Congressional Research Service, congressional study, weapons sales
U.S. largest global weapons supplier
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility The United States expanded its dominant role as the largest global weapons supplier in 2008 despite a recession that hurt arms sales, a government report said. The report, released to Congress Friday by the Congressional Research Service, a division of...
Tags: United States, arms sales, U.S, The New York Times, weapons supplier, global arms, Russian, global sales, Congressional Research Service, congressional study
Striking success
Paris :: France | 5 months ago
Credibility The man in charge of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter programme, Lockheed Martin vice-president Tom Burbage, has told the BBC that sales of the fighter jet could far exceed earlier predictions. Mr Burbage said he expected the US and the other eight Joint...
Tags: Paris Air Show, Lockheed Martin, joint strike, strike fighters, arms sales
Canada not to lift arms embargo on Pakistan
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 6 months ago
Credibility Ottawa had imposed the embargo after Pakistan exploded its nuclear device in 1998 in response to India's second round of nuclear tests. The government's statement comes just a day after Canadian Defence Minister Peter MacKay said in Islamabad that his...
Tags: Pakistan, Peter MacKay, Canada, defence minister, minister peter, arms sales
Severe repression on rise, says rights report
Beijing :: China | 9 months ago
Credibility The United States has scolded China for a litany of human rights abuses last year, even though Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested during her recent Beijing visit that the issue would take a back seat to broader concerns like the global financial...
Tags: US-China, Tibetan Losar, Tibetan Youth Congress, United States, military ties, Chinese, Washington, Taiwan, U.S, arms sales
China hopes for continuity as Clinton visits
Beijing :: China | 9 months ago
Credibility We think relations will remain basically stable and don't expect or hope for any major changes," said Zhu Feng, director of the Center for International and Strategic Studies at Peking University. Clinton is due to arrive in Beijing on Friday evening...
Tags: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Greenpeace China, US-China, Beijing, Taiwan, Chinese, arms sales
RGE Monitor: Is complaining about others’ protectionism protectionist?
Shanghai :: China | 9 months ago
Credibility Is complaining about others’ protectionism protectionist? Dr. Mankiw labels complaints about China’s practice of intervening in the market to hold its currency down protectionist. But Mankiw isn’t defending a world where governments do not intervene...
Tags: arms sales, soviet record
China fears containment as defense spending rises
Beijing :: China | 10 months ago
Credibility China fears containment abroad and separatist groups at home, a defense policy paper said on Tuesday, justifying a drive to increase military spending and push the People's Liberation Army into the high-tech era. China's security has been improving as...
Tags: China Calls, Taiwan Straits, Tibet, arms sales, Barack Obama, military ties, Ministry of National Defense, PLA general armament department, spokesman hu, improved military
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