China trade coup for PM
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JOHN Howard will make an official visit to China next year with hopes of announcing negotiations for a free trade agreement. Mr Howard announced the visit yesterday after talks in Santiago, Chile, with Chinese President Hu Jintao.
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Branson talks up a Virgin 'winnable package' after seeing PM during the China trade mission
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Textile concerns among China&#39;s trading partners in the coming integration of global trade have made the nation determined to control its exports.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown told China on Friday he wanted Britain to be the number one choice for Chinese trade and investment as he sought to take the relationship to a "higher level".
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown brought a high-profile delegation of business leaders to China on Friday for a visit focused on expanding economic ties between the countries.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Pakistan counterpart Pervez Musharraf oversaw the signing of a landmark free trade deal and vowed to take the allies' &quot;evergreen&quot; relationship to new heights.
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The European Union is not yet ready  to lift an arms embargo on China, Bernard Bot, Foreign Minister  of the Netherlands which holds the bloc's rotating presidency,  said Wednesday.  "We are working assiduously but...the time is  not right to lift the embargo," Bot told reporters on arrival  at a summit between the bloc and Chinese leaders.
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President Hu Jintao will seek to deepen China's decades-old friendship with Pakistan on Friday when the two neighbors are due to sign a broad range of economic agreements, including a free trade pact.
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THE HAGUE : The EU is set to give a &quot;positive signal&quot; to China at a summit with Prime Minister Wen Jiabao over his call to lift a 15-year-old EU arms embargo, but no immediate decision is expected.
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China's president  visits Brazil in a bid to secure trade deals to satisfy a demand for foreign goods.
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Bush visits Friday, but President Hu Jintao has been striking business deals for two weeks. By Danna Harman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Britain's Gordon Brown arrived in China Friday for his maiden visit as prime minister, with tackling climate change and boosting two-way trade and investment top of the agenda.
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The move is part of a government crackdown on graft by ChinaÂs president that has focused on prominent political opponents.
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Gordon Brown arrived in China Friday for his maiden visit as prime minister, with tackling climate change and boosting two-way trade and investment top of the agenda.
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BANGKOK -- Really, he is not up to anything. Just doing a little shopping, taking a well-earned rest. What is everybody so worked up about? From China to Hong Kong to Bali, Thailand's deposed prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in September in a coup, has been circling his country, mostly shopping for blazers, handbags, things like that; playing a little ...
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Chinaâs landmark trade agreement with Southeast Asian leaders is the latest example of how the communist giant is claiming a growing role in a region long dominated by the United States.
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BEIJING: Pakistan on Wednesday recognized China as a market economy and Beijing promised visiting Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz 150 million dollars in aid to build a nuclear power plant.