Approval Delays Send Unwelcome Message To China, Says Advocate

REPEATED delays in foreign investment approvals are causing "significant and damaging misconceptions" in Beijing, says a leading lawyer for Chinese state-owned companies.

Sinopec Deal Helps Aed Oil Recover

THE battered share price of AED Oil has managed a partial recovery after the Foreign Investment Review Board cleared the way for China's Sinopec to acquire a $600 million stake in the group's Timor Sea oilfields.

Expats Feel The Heat As Ugly Anti-foreign Feeling Emerges In Beijing

AS CHINA ponders how to balance a resurgent nationalism that sometimes borders on xenophobia and its desire to welcome foreigners to a harmonious Beijing Olympics this August, the situation on the ground is difficult to quantify.

Men Of Steel Sharpen Focus On Australia

Australia has gained enormously from Chinese investment. An interesting phase is developing as China seeks to expand its stake in Australian resources. SINOSTEEL president Huang Tianwen began his career hoeing fields and doing odd jobs to earn merit points for the family during the Cultural Revolution.

I Love Dollars (and Other Stories Of China)

I Love Dollars (and Other Stories of China) Zhu Wen Penguin, $24.95

After Six Decades, Beijing And Taipei Head For Improved Ties - At All Levels

THEORETICALLY still at war, China and Taiwan are preparing for the biggest improvement in their relationship since they separated in 1949 after Mao Zedong's Communists won the civil war and forced Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government to flee to the island of Formosa.

Curran Lifts The Veil On China

Watts rises in the East for skilled director, writes Craig Mathieson.

Is China Fit To Host The Olympics?

THE torch has come and gone, but the argument rages on - is China fit to host the Olympics?

Day The 'red Army' Scored A Bloodless Win

I SAW no one injured, I saw no one arrested. But for a moment, before the police arrived, it was ugly and getting uglier. Hundreds of screaming pro-Tibet and pro-China protesters confronted each other nose-to-nose.

China's Pride Burns Bright

A RESURGENT China has exported its sense of national pride to mainland Australia: the torch relay has not only galvanised human rights and Tibetan-Buddhist protesters, it has sparked unprecedented outpourings of Chinese nationalism in Melbourne.

China Defies Rudd On Torch Relay

CHINA'S ambassador to Australia has defied Prime Minister Kevin Rudd by declaring that Chinese attendants travelling with the Olympic torch will "use their bodies" to protect it.

China Firm On Defence Of The Torch

CHINA'S ambassador to Australia has defied Prime Minister Kevin Rudd by saying the Chinese attendants travelling with the Olympic torch will "use their bodies" to protect it.

Poem Follows Olympic Torch In Freedom Call

Writers worldwide are adding their voices to criticism of China.

I Was There

A leader is released, a football nation triumphs, a wall comes tumbling down and China embraces Hong Kong - here, four travellers recount a moment in history.

China Keen To Taste Big Property In Bite-sized Chunks

REAL ESTATE investment trusts (REIT) may make their debut in China within one or two years if efforts by the Chinese Government and industry players to promote a new form of investment instrument bear fruit.

What Does China Think?

What Does China Think? Mark Leonard Fourth Estate, $27.99

Growth 'slows' In China

CHINESE economic growth only "slowed" to 10.6% in the year to the March quarter, despite once-in-a-century ice storms and the global credit crunch.

Event Reveals How To Do Business In China

THE Illawarra Regional Development Board and Illawarra Business Chamber are encouraging Illawarra businesses to consider attending a major seminar in Wollongong next week with 50 Chinese business leaders.

In Defence Of China

In defence of China Some people (perhaps a lot) have very short memories. How quickly the world has forgotten that, the day after the year 2000 Olympic Games were awarded to Australia, China exploded a nuclear device in the atmosphere, to show its displeasure for being insulted by the Olympic Games selection committee.

Macquarie Gets Rudd's Support For China Push

MACQUARIE Group hopes to be the first Australian company to break into the top tier of China's booming financial services market, after receiving backing from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in Beijing.

Rudd Helps Spring China From Its Trap

Australia's PM could be the one to help China's leadership escape its world of "good and evil".

The Wider Agenda With China

LU KEWEN, a.k.a. Kevin Rudd, may get a good run in the Chinese press, but he cannot win in the Australian media. While one headline accused him of putting trade ahead of human rights in his talks in Beijing last week, another said his human rights call on Tibet had been spurned anyway. It remains to be seen whether the Prime Minister has made any dent in the granite facade of China's policy on Tibet. However, if there was any breakthrough with the top Communist Party leader, President Hu Jintao, ...

Crouching Panda, Hidden Problems

Many Chinese think the West is misrepresenting the Tibet issue and can't accept China's rising power. John Garnaut reports.

China Losing The Games Pr Race

The Olympic torch relay may have inflamed the wrong sort of passions as far as Beijing is concerned, but it is far from certain that the activists will have a long-lasting impact.

Aussies Face Wall Of China

THE Ice Hockeyroos are on the cusp of division one promotion and possible Winter Olympics qualification and only China stand in their way.

Rogge Admits Games In Crisis

THERE has been big Olympic news out of China this week about boycotts and human rights and small news about beds, water quality and tickets.

Let The Olympic Spirit Show The Way

Taking part in the Games is not an endorsement of China's politics.

The Pm Finds His Voice

Kevin Rudd's criticism of China over Tibet may have upset Beijing, but he has still advanced relations between the nations.

Ioc Clashes With Beijing Over Rights

CHINA has warned the Olympics governing body to keep "irrelevant political factors" away from the Games, after its chief urged Beijing to honour pledges to improve human rights.

China Delivers Sharp Rebuke To Visiting Pm

BEIJING has delivered an angry rebuke to visiting Prime Minister Kevin Rudd over his comments on Tibet, saying foreign governments have no right to interfere in China's internal affairs.

China Spurns Rudd's Call

CHINA'S leadership has rebuffed Kevin Rudd's call for action on the human rights abuses in Tibet but says it will not affect what is an otherwise healthy relationship.

Pressure With A Light Touch

KEVIN RUDD is giving China's leaders the message they are reluctant to hear. It takes some courage to point out its shortcomings on human rights - or anything else - to an emerging superpower, particularly one as sensitive to possible slights as China. Yet Mr Rudd has persisted, despite obvious signs of discontent from parts of the Chinese leadership. His stance does him credit. It may even do some good - though perhaps not as much as Australians hope.

Red Carpet And A Rebuke From The Regime - The Pm In China

BEIJING has delivered an angry rebuke to visiting Prime Minister Kevin Rudd over his comments on Tibet, saying foreign governments have no right to interfere in China's internal affairs.

Speaking Their Language, His Mind

FOREIGN Minister Stephen Smith has quickly moved to quash claims Australia has escalated the dispute with China over human rights abuses in Tibet.

Smith Moves To Assuage Asian Tension

FOREIGN Minister Stephen Smith has quickly moved to quash claims Australia has escalated the dispute with China over human rights abuses in Tibet.

Chinese Whispers Give Bhp Extra Ammunition In The Battle For Rio

What to make of reports yesterday that China is preparing a raid on BHP in a bid to thwart its proposed hostile takeover of Rio Tinto just as Kevin Rudd touches down in Beijing?

Bhp Dismisses Talk About China

BHP Billiton shares surged almost 4 per cent yesterday amid speculation that China was considering taking a stake in the world's biggest miner.

Rudd Confronts China On Rights

KEVIN Rudd, defying official protests from Beijing, has used the first day of his China trip to highlight human rights abuses in Tibet and to vow to pursue the issue with Chinese leaders.

Speculation Abounds Over In Whose Favour The China-bhp Rumour Works

SOURCES in China close to BHP Billiton and its takeover target, Rio Tinto, have dismissed speculation that a state-owned Chinese entity was being prepared to plunge more than $US20 billion ($A21.6 billion) into a 10%-plus stake in BHP.

Talking The Talk And Walking Amid Rocks And Hard Places

WHAT a difference speaking the local lingo makes! Not even Gough Whitlam, who pioneered Australia's closer relationship with China back in the 1970s, could match that.

Grain Of Hope In China Trade

AUSTRALIA'S long-suffering trade negotiators have received rare encouragement from key Chinese officials, as rising world grain prices soothe the sensitivities of Chinese farmers.

A Torch-bearer For The Olympic Games, Not China

It is a hallmark of our democracy that Australians can freely, but peacefully, protest: bring on the Beijing Olympic torch relay, I say.

Back Off, China Tells Rudd On Eve Of Visit

CHINA has made a formal complaint about Kevin Rudd's remarks on Tibet and the Olympic Games, presenting a diplomatic challenge for the Prime Minister as he lands in Beijing today.

Rudd Heads Into Storm Over Tibet

KEVIN Rudd has become entangled in the international row over China and human rights abuses, with Beijing lodging a formal complaint to Australia about the Prime Minister's comments on Tibet before his arrival in China today.

The Challenges Of China: From Market Forces To Human Rights

Kevin Rudd's world tour lands in China today. The Prime Minister will need all his diplomatic skills to negotiate the many issues on the table.

Rudd Faces Olympic Hurdle

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has been drawn into an international row over the Beijing Olympics as he prepares to visit China this week.

Candidates Canvass Pm's China Nous

DEMOCRATIC presidential aspirants Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have praised Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, promising if elected to work closely with him and take advantage of his expertise on China.

The Games China Plays

BEIJING is not the most attractive city on earth.

Rudd Plans Early Visit To Reassure Spurned Tokyo

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd is expected to make an early visit to Japan, as the Government seeks to repair relations strained by his apparent priority to China.

Libs Attack Rudd As Biased To China

THE Opposition spokesman on foreign affairs, Andrew Robb, says the Rudd Government has displayed a bias towards China and has jeopardised Australia's relationship with India by refusing to sell it uranium.