Topic: China
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is willing to work with Congress on a bill to address China currency and trade concerns but believes some provisions of pending legislation would violate international trade rules, a top U.S. Treasury official said on Tuesday."Aspects ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic lawmakers on Friday vowed to keep pressing for a vote in the House of Representatives on China currency legislation now blocked by Republican leaders."I urge the Republican leadership to put the currency bill on the floor," a top ...
US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke won unanimous Senate confirmation Wednesday as ambassador to Beijing, becoming the first Chinese American to hold the prestigious and difficult diplomatic post.Locke, whose grandfather came from China to the United States on a steamboat, promised during his ...
Gary Locke, the nominee to be the next US ambassador to China, promised Thursday he would be a forceful advocate for human rights while seeking broad cooperation with Beijing.Locke, the commerce secretary who would be the first Chinese-American ambassador to Beijing, told ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading Republicans are mounting an attack on real estate tycoon Donald Trump, worried that his flirtation with a 2012 presidential run hurts their chances to field a serious challenge to Barack Obama.Many Republican officials doubt the billionaire and celebrity ...
CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Tim Pawlenty, battling to break out of a pack of potential Republican presidential hopeful, touted himself on Wednesday as a leader who can restore America's economic glory and stop it from losing ground to China.If the former Minnesota governor ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to China, Jon Huntsman, plans to resign soon, a White House official said on Monday, as he prepares for a potential campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.Huntsman, a former governor of Utah, would join ...
Chinese President Hu Jintao comes face to face with some of his sternest critics in the US Congress on Thursday as he pursues a high-stakes visit to the United States.Hu was to meet Thursday with leaders of the US Congress -- home ...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been named 2009 Person of the Year . According to Time magazine's senior writer Michael Grunwald , "His creative leadership helped ensure that 2009 was a period of weak recovery rather than catastrophic depression , and ...
On March 21, 2008 Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives , Nancy Pelosi , met with the Dalai Lama at his home in Dharamsala, India . She denounced China 's recent reprisal of the Protests in Tibet , calling China 's ...
