Chris Buckley

China, U.S. grapple with tensions at trade talks

CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - Chinese and U.S. officials started meeting on Sunday to grapple with trade disputes that have strained ties between the world's two biggest economies, carrying forward concerns exchanged between leaders at back-to-back Asian summits in the past week.
 

Global economic outlook grim: Chinese Vice Premier Wang

CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan said on Monday that global economic outlook remained grim and that ensuring economic recovery was the overriding priority.
 

China, U.S. grapple with tensions at trade talks

CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - Chinese and U.S. officials started meeting on Sunday to grapple with trade disputes that have strained ties between the world's two biggest economies, carrying forward concerns exchanged between leaders at back-to-back Asian summits in the past week.
 

China's Wen tells Obama exchange rate reforms successful

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday that China will strengthen the flexibility of the yuan's exchange rate, and that it had already achieved notable success in exchange rate reform, state media reported.
 

Obama boosts U.S. military in Australia, reassures China

CANBERRA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday unveiled plans to deepen the U.S. military presence in the Asia-Pacific, with 2,500 U.S. marines operating out of a de facto base in northern Australia.
 

Clinton warns against intimidation in South China Sea

MANILA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday urged claimants to the South China Sea not to resort to intimidation to push their cause in the potentially oil-rich waters, an indirect reference to China ahead of a regional leaders' summit.
 

Outcry after China road accident kills 18 children

BEIJING (Reuters) - Eighteen nursery school children were killed when a coal truck slammed into their "drastically" overcrowded school van in northwest China on Thursday, local media reported, prompting an outcry about the country's deadly roads.
 

Obama boosts U.S. military in Australia, reassures China

CANBERRA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday unveiled plans to deepen the U.S. military presence in the Asia-Pacific, with 2,500 U.S. marines operating out of a de facto base in northern Australia.
 

Clinton warns against intimidation in South China Sea

MANILA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday urged claimants to the South China Sea not to resort to intimidation to push their cause in the potentially oil-rich waters, an indirect reference to China ahead of a regional leaders' summit.
 

Clinton warns against intimidation in South China Sea dispute

MANILA (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday urged claimants to the South China Sea not to resort to intimidation to push their cause in the potentially oil-rich waters, an indirect reference to China ahead of a regional leaders' summit.
 

Obama boosts U.S. military in Australia, reassures China

CANBERRA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday unveiled plans to deepen the U.S. military presence in the Asia-Pacific, with 2,500 U.S. marines operating out of a de facto base in northern Australia.
 

Obama boosts U.S. military in Australia, reassures China

CANBERRA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday unveiled plans to deepen the U.S. military presence in the Asia-Pacific, with 2,500 U.S. marines operating out of a de facto base in northern Australia.
 

Executioner says job not "complicated"

BEIJING (Reuters) - Hu Xiao says his job as one of China's executioners is usually not very complicated, except for the time when a prisoner he was about to kill stood up and ran toward his loaded rifle.
 

Executioner says job not "complicated": report

BEIJING (Reuters) - Hu Xiao says his job as one of China's executioners is usually not very complicated, except for the time when a prisoner he was about to kill stood up and ran toward his loaded rifle.
 

Chinese executioner says job not "complicated"

BEIJING (Reuters) - Hu Xiao says his job as one of China's executioners is usually not very complicated, except for the time when a prisoner he was about to kill stood up and ran toward his loaded rifle.
 

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei faces new hurdles in tax case

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities are making it hard for artist-activist Ai Weiwei to pay a bond that would let him appeal a tax fine his backers have called a political vendetta, threatening to complicate his legal battle, one of his lawyers said on Monday.
 

Obama to China: Behave like "grown up" economy

HONOLULU (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told China on Sunday that the United States was fed up with its trade and currency practices, as he turned up the heat on America's biggest economic rival at an Asia Pacific summit.
 

Obama to China: behave like "grown up" economy

HONOLULU (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told China on Sunday that the United States was fed up with its trade and currency practices, as he turned up the heat on America's biggest economic rival at an Asia Pacific summit.
 

APEC leaders see trade as shield to Europe crisis

HONOLULU (Reuters) - Asia-Pacific leaders pledged Sunday to bolster their economies and lower trade barriers as they seek to prop up global growth and shield themselves against fallout from Europe's debt crisis.
 

APEC leaders see trade as shield to Europe crisis

HONOLULU (Reuters) - Asia-Pacific leaders pledged on Sunday to bolster their economies and lower trade barriers as they seek to prop up global growth threatened by Europe's debt crisis.