Hints and tips:
...The thing we couldn’t do without is Mark T Wendell’s Hu-Kwa tea. It’s Lapsang Souchong in style, but instead of China it’s actually from Taiwan....
...Tsinghua University professor Lao Dongyuan makes a strong argument....
...Chinese vice-premier Hu Chunhua told officials last month that the country faced a 10m-tonne pork shortage and increasing domestic production was a “political task”....
...Nov 2009 Mr Obama, above, is frustrated by a lack of concrete results at his first China summit with then president Hu Jintao. ——————————————– “You have put a reputation on the line [with TPP],” said Mr...
...Li is a confident performer, a pomaded black-haired protégé of former president Hu Jintao....
...Since the 1950s, a small army of trained hydro-engineers, including former president Hu Jintao and former premier Li Peng, has blocked, straightened and diverted its rivers as part of an accelerating industrialisation...
...KTC has opened a factory in Laos but, as in the case of Crystal Group, the workers there make less complicated garments than in Heshan because they do not have the same skills as their Chinese peers....
...Back in 2009, Barack Obama and Hu Jintao jointly announced a US-China initiative on shale gas....
...Afghanistan, China, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam are deemed “not free”. Myanmar remains “not free” in spite of recent progress....
...With $19bn in assets, Sinohydro’s concerns range from potash in Laos and airports in Botswana to high-speed rail in China....
...But Lao Rong, a blogger who has been one of Mr Dou’s fiercest critics, said: “The internet has a self-correcting function, and every netizen has the need and ability to seek the truth, so there’s no need...
...In terms of wealth, Singapore produces GDP per capita at close to US levels, while Burma, Cambodia and Laos remain among the world’s poorest countries. A few members are democracies; most are not....
...Asia with China through energy and infrastructure projects – such as oil pipelines from Russia, Kazakhstan and Burma, which are under construction or already operating, or railway lines linking Vietnam, Laos...
...Last month Xi Jinping, China’s vice-president and heir apparent to Hu Jintao, took a swing through Asia, stopping in Burma to reaffirm support for the regime and sign a slew of co-operation pacts, including...
...Its 10 members – Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos – have little in common except their location....
...Mr Hu has supported the appointment of hardliners to fill the post of Tibet party secretary....
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