By Tan Ung | February 22, 2010
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama hosted exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at the White House Thursday, drawing an angry reaction from China and risking further damage to strained Sino-U.S. ties.
Raising issues that quickly stoked China’s ire, Obama used his first presidential meeting with the Dalai Lama to press Beijing, under international criticism for its Tibet policies, to preserve Tibetan identity and respect human rights there.
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By Tan Ung | January 31, 2010
Taiwan’s envoy to the US has claimed Washington is still considering whether to add fighter jets and submarines to the £4 billion weapons package it intends to sell the island.
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By David Eimer in Beijing
Published: 6:19PM GMT 31 Jan 2010
The comments by Jason Yuan will further fuel the escalating row between the US and China, which responded furiously to the arms deal at the weekend by suspending military exchanges with the US and slapping sanctions on the companies supplying the weapons.
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By Addemnodoli | January 30, 2010
By David Eimer in Beijing and Philip Sherwell in New York
Published: 9:05PM GMT 30 Jan 2010
China has cancelled all military exchanges with the US in a furious response to the proposed $6.4 billion sale of advanced missiles and helicopters to Taiwan by Washington.
Beijing has also imposed sanctions on the companies selling the arms and threatened to review co-operation on other issues.
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By Tan Ung | June 12, 2008
BEIJING (AFP) — China and Taiwan signed historic agreements on Friday that from next month will see thousands more people travel every day between the two traditional rivals.
On the second day of landmark talks in Beijing aimed at easing decades of tensions, negotiators agreed to establish regular direct flights between China and Taiwan from July, finally ending time-consuming forced stopovers in Hong Kong.
They will also triple the number of mainland visitors allowed to travel to Taiwan each day to 3,000 in what promises to be a major boost for the island’s tourism industry.
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