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| Vol. I Issue. 38; 23 December 2007 |
| India, China acted together on Bali road map - 23 December 2007 |
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Demonstrating an "exceptional" degree of cooperation and coordination with China, India has been able to fashion "the Bali road map" on global climate change issues.
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| Vol. I Issue. 38; 23 December 2007 |
| Principles vs. Profits in Dealing With China - 23 December 2007 |
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel's principled diplomacy vis-a-vis China has become a hot topic among diplomatic circles in Hong Kong and Beijing in recent days. Merkel, an advocate of the so-called "value-oriented diplomacy" met with Tenzin Gyatso,
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| Vol. I Issue. 38; 23 December 2007 |
| Vietnamese islands disputed with China - 23 December 2007 |
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Several hundred demonstrators in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City marched in the long-simmering dispute over the Spratly and Paracel archipelagos in the South China Sea, which are claimed by China, Vietnam and other regional countries.
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| Vol. I Issue. 38; 23 December 2007 |
| India-China hotline - 23 December 2007 |
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In an important positive developments, China and India decided to establish a 'hotline' between the two Foreign Ministers, open Consulate Generals in Kolkata and Guangzhou respectively, establish a Tourism Office in New Delhi and Beijing.
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| Vol. I Issue. 38; 23 December 2007 |
| One China Policy does not hold water - 23 December 2007 |
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An article on the possibility of peaceful coexistence between Taiwan and China former United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) chairman Robert Tsao's proposal for a cross-strait peaceful coexistence law clearly excludes the option of independence.
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| Vol. I Issue. 38; 23 December 2007 |
| India and China launch war games - 23 December 2007 |
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The two sides signed an agreement on defence cooperation in 2006. India and China have begun a landmark joint military exercise, the first of its kind between the two largest armies in the world.
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| Vol. I Issue. 38; 23 December 2007 |
| China's top arms official now ambassador to India - 23 December 2007 |
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Zhang Yan, till recently Beijing's top arms control official, presented his credentials to President Pratibha Patil at the Rashtrapati Bhavan along with four other newly appointed foreign ambassadors on 18 December.
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| Vol. I Issue. 36; 07 December 2007 |
| CPC shows a greater will towards multi-party co-op - 07 December 2007 |
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Communist Party of China (CPC) officials have shown up at recent national congresses of other political parties and delivered congratulatory messages, which observers say demonstrates "a greater will of the CPC towards multi-party cooperation".
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| Vol. I Issue. 36; 07 December 2007 |
| Chinese-American activists decry China's communism - 07 December 2007 |
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They waved banners reading "Chinese Communism Collapsing," and chanted Chinese slogans denouncing the ruling communist party as a merciless tyrant.
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| Vol. I Issue. 36; 07 December 2007 |
| PRC absent from forum on Taiwan-U.S.-China relations - 07 December 2007 |
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Hsu Szu-chien, a research fellow at Taipei¿s Academia Sinica, presents his paper on the progress of democracy in China as a part of the first panel on 3 December Annual International Conference on Washington-Taipei-Beijing Relations held in Taipei,
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