2010 February 05

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11:55 pm Feb 5, 2010

“China, US spar over value of the yuan”
Finance

“President Barack Obama vowed to address currency rates with economic partners such as China and to get tougher with them on trade to ensure that US goods do not face a competitive disadvantage. Sino-U.S. relations are already troubled by Washington’s planned arms sales to Taiwan, a likely meeting between Obama and exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, and a spat over Internet freedoms”

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11:49 pm Feb 5, 2010

Analysis: “America and China”
China • United States

“It is probably the most important relationship of today’s world, and even more of tomorrow’s. If the United States and China cannot co-operate, what hope of stemming climate change and the spread of nuclear weapons, or returning the global economy to a path of stable growth? Over the past decade, the established superpower and the rising one have rubbed along reasonably well; relations with China are, by common consent, one of the few things George Bush junior got mostly right. But under Barack Obama, after a cordial start, slights have been building up for a while. The past week has produced a sharp reminder of how sensitive the relationship can be—and how quickly it might spin out of control.

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11:39 pm Feb 5, 2010

“Pilgrims and progress”
Opinion

It is still repression, not development, that keeps Tibet stable

It is still repression, not development, that keeps Tibet stable

“On the corner of Ramoche Temple Road, a bustling alley where the ethnic violence that engulfed Lhasa nearly two years ago first broke out, finishing touches are being put to a fried-chicken fast-food restaurant. Opposite, a newly opened second-floor café offers coffee, sandwiches and well-cushioned seating. On the street below, five helmeted riot police—one of them with a rifle—stand rigid and vigilant. Hard as it tries to look normal, Lhasa cannot quite pull it off”

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11:31 pm Feb 5, 2010

‘The tragedy of dying languages”
General Interest

The Kallawaya tribe of Bolivia

The Kallawaya tribe of Bolivia

“The death of the last speaker of an ancient language in India’s Andaman Islands highlights the fact that half of the world’s 7,000 languages are in danger of disappearing. Linguist K David Harrison argues that we still have much to learn from vanishing languages”

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11:29 pm Feb 5, 2010

“Euro MPs shun bank data deal”
Finance

“A key committee of Euro MPs has moved to block the renewal of an agreement which allows US anti-terror officials to access Europeans’ bank data. The European Parliament’s civil liberties committee recommended that the full parliament reject the interim nine-month deal between the EU and US”

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11:11 pm Feb 5, 2010

“As it happened: Northern Ireland deal”
Great Britain • Ireland

“The British and Irish Prime Ministers addressed a news conference at Hillsborough Castle on Friday alongside First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness. It followed a deal between the DUP and Sinn Fein which could see policing and justice powers devolved to Northern Ireland on 12 April. Here is our text commentary written as the leaders spoke to the waiting media”

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