New Europe reports about EU firms' enthusiasm about China's market prospects and their concern about the execution of the IPR laws in China." “China’s intellectual property laws are not bad. The problem is their implementation,” [EU’s Chamber o…

China's CNOOC Ltd has agreed to buy minority stakes in four exploration licenses in the Gulf of Mexico from a Norwegian oil and gas producer, the first time for a Chinese company to tap reserves in the US waters.
CNOOC will buy 10 to 20 percent share in the exploration areas from Statoil ASA, the Norwegian [...]

The U.S. Department of Labor says workers laid off in Utah by a business-services company will qualify for special federal assistance because their jobs were lost to foreign competition. The company, Modus Link Corp., shipped the jobs to an operation in China. The company says the 30 laid-off workers were predominantly [...]

United Commercial Bank, a big San Francisco bank with branches in China, was closed by state regulators on Friday and its banking operations were acquired by East West Bancorp Inc, also active in both nations.
United Commercial Bank had 63 U.S. branches, a branch in Hong Kong and a subsidiary, UCB-China, [...]

Not a bad list.
Not comprehensive, of course, just a "Greatest Hits" as it were. I do think that a lot of journalists who have been given the task of writing about the state of US-China trade prior to the Obama visit might find this useful.
Tags: International Trade, U.S.-China Relations
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In The Economist special report on China and the US called 'Overkill' where the author James Miles postulates the opinion that China is piling up more weapons than it appears to need, Mr Miles also writes about the need for China to develop its soft po…

Last month (October 22nd 2009) The Economist had a special report about the relationship between China and the US. In the article 'The price of cleanliness' the circular reasoning is pointed out that makes solving the environmental challenge in China v…

The Marine Department has held its annual joint exercise off Tuen Mun to test the responses of government departments and the petroleum industry in tackling an oil spill in Hong Kong waters.

The Immigration Department is inviting travellers to vote in its annual courtesy campaign at 11 clearance checkpoints November 10 to 19.