“Beijing” on The Daily Caller

SHANGHAI (AP) — China has set up a rare earths industry association to fend off trade complaints and help regulate the sector that is critical to global high-tech manufacturing. (more)

U.S. intelligence agencies monitoring China’s Internet say that from March 14 to Wednesday bloggers circulated alarming reports of tanks entering Beijing and shots being fired in the city as part of what is said to have been a high-level political battle among party leaders – and even a possible military coup. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Tuesday declined to label China a currency manipulator after seeing recent increases in the value of the yuan compared to the dollar. (more)

BEIJING—The Beijing city government published rules Friday requiring users of popular Twitter-like microblogging services in China to register their real names with service operators, according to state-run media, in the government’s strongest official measure to control the fast-growing industry. (more)

The London Olympics had learned lessons from Beijing in how to handle cyber security, the games’ CIO said Monday at the unveiling of the games’ technology center. (more)

The two nuclear superpowers both shot down their own satellites using sophisticated missiles in separate show of strength, the files suggest. (more)

Chinese President Hu Jintao will arrive in Washington today for an official state visit with U.S. President Barack Obama. If the tenor of bilateral relations were based simply on the number of meetings held, you could be excused for concluding that the U.S. and China were among the closest of allies. This week’s visit marks the Chinese leader’s third trip to the United States since President Obama’s inauguration two years ago, while Obama himself has gone to Beijing twice already, and has met repeatedly with his Chinese counterpart at larger summits (most recently in Seoul, South Korea). All the while, the American agenda has remained broadly the same: currency valuation and global trade imbalances — not to mention the never-ending debates over political values and human rights, whether to impose sanctions on Iran, climate change, North Korean aggression and the multi-party talks. What has changed over the years is the tone of the conversation — which has become openly more assertive, on the Chinese side, and disturbingly more subservient on the American side. (more)

In a recent address before the National Press Club in Washington, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said the United States is in clear danger of losing the “energy race” to China. (more)

Why do foreign policy insiders and political analysts incessantly refer to Kim Jong-il as irrational? He epitomizes the phrase “rogue dictator,” but that provides no insight into the man’s mental stability. If anything, he behaves perfectly rationally — he acts as a petulant child that has never been disciplined for behaving badly. The West has already cut off much of Pyongyang’s aid, so Kim has literally nothing to lose. He has a country on the brink of famine and economic collapse yet shows no sign of ingratiating North Korea to the international community. The question isn’t why Kim comports himself this way, it’s why shouldn’t he? (more)

Beijing has the capacity to control surging prices while keeping economic growth on track, China’s main planning agency said Monday, in the latest effort to quell public anxiety about simmering inflation. (more)

You don’t need to understand exchange rates and trade wars to grasp the economic change that has come to Saginaw, Mich. Remarkably, the largest private employer there will soon be the city government of Beijing. (more)

(AP) — Mike Krzyzewski has a commitment from another top recruit: Kobe Bryant. (more)

I spent last week in China as part of a board meeting with some of our joint venture business partners based in China. It was my first time in China, and some of my preconceived notions were shattered, as is the case for many people who visit there for the first time. But other perceptions were confirmed. (more)

BEIJING — Thousands of Tibetan students in western China have protested since Tuesday against proposals to curb or eliminate the use of the Tibetan language in local schools, according to reports from Tibet advocacy groups and photographs and video of the protests circulating on the Internet. (more)

My annual pilgrimage to New Jersey this summer, where I grew up but which I no longer think of as home, had been fun despite the Mets losing to the Atlanta Brats 4 – 0 at Citi Field (aka “Two-Shea” to us purists). I stayed with my best friend of 52 years (since the 7th grade) and his family, visited with my sister, and my nephew and his family, and gained at least five pounds in five days. (more)

Reporting from Beijing — Judging from billboards and television commercials in China, film star Jackie Chan has never met a product he wouldn’t endorse. Travel the country and you’ll see the Hong Kong native’s handsome visage hawking electric bikes, anti-virus software, even frozen dumplings. (more)

BEIJING (AP) — A man wielding a knife killed three children and a teacher in a kindergarten in eastern China, residents said Wednesday as the government muted information in a bid to allay public fears and forestall more school attacks. (more)

The Obama administration has adopted a tougher tone with China in recent weeks as part of a diplomatic balancing act in which the United States welcomes China’s rise in some areas but also confronts Beijing when it butts up against American interests. (more)

The Obama administration has adopted a tougher tone with China in recent weeks as part of a diplomatic balancing act in which the United States welcomes China’s rise in some areas but also confronts Beijing when it butts up against American interests. (more)

Flooding from torrential summer rains, which has killed at least 700 people and displaced millions, is the worst China has suffered in more than a decade, officials said Wednesday. (more)