http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=china
UPDATE:
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929231/posts
China Gives Late Approval for U.S. Aircraft Carrier to Enter Hong Kong for Thanksgiving
FOXNews.com ^ | Nove 22 2007 | Associated Press
Posted on 11/22/2007 12:37:54 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
HONG KONG — China’s Foreign Ministry gave approval for U.S. Navy ships to spend Thursday’s Thanksgiving holiday in Hong Kong, hours after the warships were turned away.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said Beijing was allowing the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk and the other ships in its strike group to enter Hong Kong on humanitarian grounds.
“We have decided to allow the Kitty Hawk strike group to stay in Hong Kong during Thanksgiving, and it is a decision out of humanitarian consideration only,” Liu told reporters at a regular media briefing. “China has informed the U.S. of this.”
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Off Topic:
http://www.saag.org/papers25/paper2470.html
Paper no. 2470
21-Nov.-2007
“Chinese Mobile Phone Services in North Myanmar”
By B. Raman
Note: “(The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai. He is also associated with the Chennai Centre For China Studies. E-mail: seventyone2@gmail.com)”