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(06/16/2006 9:01 AM EDT) LONDON — The vice premier of China, Zeng Peiyan, has called for more semiconductor industry cooperation between the United States and China adding that his country would increase protection for intellectual property rights, according to a Xinhua report carried by the People's Daily. Zeng met with a delegation from the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) on Thursday (June 15) and said he hoped U.S. semiconductor companies would set up R&D operations in China, which would help train Chinese semiconductor engineers, the report said. At the same time Zeng said China would increase its efforts to protect...

<p>October 24, 2003 -- DON'T break out the champagne and caviar yet. The European Union's recent deal with Iran's mullahs over their "peaceful nuclear energy program" is unlikely to be the last we hear of Tehran's nuclear transgressions.</p> <p>Further, by cutting a deal with the E.U., Tehran keeps the thermonuclear tiff from being thrashed out in the U.N. Security Council, which might easily have levied sanctions on Iran, severely damaging the prospects of its pending trade deal with the European Union. In this light, Iranian concessions don't seem so concessional after all.</p>