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  • Schwarzenegger checks out China's high-speed rail

    09/12/2010 3:34:08 PM PDT · by calcowgirl · 8 replies
    Google (AP) ^ | ELAINE KURTENBACH
    SHANGHAI — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is engaging in a little window-shopping of China's new high-speed train lines while peddling Californian exports and tourism in the world's second-largest economy. His own state budget $19 billion in the red, Schwarzenegger says he is hoping for some "creative financing" from Asia to help lower costs and get California's proposed high-speed rail lines up and running. Industry experts say cash-rich China may be best placed to help with funding, and less risk averse than others whose banks are still recovering from the financial crisis. That could prove a key competitive advantage as it goes...
  • Caption: Hillary meets Haibao at the Shanghai World Expo 2010

    05/23/2010 11:34:15 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 12 replies · 596+ views
    AFP on Yahoo ^ | 5/23/10 | AFP
    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton points out that she is wearing the same color as the mascot of the Shanghai World Expo 2010, named Haibao, while touring China's Pavillion in Shanghai. Clinton toured the World Expo Saturday ahead of talks likely to focus on the sinking of a South Korean warship, blamed on North Korea. (AFP/Pool/Saul Loeb)