Read more China stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/24/china.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 7:04:11 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74549/chinese-mine-explosion-kills-42-traps-66.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 42 people and leaving 66 others trapped underground as rescuers worked hastily to save them. More than 500 people were working in the Xinxing mine in Heilongjiang province at the time of the 2:30am...http://www.newser.com/story/74549/chinese-mine-explosion-kills-42-traps-66.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 21 Nov 2009 5:46:56 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74364/live-fish-dinner-on-youtube-sparks-uproar.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFootage of Chinese diners tucking into a still-breathing fish has outraged animal rights groups. The video, which has attracted thousands of viewers on YouTube, shows the fish being picked apart with chopsticks as diners laugh and the fish gapes. It had been kept alive during cooking with a wet towel...http://www.newser.com/story/74364/live-fish-dinner-on-youtube-sparks-uproar.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Nov 2009 4:34:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74292/obama-we-wont-make-gitmo-deadline.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGuantanamo Bay prison won't close by the January deadline he set when he took office, President Obama admitted today, but he still hopes to shut it next year. Obama is "not disappointed" in missing the deadline, he says in a FoxNews interview airing this morning, since closing the facility is...http://www.newser.com/story/74292/obama-we-wont-make-gitmo-deadline.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 18 Nov 2009 5:40:33 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74268/obama-tone-in-china-reflects-new-power-realities.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama's starkly different tone in his visit to China—more congratulatory than confrontational—is less a shift in policy from his predecessors than a change in the two country's roles, write Andrew Higgins and Anne Kornblut in the Washington Post . When President Clinton visited in 1998, the US was...http://www.newser.com/story/74268/obama-tone-in-china-reflects-new-power-realities.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 18 Nov 2009 5:20:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74289/great-wall-of-china-magical-obama.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFollowing in the footsteps of Richard Nixon and every president since then, Barack Obama today wound up his visit to China with a stop at the Great Wall, where he stoked his hosts' pride in ancient Chinese civilization by reflecting on the wall's enduring nature. "It's magical," Obama said. "It...http://www.newser.com/story/74289/great-wall-of-china-magical-obama.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 18 Nov 2009 4:33:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74246/obamas-china-visit-achieves-little.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama and Chinese leader Hu Jintao paid lip service today to the idea of stronger US-China relations, but Obama's visit has done nothing but highlight the "yawning differences" between the two nations on economic issues, writes Dexter Roberts. "Lofty statements of common interests aside, the all-important Sino-US economic relationship...http://www.newser.com/story/74246/obamas-china-visit-achieves-little.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 17 Nov 2009 16:48:28 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74243/fox-news-lands-obama-interview.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama has apparently softened on Fox News and will grant the network an interview while in Beijing. “I will interview POTUS on camera,” tweets Fox’s Major Garrett. “4 other networks will too. 10 mins per. Many had asked. Can say now.” Though the White House has been searingly critical...http://www.newser.com/story/74243/fox-news-lands-obama-interview.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 17 Nov 2009 12:57:50 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74210/obama-hu-begin-bridging-divide.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao emerged from intense talks today determined to marshal their combined clout on crucial issues, but still showing divisions over economic, security, and human rights issues that have long bedeviled the two powers. "The relationship between our two nations goes far beyond any...http://www.newser.com/story/74210/obama-hu-begin-bridging-divide.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 17 Nov 2009 6:08:56 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74186/us-needs-to-regain-faith-in-the-future.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAmerica needs to overcome its "crisis of faith" caused by China's phenomenal growth, writes David Brooks. Today's China is optimistic, forward-looking, and dynamic in the way America once was and should hope to be again, he points out in the New York Times . Surveys show that 86% of Chinese believe...http://www.newser.com/story/74186/us-needs-to-regain-faith-in-the-future.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 17 Nov 2009 4:00:00 CST