November 2010

The Vatican says it is alarmed by reports from China that Roman Catholic bishops there are to be forced to attend what it calls the illegal ordination of a new Catholic bishop.

Authorities in China's troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have boosted security as ethnic minority Uyghur Muslims celebrated a key festival of their calendar, Eid al-Adha.

China continues to manipulate its currency and the nation's "exclusionary" trade policies have contributed to a massive deficit with the United States, a special commission said Wednesday.

Kazakhstan and China have agreed to collaborate on a hydropower project on the Horos River in Kazakhstan's Almaty region which shares a border with the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in West China.