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Posts Tagged ‘China and US bond markets’

China urges U.S. to reduce surveillance operations

Posted by seumasach on August 28, 2009

BEIJING, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) — China has called on the United States to reduce, and gradually put an end to air and sea military surveillance and survey operations to avoid naval confrontations.

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US calls for China to have greater say in world economic affairs

Posted by seumasach on June 2, 2009

Telegraph

11st June, 2009

On the day US car giant General Motors filed for bankruptcy protection, Mr Geithner, said that mutual co-operation between China and the US was now fundamental to bringing the world out of the global financial crisis.

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China Is Now in Firm Control of U.S. Debt Markets

Posted by seumasach on May 29, 2009

Seeking Alpha

26th May, 2009

It is hilarious listening to the propagandists try to “spin” the events in bond and currency markets to make it sound like the U.S. government is still operating from a position of strength.

While there are many Western, corporate-media outlets spouting such drivel, I’ll use the Financial Times as my example.“China stuck in dollar trap”, crows FT on May 24th. Then, later “…[Beijing] has little choice but to keep pouring the bulk of its growing reserves into the U.S. Treasury”.

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