China
LePage says trip to China ‘productive’ but no deal announced yet
AUGUSTA — Maine’s Republican Gov. Paul LePage said a recent trip to China to court a manufacturer of rail cars to the Loring Commerce Centre would lead to continued negotiations, but he did not announce any pending developments. LePage is hopeful that Norinco, a giant Chinese company that makes military weapons as well as industrial […]
Gov. Paul LePage returns from China business trip
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage is returning to the United States after several days in China, where he met with businesses in the hopes of attracting them to Maine. The Republican governor is scheduled to return on Thursday. He left for Beijing on Saturday. LePage officials said the governor had planned to meet with representatives […]
LePage returns from China
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage is returning to the United States after several days in China, where he met with businesses in the hopes of attracting them to Maine. The Republican governor is scheduled to return on Thursday. He left for Beijing on Saturday. LePage officials said the governor had planned to meet with representatives […]
LePage to broker deal with Chinese company to bring plant to Loring
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage and a group of officials from the Loring Development Authority will travel to China later this week to meet with a company that is considering bringing manufacturing to the former Loring Air Force Base in Limestone. Loring Development Authority officials confirmed Monday that LePage was going to Beijing to meet […]
LePage to travel to China on business trip
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine Gov. Paul LePage will soon head to China to visit with a company regarding a potential manufacturing project in northern Maine. The Republican is scheduled to leave Maine for Beijing on June 21. His office said that he was invited by a company that’s headquartered there to discuss an investment and […]
Austin Bay: Vietnam seeks U.S. help against China
The China-Vietnam confrontation in the South China Sea continues to roil Asia. Gun battles have yet to erupt in the disputed Paracel Island maritime zone where, in early May, China deployed a very large oil exploration and drilling ship. In lieu of anti-ship missiles and fighter-bombers, the antagonists are using media, political and legal-judicial weapons. […]
Fareed Zakaria: China unveils new hard-line policy
NEW YORK — Vladimir Putin might be a 19th-century statesmen, using old-fashioned muscle to get his way, but it has become clear that Chinese President Xi Jinping goes one step further, comfortably embracing both 19th- and 21st-century tactics. Start with the 19th-century aspect — the huge Sino-Russian natural gas deal signed recently that is perfectly […]
Largest economies are operating at varying speeds
WASHINGTON — The global economy is plodding ahead in fits and starts as the largest countries struggle to achieve consistent growth. Europe is faltering again. Japan is suddenly surging. China is cooling. The U.S. is strengthening. In the background, central banks are aiming to administer just the right amount of stimulus — not too much, […]
China satellite detects object in jet search area
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Search planes headed back out to a desolate patch of the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday in hopes of finding answers to the fate of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, after China released a satellite image showing a large object floating in the search zone. The object, which appeared to […]