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China Defends Currency and Trade Policies According to The New York Times, Priemier Wen Jiabao sharply defended China's currency and trade policies on Sunday against what he called foreign "finger pointing," charging instead that the developed world seeks to force unfair changes in those policies "just for the purposes of increasing their own exports."  ...

Video: Obama Welcomes Dalai Lama President Obama met with the Dalai Lama -- the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader -- at the White House on Thursday despite strong objections from Chinese government officials, according to CNN. During the meeting, Obama stressed his "strong support for the preservation of Tibet's unique religious, cultural and linguistic identity and the protection of human rights for Ti ...

China: Largest Training Web Site For Computer Hackers Shut Down According to CNN, police in China shut down what officials think was the largest training Web site for computer hackers. The Black Hawk Safety Net offered lessons on cyber attacks and sold Trojan software, which allows outside access to a computer when remotely installed, media reports said. The suspects in the Black Hawk case were arrested under a law revised last year ...

China Surpasses U.S. In Clean Energy According to The New York Times, China has surpassed Denmark, Germany, Spain and the U.S. in creating clean energy. China has become the largest maker of wind turbines and is slated to expand even further this year. China has also beat Western countries in manufacturing solar panels, nuclear reactors and efficient types of coal power plants.    ...

Clinton: Cyber Attacks Should Be Punished According to The Washington Post, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Thursday for unrestrained, free access to the Internet around the globe after several incidents of online censorship and cyber attacks have presented new questions for the role of technology in diplomacy. "We need to create a world in which access ...

Google Plans Talks With China According to MarketWatch, Google Inc. is to hold talks with the Chinese government about its plans to offer unfiltered search results on its Chinese site, after announcing last week it may exit China amid worsening censorship. ...

After Google’s Stand on China, U.S. Treads Lightly Last month, according to the New York Times, engineers at Google began to suspect that Chinese intruders were breaking into private gmail accounts. So the company mounted a counteroffensive. It managed to gain access to a computer in Taiwan that it suspected of being the source of the attacks. Peering inside that machine, company eng ...

Yahoo Supports Google Over China Cyber Attack According to CNNMoney, Yahoo Inc. gave its support to rival Google Inc. Wednesday, denouncing an alleged cyber attack originating in China against Google's network infrastructure. "We condemn any attempts to infiltrate company networks to obtain user information," a Yahoo representative said in an e-mail statement. &qu ...

China Tries to Go Solar According to The New York Times, China is taking tentative steps to master another alternative energy industry, using mirrors to capture sunlight to produce steam  and generate electricity. China is starting to build its own concentrating solar power plants along it's country side. ...

What a week: UCLA protests, the Shaniya Davis tragedy Five news stories too important to miss. ...