Defense report stresses role of US military Japan's annual defense report stresses the importance of the military alliance with the United States and the role of US forces in the country. The government's 2010 white paper on defense policy was submitted to the Cabinet on Friday. It highlights this year's 50th anniversary of the revision of the Japan-US Security Treaty. The report says the US forces stationed in Japan are a deterrent against contingencies, and provide enormous security to nations in the region. It also emphasizes the value of the US Marines stationed in Okinawa. It says they are capable of responding to various emergencies, and therefore contribute greatly to regional peace and stability. The statements serve to support the agreement by Japan and the United States in May to relocate the US Futenma Air Station in Okinawa to another site within the same prefecture, despite local opposition. ...Read more

US, China to discuss resuming military exchanges The United States and China are soon to start talks on resuming their military exchanges, which were halted because of US sales of weapons to Taiwan. US Defense Department spokesman Geoff Morrell told reporters on Thursday that China has clearly signaled interest in resuming military-to-military discussions, and that the US is exploring how best to do so. Morrell suggested the exchanges may restart this year. He added that US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao have shown interest in such a resumption, and that the two will meet early next year. The suspension of the exchanges earlier this year also resulted in the cancellation of a scheduled June visit to China by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates. 2010/09/10 16:58(JST) (JST: UTC+9hrs.)

Unemployment in the U.S. and government measures to cool China’s economy are damping demand in the world’s two largest car markets, weakening the outlook for the industry.

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This post is part 3 of a three part series by Robert Walsh, the founder of Samsara Biopharma Consulting, and his colleagues, Jennie Shi, Wendy Zheng, and Zhou Tong. It is a follow up to "The Basics on China Pharma" and "The Basics On China Pharma, Part 2: Getting Into China The Slow Hard Way." Here we go: ...Read more

Sino-American cooperation to increase product safety is increasing, but this does not relieve concern about the safety of food and other Chinese exports to the U.S., Stanley Lubman writes.

Eleven people and six corporations have been indicted in a conspiracy to smuggle Chinese honey into the United States, including honey contaminated with antibiotics that are not approved for use in this country, federal officials said Wednesday.

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Obama Administration Sued over Plan to Assassinate US Citizens The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights have sued the Obama administration over its claim to have the authority to assassinate US citizens accused of terrorism links abroad. Earlier this year, the Obama administration added the US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki to a CIA list of targets for capture or killing. Al-Awlaki is currently living in Yemen. Jameel Jaffer, Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU: "One of the dangers with this kind of program, a targeted killing program, is that we will end up killing the wrong people. Dozens of times we've detained people as terrorists only to find out later that the evidence was weak, nonexistent or wrong. At least with detention there's the possibility of a court challenge or the possibility of appeal, but there's no appeal from a drone. ...Read more

Rumors that China's central bank chief defected to the U.S. after losing $430 billion amount to one of the more outlandish bits of balderdash to emerge in recent memory from the swamp of China speculation. This time, though, financial markets didn't go for it.

The yuan had its biggest monthly loss since January 1994 after China’s government sought to support economic growth and the U.S. currency rallied.