Leaders from the BRIC countries, including South Africa, met in south China last Thursday for their annual meeting.
Archaeologists have discovered a skull in Maba, in South China, which is over 150, 000 years old and may demonstrate the earliest known instance of human violence.
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In November 2010 the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald, a newspaper in south China's Hunan Province, got into trouble with the censors after publishing a supplement on the revolution.
It really does take something to make a government bond a Giffen Good, something previously only observed with wheat noodles in North China and rice in South China.
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Less than two months ago at a pork processor in south China, for example, around 400 people were endangered by an ammonia leak like the one blamed for Monday's fire, according to the official news agency Xinhua.
He is working on a plan to use the Nebulae to improve health care services in South China a socially important goal but not one that makes use of the power of what is ranked as the world's fourth-fastest supercomputer.
China warned Washington this week not to get involved in South China Sea territorial disputes, loaded, of course, with oil and gas and have set China against the Philippines and Japan who both claim rights to the tiny energy rich islands in the sea.
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The hero who is celebrated varies by region: the romantic poet Qu Yuan is venerated in Hubei and Hunan Provinces, Wu Zixu (an old man said to have died while slaying a dragon in Guizhou Province) in South China, and Yan Hongwo in Yunnan Province among the Dai community.
While leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa meet in a south China resort town to discuss global political and economic affairs Thursday, many Americans are thanking their lucky stars for these new economic powerhouses.
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The Philippines and China have territorial disputes in the South China Sea, and engaged in a lengthy stand-off over the Scarborough shoal last year.
Its ability to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion, say, or even to back up the Philippines or Vietnam in a clash with China over a contentious rock in the South China Sea relies on its willingness to see these conflicts become wars involving the superpowers or even nuclear confrontations.
Similar heavy-handed action was used against the Philippines in a spat over the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea in April 2012.
But for unexplained reasons the two sides did not use it when Chinese boats harassed an American surveillance ship, the Impeccable, in the South China Sea in March.
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The atmosphere was clouded by mutual accusations over an incident in the South China Sea in which America said one of its ships was harassed by Chinese vessels.
Especially troubling is the harassment in international waters of unarmed U.S. Navy reconnaissance vessels for more than a decade, most notably the blocking of the Impeccable in the South China Sea in 2009.
Officials said the Washington is deployed in the East China Sea and the Stennis is in the South China Sea.
Vietnam, the Philippines and Taiwan are also in dispute with China over the sovereignty of islands in the South China Sea.
Other countries in the region believe China also wants to assert territorial claims in the South China Sea more vigorously.
"China will seize this opportunity of making joint efforts with ASEAN countries to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea and bring benefits to people in the region, " said Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin.
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Her high-profile challenging of Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea, beginning in 2010, infuriated Beijing's leadership.
China's claim in the South China Sea is by far the largest, and includes the Spratly and Paracel archipelagos.
In recent months, China has been facing off against India and Vietnam over activities in the South China Sea.
The move comes at a sensitive time in U.S.-China relations, with clashes over Beijing's territorial claims in the South China Sea and wrangling over a number of trade issues, from glossy paper to tires to chicken.
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