This is a huge market, with 1.85 billion consumers and a combined GDP of almost US$2.5 trillion. Both sides are dependent on each other, and benefit from each other's economic development,

The TV market is huge as consumers often buy a new and more stylish TV before the old one has died. But who has ever bought a second or third washing machine?

Wei Jingsheng is a condemned criminal who is serving his sentence and, therefore, has no qualification to be awarded a Nobel prize.

[Although admitting the timing --on the heels of the Hiroshima anniversary -- was bad, Beijing diplomats defended their position.] China has all along exercised utmost restraint on nuclear testing, ... The tests it has conducted are extremely limited in number.

China stands for the complete prohibition and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons.

It is unjustifiable for the United States to accuse China of inadequacy in its battle against piracy.