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China tells schools to run more calligraphy classes because computers and mobile phones are ruining children's writing.

Which means there's much more. In a closed-door government meeting, China Banking Regulatory Commission chairman Liu Mingkang announced that $470 billion was moving through so-called "black" banks in the country's Eastern provinces alone, according to Asia Times Online.

China appears on track to forge a modern military by 2020, a rapid buildup that could be potentially destabilizing to the Asia-Pacific region, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.

Vice President Biden mistakenly claimed Americans own 85% of U.S. Treasury securities during his visit to China.

US Vice-President Joe Biden, on a visit to China, seeks to allay concerns over US debt, saying America has never defaulted on and never will.

Vietnamese police have swooped in and crushed an anti-China rally, forcing dozens of protesters who refused to stop chanting onto two buses that were driven away.

A basketball match between an American and Chinese basketball game ended in a brawl on Thursday in Beijing, overshadowing a visit to the country by the US Vice President Joe Biden. Officials abandoned the match between the Georgetown University men's basketball team and the Bayi Rockets after a foul led to punches and chairs being thrown.

When Vice President Biden visits China this week, his official host will be his counterpart, Vice President Xi Jinping, who has already been tapped to take over the leadership of this country and its ruling Communist Party, in a carefully managed succession that begins next year.

U.S. officials suspect Pakistan let the Chinese military see secret technology the U.S. helicopter that crashed in the bin Laden raid.

China's second-biggest train maker will recall 54 bullet trains used on the new showcase Beijing-Shanghai line for safety reasons, the firm said on Friday, dealing a fresh blow to the nation's scandal-plagued rail system.