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| Merkel to tackle trade in China | |
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| Trade and climate are set to be key topics for German Chancellor Angela Merkel as she starts a visit to China. | |
| China's economy has grown considerably in recent years, but its development has also caused a significant rise in pollution including greenhouse gases. | China's economy has grown considerably in recent years, but its development has also caused a significant rise in pollution including greenhouse gases. |
| The chancellor will meet China's President Hu Jintao as well as Premier Wen Jiabao during her three-day trip. | |
| Mrs Merkel will then go to Japan, which replaces Germany as the head of the G8 group of richest nations in 2008. | Mrs Merkel will then go to Japan, which replaces Germany as the head of the G8 group of richest nations in 2008. |
| She is expected to meet Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo. | She is expected to meet Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo. |
| On the eve of her arrival in China, Beijing rejected reports in a German news magazine that hackers with links to China's military had infiltrated German government computers. | |
| China's economy has grown but so too has its pollution problems | |
| A Foreign Ministry in Beijing spokesman said that China "has always been against and strictly opposes the criminal action of hacking and harming computer systems". | |
| The German government has not commented on the reports in Der Spiegel, which said that computers at the chancellery and three ministries had been infected with viruses. | |
| According to the magazine, German's domestic intelligence agency believes hackers linked to China's People's Liberation Army might be behind the attacks. | |
| Climate concerns | |
| Mrs Merkel has been keen for developing countries to tackle climate change | |
| Angela Merkel has been keen to push climate change on the international agenda, and wants rapidly growing countries such as China to have a role in fighting global warming. | |
| While China declared its first national plan to tackle climate change in June this year, it also said it would not want the problem addressed at the expense of economic development. | While China declared its first national plan to tackle climate change in June this year, it also said it would not want the problem addressed at the expense of economic development. |
| China is not obliged to meet targets that apply to developed nations under the UN-backed Kyoto protocol which runs until 2012 and is the main international framework for reducing greenhouse emissions. | China is not obliged to meet targets that apply to developed nations under the UN-backed Kyoto protocol which runs until 2012 and is the main international framework for reducing greenhouse emissions. |
| It is also expected that Mrs Merkel and her delegation will address human rights issues, notably in Sudan - an ally of China's - as well as intellectual property. | It is also expected that Mrs Merkel and her delegation will address human rights issues, notably in Sudan - an ally of China's - as well as intellectual property. |