So perhaps the negative news from China this week should not be surprising.

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We have certainly seen some good news coming out of China here this week in terms of economic growth, and it seems as China goes, the copper market goes.

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Lucas said the markets were probably overreacting to the China growth news, but it creates a disquieting picture when coupled with last week's trade data showing some weakness in the country's exports.

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In green transportation news, China unveiled the world's longest high-speed rail line this week.

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But there is some good news this week from India's other flank, its border with China.

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Relations with China and Boris Yeltsin's latest upheavals in Russia loom large in this week's national news.

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The group of nine youths, aged between 15 and 23, were arrested in Laos on 16 May and sent to China this week where they were put on a flight to Pyongyang, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reports.

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This week, the government in Beijing said the Gwadar takeover plan had come as news to China.

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China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported that the Guizhou Province's health bureau announced earlier this week that it had discovered two dozen Americans who had been within four rows of the suspected swine flu, or H1N1, case on the plane.

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