A 'huge story'

By: Lucia Moses Running to catch up in China

But no rushing to do more on cusp of permanent normal trade relations

Major news organizations, which have been devoting increasing resources to covering China for some time, say they plan no special response now that the United States is on the cusp of establishing permanent normal trade relations with that country.
The U.S. House of Representatives last week voted to end a Cold War-fostered era of economic restrictions.
The Washington Post, for example, has added staff in Beijing and moved its Asian economic correspondent from Tokyo to Hong Kong in recent years, Deputy Foreign Editor Edward Cody said. "We for some time have been running to catch up with the China story," Cody said. "It's a huge story."
Similarly, The Wall Street Journal and parent Dow Jones & Co. Inc. have been taking advantage of growing interest in China, and its financial importance. "We've been devoting ever-greater resources to coverage of China for quite some time now, and I would expect that trend to continue," Dow Jones spokesman Richard Tofel said.

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