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News Articles: China

In an effort to curb video game addiction among children, Chinese authorities are tightening the reins on just how much that online gaming companies are allowed to offer young users.

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  • Technology

In China, Kids Are Limited To Playing Video Games For Only 3 Hours Per Week

Online gaming companies are barred from offering their services to minors except for an hour on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. New rules also require players to sign on using their real names.

August 30, 2021
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By:
  • Sharon Pruitt-Young
A new U.S. intelligence report could not conclude whether the SARS-CoV-2 virus escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China or spilled over from an infected animal. Without more information about the early days of the outbreak, a more definitive explanation is unlikely, the report found.

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  • Health

A U.S. Intelligence Report Fails To Pinpoint COVID's Origins

After a 90-day review, U.S investigators did not turn up any clear answer on whether the coronavirus hopped from an animal to a human — or somehow escaped from a lab.

August 27, 2021
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By:
  • Will Stone
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a speech at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore before departing for Vietnam on the second leg of her Southeast Asia trip, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021.

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  • Asia

Harris Rebukes China In Major Speech On Indo-Pacific

The Vice President warned China that its actions in the South China Sea amount to "coercion" and "intimidation."

August 24, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets with Afghan Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar in Tianjin, China, on July 28.

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  • World

Here's What A Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan May Mean For China

What Beijing has offered the Taliban so far is an open hand and a hint of legitimacy. Taliban leaders have pledged to leave Chinese interests alone and not to harbor anti-China extremist groups.

August 23, 2021
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By:
  • Emily Feng and
  • John Ruwitch
Dawlatt Naimati, 22, from Kunduz, stands outside an internet café where she is seeking help applying for a U.S. special immigrant visa on Aug. 8, in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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  • Asia

4 Reasons A Potential Taliban Takeover In Afghanistan Matters To The World

It's not clear if the Taliban will be able to seize control of the entire country, but the speed of their advance has many inside and outside the country alarmed at the prospect.

August 14, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
Brachiosaurus dinosaur, a relative of the newly discovered species, seen in computer artwork.

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  • Science

Scientists Discover Not 1, But 2 New Dinosaur Species In China

Scientists analyzing fossils from the country's northwest regions say two specimens were from previously unknown species.

August 13, 2021
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By:
  • Josie Fischels
Alibaba's headquarters in Hangzhou, China. A female employee at the tech company is alleging that she was sexually assaulted by her manager.

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  • Asia

Rape Accusations At Alibaba Bring China's #MeToo Movement Back Into The Spotlight

A woman's account of her alleged rape by her manager at the Chinese tech company has gone viral, spurring conversations across the country about sexual abuse in the workplace.

August 13, 2021
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  • Emily Feng
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  • Asia

China Is Creating A Karaoke Blacklist

The country's Ministry of Culture and Tourism says it is creating a blacklist of banned songs containing "illegal content" that it deems "subversive" at karaoke establishments starting Oct. 1.

August 11, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman
A U.S. Navy hovercraft prepares to hit the beach during amphibious-landing exercises as part of an annual joint U.S.-Philippine military exercise on the shores of San Antonio, facing the South China Sea, in Zambales province, Philippines, on April 11, 2019.

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  • World

4 Things To Know After The Philippines Kept Its Pact With The U.S. Military

After threatening since last year to cancel it, President Rodrigo Duterte decided to restore the agreement that enables U.S. forces to operate in the Philippines. Here's why that matters.

August 06, 2021
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  • Julie McCarthy
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) emblem on a page of the HKSAR passport arranged in Hong Kong, China, earlier this year. The Biden administration says it will allow Hong Kong residents to remain and work in the U.S. for at least 18 months without fear of deportation.

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  • National Security

As China Cracks Down, Hong Kong Residents In The U.S. Have Been Given Temporary Haven

In announcing the move, the White House cited "strong support for people in Hong Kong in the face of ongoing repression by the People's Republic of China."

August 05, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
People line up for coronavirus testing on Thursday in Nanjing, in China's Jiangsu province.

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  • Asia

An Outbreak Of The Coronavirus Delta Variant Has Spread To 15 Chinese Cities

China is battling to stem the spread of new cases tied to the more infectious variant. Nearly 200 people have been infected since last week, when a case was detected at an international airport.

July 30, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman
Qin Gang fields questions during a news conference around the Six-Party Talks on North Korea's nuclear program in Beijing in 2005. He served as spokesperson for the Chinese delegation.

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  • World

China's New U.S. Ambassador Pioneered The Foreign Ministry's Brash Tone

Qin Gang brought a tougher style to China's foreign ministry pulpit. Now he is Beijing's man in Washington, inheriting a hard post amid the most fraught relations in years between China and the U.S.

July 28, 2021
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By:
  • Emily Feng and
  • John Ruwitch
Sun Dawu, shown here in 2005, was sentenced Wednesday in a court in China's Hebei province. The billionaire pig farmer was found guilty of eight charges, including gathering crowds to attack state agencies, illegal fundraising and "provoking trouble."

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  • World

Chinese Billionaire Sun Dawu Is Sentenced To 18 Years For 'Provoking Trouble'

The staunch advocate of social justice and rural development was found guilty of eight charges. His harsh prison sentence comes amid broader efforts by authorities to rein in powerful businessmen.

July 28, 2021
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By:
  • Emily Feng
Tourists dressed up as People's Liberation Army soldiers pose in Liangjiahe village, where a teenage Xi Jinping spent seven years doing hard labor. Today the village is a popular red tourism site. The sign displays a quote from Xi: "Liangjiahe is where my roots are, and my soul. It is my second home."

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  • World

Chinese Tourists Throng 'Red Tourism' Sites To Mark Communist Party Centennial

The officially designated Communist Party historical sites venerate Mao Zedong and, increasingly, the country's current leader, Xi Jinping. Tourists sometimes do manual labor and dress up as soldiers.

July 22, 2021
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By:
  • Emily Feng
An alert on a suspected attack by state-backed Chinese hackers from the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in April.

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  • National Security

The U.S. Has Formally Accused China Of A Massive Cyberattack On Microsoft

The Biden administration, backed by U.S. allies, is publicly calling out Beijing for an attack this year on Microsoft's Exchange email server software that targeted computers worldwide.

July 19, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman
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