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News Articles: China

Guo Gangtang, right, embraces his son Guo Xinzhen during a reunion after 24 years in Liaocheng, in Central China's Shandong province.

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  • World

These Parents Were Reunited With Their Son After He Was Abducted 24 Years Ago

Guo Xinzhen was abducted as a toddler outside their home. Abductions of children for sale are reported regularly in China, though how often it happens is unclear.

July 14, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescuers prepare equipment as they search for survivors at a collapsed hotel in Suzhou in eastern China's Jiangsu Province on Monday.

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  • Asia

At Least 8 People Are Dead After A Hotel Collapsed In Eastern China

At least 23 people were trapped when the Siji Kaiyuan Hotel in Suzhou collapsed Monday afternoon.

July 13, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
A Giant panda enjoys bamboo at the Beijing Zoo during the first day of the public display on June 5, 2008 in Beijing, China.

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  • Animals

Finally Some Good News! China Says Giant Pandas Are No Longer Endangered

The announcement comes five years after the International Union for Conservation of Nature officially removed giant pandas from its endangered list.

July 09, 2021
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  • Sharon Pruitt-Young
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech Thursday during the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

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  • Asia

China Celebrates Its Communist Party's Centennial With Spectacle, Saber Rattling

In a fiery speech at Tiananmen Square, Communist Party Chairman Xi Jinping vowed to keep an iron grip on Hong Kong and to conquer Tiawan, and warned foreign forces against trying to bully China.

July 01, 2021
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  • Emily Feng
Hong Kong police show their new goose step marching style on National Security Education Day at a police school in Hong Kong on April 15.

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  • Asia

China's Tough Hong Kong Law Turns 1 Year Old — And It's Already Grown Teeth

Apple Daily was closed, universities were muzzled and prominent activists were either jailed or exiled. The national security law has surely made an impact in Hong Kong in its first year in force.

June 30, 2021
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By:
  • Emily Feng
President Biden waves as he prepares to depart the airport after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, on June 16.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: We Don't Need A Biden Doctrine Dividing The World Into Good And Bad

President Biden sees foreign policy as a battle between democracies and autocracies — and that's a flawed doctrine, according to analysts Aaron David Miller and Richard Sokolsky.

June 22, 2021
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  • Aaron David Miller and
  • Richard Sokolsky
Shipping containers are stacked high at the Port of Los Angeles in April. Supply chain disruptions are hitting small-business owners across the United States.

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  • Economy

Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, And It's Making Inflation Worse

A surge in imports is overwhelming transportation networks and testing supply chains, making life hard for small-business owners.

June 21, 2021
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  • Scott Horsley
Security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology during the Feb. 3 visit of the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that triggered a pandemic.

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  • Global Health

The Investigation Of The Pandemic's Origins Is At An Impasse

In the wake of heated debate over the unproven lab leak theory, the world is calling on China to cooperate with investigations. But efforts to delve into this matter seem to be stalling.

June 17, 2021
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  • Will Stone
Chinese astronauts, from left, Tang Hongbo, Nie Haisheng, and Liu Boming wave as they prepare to board for liftoff Thursday at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan in northwestern China. China plans to launch three astronauts onboard the Shenzhou-12 spaceship who will be the first crew members to live on China's new orbiting space station Tianhe, or Heavenly Harmony.

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  • Space

China Launches First Crew To Live On New Space Station

The three astronauts who blasted off Thursday from the Jiuquan launch center in northwestern China will stay three months in the Tianhe, or Heavenly Harmony.

June 17, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
President Biden is set to leave Brussels on Tuesday for Geneva, the last leg of a trip where he sought to mend fences with allies and take a tougher stance on Moscow and Beijing.

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  • Politics

Biden And The EU Call A Truce In A 17-Year Trade Fight To Focus On Threats From China

Biden tried to repair ties with European allies and convinced them to take a tougher stance on China. Next he'll confront Russia. But selling this at home remains the hardest part.

June 15, 2021
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  • Franco Ordoñez
The Xinyuan Coal Mine operated by Yangquan Coal Industry Group Co. in Jinzhong, Shanxi province, in October.

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  • World

China Wants To Go Carbon-Neutral — And Won't Stop Burning Coal To Get There

This year, China pledged to go carbon-neutral by 2060. It has invested heavily in solar, wind and nuclear energy. Still, coal-fired heavy industry made up 37% of its economic activity last year.

June 15, 2021
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  • Emily Feng
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  • Politics

Biden Says Russia's Putin Is A 'Worthy Adversary' Whether Or Not He Trusts Him

President Biden reassured his NATO allies that the U.S. has their backs, and said he was gratified that the alliance will now also focus on challenges from China, climate change and cyberattacks.

June 14, 2021
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  • Ayesha Rascoe
President Biden meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines of the G-7 summit. A White House official said Biden did a lot of "diplomatic speed-dating" with world leaders.

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  • Politics

Biden Pushes G-7 Allies To Take A Tougher Stance On China

President Biden has said China poses one of the biggest strategic challenges to the United States. At the G-7, he convinced key allies to help push back against Beijing.

June 13, 2021
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  • Franco Ordoñez and
  • Asma Khalid
U.S. and Chinese flags before the opening session of 2019 trade negotiations between U.S. and Chinese trade representatives in Beijing. China just passed a sweeping law designed to counter sanctions the U.S. and the European Union have imposed on Chinese officials and major Chinese companies.

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  • World

China's New Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law Sends A Chill Through The Business Community

It's not clear how often or how broadly Beijing will use the law. But by complying with U.S. sanctions on China, businesses could face tough sanctions in China as a penalty for doing so.

June 11, 2021
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  • Emily Feng
Uyghurs living in Turkey protested China in March for the country's human rights abuses in its western Xinjiang province. A new Amnesty International report substantiates these abuses, calling them "crimes against humanity."

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  • Asia

New Report Details Firsthand Accounts Of Torture From Uyghur Muslims In China

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Jonathan Loeb, a senior crisis adviser and the lead author of Amnesty International's new report on the persecution of Uyghurs and other minority groups in Xinjiang.

June 10, 2021
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  • Ailsa Chang,
  • Anna Sirianni,
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