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News Articles: China

China's market regulator announced Thursday that it had opened an investigation into the  e-commerce giant, Alibaba, for alleged anticompetitive activities.

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  • Asia

Chinese Regulators Open Investigation Into E-Commerce Giant Alibaba

China's State Administration for Market Regulation is focusing on allegations that Alibaba forces merchants on its website to sell only on its platform.

December 24, 2020
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
China's Chang'e-5 probe returned to Earth this week after collecting samples of the lunar surface to Earth for the first time in almost 45 years.

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  • Science

China Promises To Share Findings From Its Returned Lunar Probe

The successful completion of the Chang'e-5 mission makes China only the third country to have returned soil and rock samples from the surface of the moon.

December 18, 2020
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Taking swab samples from agricultural products at the Xinfadi wholesale market in Beijing.

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  • Global Health

China Has A Theory About Its New COVID-19 Cases. Many Scientists Are Skeptical

The government is pointing a finger at imports of frozen foods. The consensus in the scientific community: "highly unlikely."

December 16, 2020
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By:
  • Emily Feng
The United Arab Emirates announced Wednesday that the Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine provides 86% protection from the virus. The UAE said it has registered the vaccine following analysis by health officials.

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  • Middle East

Chinese Vaccine 86% Effective, UAE Health Ministry Says

The Sinopharm vaccine, developed by a Chinese pharmaceutical company, has already been approved for emergency use in a few countries.

December 09, 2020
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
The official height of Mount Everest has been the subject of intense negotiations between Nepal and China. The revised number both countries have agreed upon: 8,849 meters, or about 29,032 feet.

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  • Asia

Everest Gets A Growth Spurt As China, Nepal Revise Official Elevation Upward

After years of surveys and calculations, the countries said Tuesday that the world's highest peak now stands about 29,032 feet above sea level — more than 2 feet taller than the previous consensus.

December 08, 2020
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By:
  • Colin Dwyer
Employees work in the workshop of a lithium battery manufacturing company in Huaibei, eastern China, on Nov. 14. China posted a record trade surplus in November, led by a surge in exports to the United States.

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  • Economy

China Posts Record Month For Trade Thanks To Homebound, Bored Americans

China's trade surplus hit a record in November as exports to the U.S. soared by 46%. U.S. exports to China are also growing, but not as quickly.

December 07, 2020
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By:
  • Scott Horsley
A car drives past the U.S. Embassy in Havana in 2019. Dozens of Americans working at U.S. diplomatic missions in Cuba and China in recent years have suffered from ailments that have included headaches, balance problems and memory loss.

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  • National Security

Microwave Radiation 'Most Plausible' Cause Of Diplomats' Ailments, Report Says

The study by the National Academies of Sciences comes after dozens of U.S. diplomats in Cuba and China complained of migraines, dizziness and memory loss.

December 07, 2020
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  • Greg Myre
Marines of the 5th and 7th regiments who hurled back a surprise onslaught by three Chinese communist divisions wait to withdraw from the Chosin Reservoir area circa December 1950.

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  • World

'God ... Let Us Survive': Remembering Korean War's Chosin Battle And Evacuation

Seventy years on, war participants are drawing starkly differing conclusions from the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. The decisive conflict's lasting legacy is still visible on the Korean Peninsula.

December 04, 2020
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  • Anthony Kuhn
Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, also general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, leads the fifth plenary session of the party's 19th Central Committee in October in Beijing. The U.S. State Department on Thursday tightened travel restrictions on members of the party and their families.

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  • World

U.S. Imposes Severe Travel Restrictions On Chinese Communist Party Members

The new rules reduce the maximum validity of U.S. business and tourist visas held by party members and their families from 10 years to one month. China calls the action part of a "Cold War mentality."

December 03, 2020
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By:
  • Michele Kelemen and
  • John Ruwitch
A private delivery company's courier drives his delivery vehicle in a residential area in Beijing in June.

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  • World

For China's Overburdened Delivery Workers, The Customer — And App — Is Always Right

Delivery workers in Beijing tell NPR they work 12-hour days, six days a week, monitored by apps tracking how and when they deliver hundreds of packages every day. One misstep and their pay is slashed.

December 01, 2020
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By:
  • Emily Feng
Joe Biden meets with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Munich in 2015. Relations will no doubt be far more cordial under Biden, but Europe and the U.S. have differences that transcend the Trump administration.

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  • World

Biden Is Good News For Europe, But China Challenges Await

Even as European Union leaders welcome more cordial U.S. relations, the trans-Atlantic partnership faces the tough test of handling China's expansion.

November 30, 2020
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By:
  • Frank Langfitt
Then-Vice President Joe Biden gestures toward Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan during an arrival ceremony in Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Sept. 24, 2015.

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  • World

China's Xi Jinping Congratulates Biden On Election Win, Urges Cooperation

He is one of the last major world leaders to wish Joe Biden congratulations.

November 25, 2020
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By:
  • John Ruwitch
Then-Sen. Joe Biden, in August 2001, on his first trip to China as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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  • Politics

Biden Vs. Biden On China

In the early 2000s, Joe Biden helped bring China and America closer. Now, not so much.

November 24, 2020
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By:
  • Greg Rosalsky
An ethnic Hui Muslim man stands in front of Laohuasi Mosque in Linxia, Gansu province, in 2018. Chinese Muslims are most densely clustered in the northwestern regions of Gansu, Ningxia and Xinjiang, but live across the country, as they have for more than a millennium.

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  • World

China Targets Muslim Scholars And Writers With Increasingly Harsh Restrictions

The intellectual heart of China's Muslim community is under threat as scholars, writers, religious leaders and their families are under constant state surveillance.

November 21, 2020
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By:
  • Emily Feng
Chinese President Xi Jinping and then Vice President Joe Biden attend an arrival ceremony in Andrews Air Force Base, Md., in 2015. Biden is under pressure from both the left and the right to continue taking a hard line on trade with China.

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  • Business

Trump Launched A Trade War Against China. Don't Look To Biden To Reverse It

The president-elect can undo many of Trump's tariffs with the stroke of a pen, but he's unlikely to do so now that the tenor of the U.S.-China relationship has changed.

November 18, 2020
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  • Jim Zarroli
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