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Last Updated: July 7, 2016
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06.26.1327 Die in Rioting in Ethnically Divided Western China
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At least 27 people died in rioting in far western China on Wednesday, when protesters attacked a police station and government offices and the police fired on the crowd, state media said. It was the worst spasm of violence for years in Xinjiang.
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06.25.13Study Asks if Tainted Chinese Herbs Are Harming, Not Healing
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Chinese herbal medicine, an ancient tradition that is supposed to heal, may be doing the opposite: is it also harming people’s health and polluting the environment with pesticides, as a Greenpeace study released Monday suggests. The study...
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06.25.13Credit Warnings Offer World a Peek Into China’s Secretive Banks
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Most economists say China’s financial system is not facing huge systemic risks, and that growth could even come in at 7 percent, which would still make it the world’s fastest-growing major economy. But there are mounting concerns here that the good...
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06.25.13China Brushes Aside U.S. Warnings on Snowden
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In Beijing, people with knowledge of how China handled Mr. Snowden’s exit from Hong Kong were claiming a tactical victory for China, saying that the government had acted in China’s best interests, and in the long-term interests of its relationship...
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06.24.13China Said to Have Made Call to Let Leaker Depart
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From China’s point of view, analysts said, the departure of Mr. Snowden solved two concerns: how to prevent Beijing’s relationship with the United States from being ensnared in a long legal wrangle in Hong Kong over Mr. Snowden, and how to deal with...
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06.24.13Beijing Police Seek ‘Large and Vicious’ Suspects (With Wet Noses)
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Police in Beijing are enforcing a longstanding ban on dogs taller than 13.7 inches in the districts that make up the heart of the capital. Officials note that rabies last year killed 13 people in Beijing, more than double the number in 2011. Big...
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06.24.13Snowden, in Russia, Seeks Asylum in Ecuador
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The foreign minister of Ecuador confirmed receiving an asylum request from Mr. Snowden. As of early Monday morning in Russia, Mr. Snowden was believed to be staying the night inside the transit zone of a Moscow airport where he was visited by an...
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06.20.13Markets Slump Over Fed Exit Plan and China Credit Squeeze
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Just a day after the Federal Reserve hinted that it could soon begin winding down its bond-purchasing program, investors were unnerved by reports that Chinese banks had become reluctant to lend to one another, causing interest rates in the...
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06.20.13Why India Trails China
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India’s underperformance can be traced to a failure to learn from the examples of so-called Asian economic development, in which rapid expansion of human capability is both a goal in itself and an integral element in achieving rapid growth.
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06.18.13What Paintbrush Makers Know About How to Beat China
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Chinese manufacturers long ago wreaked havoc on the U.S. textile, apparel, toy and electronics industries, but the disruption came slowly to the brush business. Companies have employed two strategies to stave off Chinese competition: 1)...
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06.18.13China’s Great Uprooting: Moving 250 Million Into Cities
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The ultimate goal of the government’s modernization plan is to fully integrate 70 percent of the country’s population, or roughly 900 million people, into city living by 2025. Currently, only half that number are. &...
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06.14.13Calls Grow in China to Press Claim for Okinawa
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The Chinese government has not asserted a claim to Okinawa. But the seminar last month, which included state researchers and retired officers from the senior ranks of the People’s Liberation Army, was the latest act in what seems to be a...
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06.14.13Ex-N.S.A. Contractor’s Disclosures May Draw China’s Attention
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The decision by a former National Security Agency contractor to divulge classified data about the U.S. government’s surveillance of computers in mainland China and Hong Kong has complicated his legal position, but may also make China’s security...
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06.12.13China’s Venetian Quandary: Chinese Artists
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The Chinese exhibition at the 55th Venice Biennale, which opened June 1 and runs through Nov. 24, has been organized by Wang Chunchen, head of curatorial research at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Beijing. Its theme, “...
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06.11.13U.S. and China Pledge New Model of Cooperation
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The two presidents appeared eager to redefine the relationship in a way that would allow their countries to overcome their economic, political and diplomatic differences, rather than letting new — or old — crises derail progress.