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Last Updated: June 23, 2016

Ai Weiwei Responds To Chinese Authorities Destroying His Beijing Studio

Shannon Von Sant
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In Beijing, the AFP reports that authorities have slated the neighborhood surrounding Ai's studio for redevelopment. According to the AP, Beijing has destroyed "large swaths of the suburbs over the past year in a building safety campaign...

China Is Better Able To Withstand A Trade War Than In The Past

Jim Zarroli
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As President Trump threatens to heap more tariffs on Chinese imports, he’s got one important fact on his side: The United States remains China’s biggest single export market, buying some $500 billion in goods last year alone.

Trump Threatens Tariffs On $200 Billion Of Chinese Goods

Christopher Dean Hopkins
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In the latest move in an escalating trade dispute, President Trump announced Monday evening that he was asking U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to suggest $200 billion worth of Chinese goods on which the U.S. could impose a 10 percent...

Former CIA Officer Charged With Spying For China

Scott Neuman
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An ex-CIA officer arrested in January at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport has been charged with conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of China years after FBI agents turned up notebooks containing classified information in a search of his hotel...

Xi Says China to Lower Trade Barriers as Beijing Files Wto Complaint against U.S.

Scott Neuman
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China’s President Xi Jinping says his country will “significantly lower” import tariffs on automobiles as part of a broader move to open up its economy amid a major trade dispute with the U.S.

U.S. Farmers Likely among Hardest Hit by Chinese Tariffs

Frank Morris
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China's retaliatory tariffs may hit farmers harder than any other group.

Facial Recognition in China Is Big Business as Local Governments Boost Surveillance

Rob Schmitz
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Dozens of cameras meet visitors to the Beijing headquarters of SenseTime, China’s largest artificial intelligence company. One of them determines whether the door will open for you; another tracks your movements.

China Is Placing Underwater Sensors in the Pacific near Guam

Anthony Kuhn
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China’s official People’s Daily newspaper reported in December that Chinese scientists had lowered acoustic sensors into the Mariana Trench, at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

U.S. Military Advantage over Russia and China 'Eroding,' Pentagon Says

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The Pentagon unveiled its National Defense Strategy, a document that focuses on the "eroding" U.S. military advantage with regard to Russia and China, and will likely influence future spending on weapons systems and other military hardware.

China Reports Its Fastest Economic Growth In 7 Years

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China is reporting its fastest economic growth in seven years, saying its gross domestic product grew by 6.9 percent in 2017. 

Trump’s Insults Will Nudge African Nations Closer to China

Ismail Einashe
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Last week President Trump reportedly singled out Haiti, El Salvador and African nations as “shithole countries” whose people were not the kind of immigrants the United States wanted.

A Life-Size Replica of the Titanic Is under Construction in China’s Countryside

Rob Schmitz
NPR
The film moved Su Shaojun, the developer overseeing the project, so much that when he became a developer 15 years later, he proposed building a resort and theme park featuring a replica.

China Unveils New Visa Program to Attract 'High-End' Foreigners

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If you are a scientist, entrepreneur or a Nobel Prize laureate, you might have a future as an expatriate in China.

Worries Grow in Hong Kong as China Pushes Its Official Version of History in Schools

Rob Schmitz
NPR
The new proposed curriculum for city schools is missing key parts of modern Chinese history, like Hong Kong’s 1967 pro-Communist riots against British rulers and the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, when Chinese troops killed hundreds of unarmed...

For China’s High-Flying Tycoons, a Precarious Balance

Anthony Kuhn
NPR
Flush with credit, LeEco expanded aggressively overseas. But the company overextended itself, its credit began to dry up — and by May, it had to lay off most of its workers in the U.S.