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Last Updated: June 23, 2016
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08.06.18Ai Weiwei Responds To Chinese Authorities Destroying His Beijing Studio
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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...
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07.12.18China Is Better Able To Withstand A Trade War Than In The Past
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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.
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06.19.18Trump Threatens Tariffs On $200 Billion Of Chinese Goods
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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...
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05.09.18Former CIA Officer Charged With Spying For China
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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...
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04.10.18Xi Says China to Lower Trade Barriers as Beijing Files Wto Complaint against U.S.
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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.
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04.05.18U.S. Farmers Likely among Hardest Hit by Chinese Tariffs
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China's retaliatory tariffs may hit farmers harder than any other group.
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04.04.18Facial Recognition in China Is Big Business as Local Governments Boost Surveillance
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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.
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02.07.18China Is Placing Underwater Sensors in the Pacific near Guam
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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.
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01.19.18U.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.
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01.18.18China 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.
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01.16.18Trump’s Insults Will Nudge African Nations Closer to China
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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.
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01.09.18A Life-Size Replica of the Titanic Is under Construction in China’s Countryside
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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.
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01.05.18China 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.
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12.11.17Worries Grow in Hong Kong as China Pushes Its Official Version of History in Schools
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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...
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11.28.17For China’s High-Flying Tycoons, a Precarious Balance
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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.