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07.19.17Chinese Labor Activist Targeted over ‘Ivanka Trump Supplier Probe’
South China Morning Post
Hua Haifeng believes police arrested him and took a special interest in his work after he began investigating factories supplying Trump’s clothing brand
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02.15.17China Bird Flu Deaths Surge in What Could Be the Worst Season Ever
Reuters
As many as 79 people died from H7N9 bird flu in China last month, the government said, stoking worries that the spread of the virus this season could be the worst on record.
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12.14.16GM China Reportedly Under Antitrust Investigation: A Warning for Trump?
Forbes
The surprising report of an investigation of GM comes suspiciously close to President-elect Trump’s incendiary recent comments on Taiwan
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08.25.16FBI Files Say China Firm Pushed U.S. Experts for Nuclear Secrets
Bloomberg
Summaries of the consultants’ interviews with agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation were filed this month.
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06.23.16China Still Harvesting Organs from Prisoners at a Massive Scale
CNN
The report shows a discrepancy between official figures for the number of transplants carried out throughout the country.
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06.21.16Mother’s Fight to Exonerate Executed Son Highlights Gaping Holes in Justice System
More than two decades after a young man in the northern province of Hebei was executed for the alleged rape and murder of a woman, his mother is anxiously awaiting a retrial to clear his name.Zhang Huanzhi’s only son, Nie Shubin, was executed in...
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05.03.16China Investigates Baidu After Student’s Death From Cancer
New York Times
Chinese regulators have begun an investigation into the Internet giant Baidu due to misleading medical advertising.
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12.14.15Reports: China Tycoon Appears at Event After Disappearance
Associated Press
The chairman of the Chinese conglomerate said he was assisting an official investigation after he disappeared for a day last week.
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08.05.14China ‘Investigating Canada Couple Over State Secrets’
BBC
Chinese authorities are investigating a Canadian couple suspected of stealing state secrets about national defense and the military, state media say.
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08.05.14Chinese Regulators Search Daimler Offices
New York Times
The German automobile giant Daimler has become the latest multinational company to bear the brunt a Chinese regulatory investigation, confirming on Tuesday that officials from an agency that enforces antimonopoly and pricing rules had searched its...
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07.31.14China Harasses U.S. Tech Companies
New York Times
China has opened what appear to be politically motivated antitrust investigations into American technology companies like Microsoft and Qualcomm. Foreign companies operating in the Communist country could be in for more intense harassment than ever...
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07.29.14China Puts Ex-Security Chief Zhou Yongkang Under Investigation
Wall Street Journal
China launched a formal investigation into one of the Communist Party’s most senior figures, lifting a cloak of immunity that has shielded the country’s highest ranks for at least 25 years, in President Xi Jinping’s boldest move yet to solidify his...
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09.11.13China Says Military Strike Against Syria Would Hurt Global Economy
Los Angeles Times
Vice Minister of Finance Zhu Guangyao said estimates from the International Monetary Fund indicate that a military strike would lead to a $10 jump in the price of a barrel of oil, which in turn would cut global economic growth by 0...
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09.11.13China’s Xi Tells Obama Syria Crisis Can’t Be Resolved with Military Strike
Reuters
China has called for a full and impartial investigation by U.N. chemical weapons inspectors in Syria into the attack, and has warned against pre-judging the results. It has also said that whoever used chemical weapons had...
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08.21.13China seen probing IBM, Oracle, EMC after Snowden leaks
Reuters
China’s Ministry of Public Security and a cabinet-level research center are preparing to investigate IBM Corp, Oracle Corp and EMC Corp over security issues.
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01.28.13Cleaning Up China’s Secret Police Sleuthing
Wiretapping, email hacking, cell phone tracking, and secret videotaping are just a few of the cloak-and-dagger techniques long employed by police in the course of criminal investigations in China.But now, for the first time, new rules say that...