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Chinese telecom giant ZTE said its major operations had "ceased" following last month's US ban on American sales of critical technology to the company,

As U.S.-China Trade Talks Begin, ZTE Is In The Spotlight

12:00pm May 15, 2018

by Anthony Kuhn

President Trump may be willing to ease up on ZTE, one of China's biggest telecom firms, to protect the overall economic relationship, a Beijing economist says. "The U.S. still needs China," he says.

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A sign for the ZTE booth is seen at the Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile phone trade show in Barcelona, Spain, in 2014.

President Trump Puts 'America First' On Hold To Save Chinese Jobs

9:59am May 14, 2018

by Scott Neuman

Trump says he is working with Chinese President Xi Jinping to get cellphone-maker ZTE "back in business" after it was punished for selling U.S. technology to Iran and then violated a settlement.

The NYPD has received 30 complaints from people who have lost money to a Chinese-language robocall scam.

Chinese Robocalls Bombarding The U.S. Are Part Of An International Phone Scam

8:21pm May 10, 2018

by Stephen Nessen

The Mandarin-language messages are part of a "parcel scam" that falsely accuses Chinese immigrants of money laundering and then extorts them.

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This 2017 photo shows the man on the right, identified by local Hong Kong media as former CIA agent Jerry Chun Shing Lee, standing in front of a member of security at the unveiling of Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" painting at the Christie's showroo

Former CIA Officer Charged With Spying For China

2:13am May 09, 2018

by Scott Neuman

Jerry Chun Shing Lee left the Central Intelligence Agency in 2007, but in 2012, FBI agents searched his hotel room and found handwritten notes detailing the U.S. network of informants in China.

Sun Zhengcai, at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee, in Beijing in March, four months before his arrest.

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Sun Zhengcai, Once A Rising Star In China, Gets Life Sentence On Bribery Charges

8:37am May 08, 2018

by Scott Neuman

The former Communist Party chief in Chongqing was the youngest member of the Politburo and being groomed for the Chinese leadership's inner sanctum when he was arrested in July.

Chinese President Xi Jinping visits the Marxist literature center at Peking University, long a bastion of patriotic student activism, in Beijing on Wednesday. Xi has pushed China's universities to enforce ideological conformity and avoid discussing consti

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As Peking University Marks 120 Years, Student Demands For Transparency Are Quashed

4:09pm May 04, 2018

by Anthony Kuhn

The school has a long history of patriotic activism, but recently it has suppressed student activists seeking disclosure of information about a campus sexual harassment case.

So A Rice Grower And A Wheat Grower Walk Into A Coffee Shop

4:19pm April 30, 2018

by Maanvi Singh

A new study suggests that modern-day Chinese might behave differently in coffee shops — depending on whether their ancestors grew rice or wheat.

A woman poses for a smartphone photo at a booth for Chinese tech firm Tencent at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) in Beijing, last year. Tencent was one of a number of tech companies singled out in a new report on gender discrimination in Chin

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Chinese Women Face Rampant Gender Discrimination From Employers, Report Says

12:17pm April 24, 2018

Human Rights Watch says 19 percent of job advertisements in 2018 were designated "men only." Meanwhile, several tech companies feature young female employees in ads to attract male counterparts.

A Debt Crisis Seems To Have Come Out Of Nowhere

6:53pm April 20, 2018

by Nurith Aizenman

Two dozen countries are at risk. What's behind this looming disaster? And can it be fixed?

A Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China Ltd. C919 aircraft stands under assembly in Shanghai in 2017. Proposed U.S. tariffs take special aim at the "Made in China 2025" plan, which supports development of advanced technologies in fields such as artificial in

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Beijing Forges Ahead With 'Made In China' Policy, Targeted By Proposed U.S. Tariffs

4:59pm April 18, 2018

by Anthony Kuhn

"Why should one country take aim at another country's policy to develop its own economy?" a Chinese auto industry leader says of U.S. threats and tariffs. "Just mind your own business."

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