China

A newborn girl is the first baby born in the New Year at Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Hospital on January 1, 2018 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China.

Despite The End Of China's One-Child Policy, Births Are Still Lagging

2:45pm July 16, 2018

Beijing hoped that by ending its infamous policy restricting women to one child, it would see a quick turnaround in the number of births. But the old policy has had a lasting impact.

China's Ministry of Commerce is pursuing legal remedy against the U.S. over new tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports. Here, a container ship is unloaded at the Port of Oakland in California last week after completing a voyage from China.

China Files WTO Complaint Over U.S. Tariffs On $200 Billion Of Imports

12:38pm July 16, 2018

by Bill Chappell

The complaint comes less than a week after the Trump administration published a preliminary list of more than 6,000 Chinese products that it wants to hit with new tariffs.

A Chinese worker looks on as a cargo ship is loaded at a port in Qingdao, in eastern China's Shandong province, in July 2017. The United States is China's biggest single export market.

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

11:24am July 12, 2018

by Jim Zarroli

The United States still buys a lot of products from China, but overall China is a lot less dependent on trade than it used to be. And Beijing now has leverage over the U.S. that it once lacked.

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In a July 2017 photo released by the Shenyang Municipal Information Office, Liu Xia, wife of jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner and Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, holds a portrait of him during his funeral at a funeral parlor in Shenyang in northeastern China

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China Allows Widow Of Prominent Dissident To Leave The Country

1:43pm July 10, 2018

Liu Xia left Beijing on Tuesday for Germany, bringing nearly eight years of virtual house arrest to an end. She is the widow of the late Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo.

A shipping container is offloaded from the Hong Kong-based ship in Oakland, Calif., last month.

China Says U.S. Has Begun 'Largest Trade War' In History, Retaliates With Tariffs

1:12pm July 06, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

At midnight, U.S. tariffs took effect on $34 billion worth of imported Chinese goods — and Beijing responded quickly. The tit for tat marks a significant escalation in the countries' trade dispute.

Shipping containers sit on a Hong Kong-based container ship at the Port of Oakland in California last month. The cost of the tariffs is likely to ripple through the global supply chains that make up much of the trade between the U.S. and China.

Trump Aims Tariffs At Chinese Companies, But Other Firms Will Also Feel The Pain

5:37am July 06, 2018

by Jim Zarroli

A new round of tariffs began Friday. The cost of the levies is likely to ripple through the complex global supply chains that make up much of the trade between the U.S. and China.

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Vocalist Freddy Lim of Taiwanese metal group Chthonic performing at Download Festival in Leicestershire, England, in 2013.

'Born Independent,' Taiwan's Defiant New Generation Is Coming Of Age

4:23pm July 03, 2018

by Rob Schmitz

Much of Taiwan's older generation sees itself as exiles from China. Younger people, including a metal vocalist-turned-legislator, identify the island as home — a free society independent from China.

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The sky surrounding the Statue of Liberty in New York is lit red by a firework in 2005. Nearly all the fireworks consumers will purchase this year — and 70 percent of those used by professionals — are manufactured in China.

Politics & Government

For Independence Day Fireworks, U.S. Depends On China

8:44am July 03, 2018

by Scott Horsley

Nearly all the fireworks Americans will use to celebrate this Fourth of July are imported from China. But the domestic fireworks business is still booming.

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China Has Refused To Recycle The West's Plastics. What Now?

6:57pm June 28, 2018

by Sara Kiley Watson

So where will all those bottles and bags end up? A new study looks at what's happening.

The skull of a new species of ancient ape, Junzi imperialis, an extinct gibbon from China.

Long-Extinct Gibbon Found Inside Tomb Of Chinese Emperor's Grandmother

6:51pm June 21, 2018

by Rebecca Hersher

A Chinese tomb has turned up evidence of a new species of long-extinct ape. The gibbon, called Junzi imperialis, lived and died alongside its imperial human caretaker.