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President Biden touches a piece of steel from the World Trade Center at a memorial to the 9/11 attacks Monday at NATO headquarters in Brussels. NATO allies joined in a collective defense with the U.S. after the terror attacks.

Biden Says Russia's Putin Is A 'Worthy Adversary' Whether Or Not He Trusts Him

6:25pm June 14, 2021

by Ayesha Rascoe

President Biden reassured his NATO allies that the U.S. has their backs, and said he was gratified that the alliance will now also focus on challenges from China, climate change and cyberattacks.

The Xinyuan Coal Mine operated by Yangquan Coal Industry Group Co. in Jinzhong, Shanxi province, in October.

China Has Promised To Go Carbon-Neutral By 2060, But Coal Is Still King

8:00am June 14, 2021

by Emily Feng

This year, China pledged to go carbon-neutral by 2060. It has invested heavily in solar, wind and nuclear energy. Still, coal-fired heavy industry made up 37% of its economic activity last year.

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President Biden meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines of the G-7 summit. A White House official said Biden did a lot of "diplomatic speed-dating" with world leaders.

Biden Pushes G-7 Allies To Take A Tougher Stance On China

2:59pm June 13, 2021

by Franco Ordoñez

President Biden has said China poses one of the biggest strategic challenges to the United States. At the G-7, he convinced key allies to help push back against Beijing.

U.S. and Chinese flags before the opening session of 2019 trade negotiations between U.S. and Chinese trade representatives in Beijing. China just passed a sweeping law designed to counter sanctions the U.S. and the European Union have imposed on Chinese

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China's New Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law Sends A Chill Through The Business Community

7:49pm June 11, 2021

by Emily Feng

It's not clear how often or how broadly Beijing will use the law. But by complying with U.S. sanctions on China, businesses could face tough sanctions in China as a penalty for doing so.

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Uyghurs living in Turkey protested China in March for the country's human rights abuses in its western Xinjiang province. A new Amnesty International report substantiates these abuses, calling them "crimes against humanity."

New Report Details Firsthand Accounts Of Torture From Uyghur Muslims In China

8:00pm June 10, 2021

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Jonathan Loeb, a senior crisis adviser and the lead author of Amnesty International's new report on the persecution of Uyghurs and other minority groups in Xinjiang.

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A sandstorm moves the Gobi desert in Mongolia.

Buried Alive In Mongolia's Worst Sandstorms In A Decade

9:13am May 30, 2021

Even the rescue teams could not go forward during one of the fiercest of many sandstorms this spring. Herders have lost their herds — an estimated 1.6 million livestock — and their lives.

President Biden directed the intelligence agencies to look for evidence of an accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (pictured). Many scientists still think its more likely the virus came form the wild.

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Many Scientists Still Think The Coronavirus Came From Nature

5:09pm May 28, 2021

by Geoff Brumfiel

President Biden told U.S. intelligence agencies to investigate whether the coronavirus spread after a lab leak in China. Scientists welcome the request, but many still think it came from the wild.

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Billionaire Sun Dawu built an agriculture empire just outside Beijing. Now his conglomerate, Dawu Group, is slipping out of his control.

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The Latest Target In China's Crackdown On Entrepreneurs Is An Outspoken Billionaire

8:24am May 15, 2021

by Emily Feng

Sun Dawu has befriended and supported political dissidents. Now he may become one himself. "This is a simple administrative law case, but it has become politicized and distorted," says his lawyer.

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Workers in China collect demographic data in the the seventh population census on Nov. 1, 2020.

China's Birthrate Drops, As Census Data Warn Of Aging Population

2:35am May 11, 2021

by John Ruwitch

Leaders in Beijing will need to determine how to continue China's streak of economic growth while caring for a growing, nonworking part of the population.

A selfie Feng Daoyou took in Macau. Her older brother Feng Daokun believes she traveled to Hong Kong before flying to the U.S., from where she first contacted him in 2016. Unlike the rest of her family, she did not marry, and seemed to relish venturing fa

In China, Atlanta Shooting Victim's Kin Struggle To Understand Her — And Her Death

4:28pm April 28, 2021

by Emily Feng

To her family in southern China, Feng Daoyou remains a mystery. They remember her as generous and headstrong but they knew little of her life in the U.S. She was among eight people killed on March 16.