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People pass a TV screen on Friday at the Seoul Railway Station. The Korean words on the screen say, "President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump tested positive for COVID-19."

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Reaction To Trump's Infection: Sympathy In South Korea, Some Schadenfreude In China

10:20pm October 02, 2020

by Anthony Kuhn

South Korea's president sent President Trump a message of "solace and encouragement." A Chinese newspaper editor tweeted that Trump had "paid the price for his gamble to play down the COVID-19."

A guard tower and barbed wire fences are seen around the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region in December 2018.

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Report: Satellite Images Reveal Suspected Detention Sites In China's Xinjiang Region

6:49pm September 24, 2020

by Laurel Wamsley

The centers have apparently been built and expanded since 2019, even as Chinese officials claimed most of the ethnic Uighurs and others sent to the facilities had "returned to society."

Public opinion surveys show that Chinese and U.S. respondents show increasingly negative attitudes toward each other's countries. In China, reported levels of satisfaction with the Chinese government have grown.

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As U.S. Views Of China Grow More Negative, Chinese Support For Their Government Rises

11:14am September 23, 2020

by Emily Feng

Recent trends in public sentiment run parallel to deteriorating U.S.-China relations. In China, the pandemic "increased people's satisfaction and support for their government," says a sociologist.

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Facebook says the fake accounts it removed focused mainly on Southeast Asia. But they also included some content about the U.S. election, which did not gain a large following.

Facebook Removes Chinese Accounts Posting About Foreign Policy, 2020 Election

6:34pm September 22, 2020

by Shannon Bond

Most of the operation's activity focused on Chinese interests in the South China Sea but also included some content about U.S. politics.

Ren Zhiqiang seen at a business conference in Beijing in 2008. Ren was sentenced to 18 years in prison Tuesday for corruption following his public criticism of Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party.

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Prominent Critic Of Xi Jinping And Communist Party Sentenced To 18 Years In Prison

8:06am September 22, 2020

by Emily Feng

Ren Zhiqiang made a fortune in real estate and was a member of the country's political elite. But his harsh criticism of the Communist Party and Xi's management of the pandemic led to his downfall.

A sign (left) outside a Mongolian-language school in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, reads: "When the people have conviction, the state has strength and the ethnic minorities have hope." The sign at right says: "Rule of law."

Parents Keep Children Home As China Limits Mongolian Language In The Classroom

2:28pm September 16, 2020

by Emily Feng

As it has long done with the Tibetan and Uighur languages, Beijing is reducing instruction in Mongolian in favor of Mandarin Chinese in ethnic Mongolian areas of the country.

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On Jan. 23, workers started building the Huoshenshan hospital for COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, China. The photo above was taken on Jan. 30. Construction was done on Feb. 2, and the 1,000-bed hospital opened on Feb. 3. Today it stands empty of patients.

Health & Safety

Whatever Happened To ... The Instant Hospitals Built For COVID-19 Patients In Wuhan?

11:16am September 10, 2020

by Joanne Lu

Two hospitals were built in a matter of days to house the growing number of patients. Existing facilities were converted to health care centers as well. And now, what happened to them?

China may have landed a new space plane on Sept. 6 at this secretive air base, located in China in the desert near an old nuclear testing ground.

New Chinese Space Plane Landed At Mysterious Air Base, Evidence Suggests

6:39pm September 09, 2020

by Geoff Brumfiel

The mission took place this past weekend, shrouded in secrecy, but some clues are emerging about what China sent into space, and why.

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Volunteer Ekebar Emet, a 21-year-old student, publicizes epidemic prevention measures in Urumqi in northwest China's Xinjiang region on Aug. 3. His messaging reaches an estimated 78 households each day.

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China Calls It A 'Wartime Mode' COVID-19 Lockdown. And Residents Are Protesting

2:30pm August 26, 2020

by Emily Feng

Across China, life has largely returned to normal — except in the western region of Xinjiang. Some 22 million people have been under heavy lockdown since July — and they're questioning its severity.

Community workers and volunteers deliver food and supplies to flood-affected residents after heavy rains in Neijiang in China's southwestern Sichuan province on Wednesday.

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100,000 Evacuated As Massive Flooding In China Threatens Ancient Giant Buddha Statue

4:13pm August 19, 2020

by Scott Neuman

Heavy seasonal rainfall has caused the worst flooding in decades across China's interior, forcing officials at the Three Gorges Dam to open all 10 spillways for the first time since it was built.