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Pro-democracy party activist Nathan Law speaks to the media outside Hong Kong's Legislative Council building last year.

World News

Hong Kong Activist Nathan Law Says He Has Fled Abroad Amid Beijing-Backed Crackdown

7:04pm July 02, 2020

by Scott Neuman

Law, who spoke to NPR's All Things Considered, announced late Wednesday that he had left the country following the enactment of a draconian new national security law targeting the territory.

Protesters against the new national security law gesture with five fingers, signifying "five demands — not one less" on the anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China from Britain in Hong Kong on Wednesday.

World News

As China Imposes New Hong Kong Law, U.S. And Allies Take Steps To Retaliate

5:44pm July 02, 2020

by John Ruwitch

The U.S. is cutting back its special treatment of the territory, while the U.K. offers a pathway to British citizenship for Hong Kongers.

A man displays the Hong Kong colonial flag Wednesday, the anniversary of the city's handover to China from Britain in 1997. The gesture could be prosecuted under Beijing's new national security law, which it imposed on Hong Kong.

World News

5 Takeaways From China's Hong Kong National Security Law

1:47pm July 01, 2020

by Emily Feng

Those charged under the new law could be tried on the mainland. Legal experts say the measure ends any remaining autonomy the region enjoys under Chinese rule.

Pro-mainland supporters in Hong Kong hold Chinese and Hong Kong flags during a rally to celebrate the approval of a national security law on Tuesday.

World News

China Enacts Security Law, Asserting Control Over Hong Kong

1:36pm June 30, 2020

by Emily Feng

Despite fierce international criticism and opposition in Hong Kong, Beijing's rubber-stamp legislature passed a law allowing the mainland to impose security measures in the former British colony.

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People hold banners at a demonstration in support of Jasic Technology factory workers, outside Yanziling police station in Pingshan district, Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, on Aug. 6, 2018.

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Some Of China's Freed Labor Activists Start New Lives, But State Pressure Lurks

9:13am June 29, 2020

by Emily Feng

At least 15 Chinese workers' rights advocates who were rounded up in recent years have been released from detention, some taking on new identities and jobs, on condition that they abandon activism.

Liu Ping, a breeder of bamboo rats. He had to cull his rats when the Chinese government banned consumption of various wild animals as a way to potentially curb spread of viruses from animals to humans.

Health & Safety

Pandemic Causes China To Ban Breeding Of Bamboo Rats And Other Wild Animals

11:12pm June 28, 2020

The idea is to reduce the risk of spread of viruses through animal-human contact. Bamboo rat breeders are devastated by the loss of income. And critics say the ban has too many loopholes.

A resident walks across an empty track on Feb. 7 in Wuhan, China. Wuhan residents lived through the start of the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives around the world.

'We No Longer Wish For Much': People Of Wuhan Share Stories Of Loss And Survival

10:13am June 26, 2020

Meet some of the people in China who lived through the start of the coronavirus pandemic. They have not forgotten the weeks of isolation, fear and heartbreak.

A passenger wears personal protective equipment on a Delta Air Lines flight after landing at Minneapolis−St. Paul International Airport in late May.

Delta To Resume Flights Between The U.S. And China

6:48pm June 22, 2020

by Austin Horn

The company says it's the first U.S. airline to do so since February after flights were suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. The flights will run from Seattle to Shanghai via Seoul, South Korea.

Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou leaves her Vancouver home with a security detail to appear in British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver in March.

World News

China Charges 2 Canadians With Espionage In Case Tied To U.S. Prosecution Of Huawei

10:55am June 19, 2020

by Mark Katkov

Canada believes its two citizens are being held in retaliation for Canada's arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. extradition warrant. Meng remains under house arrest in Vancouver.

In this October 2018 photo U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (left) shakes hands with State Councilor Yang Jiechi, China's top diplomat, in Beijing. The two met Wednesday in Hawaii as relations between the U.S. and China continue to deteriorate.

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Pompeo And China's Top Diplomat Meet In Hawaii As Relations Worsen

2:30pm June 18, 2020

by John Ruwitch

Neither the U.S. nor China publicly announced the meeting in advance and it was not clear which side had proposed it.