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Everest Gets A Growth Spurt As China, Nepal Revise Official Elevation Upward

12:15pm December 08, 2020

by Colin Dwyer

After years of surveys and calculations, the countries said Tuesday that the world's highest peak now stands about 29,032 feet above sea level — more than 2 feet taller than the previous consensus.

Employees work in the workshop of a lithium battery manufacturing company in Huaibei, eastern China, on Nov. 14. China posted a record trade surplus in November, led by a surge in exports to the United States.

China Posts Record Month For Trade Thanks To Homebound, Bored Americans

2:05pm December 07, 2020

by Scott Horsley

China's trade surplus hit a record in November as exports to the U.S. soared by 46%. U.S. exports to China are also growing, but not as quickly.

A car drives past the U.S. Embassy in Havana in 2019. Dozens of Americans working at U.S. diplomatic missions in Cuba and China in recent years have suffered from ailments that have included headaches, balance problems and memory loss.

Microwave Radiation 'Most Plausible' Cause Of Diplomats' Ailments, Report Says

2:54pm December 06, 2020

by Greg Myre

The study by the National Academies of Sciences comes after dozens of U.S. diplomats in Cuba and China complained of migraines, dizziness and memory loss.

Marines of the 5th and 7th regiments who hurled back a surprise onslaught by three Chinese communist divisions wait to withdraw from the Chosin Reservoir area circa December 1950.

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'God ... Let Us Survive': Remembering Korean War's Chosin Battle And Evacuation

11:15am December 04, 2020

by Anthony Kuhn

Seventy years on, war participants are drawing starkly differing conclusions from the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. The decisive conflict's lasting legacy is still visible on the Korean Peninsula.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, also general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, leads the fifth plenary session of the party's 19th Central Committee in October in Beijing. The U.S. State Department on Thursday tightened travel restrictions o

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U.S. Imposes Severe Travel Restrictions On Chinese Communist Party Members

1:53pm December 03, 2020

The new rules reduce the maximum validity of U.S. business and tourist visas held by party members and their families from 10 years to one month. China calls the action part of a "Cold War mentality."

A private delivery company's courier drives his delivery vehicle in a residential area in Beijing in June.

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For China's Overburdened Delivery Workers, The Customer — And App — Is Always Right

7:34pm December 01, 2020

by Emily Feng

Delivery workers in Beijing tell NPR they work 12-hour days, six days a week, monitored by apps tracking how and when they deliver hundreds of packages every day. One misstep and their pay is slashed.

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Joe Biden meets with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Munich in 2015. Relations will no doubt be far more cordial under Biden, but Europe and the U.S. have differences that transcend the Trump administration.

Biden Is Good News For Europe, But China Challenges Await

1:34pm November 30, 2020

by Frank Langfitt

Even as European Union leaders welcome more cordial U.S. relations, the trans-Atlantic partnership faces the tough test of handling China's expansion.

Then-Vice President Joe Biden gestures toward Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan during an arrival ceremony in Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Sept. 24, 2015.

China's Xi Jinping Congratulates Biden On Election Win, Urges Cooperation

1:49pm November 25, 2020

by John Ruwitch

He is one of the last major world leaders to wish Joe Biden congratulations.

Then-Sen. Joe Biden, in August 2001, on his first trip to China as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Biden Vs. Biden On China

6:36am November 24, 2020

by Greg Rosalsky

In the early 2000s, Joe Biden helped bring China and America closer. Now, not so much.

An ethnic Hui Muslim man stands in front of Laohuasi Mosque in Linxia, Gansu province, in 2018. Chinese Muslims are most densely clustered in the northwestern regions of Gansu, Ningxia and Xinjiang, but live across the country, as they have for more than

China Targets Muslim Scholars And Writers With Increasingly Harsh Restrictions

7:56am November 21, 2020

by Emily Feng

The intellectual heart of China's Muslim community is under threat as scholars, writers, religious leaders and their families are under constant state surveillance.