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Polish Police Arrest Huawei Executive On Suspicion Of Spying For China

11:54am January 11, 2019

by Bill Chappell

Poland has evidence that a Huawei sales director and a Polish citizen "cooperated with the Chinese services," according to a spokesman for Poland's special services branch.

Students exercise at a weight-loss summer camp in China's Shandong Province. The government promotes physical activity as the solution to a growing obesity problem.

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Study: Coca-Cola Shaped China's Efforts To Fight Obesity

5:05pm January 10, 2019

by Jonathan Lambert

A new report documents how Coke penetrated the government and influenced efforts to bring down the growing obesity rate — but not by cutting back on calories.

Relatives of people missing in China's western region of Xinjiang hold up photos of their family members at an office of a Chinese Kazakh advocacy organization in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

China To Let 2,000 Ethnic Kazakhs Relinquish Citizenship And Leave The Country

6:30am January 10, 2019

by Sasha Ingber

The announcement, from Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry, comes after reports of massive repression of ethnic Muslim minorities in far western China.

Radhesham Singh, a homeless 28-year-old street vendor in New Delhi, saunters amid traffic, selling balloons.

How Those Trendy LED Balloons Make It To India's Street Corners

2:20pm January 08, 2019

by Furkan Latif Khan

They're part of a global supply chain of trinkets that starts out in Chinese factories. A vendor in India can earn a living by selling five a night.

A sedan, believed to carry North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, leaves a train station with a convoy in Beijing. Kim is making a four-day trip to China in what's likely an effort to coordinate with his only major ally ahead of a summit with President Trump th

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North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un Goes To China

1:44pm January 08, 2019

by Matthew S. Schwartz

Chinese President Xi Jinping invited Kim for the four-day visit. The two leaders could use the visit to coordinate ahead of a second summit between the U.S. and North Korea.

This photo, provided by China National Space Administration via Xinhua News Agency, is the first image of the moon's far side ever taken from the surface. A Chinese spacecraft on Thursday made the first landing on the far side of the moon, state media sai

China Becomes First Country To Land On Far Side Of Moon, State Media Announce

3:24pm January 03, 2019

by Matthew S. Schwartz

Lunar lander Chang'e 4 successfully touched down on Thursday morning. China's Xinhua News published a photo it says was taken by the probe "on the never-visible side of the moon."

People walk past an Apple store in Beijing in December 2018. Apple CEO cited weaker-than-expected iPhone sales in China as the company lowered its quarterly revenue estimates Wednesday.

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China Takes Wind Out Of Apple iPhone Sales

7:49pm January 02, 2019

by Avie Schneider

Apple cut billions from its revenue estimates amid slower sales in China. In August, Apple became the first firm worth $1 trillion, but its stock is down more than 30 percent in the past three months.

A woman walks past a television in New Taipei City showing China's leader Xi Jinping making a speech commemorating the 40th anniversary of a message sent to Taiwan in 1979. In his speech, Xi Jinping said Taiwan's unification with the mainland is "inevitab

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Xi Urges Peaceful Unification Of China And Taiwan, But Won't Rule Out Using Force

9:48am January 02, 2019

by Ashley Westerman

Independence of Taiwan is "a dead end," China President Xi Jinping said Wednesday during a speech marking the 40th anniversary of when Beijing sent a message to Taiwan calling for unification.

The Chinese lunar lander Chang'e 4 is headed to Aitken Basin, a large impact crater near the moon's south pole, pictured here in blue. The distance from the depths of Aitken Basin to the tops of the highest surrounding peaks is nearly twice the height of

China's Lunar Lander To Explore Moon's Far Side

5:07am January 01, 2019

by Joe Palca

Early in 2019, China hopes to land a rover — the first soft landing on the moon's far side. The mission is exploratory, and will lay groundwork for a trip by Chinese astronauts to the lunar surface.

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A Justice Department poster shows two Chinese citizens suspected of carrying out an extensive hacking campaign directed at dozens of U.S. tech companies. U.S. law enforcement says such cases are on the rise as China seeks to become a world leader in advan

In China's Push For High-Tech, Hackers Target Cutting-Edge U.S. Firms

8:50pm December 28, 2018

by Greg Myre

U.S. law enforcement says China is racing to become a world leader in the most advanced technologies, and that's driving intellectual property theft directed at a broad range of U.S. industries.

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