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Do these look like pandas to you? Chinese zoo under fire for painting dogs black and white
Videos circulating on Chinese social media show the two “panda dogs” in an exhibit at Taizhou Zoo in the eastern province of Jiangsu that opened on May 1.
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Yellen calls for level playing field for US workers and firms during China visit
The U.S. treasury secretary has called for a level playing field for American companies and workers as she opens a five-day visit to China in a major industrial and export hub. She told the governor of Guangdong province on Friday that the U.S. and others are concerned about spillovers from industrial overcapacity in China, and will meet with U.S. business...
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China to challenge Biden's electric vehicle plans at the WTO
China says it has filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization over U.S. subsidies for electric vehicles.
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Pandas in DC: A new hope? National Zoo ‘in discussions' with Chinese conservation group over new pandas
“It’s always been our intention and hope to have giant pandas at the Zoo in the future and continue our research here and conservation work in China,” Smith said in a statement Thursday. “The Zoo is in discussions with our Chinese partner, the China Wildlife Conservation Association, to develop a future giant panda program. After 52 years of success, we...
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China plans to send San Diego Zoo more pandas this year, reintroducing panda diplomacy
The Associated Press is reporting — and the San Diego Zoo confirms — that China plans to send a pair of pandas to San Diego as early as the end of this summer.
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US says it blocked a China cyber threat, but warns hackers could still disrupt lives of Americans
FBI Director Chris Wray has told House lawmakers that Chinese government hackers are busily targeting critical infrastructure inside the United States, including water treatment plants, the electrical grid and transportation systems.
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Landslide in mountainous southwestern China buries at least 47 people
A landslide in southwestern China’s mountainous Yunnan province has buried 47 people and forced the evacuation of 200 more.
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13 students reported killed in an elementary school dorm fire in China's Henan province
Chinese state media say 13 students have died after a fire broke out in dorms at a boarding school for elementary students in central Henan province.
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Chinese exchange student found safe inside tent in Utah after ‘cyber kidnapping,' police say
A foreign exchange student from China who was reported missing last week in Utah has been found in what authorities said was an apparent “cyber kidnapping” scheme to extort $80,000 from the student’s family.
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China's Alibaba must face a US toymaker's lawsuit over sales of allegedly fake Squishmallows
A judge in New York has ruled that Alibaba must face a lawsuit by a U.S. toymaker alleging that the Chinese ecommerce giant’s online platforms were used to sell counterfeit Squishmallows.
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Death toll from China's powerful earthquake rises to 149
The death toll from China’s most powerful earthquake in years has risen to 149, with two people still missing after the tremor hit northwestern parts of the country last week.
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China vows to keep up military pressure on the Philippines as territorial dispute grows tenser
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi says the country will maintain military pressure on the Philippines amid a dispute over sovereignty in the South China Sea that could involve U.S. forces defending their treaty partner.
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Earthquake in China kills at least 126 people and injures scores more
State broadcaster CCTV says 113 died in the province of Gansu and another 13 in neighboring Qinghai province
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Chinese coast guard rams Philippine vessel, blasts others with water cannons
The Philippines and its treaty ally, the United States, have separately condemned a high-seas assault by the Chinese coast guard and suspected militia ships that repeatedly blasted water cannons to block three Philippine fisheries vessels from a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.
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China's government can't take a joke, so comedians living abroad censor themselves
While some Chinese comedians tell jokes that couldn’t be said back home, usually in English, many Mandarin-speaking comedians and fans agree that politics should be strictly off limits in the comedy club.
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China says a US Navy ship ‘illegally intruded' into waters in the South China Sea
The Chinese military said that an American naval ship had “illegally intruded” on Monday into waters near the Second Thomas Shoal, the site of a hot territorial dispute between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea.
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China says a surge in respiratory illnesses is caused by flu and other known pathogens, not novel virus
China’s health ministry says a surge in respiratory illnesses across the country that has drawn the attention of the World Health Organization is caused by the flu and other known pathogens and not by a novel virus.
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Citizens of five European countries and Malaysia can soon enter China without a visa
Starting Dec. 1, citizens of France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Malaysia will be allowed to enter China for up to 15 days without a visa.
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Biden to Xi: ‘I think it's paramount that you and I understand each other clearly'
President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping made opening statements to kick off bilateral discussions in California.
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WATCH: Chinese jet flies within 10 feet of US Air Force B-52
The Department of Defense said Thursday that a Chinese aircraft had executed an unsafe and “unprofessional” intercept after flying within feet of a U.S. Air Force plane in international airspace.