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    Hong Kong police officers search the newsroom of the <em>Apple Daily</em> newspaper Monday after arresting the paper's publisher, Jimmy Lai.
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    Beijing Attempts To Remake Hong Kong In Its Image As National Security Law Takes Hold

    Aug 11, 2020
    Educators, journalists, political figures and ordinary citizens have been intimidated and even arrested as China moves to stifle protest and civil society with its new law.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    Defense Secretary Mark Esper, pictured last month, spoke with his Chinese counterpart Thursday amid strained relations between the two countries.
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    Pentagon Chief Esper Talks With Chinese Counterpart As Tensions Soar

    Aug 06, 2020
    Defense Secretary Mark Esper and his Chinese counterpart lectured one another in a 90-minute call as the highest level U.S. delegation in four decades plans a provocative visit to Taiwan.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    A law enforcement officer stands guard at the entrance of the Xinfadi market Saturday in Beijing. A fresh cluster of coronavirus cases linked to the market prompted officials to institute immediate and sweeping restrictions, including the market's closur
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    Beijing In 'Wartime Emergency Mode' Amid Fresh Cluster Of Coronavirus Cases

    Jun 13, 2020
    The Chinese capital closed some markets, locked down parts of the city and banned outsiders from some neighborhoods after finding links between a massive wholesale market and a spate of new cases.
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    Goats and Soda
    A skilled player of <em>jianzi</em>, or the Chinese equivalent of Hackey Sack, jumps to pass the feathered toy to the next participant.
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    PHOTOS: Coronavirus Kept People Out Of Beijing's Parks. Now They're Coming Back

    Apr 05, 2020
    As restrictions are relaxed in parts of China where the coronavirus struck, residents in Beijing are cautiously returning to the public spaces they love.
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    Goats and Soda
    Millions of Beijing residents are expected to return to the capital city after going away for the Lunar New Year. Above: A traveler at Beijing's West Railway Station on Sunday.
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    Beijing Braces For Coronavirus Cases As Lunar Holiday Ends

    Feb 06, 2020
    On Monday, the holiday — which was extended to help slow the coronavirus outbreak — comes to an end in the capital. The city is preparing for a potential increase in infections.
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    Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a gesture of solidarity Monday in Beijing.
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    Hong Kong's Carrie Lam Shores Up Beijing's Backing During 'Exceptional Times'

    Dec 16, 2019
    During months of protests, the territory's chief executive has suffered setbacks in the streets and at the ballot box. But she still enjoys support from China, where she's paying a visit Monday.
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    "China urges the U.S. to correct its mistake and stop meddling in Hong Kong affairs," a government spokesperson says, as China retaliates for U.S. support of pro-democracy demonstrators. Here, an activist holds a flag at a lunchtime protest Monday at Cha
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    China Bars U.S. Military From Hong Kong Ports Over Support For Protesters

    Dec 02, 2019
    In retaliation for U.S. adoption of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, China will also sanction Human Rights Watch and the National Endowment for Democracy.
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    Goats and Soda
    Until recently, the Chinese public has been slow to embrace the #MeToo movement. One social media celebrity hopes to change that.
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    China Has Been Slow To Embrace #MeToo. Pop-Up Sexual Consent Workshops Might Help

    Nov 05, 2019
    After her own sexual assault, a social media celebrity in China is challenging the country's taboo against frank discussions about sex by hosting consent workshops for students at a Beijing bar.
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    Cathay Pacific Airways CEO Rupert Hogg's resignation comes after Beijing exerted pressure on the carrier.
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    CEO Of Cathay Pacific Airways Resigns Amid Hong Kong Protests

    Aug 16, 2019
    Cathay's chairman says new leaders can "reset confidence." The resignation comes after anti-government protesters filled Hong Kong International Airport, and Beijing pressured the carrier.
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    People cycle past a building at Peking University in Beijing in 2016. The university hosts Yenching Academy, a prestigious graduate studies program.
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    American Graduates Of China's Yenching Academy Are Being Questioned By The FBI

    Aug 01, 2019
    In the last two years, at least five graduates have been approached by agents to gather intelligence on the program and to ascertain whether they have been co-opted by Chinese espionage efforts.
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    Demonstrators gather during a protest at Hong Kong International Airport, Friday, with the goal of alerting travelers to their call for democratic reforms and the withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill.
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    Hong Kong Protesters Occupy The City's Airport In 'Summer Of Discontent'

    Jul 26, 2019
    Demonstrators flooded the arrivals terminal, taking their demands for protection of Hong Kong's freedoms to an international audience.
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    Obituaries
    Former Chinese Premier Li Peng, shown here at the United Nations in 2000, has died at 90.
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    Li Peng, Chinese Premier Known As 'Butcher Of Beijing,' Dies At 90

    Jul 23, 2019
    History will likely judge that Li deserved his moniker for his role in the Tiananmen Square massacre. He appeared on television to declare martial law. After that, troops descended on protesters.
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    The Picture Show
    Students stand face to face with police. Tens of thousands of students from across the country, as well as professors, blue-collar workers and passersby, joined the protests.
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    30 Years After Tiananmen Protests, 'The Fight Is Still Going On For China'

    May 31, 2019
    Rare photos and testimonies from 1989 portray a bold youth movement that helped shape where China is today and how the world sees it, in spite of authorities' efforts to erase the memory.
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    Asia
    Demonstrators hold banners in support of workers at the Jasic Technology factory in Shenzhen, in China's Guangdong province, on Aug. 6.
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    In China, The Communist Party's Latest, Unlikely Target: Young Marxists

    Nov 21, 2018
    Chinese authorities are cracking down on student activists, exposing a paradox between a state founded on Marxist principles and the young people it calls upon to carry them out.
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    Authorities in China have demolished the Beijing studio of contemporary artist Ai Wei Wei, a dissident and longtime critic of the Chinese government.
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    Ai Wei Wei's Beijing Studio Destroyed By Chinese Authorities

    Aug 04, 2018
    The Chinese dissident artist says his studio is in the process of being demolished. The surrounding arts district, which Ai created, is also being destroyed.
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    Parallels
    People walk on a street in a Beijing migrant enclave, part of which has been slated for demolition.
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    For Decades, China's Laborers Moved To Cities. Now They're Being Forced Out

    Dec 06, 2017
    Beijing's eviction of migrant laborers has sparked one of China's biggest political controversies. The government is reversing the flow of labor from the countryside to the cities.
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    Parallels
    Merchants eat lunch in their stalls at Beijing's largest wholesale clothing market. Merchants complain that the government wants them to move out of Beijing, but has offered them no compensation
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    Beijing Mega-Region Plan Aims To Alleviate Poverty, But Some Are Wary

    Apr 16, 2017
    Set to be implemented in 2030, the plan would merge Beijing, the port city of Tianjin and Hebei province into a mega-region to push economic development. Some are skeptical resources will be shifted.
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    The Two-Way
    A foreign tourist and a child wearing protection masks walk through Tiananmen Square in Beijing as the city was blanketed by heavy smog last week.
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    Smog Police: New Beijing Force Created To Tackle Air Pollution

    Jan 09, 2017
    This comes after a month of particularly severe air quality that left the capital and dozens of other Chinese cities blanketed in thick, brown smog.
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    The Two-Way
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    Beijing Says Apple's iPhone 6 Violates Chinese Design Patent

    Jun 17, 2016
    Beijing's intellectual property authorities have ruled that the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus too closely resemble a smartphone by the Chinese company Shenzhen Baili.
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    Parallels
    China's President Xi Jinping (right), chats with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (center), and U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew during the joint opening ceremony of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogues in Beijing on Monday.
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    A Rocky Time In U.S.-China Relations As Leaders Meet In Beijing

    Jun 06, 2016
    They are the two largest economies in the world, and increasingly interdependent. But as leaders gather for high-level talks in Beijing, tensions have flared on several fronts.
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    The Two-Way

    World Anti-Doping Agency Suspends Credential For Chinese Lab

    Apr 21, 2016
    Citing "non-conformities" in the laboratory in Beijing, the sports agency said it revoked the lab's certification for up to four months. WADA also recently suspended Russia's lab.
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    The Two-Way
    Fireworks explode behind a skiing sculpture to celebrate Beijing being chosen to host the 2022 Winter Olympics last week.
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    Did Beijing's Olympics Song Lift Parts Of 'Let It Go'?

    Aug 04, 2015
    Does a Chinese song cross the line between inspiration and imitation? Many commenters online are saying yes.
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    Goats and Soda
    Hillary and Chelsea Clinton flank Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (in brown headwrap) at an event held this week in conjunction with the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women.
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    The View From A Muddy Field In China: Women's Rights, In 1995 And Now

    Mar 12, 2015
    Anne Marie Goetz was one of 47,000 who attended the landmark Beijing conference. Twenty years later, she thinks it might be risky to hold an event like that today.
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    Parallels
    Irish-American comedian Des Bishop (shown here in Beijing in 2014) has lived in China and studied the language for two years. His goal is to make both Chinese and foreigners laugh — and think.
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    So An American Comic Walks Into A Chinese Bar ...

    Feb 17, 2015
    American comics are taking the stage in China's small but growing stand-up comedy circuit. Their bicultural, and often bilingual, shows are a new form of cultural exchange.
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