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How high tensions between China and the U.S. are impacting American companies
By: David Gura | NPR
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — Tensions between China and the U.S. are running high — and that’s leaving American companies having to carefully navigate their approach to a key player in… Read More
![A smartphone displays the TikTok logo with a backdrop of TikTok logos](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/shutterstock_1688057260-e1684516923453-900x422.jpg)
What Montana’s TikTok ban means for the popular social media app and its users
By: Amma Nawaz | Ali Schmitz | Saher Khan | PBS NewsHour
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WASHINGTON (NewsHour) — Montana became the first state to ban TikTok, citing fears that the app’s Chinese-owned parent company could be providing Americans’ data to the Chinese government. Montana could… Read More
![The suspected Chinese spy balloon drifts to the ocean after being shot down off the coast in Surfside Beach, South Carolina](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023-02-04t215337z_1_lynxmpej1308q_rtroptp_4_usa-china-spy-0c8c5de9eba9a3f4f6bd44001cb92b4797a526a9-scaled-e1675710086379-900x422.jpg)
This wasn’t the first Chinese balloon over the U.S. Why were the others ignored?
By: Greg Myre | NPR
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — Given the hullabaloo over the Chinese surveillance balloon, you’d think something like this never happened before. But it has. At least four other times in recent years…. Read More
Solar projects are on hold as U.S. investigates whether China is skirting trade rules
By: Fred Bever | Eric McDaniel | Maine Public
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AUGUSTA, Maine (Maine Public) — Hundreds of large-scale solar power projects are on hold in the U.S. as the industry awaits the outcome of a federal investigation into potential trade… Read More
![Members of the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the novel coronavirus leave the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China Feb. 3.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/gettyimages-1230940161-672256c5420cfd6875f84eeb2df5d5964808dada-scaled-e1617288751617-900x422.jpg)
Theory That COVID Came From A Chinese Lab Takes On New Life In Wake Of WHO Report
By: John Ruwitch | NPR
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Some scientists worry the possibility the coronavirus escaped from research facilities hasn’t gotten enough scrutiny. Others say it appears far more likely to have emerged naturally.
![The U.S. intelligence community is warning that Russia is working to undermine Democrat Joe Biden's presidential campaign, while China is trying to undermine President Trump's reelection bid.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ap_20123454428325-0b08aa1b25f7b45fa8157f9207404ddf7a09ed70-scaled-e1596841900236-900x422.jpg)
U.S. Intelligence: China Opposes Trump Reelection; Russia Works Against Biden
By: Miles Parks | NPR
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William Evanina, who leads the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, also said Iran is trying to undermine the November election.
![President Trump speaks during a briefing with reporters at the White House on Monday.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ap_20216812554844-2ffa4005c06ca8d6c6407a18908ad7a3aa1b5044-e1596772154541-900x422.jpg)
Trump Signs Executive Order That Will Effectively Ban Use Of TikTok In the U.S.
By: Bobby Allyn | NPR
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The president also issued an executive order aimed at cutting ties between the U.S. and the owner of the popular Chinese communications and social media app WeChat.
![President Trump says the WHO has been too quick to praise China for its handling of the COVID-19 outbreak and too silent on the country's treatment of medical professionals who tried to sound the alarm.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/rts38stn-dbc6c214f93a26cf64ef9329958600b8eeb35799-scaled-e1589909161525-900x422.jpg)
Trump Says Funding Cuts Will Be Permanent If WHO Doesn’t Commit To ‘Major’ Changes
By: Bill Chappell | NPR
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“The World Health Organization has repeatedly made claims about the coronavirus that were either grossly inaccurate or misleading,” President Trump says.
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WATCH: The U.S.-China Rhetorical War Over COVID-19
By: PBS Newshour
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NewsHour) — The rhetorical war between the U.S. and China is growing more aggressive by the day. Now, the Trump White House is boosting a theory that the novel… Read More
![Roads are empty in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, where a strict lockdown is in effect.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/fenglockdown-b638f88a504bda82e685aa710f6b82c5f21a6f59-scaled-e1582311918262-900x422.jpg)
Restrictions And Rewards: How China Is Locking Down Half A Billion Citizens
By: Emily Feng | Amy Cheng | NPR
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No one can say whether the tough measures will help defeat coronavirus, But they’ve definitely changed daily life — and raised concerns.
![Making sure to frequently give your hands a thorough scrub — with soap and for about as long as it takes to sing the "Happy Birthday" song a couple of times — can significantly cut your chances of catching the flu or other respiratory virus.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/handwashing-1-38f6f2f135578e2d11c920603cebf35b7ea67f63-scaled-e1580336166475-900x422.jpg)
Worried About Catching The New Coronavirus? In The U.S., Flu Is A Bigger Threat
By: Allison Aubrey | NPR
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At least 8,000 people have died from the flu in the U.S. this season. The good news: Easy steps you can take now to protect against the flu may also help you steer clear of the new coronavirus.
![Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar led a press briefing Tuesday laying out the agency's strategy for preventing the novel form of coronavirus from taking hold in the U.S.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/azar-1-fd603f9343913f6dd5add14fa900a97662cc25f5-scaled-e1580236082839-900x422.jpg)
As China’s Coronavirus Cases Rise, U.S. Agencies Map Out Domestic Containment Plans
By: Richard Harris | NPR
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With cases growing quickly abroad, the federal government announced several measures to prevent the new coronavirus from taking hold in the U.S.
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What we Know About China’s Coronavirus Outbreak — and What we Don’t
By: PBS Newshour
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Chinese officials are racing to respond to a highly contagious pneumonia-like virus that has now killed at least 17 people, infected hundreds more and spread to several other countries. In… Read More
![Chinese officials from left Ning Jizhe, Vice Chairman of National Development and Reform Commission, Liao Min, Deputy Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Financial and Economic Affairs and Vice Minister of Finance, Zheng Zeguang, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs attend a press conference on the trade deal with the United States in Beijing on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/AP_19347565580544-e1576257865516-900x422.jpg)
U.S.-China Trade Deal Phase 1 Is Here; December Tariffs Are Scrapped
By: Jim Zarroli | NPR
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China says the deal would cover intellectual property protections and currency manipulation, but no details have been released.
![Police stand guard outside the Xingtai Intermediate People's Court in Xingtai, China's Hebei province, which issued stiff prison sentences to nine people caught in an illegal fentanyl ring.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/fentanyl-china-11b489aa0a2b5322a6bca01c0bf356ead15ac1d3-e1573143569378-900x422.jpg)
China Jails 9 In Fentanyl Trafficking Case That Began With A U.S. Tip
By: Bill Chappell | NPR
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The traffickers were caught with 11.9 kilograms of fentanyl — enough to kill nearly 6 million people, by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s standard.
![Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears before the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday. He faces questions about the company's influence.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/gettyimages-1177729963-d898ffe696ee42aa54cd9b045ce2cc477f9ec52e-e1571856358245-900x422.jpg)
Mark Zuckerberg Offers A Choice: The Facebook Way Or The China Way
By: Shannon Bond | NPR
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At a congressional hearing, the CEO acknowledged he is not “the ideal messenger” for Facebook’s digital currency plan, but said innovation is essential to American financial leadership.
![Goldfish, like these showcased at Tokyo's Nihonbashi Art Aquarium, have been bred in China over centuries, into forms so varied and rare that one can be worth hundreds of dollars.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/gettyimages-545299396-15441ea0a1fd51d6cdf631e1909323cdc66147be-e1571238792436-900x422.jpg)
Fancy Pet Fish Among The Stranger Casualties Of The Trade War
By: Alina Selyukh | NPR
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China is considered the motherland of aquarium goldfish, bred over centuries into rare forms. Now tariffs have some U.S. sellers of these goldfish in a tailspin.
![U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He in the Oval Office at the White House October 11, 2019 in Washington, DC. President Trump announced a 'phase one' partial trade deal with China.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/gettyimages-1180481137-9922e2beb4a1fc9219ba374d2035dbd8e7920ce3-e1570834252937-900x422.jpg)
Trump Announces Phase One Of Trade Deal With China
By: Uri Berliner | Jim Zarroli | Scott Horsley | NPR
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As part of the deal, the next round of 30% tariffs will not be imposed. More agriculture trade between the two countries is expected.
![The southern Chinese city of Dongguan is feeling the effects of the trade war with the U.S. Nicknamed the "workshop of the world," the city is a sprawling manufacturing hub of more than 8 million people.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/jbm_1250-edit-50cf4e94b4612739f1cbef62206dc5b16f6ba73f-e1570722963449-900x422.jpg)
The Trade War Has Taken A Bite Out Of China’s Economy — But It’s Complicated
By: Jolie Myers | Ailsa Chang | Sam Gringlas | Mallory Yu | NPR
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China’s economic growth has been slowing down for years. Tariffs have contributed to slower growth since early 2018, when the economic standoff began, but it’s hard to pinpoint how much.
![A woman stands outside a Buick showroom in Beijing on Dec. 15, 2016. China is imposing new tariffs on imported U.S. autos and auto parts.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/gettyimages-629896642-41ae666d0ccf8a54e850c1694ae1042f71a087bc-e1566568087208-900x422.jpg)
Trade War Heats Up Again As China Sets Tariffs On $75 Billion In U.S. Goods, Autos
By: Avie Schneider | NPR
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China says it will slap tariffs on autos and thousands of other U.S. goods. It’s an escalation of a trade war that has rippled through the world economy and raised U.S. recession fears.
![A truck passes a stack of China Shipping containers at the Port of Savannah in Georgia on July 5, 2018. The Trump administration is delaying some tariffs from taking effect until December.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ap_18290549158076-a57069f1cf4b89981d61d5d1db7cc390513059c3-e1565714721767-900x422.jpg)
Trump Administration Delays Some China Tariffs
By: Scott Horsley | NPR
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The Trump administration is postponing some tariffs on Chinese imports set to take effect on Sept.1. Tariffs on laptops, cellphones, some clothing and other items are now set to begin Dec. 15.
![U.S. stock indexes tumbled Wednesday after rebounding a day earlier amid an escalating trade war between the United States and China.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ap_19218529954796-12e6b5a41a57df7efa2dc0e625aaa18534441968-e1565195585654-900x422.jpg)
Deepening Fears About The Global Economy Send Stocks Falling Again
By: Jim Zarroli | NPR
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Stocks resumed their slide, amid escalating fears that the U.S.-China trade war will further damage a worldwide economy that’s already slowing. Central banks in Asia and New Zealand cut rates.
![New cars sit in a lot at the Port of Richmond in California on May 24, 2018. The Trump administration on Friday announced a six-month delay in setting new tariffs on auto imports.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/gettyimages-962212962-c3262bd6d66c3302d5203fb6ef1bd6dcba6489d1-e1558104967583-900x422.jpg)
Trump Delays Auto Tariffs For 6 Months
By: Avie Schneider | NPR
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The Trump administration announced Friday that it will delay tariffs on cars and auto parts imports while it negotiates trade deals with Japan and the European Union.
![The new U.S. tariffs list includes staples such as rice, along with clocks, watches and other items that weren't previously under threat of new duties. Here, farmers plant rice seeds at a seedlings pool in China's Jiangsu Province.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/gettyimages-1149015460-f966c3c72e5b46105ccf9487f1d3d51a19d2321d-e1557845415238-900x422.jpg)
U.S. Prepares Tariffs On Another $300 Billion Of Imported Chinese Goods
By: Bill Chappell | NPR
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The U.S. Trade Representative published a list of Chinese goods that would be hit with new duties, from artists’ brushes to watches.
![Chinese Vice Premier Liu He talks with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin as he departs a round of trade talks in Washington on Friday.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/rtx6v721-203800b6898d5a71c434bf8e40d16362d71fbc58-e1557759796386-900x422.jpg)
China Puts New Tariffs On $60 Billion Of U.S. Goods, Retaliating For Trump Action
By: Laurel Wamsley | Bill Chappell | NPR
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U.S. stock markets plunged on the news, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling by up to 580 points in the first hour of trading Monday.