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Electric vehicles in the spotlight at Shanghai Auto Show

by Jennifer Pak
Apr 18, 2019
Electric cars are drawing attention and Chinese automakers are to the fore.
Chinese automaker BYD, a firm backed by Warren Buffet, unveiled an electric sports car at the Shanghai auto show. It’s not available for sale yet but many live streamers and car bloggers were surprised that this sleek design came from a Chinese automaker.
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Trade showdown

After a year of tariffs, steel industry deals with "chaos fatigue"

by Kai Ryssdal and Bennett Purser
Apr 17, 2019
Exhausted and burdened, businesses are ready for new policy on steel trade.
A worker prepares to lift a roll of steel with a crane at a shipyard in Nantong in China's eastern Jiangsu province in May.
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Trade showdown

China's GDP is growing faster than expected. What does that mean for trade talks?

by Tracey Samuelson
Apr 17, 2019
The White House had argued that a weakening Chinese economy would give the U.S. an advantage in negotiations.
Vendors inside a fruit store wait for customers in Beijing in February. 
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Actress Fan Bingbing's disappearance is tied to tax fraud and a slowing Chinese economy

by Kimberly Adams
Apr 10, 2019
It was a scandal last year when one of the world's biggest movie stars vanished from the public eye for months.
Chinese actress Fan Bingbing arrives on for the screening of “L'Amant Double” at the Cannes Film Festival in southern France in 2017.
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Airlines waiting on Boeing's 737 Max have few choices

by Jack Stewart
Apr 9, 2019
As production of the 737 is cut back, could there be an opportunity for Boeing's competitors?
Boeing's 737 assembly complex in Renton, Washington, is a hive of activity. In the foreground, a 737 Max is being painted. In the background, the brakes are tested on a new 737 Max for China Southern Airlines.
Mitchell Hartman/Marketplace
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China's Googleless internet remains vibrant

by Jennifer Pak
Apr 8, 2019
Many U.S. tech firms are blocked, but there are homegrown equivalents inside the "Great Firewall."
The Google logo is reflected in windows of the company's China head office as the Chinese national flag flies in Beijing in 2010.
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China's professional shoppers

by Jennifer Pak
Apr 4, 2019
They're making a living ... undercover.
People walk between buildings at a shopping mall in Beijing on October 18, 2018.
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What role does government play in innovation?

by Tracey Samuelson
Apr 1, 2019
A Wharton School expert says there's no sure recipe, but there are key ingredients.
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Delays plague China's video games industry

by Jennifer Pak
Mar 21, 2019
Chinese video game companies hit a snag with regulatory pause in the world's biggest video game market.
Hundreds of video game companies are fighting for the attention of cell phone users in China, where the video game market is worth more than $30 billion.
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Is this the end of recycling?

by Kai Ryssdal and Bennett Purser
Mar 19, 2019
The Chinese economy could be killing recycling in the U.S.
An employee walks people through the recycling process at a closed loop plant in London, United Kingdom in 2010.
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