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After decades of wariness, China to grow GMOs

by Annie Baxter
Aug 11, 2016
The country will push to commercialize genetically modified corn and soybeans.
Farmers sow corn seeds with a grain drill at a field in Chiping County, in east China's Shandong province.
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China: Is Trump fighting an outdated enemy?

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Aug 10, 2016
Trump has a point about the nation's impact on U.S. jobs. But that was then.
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Views of the U.S. election from across the Pacific

by Rob Schmitz
Aug 3, 2016
If you think the 2016 election has become crazy, imagine what the Chinese think.
Shanghai resident Peng Yunliang says he’d vote for Hillary Clinton if he could, though he believes she’s “too tough on China.”
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The Street of Eternal Happiness

Loss and redemption on the Street of Eternal Happiness

by Rob Schmitz
Aug 1, 2016
A reporter investigates the violent history of his Shanghai property.
Weiqi Zhu stands in front of his trading terminal at a major bank in Hong Kong. The 29-year-old lost his father during the demolition of his Shanghai neighborhood.
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Why China was a tough market for Uber

by Annie Baxter
Aug 1, 2016
After years of losses, Uber is selling its China business to rival Didi Chuxing.
A man walks past an Uber station outside a shopping mall in Beijing on August 1, 2016.
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Uber selling its Chinese business to rival Didi Chuxing

by David Brancaccio
Aug 1, 2016
Didi Chuxing will acquire Uber's China-based operations in a nearly $35 billion deal.
A taxi passes by an Uber station outside a shopping mall in Beijing on Monday. Ride-sharing giant Uber is merging its China operations with local rival Didi Chuxing, reports say, ending a ferocious battle for market share in the world's second-largest economy.
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Beijing South China Sea claims rejected by court

by Marketplace Staff
Jul 12, 2016
China claims almost all of the South China Sea.
This aerial photograph, taken from a Philippine aircraft, shows Chinese-built structures on the Mischief Reef in the disputed Spratly islands strategically located in the South China Sea.
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A look at Brexit's impact on Asia

by Rob Schmitz
Jun 24, 2016
Stocks in Japan suffered their worst day in five years.
People visiting a foreign exchange office in Tokyo on Friday. Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso pledged on Friday that Tokyo is ready to adopt strong measures to address wild volatility on financial markets driven by Brexit fears.
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What would happen if China put itself on a diet?

by Jed Kim
Jun 21, 2016
The government's new diet guidelines call for cutting meat consumption in half.
Customers select pork at a supermarket in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang province.
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Obama pitches international investors

by Mark Garrison
Jun 20, 2016
Emerging markets are starting to put more money into the U.S.
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during the first-ever SelectUSA Investment Summit, in 2013, to promote the United States as the premier destination for business investment. 
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