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January 14, 2023 | 9:34 AM

China’s COVID surge prompts CDC to expand a hunt for new variants among air travelers

The most recent expansion was prompted by China’s abrupt decision to abandon its zero-COVID policy

By Rob Stein/NPR
February 20, 2022 | 8:08 AM

Beijing’s Olympics close, ending safe but odd global moment

The terrarium of a Winter Games that has been Beijing 2022,  caps an unprecedented Asian Olympic trifecta

By The Associated Press
February 8, 2022 | 5:17 AM

Temple prof seeks reinstatement of damage claims against FBI

Lawyers for Xiaoxing Xi and his wife say a judge erred last year when he dismissed most of the claims in their federal lawsuit.

By Eric Tucker/The Associated Press

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January 15, 2022 | 8:52 AM

Clap, don’t chant: China aims for ‘Zero COVID’ Olympics

Athletes will need to be vaccinated and tested daily at the Winter Olympics in Beijing next month.

By The Associated Press
December 20, 2021 | 1:32 PM

Tennis star Peng Shuai says her accusations of sexual assault have been misunderstood

She called the events a “private matter”

By Scott Neuman/NPR
December 12, 2021 | 7:46 AM

Tensions with China revive old fears for Indians of Chinese descent

Anti-China sentiment in India has surged

By Lauren Frayer/NPR
September 14, 2021 | 4:00 PM

Are China and the US entering a second Cold War?

While other world events demand our attention, not enough awareness is focused on the heightening worldwide contest between the United States and China.

By Merideth Bucher
June 21, 2021 | 7:56 AM

Cargo is piling up everywhere and it’s making inflation worse

The Port of Los Angeles just logged its busiest month in history, handling more than a million shipping containers in May, more than half of them loaded with imports from Asia.
By Scott Horsley/NPR
May 30, 2021 | 8:47 AM

Buried alive in Mongolia’s worst sandstorms in a decade

Nine Mongolian herders perished on the steppes in what has been the worst sandstorm season in both Mongolia and China in a decade.

By Khaliun Bayartsogt and Emily Feng/NPR
May 28, 2021 | 5:29 AM

Why a lab in Wuhan is worth a closer look as a possible source of the pandemic

President Biden said he has asked the U.S. intelligence community to push to get closer to a “definitive conclusion” on how the pandemic started.

By NPR
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