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Myanmar Releases Two Reuters Reporters Jailed For Rohingya Crackdown Coverage

6:29pm May 07, 2019

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Linda Lakhdhir of Human Rights Watch, about the significance of Myanmar's release of the two Reuters reporters who had been sentenced to 7 years in prison.

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China Continues To Abduct Uighur Muslims, Sending Them To Internment Camps

5:14pm May 07, 2019

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Rushan Abbas, director of Campaign for Uyghurs, about campaigning for the rights of Uighur Muslims living in China. Many have been detained by the Chinese government.

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U.S. Continues Trade Talks With China Despite Trump's Tariff Threat

5:14pm May 07, 2019

by Rob Schmitz

A Chinese delegation arrives in Washington, D.C., for trade negotiations on Thursday after the Trump administration accused Beijing of reneging on previous promises and threatened to increase tariffs.

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Uighur detainees at a detention facility in Kashgar take vocational classes. All the detainees in this class admitted to having been "infected with extremist thoughts."

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Reporter's Notebook: Uighurs Held For 'Extremist Thoughts' They Didn't Know They Had

4:39pm May 07, 2019

by Rob Schmitz

"I've learned what I should and what I shouldn't do," a detainee tells NPR during a Chinese government-led media tour in Xinjiang. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims are held in internment camps.

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Stock Markets In Turmoil Amid Uncertainty Over U.S.-China Trade Talks

4:18pm May 07, 2019

by Avie Schneider

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and other major stock indexes plunged Tuesday after Trump administration officials accused Beijing of reneging on commitments it had already made in the talks.

A magazine's cover line in Beijing asks, "How will Trump the businessman change the world?" on Dec. 28, 2016, days after then President-elect Donald Trump tapped outspoken China critic Peter Navarro for a top trade position.

Inside The White House's Bitter Fight Over China

2:13pm May 07, 2019

The White House has been strong against China in trade talks, but NPR and PBS Frontline found top advisers battled for more than a year over imposing billions of dollars in tariffs on Chinese imports.

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Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo after being freed from Insein prison, after receiving a presidential pardon in Yangon, Myanmar, on Tuesday.

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Myanmar Releases Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reuters Journalists

8:25am May 07, 2019

by Laurel Wamsley

"I'm really happy and excited to see my family and my colleagues," Wa Lone told reporters as he left the prison after more than 500 days. "And I can't wait to go to my newsroom."

News Brief: U.S.-China Trade Talks, Humans Accelerate Species' Extinction

8:01am May 07, 2019

The White House is fighting China in trade talks, but a new report found top advisers battled over whether to impose tariffs on Chinese imports. The U.N. warns which species are at risk of extinction.

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2 Reuters Journalists Freed From Prison In Myanmar

6:55am May 07, 2019

They were accused of breaking Myanmar's Official Secrets Act with their reporting on security forces' abuses of Rohingya Muslims. Rachel Martin talks to Los Angeles Times reporter Shashank Bengali.

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Consequences Of The Escalating U.S.-China Trade War

6:14am May 07, 2019

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Ohio soybean farmer Chris Gibbs and David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution, about the trade tensions between the U.S. and China.

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