Jun 22 China's blueprint to clean lakes and stop algae blooms is working By Dave Berndtson China's success with cleaning lakes offers a blueprint for other industrializing and developing nations, where algal blooms threaten drinking water, kill aquatic life and pose dangers to children, pets and livestock. Continue reading
Jun 21 WATCH LIVE: Tillerson and Mattis to hold joint news conference after talks with China By Associated Press The US and China began high-level security talks Wednesday focused largely on North Korea, amid outrage in Washington over the death of an American college student after his imprisonment in the North. Continue reading
Jun 21 Otto Warmbier's death looms over U.S.-China talks on North Korea By Matthew Pennington, Associated Press Otto Warmbier's death after returning from North Korean imprisonment is stoking outrage in Washington and threatening to overshadow high-level U.S.-Chinese talks Wednesday. Continue reading
Jun 15 Watch 9:02 Kushner family's real estate dealings land foreign-investor visa back in the spotlight By PBS News Hour Thousands of investors apply and participate annually in the little-known EB-5 visa program, designed to stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation and capital investment by foreign investors. Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports that recently, one real estate business in… Continue watching
Jun 15 How Jared Kushner and others gerrymander to sell visas to foreigners — at a steep discount By Paul Solman Trump Bay Street is a model of luxury as well as a model of a loophole U.S. developers use in a controversial citizenship-for-cash program. Continue reading
Jun 12 Watch 6:42 How Trump's Paris decision drove the top U.S. diplomat in China to quit By PBS News Hour Four days after President Trump announced his intention to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, the top American official in China, David Rank, tendered his resignation, citing the president's decision. Rank, who served 27 years in the foreign service, sits… Continue watching
Jun 03 Pentagon chief turns up heat on North Korea and China By Robert Burns, Associated Press U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis turned up the heat on North Korea and its main benefactor, China, on Saturday, calling the North Koreans a "clear and present danger."… Continue reading
Jun 02 Watch 7:06 Is the Paris climate accord unfair to the U.S.? Putting Trump's claims in context By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 30 Watch 4:34 News Wrap: U.S. military successfully stops missile in simulated attack By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 29 Watch 11:13 Has China really stopped obtaining organs from executed prisoners? By PBS News Hour For decades, China obtained human organs such as kidneys and livers from executed prisoners, a practice condemned by human rights activists and medical ethicists. China says they no longer do this and have built a new system for organ transplants… Continue watching