Anthony Kuhn

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Small Bomb Detonated Near U.S. Embassy In Beijing

Thursday, July 26, 2018

Police apprehended a 26-year-old man, whom they say detonated a small, homemade device. There were no reports of injuries other than the suspect.

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Rohingya Crisis Is Making Some In Myanmar Rethink Their Views Of Aung San Suu Kyi

Thursday, June 21, 2018

"All this likeness of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi, it's all make-believe," says the director of a civic organization in Yangon. "And now we know the real Aung San Suu Kyi."

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Aung San Suu Kyi Faces Mounting Criticism Abroad Over Rohingya Crisis

Thursday, June 21, 2018

Once hailed as a human rights standard-bearer, Suu Kyi is criticized internationally for her inaction in the ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas in Myanmar. Nearly a million of them escaped to Bangladesh.

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Activists In Myanmar Say Facebook Needs To Do More To Quell Hate Speech

Thursday, June 14, 2018

"The risk of Facebook content sparking open violence is arguably nowhere higher right now than in Myanmar," six Myanmar organizations wrote in an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in April.

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Concern Is High Over Facebook's Role In Fanning Violence In Myanmar

Thursday, June 14, 2018

U.N. investigators say Facebook has provided a platform for hate speech that may have facilitated genocide in Myanmar. Civil society groups in Myanmar are pressing Facebook to clean up its act.

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North Korea's Media Tout Trump Concessions You Won't Find In The Joint Statement

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

The official reporting coming out of Pyongyang suggests the president and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reached more verbal agreements than they put on paper.

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Across Asia, Governments React To Meeting Between U.S. And North Korea

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Governments across Asia and beyond are welcoming the first-ever summit between US and North Korean leaders as a step towards peace and nuclear disarmament. But there are differences of opinion on exactly what the statement signed by the two leaders means, and about what comes next.

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After Ivanka Trump Quotes 'Chinese Proverb,' A Hunt For The Proverbial Author

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

The first daughter's quote — "Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it." — left many in China scratching their heads.

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Trade Talks Between The U.S. And China Stalled

Monday, June 04, 2018

Trade talks with China have stalled, after an inconclusive visit to Beijing by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. China is threatening to scrap an agreement to import more U.S. goods, if the U.S. goes ahead with tariffs.

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'Deeply Disturbing' Conditions For Rohingya In Myanmar, And Those Yet To Return

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

"So much of what I've seen is, quite frankly, just deeply disturbing," U.S. aid chief Mark Green said after visiting a camp for Rohingya in Myanmar. For some, "this is the only reality they know."

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Diplomatic Moves Edge U.S.-North Korea Summit Closer To Reality

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

The former head of North Korean military intelligence is traveling to New York to discuss a summit, according to President Trump.

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China Urges U.S. And North Korea To Not Give Up On A Summit

Friday, May 25, 2018

President Trump canceled the June summit on Thursday. China has been pushing the two countries for years to hold direct talks, and it insists it'll continue doing that.

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As U.S.-China Trade Talks Begin, ZTE Is In The Spotlight

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

President Trump may be willing to ease up on ZTE, one of China's biggest telecom firms, to protect the overall economic relationship, a Beijing economist says. "The U.S. still needs China," he says.

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Why The ZTE Case Is Causing Some In China To Think About Economic Relations With U.S.

Monday, May 14, 2018

President Trump has pledged to help rescue one of China's top telecommunication firms, which the U.S. Commerce Department has penalized for violating U.S. sanctions on North Korea and Iran. The penalties have convinced many Chinese that they can no longer rely on the U.S., and must manufacture their own hi-tech products.

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South Koreans Are Still Buzzing Over Last Month's Inter-Korean Summit

Friday, May 11, 2018

The mood in South Korea after the meeting between leaders of the two Koreas is optimistic and euphoric. The U.S. and North Korea have set their first presidential summit for June 12 in Singapore.

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Pompeo Secures Release Of 3 American Detainees In North Korea

Wednesday, May 09, 2018

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to North Korea to discuss an expected U.S. and North Korea summit. He will fly back on the plane with three American detainees.

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Pompeo Returns To North Korea

Wednesday, May 09, 2018

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in North Korea to discuss an expected summit between the the U.S. and North Korea. He is expected to return with three American detainees.

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U.S. Trade Talks With China End With No Agreement

Friday, May 04, 2018

The latest round of talks between the U.S. and China ended with no agreement on how to cut the trade deficit between the two countries.

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As Peking University Marks 120 Years, Student Demands For Transparency Are Quashed

Friday, May 04, 2018

The school has a long history of patriotic activism, but recently it has suppressed student activists seeking disclosure of information about a campus sexual harassment case.

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Southwest Chinese Province Is Now Leading China's Tech Ambitions

Tuesday, May 01, 2018

Guizhou Province is one of the country's poorest. But it has some unique advantages, which it is trying to use to transform itself into a big data hub. This report first aired on ATC on July 3, 2017.

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