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An early morning fire in the Chinese city of Changshu in Jiangsu province kills 22 people and injures three.
2017-07-16

China's top security official blames the East Turkestan Islamic Movement for a suicide attack that killed five people at the Tiananmen Gate in Beijing on Monday.
2013-11-1

The United States Congress votes to restore higher tariffs against the People's Republic of China and other nations that allegedly subsidize exports to the United States.
2012-03-6

Teargas is fired and protesters arrested in Haimen, southern China, in a demonstration against the construction of a power plant.
2011-12-22

The People's Republic of China's first aircraft carrier, the refitted Soviet aircraft carrier Varyag, commences its first sea trial under the Chinese flag.
2011-08-10

A Chinese court sentences a forklift driver to death for killing a protester in an incident that started unrest in Inner Mongolia. [http:--www.straitstimes.com-BreakingNews-Asia-Story-STIStory_682301.html ("Straits Times")]date=August 2019
2011-06-21

More than two million people are reported to have been displaced or otherwise affected by flooding in the Chinese province of Zhejiang.
2011-06-19

Five more bodies are found after a gas leak in a coal mine in China's Henan province, bringing the death toll to 26.
2010-10-17

North Korea detains a South Korean fishing boat with four South Koreans and three Chinese on board.
2010-08-8

China becomes the largest exporting country, pushing Germany from first place.
2010-01-6