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Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Obama Administration Proposes Sanctions In Retaliation For Chinese Cyberhacks In an effort to curb cyberhacking, the White House is currently developing economic sanctions that would impede the operations of Chinese companies in the U.S., the Washington Post reports.
Chemistry World August 14, 2015 Rebecca Trager	Deadly chemical blast at Chinese port The incident, believed to have been caused by volatile chemicals stored on site, has led President Xi Jinping to call for enhanced management of dangerous chemicals.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	China Has Already Blocked The Website For Alphabet, Google's New Parent Company China's notorious firewall has already gobbled it up, despite extensive coverage of the company's unveiling in Chinese media, including the Communist Party's official newspaper, People's Daily.
Fast Company Rose Pastore	China To Install Police Officers At Alibaba, Tencent To Enforce Web Censorship The police officers will be looking for evidence of "illegal Internet activity," China's deputy minister of public security told the Financial Times.
Chemistry World July 27, 2015 Phillip Broadwith	Three dead in Chinese petrochemical plant fire The fire started when leaking oil ignited. It was extinguished after around five hours. The cause is now being investigated.
Chemistry World April 8, 2015 Emma Stoye	Leak causes explosion at para-xylene plant in China An explosion at a para-xylene plant in China's Fujian Province has injured at least 12 people, and caused fires that continued for more than three days after the initial blast.
Fast Company March 2015 Julie Makinen	Apricot Forest Fixes What Ails Chinese Health Care Apricot Forest offers a suite of three apps that aim to fix some of the core inefficiencies in China's medical system. Twenty-five percent of China's 2.5 million doctors now use at least one of the apps, as do about 2,000 new physicians every day.
HBS Working Knowledge December 19, 2014 Christian Camerota	China's Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature Bill Kirby discusses how a historic international accord on reducing environmental emissions might signal a greener future for the world's most populous nation.
Chemistry World November 24, 2014 Hepeng Jia	China looks to alternative hydrocarbons to fuel its future China is quickening its efforts to explore alternative energy sources ranging from 'flammable ice' to shale gas, although technological bottlenecks and environmental concerns are hampering efforts to commercialize them.
Chemistry World November 21, 2014 Rebecca Trager	China poised to become top science spender China is on track to become the world's top R&D spender before the end of the decade, according to a new report released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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