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Jennifer Jett

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Sep 27, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Jennifer Jett

    How an American teacher’s $5,000 donation helped turn a Chinese desert into a lush, green forest (opens the original)

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    HONG KONG — Ronald Sakolsky never thought his money would go this far. What was once a vast, dry desert in northern China has transformed into a lush, green forest of 50,000 full-grown trees, thanks in part to a $5,000 donation he made more than a quarter century ago to a local farmer and “sand-control worker” named Yin Yuzhen. Sakolsky, 69, a retired teacher from Pennsylvania, was amazed to see the transformation in China’s Inner Mongolia region last month when he visited for the first time in

  2. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Jennifer Jett

    Trump-Xi summit is set to be high in pageantry and low in substance (opens the original)

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    HONG KONG — President Donald Trump’s strong rapport with Xi Jinping is set to be on display in Washington this week as the Chinese leader makes his first U.S. state visit in more than a decade. But below the surface-level pageantry at the White House, little is likely to be resolved as the world’s two biggest economies continue to spar over trade, Taiwan, AI and more. Since a trade war shook the global economy last year, U.S.-China relations have been at an effective standstill, experts say, buy

  3. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Jennifer Jett

    Organizers of Hong Kong’s Tiananmen vigils sentenced to up to 7 years and 3 months in national security case (opens the original)

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    HONG KONG — Three pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong who organized annual vigils for victims of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown were sentenced to prison terms between five and over seven years Friday after being convicted under a national security law that critics say has stifled dissent in the Chinese territory. Lee Cheuk-yan was sentenced to seven years in prison, while Chow Hang-tung was sentenced to seven years and three months. Both had pleaded not guilty to charges of inciting su

  4. Article · Aug 19, 2026 · Jennifer Jett

    U.S. military drills with South Korea are cut short after surprise Trump order (opens the original)

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    Joint military exercises underway between the United States and South Korea are being cut short, both countries said, after President Donald Trump ordered that they be reduced and cited his “very good” relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The surprise announcement drew suggestions that Trump may want to revive his bid to strike a grand bargain with Kim over his isolated regime’s nuclear arsenal. Trump is open to a new meeting with Kim at the “appropriate time,” a White House offici

  5. Article · Jul 7, 2026 · Jennifer Jett

    China conducts rare long-range missile test, rattling U.S. allies (opens the original)

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    HONG KONG — China test-fired a nuclear-capable ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean on Monday, drawing criticism from the United States and its allies concerned about Beijing’s intensifying military activity in the region. The missile, which was carrying a dummy warhead, was launched from a nuclear-powered submarine at 12:01 p.m. local time (12:01 a.m. ET), according to Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency. It “landed precisely within the designated waters,” the agency said, without providi

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