A Cautionary Tale For China's Ambitious Chipmakers Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. was supposed to be one of China's most advanced chipmakers. Now it's bankrupt — a big flop at a time when the country seeks technological self-reliance. Emily Feng
In Tokyo, Blinken And Austin Work To Revive Asian Alliance To Counter China The first Cabinet-level trip abroad of the Biden administration is squarely focused on the challenge presented by China to U.S. primacy. Blinken will also meet with his Chinese counterpart in Alaska. Anthony Kuhn
WHO Points to Wildlife Farms in Southwest China As Likely Source Of Pandemic Peter Daszak of the investigative team sent to Wuhan says the farms were probably where the virus first jumped from bats to another animal before infecting humans. Michaeleen Doucleff
China Wants Your Data — And May Already Have It When COVID hit, a Chinese firm offered to set up testing labs in the U.S., which could have given it access to DNA data. The U.S. says this is part of China's effort to collect mass data on Americans. Greg Myre
Can Frozen Food Spread The Coronavirus? At a news conference this week, the World Health Organization made a surprising statement: The coronavirus could possibly transmit on frozen packages of food. Michaeleen Doucleff
WHO: 'Very Unlikely' Coronavirus Leaked From Lab, More Study Needed To Trace Source The coronavirus is "very unlikely" to have started in a Chinese lab but its path from animals to humans needs further investigation, a World Health Organization team said after visiting Wuhan. Emily Feng
Opinion: Olympic Flame Of Suffering With the Winter Olympics set for next year, NPR's Scott Simon talks about the push by some human rights groups to move the games out of Beijing. Scott Simon
Biden Won't Reverse All Of Trump's Foreign Policy. Here's What He'll Keep President Biden's Iran policy is significantly different from that of his predecessor. But there are some things started by former President Donald Trump that Biden plans to build on. Scott Detrow
China Will No Longer Recognize British Hong Kong Travel Document Britain had offered Hong Kong holders of overseas citizenship a path to residency and citizenship in the U.K. China rejects the move as an infringement on its sovereignty. Mark Katkov
As Pompeo Dumps Rulebook For U.S.-Taiwan Relations, Some See 'Trap' For Biden The Trump administration has upended decades of diplomatic practice in U.S. relations with Taiwan. For the new president, "this is meant to be a trap," says a former Obama administration official. John Ruwitch
