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NPR's Short Wave podcast spoke to botanist and plant ecologist, Tanisha Williams, about why some leaves change color in the Fall.

The U.S. will require travelers from China to take COVID tests from Jan. 5. CDC officials have also expressed concerns about new variants originating from China, which is experiencing a surge.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen opens a visit to China Thursday. Will her trip help thaw a frosty bilateral relationship?

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin attended a high-profile security conference in Singapore amid growing tensions with China.

Though it might have benefited from tighter editing, there's no denying the pleasure of this gloriously overwrought film.

China's feared state security ministry has been more public and more powerful in its quest to suppress internal dissent and monitor foreign activity.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has long mandated that all members maintain months of food and supplies — in part to help less-prepared neighbors.

An outbreak of the new coronavirus is fading in China, just in time for spring. And so people are finally emerging from their apartments after two months of lockdowns.

Rebel fighters who are now part of Syria's new de facto government have been destroying large shipments of Captagon, an addictive drug that was mass produced by the ousted Assad regime.

The numbers of Americans learning Mandarin Chinese has declined dramatically, but one elementary school in Washington DC is seeing more demand for Chinese language education than ever.