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Giles Snyder
In Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. Chinese leader Xi Jinping is warning the US not to test China's red lines. Xi and President Biden met this weekend on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Leaders Summit in Peru. She told Biden that Beijing is willing to continue to work with the United States and expand cooperation into the future. Here he is speaking through an interpreter with the incoming Trump administration looming over the meeting.
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Xi Jinping
If we take each other as rival or adversary, pursue vicious competition and seek to hurt each other, we would roil the relationship or even set it back.
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Giles Snyder
Beijing opposes Donald Trump's pledge to adopt 60% tariffs on US imports of Chinese products. Trump also plans to nominate several hawkish voices on China, including Senator Marco Rubio as secretary of state and Congressman Mike Waltz as national security adviser. President Elect Trump filling out his cabinet quickly. And NPR's Domenico Montanaro reports that Trump's picks are very different than the ones he made eight years ago for his first term.
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Domenico Montanaro
When Trump took office in 2016, he was a political outsider. He didn't have many friends in Washington, so he relied on Republicans that he was getting to know. But he clashed with many of the traditionalists that he appointed, generals who later called him a fascist and a threat to the Constitution, a senator who pushed back against against directives at the Justice Department. This time around, it's a team of loyalists and campaign allies, and with control over Congress, that could mean more sweeping changes done more quickly. Domenico Montanaro, NPR News, Washington.
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Giles Snyder
According to some Mexican polls, Latinos voted Republican in the presidential election in record numbers, the support especially strong among Latino evangelicals. As NPR Sarah McCammon reports, some Latino.
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Nilsa Alvarez
Evangelicals say they feel the Republican Party's message is more in line with their views on the economy and cultural and social issues. Nilsa Alvarez is national Hispanic director at the Faith and Freedom Coalition.
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Sarah McCammon
I've been in conversations with pastors and Hispanic voters from all the battleground states, and there's an overlapping list of issues that were really concerning them, she says.
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Nilsa Alvarez
Some of those issues include the economy, abortion and education. Alvarez's group worked to mobilize millions of conservative Christian voters, including Latino evangelicals and Catholics. Sarah McCammon, NPR News.
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Giles Snyder
President Biden is set to make history today. He plans to visit the Brazilian city of Manaus and take an aerial tour of the Amazon rainforest, becoming the first sitting president to visit the forest. The controversial gymnastics coach Bella Caroly has died. USA Gymnastics says Karoli died Friday at age 82, but did not reveal a cause of death. Caroly and his wife trained multiple Olympic gold medalists, including American Mary Lou Retton. Several former gymnasts, however, blame them for creating a culture that allowed for the Larry Nassar scandal. And you're listening to NPR News. A stabbing attack at a vocational school in southern China has left eight people dead and 17 others injured. That's according to police. And as NPR's Emily Fang reports, the attack was reportedly carried out by a student.
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Emily Fang
Police in the city of Yixing said a 21 year old student went on a murderous rampage after failing to pass his graduation exams and expressing dissatisfaction with an internship placement. The suspect is in custody. Knife attacks like this are common in China. In October, a man attacked children with a knife in Beijing, wounding five. The month before, a stabbing in a Shanghai supermarket left two people dead. The suspect said he was unhappy about a financial dispute. This week's stabbing attack comes on the heels of another tragedy just last week in which a man intentionally drove his car into a crowd in another city in southern China, killing 35 people. He said he was unhappy with a recent divorce settlement. Emily Fang, NPR News.
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Giles Snyder
Protesters in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of the former Soviet republic of Georgia, are refusing to leave key government buildings. They took control of them during rallies on Friday and say they don't trust a pledge by the region's president to resign if they leave. They're demonstrating against an investment agreement with Moscow that would allow Russian citizens to buy property. Venezuela has begun freeing people who arrested during the protests that followed July's disputed presidential election. A local rights group has confirmed the release of more than 100 detainees. The group says more than 1800 were arrested following the election that kept Nicolas Maduro in power, despite the disputed results. This is NPR News.
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Xi Jinping
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