30 h. ago China stands firm on strategic ties with North Korea, Xi tells Kim

Beijing is willing to deepen strategic coordination with Pyongyang in regional and international affairs to safeguard “mutual interests”, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday in his first sit-down with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in six years. “The Chinese Communist Party and government attach great importance to the traditional friendship between China and North Korea and are willing to maintain, consolidate, and develop China-North Korea relations,” he said, according to state...

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32 h. ago China is standing up to Trump – unlike US courts, Wall Street or business

Where are the guardrails and checks on US President Donald Trump’s radical agenda? This is a question that was asked frequently in the first three months of his second term as America’s financial and business community came to terms with his fierce assault on the global trading system and his contempt for the rule of law. Yet in the past few months, another, more alarming question has arisen. What if there are no effective restraints on Trump’s policies, or too much damage is done before...

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32 h. ago Why China is the only actor standing against Trump’s radical agenda

Where are the guardrails and checks on US President Donald Trump’s radical agenda? This is a question that was asked frequently in the first three months of his second term as America’s financial and business community came to terms with his fierce assault on the global trading system and his contempt for the rule of law. Yet in the past few months, another, more alarming question has arisen. What if there are no effective restraints on Trump’s policies, or too much damage is done before...

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59 h. ago Kim Jong Un stands center stage with Xi, Putin at China’s military parade

Kim Jong Un stands center stage with Xi, Putin at China’s military parade  NK News

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3 d. ago Chinese delivery giant Meituan releases AI model to take on Alibaba, DeepSeek

On-demand local services giant Meituan has become the latest Chinese Big Tech company to release an open-source large language model (LLM) to market, more than two years after it acquired mainland AI start-up Light Year for US$281 million. Beijing-based Meituan, the long-standing leader of China’s food delivery market, on Monday released and open-sourced its own LLM, called LongCat-Flash-Chat, via artificial intelligence developer platforms Hugging Face and GitHub, as well as the model’s...

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4 d. ago Xi and Putin stand shoulder to shoulder as China casts itself as an alternative global leader

Xi and Putin stand shoulder to shoulder as China casts itself as an alternative global leader  CNN

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8 d. ago ‘Feeling reborn’: China ‘folded boy’ goes home, stands upright after 4 operations

China’s so-called folded boy Jiang Yanchen, whose spine had been contorted backwards at an 180-degree angle for most of his life, has finally stood up straight. Jiang took his first upright steps during a live-stream on August 25. The 21-year-old underwent four extremely difficult operations over the past two years in which doctors broke and realigned the bones in his lumbar, cervical, hip and chest regions. Jiang, from a small town in eastern China’s Shandong province, grew up with his neck...

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8 d. ago Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says US tech stack should be global standard companies are built on — including China

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says US tech stack should be global standard companies are built on — including China  Yahoo Finance

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9 d. ago China may not be waging war in Ukraine. But it still stands to win

It seems clear that US President Donald Trump achieved little more than a photo opportunity from the bilateral summit in Anchorage, Alaska, with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his subsequent meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders. Now, a ceasefire seems more out of reach than ever. For a negotiated peace agreement, Putin has insisted on his demands that Ukraine give up ambitions to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, as well as land occupied...

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9 d. ago As the West cedes leverage over Ukraine, China stands to benefit

It seems clear that US President Donald Trump achieved little more than a photo opportunity from the bilateral summit in Anchorage, Alaska, with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his subsequent meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders. Now, a ceasefire seems more out of reach than ever. For a negotiated peace agreement, Putin has insisted on his demands that Ukraine give up ambitions to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, as well as land occupied...

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1 week ago Trump says US won't destabilise China, warns Beijing over rare earths

Trump says US won't destabilise China, warns Beijing over rare earths  Business Standard

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1 week ago China vows to stand maritime ground as Vietnam ‘expands’ Spratlys construction

Beijing has vowed to defend its maritime rights after a US report that Vietnam has sped up its island-building efforts in the contested Spratly Islands this year. In a report on Friday, the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI), part of the Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), said Vietnam had ramped up construction on multiple reefs in 2025. Responding to the report on Monday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said the islands “are China’s...

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1 week ago Trump learns a lesson grounded in faith, how best to stand tough on trade with China

Trump learns a lesson grounded in faith, how best to stand tough on trade with China  Fox News

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2 w. ago Sudheendra Kulkarni welcomes Beijing stand on US tariffs, says India

Sudheendra Kulkarni welcomes Beijing stand on US tariffs, says India-China together can change world order  thehawk.in

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2 w. ago Amid India tensions, China’s Wang Yi hails Pakistan as ‘most reliable partner’

Foreign Minister Wang Yi has pledged China’s continued support for Pakistan and urged an acceleration of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the flagship Belt and Road Initiative infrastructure project. In whirlwind meetings with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and other senior officials in Islamabad on Thursday, Wang also vowed to enhance security collaboration to counter the country’s long-standing terrorism threats, often targeting Chinese nationals. “China has always been...

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2 w. ago Beijing ‘stands firm’ with New Delhi against ‘bully’ US, Chinese envoy says

Beijing’s top envoy in New Delhi on Thursday expressed strong support for India, citing the steep US tariffs imposed against the country, and called for “teamwork” and “collaboration” between the world’s two most populous nations in standing up to the “bully”. “US imposed tariffs of up to 50 per cent on India. China firmly opposes it. Silence only emboldens the bully. China will firmly stand with India, uphold the multilateral trading system,” Ambassador Xu Feihong said. He said tariffs and...

Economics

2 w. ago Philippines reports Chinese ship surge after ‘embarrassing’ collision

The Philippine government has reported a marked increased in Chinese maritime activity near Scarborough Shoal, intensifying a stand-off over the disputed South China Sea atoll. Officials in Manila have characterised the build-up as an attempt by Beijing to reassert control after two Chinese ships collided last week during a chase involving a Philippine vessel. On Sunday, the National Maritime Council cited the Philippine Navy’s latest assessment, reporting that as of Thursday, seven Chinese...

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2 w. ago China Unicom deploys 5G Standalone network for Humanoid Robot Games

China Unicom deploys 5G Standalone network for Humanoid Robot Games  Data Center Dynamics

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3 w. ago Commentary: China's chip equipment underdog stands up to Applied Materials as local substitution wave rises

Commentary: China's chip equipment underdog stands up to Applied Materials as local substitution wave rises  digitimes

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3 w. ago Opinion | If the U.S. Doesn’t Set Global Tech Standards, China Will

Opinion | If the U.S. Doesn’t Set Global Tech Standards, China Will  The Wall Street Journal

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