5 h. ago US Supreme Court to weigh Trump bid to limit birthright citizenship

The US Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide the legality of President Donald Trump’s directive to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States, a contentious part of his efforts to curb immigration and a step that would alter how a 19th century constitutional provision has long been understood. The justices took up a Justice Department appeal of a lower court’s ruling that blocked Trump’s executive order telling US agencies not to recognise the citizenship of children born in the US...

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18 h. ago Lisa Su Says AMD Ready to Pay 15% Fee to Resume China Shipments as Uncertainty Prevails

Lisa Su Says AMD Ready to Pay 15% Fee to Resume China Shipments as Uncertainty Prevails  TipRanks

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68 h. ago Tesla’s China plant sees shipment surge ahead of subsidy expiry

Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory reported a significant rebound in shipments last month as Chinese consumers took advantage of soon-expiring government incentives to snap up cars. The US carmaker’s Shanghai plant, its largest production facility globally, delivered a total of 86,700 Model 3 and Model Y electric vehicles (EVs) in November, a 41 per cent jump from October and a 10 per cent rise from a year earlier, according to data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA). The deliveries...

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3 d. ago Beijing woos foreign firms as China seeks bigger role in global shipbuilding supply chain

Beijing is extending an olive branch to overseas companies as it seeks to build a more integrated global supply chain for the shipbuilding industry, in its latest push to project goodwill and support free trade. Gao Dongsheng, chief economist at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), said on Tuesday that China was committed to further opening up its shipbuilding sector. Mainland shipyards, which currently have a capacity to build about 65 million deadweight tonnes of large...

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3 d. ago Why adidas China’s ‘New Chinese Style’ Drop Continues to Hit the Mark

Why adidas China’s ‘New Chinese Style’ Drop Continues to Hit the Mark  RADII

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3 d. ago Chinese and Japanese coastguard ships confront each other near disputed islands

Chinese and Japanese coastguard vessels have been involved in a stand-off near the disputed Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea. The two sides gave conflicting accounts of Tuesday’s incident, with the Chinese coastguards saying they had driven a Japanese fishing boat away from the islands, which are known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan. Liu Dejun, a spokesman for the coastguard, said the Chinese vessels took “necessary control measures” and issued warnings to the boat. “The Diaoyu Islands and...

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4 d. ago China's Factory Activity Drops for Eighth Straight Month Despite Small Uptick

China's Factory Activity Drops for Eighth Straight Month Despite Small Uptick  Yicai Global

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5 d. ago Amid a Global Arms Boom, China Confronts Delays, Scrutiny, and a Rare Drop in Defense Sales

Amid a Global Arms Boom, China Confronts Delays, Scrutiny, and a Rare Drop in Defense Sales  The China-Global South Project

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8 d. ago China Retaliates Against Trump’s Tariffs with Sanctions on US Shipping Firms and New Port Fees

China Retaliates Against Trump’s Tariffs with Sanctions on US Shipping Firms and New Port Fees  Maritime Fairtrade

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8 d. ago Price wars and tariffs: China’s industrial profits snap winning streak

China’s industrial profits dropped in October after a strong September, according to official year-on-year data released on Thursday, and analysts are pointing to domestic competition and trade tensions weighing on corporate balance sheets. Profits fell 5.5 per cent from a year ago, reversing a 21.6 per cent surge in September and a 20.4 per cent jump in August, according to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics. For the January-October period, profits earned by Chinese companies of a...

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9 d. ago China industrial profits drop 5.5% in October, worst performance in five months

China industrial profits drop 5.5% in October, worst performance in five months  CNBC

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9 d. ago China entrepreneur claims US$42 million from ex who says he has fathered 300 kids

Chinese gaming businessman Xu Bo has hit the headlines after he tried to claim 300 million yuan (US$42 million) from his former partner, who then said that he had fathered more than 300 children. Born in 1977, Xu is a well-known figure in China’s gaming industry. Despite dropping out of secondary school, he went on to create the massive hit Fantasy Westward Journey and founded Duoyi Network in 2006. The company once achieved annual revenues of almost 2 billion yuan, with net profits exceeding a...

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9 d. ago Exclusive | Trump, After Call With China’s Xi, Told Tokyo to Lower the Volume on Taiwan

Exclusive | Trump, After Call With China’s Xi, Told Tokyo to Lower the Volume on Taiwan  The Wall Street Journal

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1 week ago China’s LNG Imports Set to Drop for 13th Month, Kpler Data Shows

China’s LNG Imports Set to Drop for 13th Month, Kpler Data Shows  Bloomberg.com

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1 week ago Coking Coal Drops for a Fifth Session in China on Oversupply

Coking Coal Drops for a Fifth Session in China on Oversupply  Bloomberg.com

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2 w. ago ‘Limited alternatives’: why Japan will struggle to replace China’s tourists

Japan will find it hard to replace the revenue lost if Chinese tourists keep avoiding the country amid a diplomatic row over Taiwan, a subsidiary of the data provider Fitch Solutions warned on Friday. A sustained drop-off in visitor numbers from China would “significantly impact” Japan’s retail and tourism industries, as Chinese tourists were not only Japan’s largest source of overseas visitors but were also higher-than-average spenders, subsidiary BMI said in a research note. In the short term,...

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2 w. ago Watch China Tech Stocks Drop on AI Angst | The China Show 11/21/2025

Watch China Tech Stocks Drop on AI Angst | The China Show 11/21/2025  Bloomberg.com

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2 w. ago UK warns Putin of ‘military options’ as Russian military ship enters its waters

The Russian spy ship Yantar is operating on the edge of UK waters and has directed lasers at pilots of surveillance aircraft monitoring its activities, Defence Secretary John Healey said. Healey said Britain was “ready” to respond, with “military options” drawn up if the ship heads south, in a warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The vessel, designed for gathering intelligence and mapping crucial undersea cables, is loitering off the northern coast of Scotland, having entered wider UK...

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2 w. ago UK says ‘military options’ ready as Russian ship points lasers at British pilots

British defence minister John Healey said on Wednesday that “military options” are ready should the Russian spy ship Yantar become a threat after it directed lasers at British pilots sent to monitor it. Britain’s Royal Navy and Royal Air Force routinely shadow potential threats to national security, and such missions to monitor Russian vessels and submarines have become more frequent since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Healey said directing lasers at RAF pilots was “deeply dangerous” and...

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2 w. ago Malaysia court charges 11 shipwreck survivors with illegal entry

Eleven survivors of a deadly boat capsize two weeks ago appeared in a Malaysian court on Wednesday, charged with illegally being in the Southeast Asian country, officials said. The accused – nine Myanmar nationals and two Bangladeshi citizens – were among 14 people rescued after the November 6 shipwreck off a Thai island near the Malaysian maritime border. They are said to be from a group of around 70 undocumented migrants, mostly from Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya community, who were trying to...

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