35 y. ago State Visit to the People's Republic of China by HM King Taufa‘ahau Tupou IV and Queen Halaevalu Mata‘aho

State Visit to the People's Republic of China by HM King Taufa‘ahau Tupou IV and Queen Halaevalu Mata‘aho  Matangi Tonga

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83 m. ago China’s Xi and North Korea’s Kim pledge deeper ties during meeting in Beijing

China’s Xi and North Korea’s Kim pledge deeper ties during meeting in Beijing  AP News

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3 h. ago How Chinese view US rivalry, Beijing’s deterrence muscle: SCMP daily highlights

Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. What do ordinary Chinese think of US rivalry and Russian, North Korean allies? Americans tend to believe that China wants to create a new world order to knock the United States off its perch, but the results of a survey released this week suggest Chinese people are far more nuanced and flexible in this view, providing avenues to reduce US-China tension,...

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3 h. ago Chinese provinces prep for business trips to US amid shaky tariff truce

More Chinese entrepreneurs and local government representatives could soon be packing for New York and California, aiming to take advantage of a recent stabilisation in US-China relations to hop across the Pacific and scout out potential trade and investment opportunities. Visits by delegations from China in the coming months will seek to leverage the pro-business amity and autonomy of local authorities in the US to advance economic ties, as Beijing encourages subnational exchanges. China’s...

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5 h. ago China’s Xi Holds Talks With North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Beijing

China’s Xi Holds Talks With North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Beijing  Bloomberg.com

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5 h. ago While the PLA was on parade in Beijing, its navy patrolled the South China Sea

China’s navy conducted a “routine patrol” in the contested waters of the South China Sea as “deterrence” on the same day the PLA mounted a massive military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of China’s victory over Japan in World War II. The patrol on Wednesday took place in the wake of Exercise Alon, the biggest-ever joint drill between Australia and the Philippines, which ran from August 15 to 29. A Canadian frigate also took part in the exercise, while several countries, including the United...

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6 h. ago Cambricon shares slump 14%, the most in 7 months, as investors lock in gains

Cambricon Technologies, the artificial intelligence chipmaker dubbed “China’s Nvidia”, tumbled on Thursday as investors took profit from one of the mainland’s most frenzied stock rallies this year. Shares of the Shanghai-listed company sank as much as 16 per cent before closing 14.4 per cent lower at 1,202 yuan, the steepest single-day decline since January 16. The stock lost 84 billion yuan (US$11.8 billion) in market capitalisation. The sharp sell-off also erased 6.9 per cent from the...

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6 h. ago BREAKING NEWS: China's Xi, N. Korea's Kim hold talks in Beijing: Xinhua

BREAKING NEWS: China's Xi, N. Korea's Kim hold talks in Beijing: Xinhua  english.kyodonews.net

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6 h. ago Chinese leader Xi holds talks with North Korea’s Kim in Beijing

President Xi Jinping is holding talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Beijing, state media reported, in their first sit-down in six years. Thursday’s meeting came a day after Kim appeared with Xi, alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Tiananmen Square for a Victory Day military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. It was the first time that the three leaders had gathered in the same place, in what was viewed as a rare show of unity against the West and...

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6 h. ago Breaking | Chinese leader Xi holds talks with North Korea’s Kim in Beijing

Breaking | Chinese leader Xi holds talks with North Korea’s Kim in Beijing  South China Morning Post

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6 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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6 h. ago China mum, 50, gets into law school after using books of son who failed same test

A 50-year-old woman in China who suffered debilitating and disfiguring long-term injuries in a fire more than a decade ago has been admitted by a top university after she studied the books her failing son had used. In July, the woman, known as Yang, received an admission letter from the graduate school of Southwest Forestry University in Kunming, Yunnan province, southwestern China, where she will study law, Hubei TV reported. She sat the graduate school’s entrance test twice. “I once had an...

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6 h. ago US in real danger of losing the moon race to China, experts tell Senate

US in real danger of losing the moon race to China, experts tell Senate  Space

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6 h. ago How Trump is helping China extend its massive lead in clean energy

How Trump is helping China extend its massive lead in clean energy  MIT Technology Review

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6 h. ago China’s $1.2 Trillion Stock Market Rally Has Beijing Nervous

China’s $1.2 Trillion Stock Market Rally Has Beijing Nervous  Bloomberg.com

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6 h. ago China Matters' Features: The Preservation of Hutongs in Beijing

China Matters' Features: The Preservation of Hutongs in Beijing  Yahoo Finance

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7 h. ago Chinese companies could start making money from AI agents next year, UBS says

Chinese companies could start making money from their artificial intelligence agents – software systems that use AI to autonomously plan and perform complex tasks for users – as soon as next year, according to UBS. “2026 is the year of agent monetisation in China,” said Sundeep Gantori, an equity strategist at UBS Global Wealth Management CIO, on Thursday. As advanced models like DeepSeek’s R2 become more sophisticated, “we expect to see more monetisation”, he added. AI agents are widely...

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7 h. ago Xi’s diplomatic blitz casts new light on China’s foreign policy

In less than a week, Chinese President Xi Jinping has held bilateral talks with leaders from more than 20 countries during two high-profile events – the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in the northern port city of Tianjin and the Victory Day commemoration in Beijing. The themes of the talks have shed more light on China’s engagement with partners as Beijing casts itself as a champion of a multipolar global order and forges closer economic cooperation. Multilateralism: a keyword...

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7 h. ago China’s power bank scandal leads to supplier’s lawsuit against Romoss

The ramifications of China’s power bank scandal, which prompted an emergency ban of substandard models on domestic flights, have extended to a mainland court, where troubled manufacturer Romoss Technology was slapped with a lawsuit for unpaid funds. Shenzhen-based electronics contract manufacturer Zowee Technology filed the lawsuit at the People’s Court of Pengjiang district in Jiangmen, a city in southern Guangdong province, where it sought 136.26 million yuan (US$19 million) in damages against...

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8 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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