11 h. ago Trump hits Denmark and other Nato allies with tariffs to force Greenland sale

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he would charge a 10 per cent import tax starting in February on goods from eight European nations, all Nato members, because of opposition to US control of Greenland. He said in a social media post that Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland would face the tariff, which would be raised to 25 per cent on June 1 if a deal was not in place for “the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland” by the...

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11 h. ago Trump hits Denmark and 7 other Nato allies with tariffs to force Greenland sale

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he would charge a 10 per cent import tax starting in February on goods from eight European nations, all Nato members, because of opposition to US control of Greenland. He said in a social media post that Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland would face the tariff, which would be raised to 25 per cent on June 1 if a deal was not in place for “the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland” by the...

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32 h. ago China’s population crash is so bad that it’s started taxing condoms and birth control pills

China’s population crash is so bad that it’s started taxing condoms and birth control pills  Fortune

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39 h. ago As families shrink, our primary relationship is increasingly with ourselves

More than 2,300 years ago, Aristotle mused in Politics that to live alone, a man must be a god or a beast, or words to that effect. I wonder what he would have thought of the popularity of China’s “Are You Dead?” app. For Aristotle, we are social animals, thriving in the “polis” in the company of family, friends and fellow citizens. The average mother had at least five children. Many homes housed three, even four, generations. Family life was noisy and crowded, full of companionship, contest and...

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67 h. ago China Levies VAT on Contraceptives to Tackle Population Decline

China Levies VAT on Contraceptives to Tackle Population Decline  조선일보

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3 d. ago China's homeless population seen surging, driven by youth job crisis

China's homeless population seen surging, driven by youth job crisis  upi.com

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3 d. ago Across China: Paid study spaces gaining popularity among China's dream

Across China: Paid study spaces gaining popularity among China's dream-seeking youth  Xinhua

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5 d. ago Did a bowl of millet help end a migrant crisis in China 1,500 years ago?

Human migration is as old as history and as current as today’s headlines of law enforcement operations and tragedy. Amid the encounters, the question remains: how do strangers become a single people? Today, more than 90 per cent of China’s population identifies as Han Chinese, despite centuries of migration and upheaval. Historians once credited this unity to strong rulers, uniform writing and Confucius. But archaeologists in China are finding the answer in the bowl rather than the sword or pen....

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1 week ago It’s HAL out there: Tencent AI chatbot tells user to ‘get lost’ in rare angry outburst

Chinese social media and gaming giant Tencent Holdings apologised after its artificial intelligence chatbot Yuanbao was accused of “verbally insulting” a user, fuelling online debate about the risks posed by fast-evolving generative AI tools. Yuanbao is among China’s most popular AI chatbots. Embedded in Tencent’s WeChat and used by tens of millions of people each day, there have been no previous reports of the assistant generating insulting replies in user conversations. The complaint surfaced...

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2 w. ago Beijing to levy condom tax after over three decades: As birth rate drops to record levels, Communist China ...

Beijing to levy condom tax after over three decades: As birth rate drops to record levels, Communist China ...  Bhaskar English

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2 w. ago China slaps 13% tax on birth control—What’s behind Beijing’s new tax on condoms, contraceptives? | Explained

China slaps 13% tax on birth control—What’s behind Beijing’s new tax on condoms, contraceptives? | Explained  livemint.com

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2 w. ago China slaps 13% tax on birth control: What’s behind Beijing’s new tax on condoms, contraceptives? | Explained

China slaps 13% tax on birth control: What’s behind Beijing’s new tax on condoms, contraceptives? | Explained  livemint.com

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2 w. ago China Ends Tax Break on Condoms, Contraceptive Pills Amid Birth Rate Slump

China Ends Tax Break on Condoms, Contraceptive Pills Amid Birth Rate Slump  Newsweek

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2 w. ago In the new world order, market power trumps military might. Can China compete?

China needs to adapt to a more competitive global environment driven by market power, technological innovation and institutional leverage, according to analysts at a leading Beijing-based think tank. These pillars were more critical than conventional military dominance or strengthening territorial control in the great power rivalry, particularly as Beijing sought to project itself as a stabiliser in an increasingly fractured international order, the analysts added. In an article this week, Fu...

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2 w. ago China taxes condoms, contraceptive drugs in bid to spur birth rate

China taxes condoms, contraceptive drugs in bid to spur birth rate  Reuters

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2 w. ago Peng Peiyun’s Death: Reassessing the Figure Behind China’s Population Control Campaign (Part I)

Peng Peiyun’s Death: Reassessing the Figure Behind China’s Population Control Campaign (Part I)  Vision Times

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2 w. ago China Bao’an ethnic group’s ritual playfully whips bride’s dad for not disciplining daughter

A unique wedding ritual among China’s Bao’an ethnic group known as “flogging the father-in-law” sees the family of the groom symbolically whip the bride’s father 20 times. As he endures his “punishment”, the bride’s father kneels to apologise for “failing to properly discipline his daughter”. The Bao’an ethnic group primarily lives in Gansu province in northwestern China and has a population of around 24,000. They practise Islam and speak Banan, which belongs to the Altaic language family. They...

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2 w. ago China’s ‘condom tax’ sparks backlash as Beijing struggles to reverse population collapse

China’s ‘condom tax’ sparks backlash as Beijing struggles to reverse population collapse  Fox News

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2 w. ago China's plan to boost birth rates with condom tax and cheaper childcare

China's plan to boost birth rates with condom tax and cheaper childcare  BBC

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2 w. ago Why China is making condoms and birth control pills more expensive

Why China is making condoms and birth control pills more expensive  CNN

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