41 h. ago As China’s companies become industry leaders, where in the world are they going?

With their domestic profits narrowing and production capacity expanding, China’s firms are continuing to widen their overseas footprints in search of new, more lucrative markets. In this series, we examine China Inc.’s next phase of “going global” and the complex, challenging international environment its companies have chosen to enter. The “Made in China” label has evolved considerably in recent decades. Mostly found affixed to low-cost goods of relative simplicity in China’s early years as a...

Politics

3 d. ago Factory of factories: China’s manufacturers join wave of overseas expansions

With domestic profits narrowing and production capacity expanding, China’s firms are continuing to widen their overseas footprints in search of new, more lucrative markets. In this series, we examine China Inc’s next phase of “going global” and the complex, challenging international environment its companies have chosen to enter. China, known as the “world’s factory” after decades spent manufacturing and shipping much of the world’s consumer goods, is now going a step further: as a number of...

Politics

1 week ago How China Silences Environmental Reporters Beyond Its Borders

How China Silences Environmental Reporters Beyond Its Borders  Inside Climate News

Politics

1 week ago ‘On the same side’: India, China align on climate at Cop30 as ties thaw

A tentative thaw in India–China ties is rekindling hopes that the two Asian giants could move from strategic rivalry to clean-energy cooperation at a moment when the Global South is searching for leverage in climate negotiations. This cautious warming, after four years of strained relations, has unfolded alongside renewed trade in green-energy components and their increasingly aligned push at Cop30 in Brazil for more climate finance and fairer rules, a convergence that analysts say could subtly...

Politics

2 w. ago China woman makes dresses from peanut shells, kernels, turning farmland into runway

A rural Chinese woman has gone viral online for her creativity, transforming farmland into a dazzling catwalk by designing dresses from natural materials such as peanut shells, corn leaves, red beans, sweet potatoes, and corn kernels. The blogger, known online as “Village Magical Treasure,” boasts over 152,000 followers on Douyin and hails from Hengzhou in Guangxi province, southern China. In her videos, she artfully uses materials like peanut shells, dried grass, corn kernels, and corn husks to...

Politics

2 w. ago Beijing slams US report ‘smearing’ Hong Kong business environment, achievements

Beijing has lashed out at a US legislative committee for a report urging more sanctions on Hong Kong, saying it smeared the financial hub’s business environment and achievements while blatantly interfering in the city and China’s internal affairs. The Hong Kong government also condemned the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) on Wednesday over its annual report released the previous day, criticising its “groundless attacks, slanders and smears” against various aspects of the...

Politics

2 w. ago Ecological–environmental transformation efficiency in China: regional disparities, modeling challenges, and prospects for long

Ecological–environmental transformation efficiency in China: regional disparities, modeling challenges, and prospects for long-term sustainability governance  Nature

Politics

2 w. ago China hopes EU 'provide fair, predictable environment' for Chinese business

China hopes EU 'provide fair, predictable environment' for Chinese business  chinadailyasia.com

Politics

3 w. ago COP30: 'Those drawn to China's environmental push should keep a few facts in mind'

COP30: 'Those drawn to China's environmental push should keep a few facts in mind'  Le Monde.fr

Politics

3 w. ago Tencent expands into AI ‘world models’ as tech giants chase spatial intelligence

Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings is laying the groundwork for what many see as the next frontier of artificial intelligence by investing in “world models” that simulate the physical environment, according to its head of 3D generation and world modelling. China’s most valuable tech conglomerate joins a fast-growing cohort that includes Google DeepMind and Elon Musk’s xAI in exploring “spatial intelligence”, which some experts have described as “AI’s next great frontier”. On Wednesday, AI...

Politics

3 w. ago Donation surge at ‘humble’ China zoo for protected animals after story goes viral

An animal sanctuary in China which is known as “the humblest zoo in history” has gone viral thanks to the meticulous care its director takes of its inhabitants. The small zoo, located in a mountainous region in Kaili city, southwestern China’s Guizhou province, only measures 3,500 square metres but is home to more than 20 types of animals. These include nationally protected animals such as the tiger, lion and bear. The zoo’s director, 70-year-old Feng Yuanyong, is a retired secondary school...

Politics

4 w. ago LITERATURE: At 80, local author shares her passions for China, the environment

LITERATURE: At 80, local author shares her passions for China, the environment  Marblehead Current

Politics