9 h. ago Dalai Lama turns 90 and vows to keep defying China for years

Dalai Lama turns 90 and vows to keep defying China for years  Reuters

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63 h. ago Congress votes to send 2 million US jobs to China, increase deficit, energy costs

Congress votes to send 2 million US jobs to China, increase deficit, energy costs  Electrek

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3 d. ago The Dalai Lama Defies China to Announce His Reincarnation Plans

The Dalai Lama Defies China to Announce His Reincarnation Plans  Foreign Policy

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4 d. ago Xpeng defies China’s EV price war with steady sales as Tesla and local rivals try to keep pace

Xpeng defies China’s EV price war with steady sales as Tesla and local rivals try to keep pace  CNBC

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4 d. ago Senate votes to send 2 million US jobs to China, increase deficit, energy costs

Senate votes to send 2 million US jobs to China, increase deficit, energy costs  Electrek

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1 week ago China Land Sales Income Hits Decade Low, Widening Budget Deficit

China Land Sales Income Hits Decade Low, Widening Budget Deficit  Bloomberg

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1 week ago US strikes Iran nuclear sites, Labubu faces competition: 5 weekend reads

We have put together stories from our coverage last weekend to help you stay informed about news across Asia and beyond. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Trump claims US ‘obliterated’ Iran nuclear sites, threatens more attacks 2. How much of a future does Elon Musk really have in US politics? 3. Move over Labubu – Fugglers look to take crown from Hong Kong-designed plush toy 4. How Huawei’s silicon strategy defies US sanctions, advances China’s...

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1 week ago Xi Jinping’s Costly Inheritance: How His Father’s Travails Defined China’s Leader—and the Country He Rules

Xi Jinping’s Costly Inheritance: How His Father’s Travails Defined China’s Leader—and the Country He Rules  Foreign Affairs

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2 w. ago How Huawei’s silicon strategy defies US sanctions, advances China’s AI ambitions

About three months after Huawei Technologies was added to Washington’s trade blacklist in 2019, the company’s then-rotating chairman, Eric Xu Zhijun, unveiled what he proclaimed as the “world’s most powerful AI processor” – the Ascend 910 – designed for training artificial intelligence (AI) models. Huawei’s advanced AI chip initiative, however, suddenly faced a major obstacle a year later in August 2020, when the US Commerce Department tightened restrictions by barring the sale of semiconductor...

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2 w. ago China soldier saves 5 people from lake, even when exhausted, defies mum’s stop plea

A Good Samaritan in China who defied his worried mother’s pleas for him to stop saving people who were drowning in a lake has won online admiration for his heroism. Serving People’s Liberation Army soldier Zhang Wei was holidaying with his mother beside a lake in Shangqiu, central Henan province, on June 6, when he heard several people struggling in the water and yelling for help, according to the state broadcaster CCTV. They included a quarrelling couple who had jumped into the water and three...

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last month Will Sri Lanka and China push for FTA or just engage in economic diplomacy?

A long-delayed free-trade agreement (FTA) between Sri Lanka and China appears to be back on the agenda, even as analysts warn that the crisis-hit South Asian nation is not expected to benefit much from it for years after its implementation. Sri Lanka’s officials are cautiously optimistic the FTA could help narrow the country’s huge trade deficit with China. First proposed in 2014, talks between both sides for an FTA have been on hold for the past six years because Sri Lanka did not agree to some...

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