4 d. ago Markets Today: Silver Hits $58/oz, Gold Soars to $4250/oz, China PMI at 4

Markets Today: Silver Hits $58/oz, Gold Soars to $4250/oz, China PMI at 4-Month Lows. Geopolitics and US PMI in Focus  marketpulse.com

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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 China’s factory activity contracts in November for 8th month in a row

China’s factory activity contracted for an eighth consecutive month in November, according to official data, as external headwinds and weak domestic demand continued to drag on the world’s second-largest economy. The manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) stood at 49.2 in November, up from 49 a month earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Sunday. The reading was in line with a forecast of 49.2 based on economists polled by financial data provider Wind. The monthly index...

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5 d. ago Tesla China delivery centers packed as Q4 2025 enters its final month

Tesla China delivery centers packed as Q4 2025 enters its final month  Teslarati

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6 d. ago China’s factory activity shrinks for eighth month in November, PMI shows By Reuters

China’s factory activity shrinks for eighth month in November, PMI shows By Reuters  Investing.com

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6 d. ago China's factory activity shrinks for eighth month in November, PMI shows

China's factory activity shrinks for eighth month in November, PMI shows  Reuters

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6 d. ago Beyond DeepSeek: Moonshot and MiniMax step up as China’s new frontier AI labs

Chinese artificial intelligence start-ups Moonshot AI and MiniMax have emerged as China’s strongest contenders to rival US frontier labs in 2025 – even as DeepSeek has stolen the spotlight as the poster child for the country’s AI ambitions. Moonshot AI, founded by 33-year-old Yang Zhilin, has sharply raised its profile in China’s AI ecosystem with the launch earlier this month of Kimi K2 Thinking, an upgraded reasoning model. The system outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet...

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7 d. ago Tripwire clauses: why is China alarmed by Malaysia’s new trade deal with the US?

China has expressed “serious concerns” regarding a trade agreement signed last month between Malaysia and the United States, and some analysts suggest it might be related to how the pact could force the Southeast Asian nation to align with Washington’s sanctions regime. The official reaction on Thursday followed a meeting between Chinese and Malaysian commerce officials earlier in the week. While Beijing did not publicly specify the offending clauses, critics point to provisions that ostensibly...

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7 d. ago China's factory activity set to shrink for eighth month: Reuters poll

China's factory activity set to shrink for eighth month: Reuters poll  Reuters

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8 d. ago DeepSeek, Alibaba researchers endorse China’s AI regulatory framework

Researchers from artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek and tech giant Alibaba Group Holding have endorsed China’s emerging AI regulatory framework while calling for clearer feedback in a paper published in the US journal Science. The paper, published last month under the title “China’s emerging regulation towards an open future for AI”, said the country had so far facilitated an “innovation- and openness-friendly institutional environment for AI developers” but that it could be further...

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9 d. ago Grains Pop as Month End Selling Eases, Talk of China Buys: Cattle Rally

Grains Pop as Month End Selling Eases, Talk of China Buys: Cattle Rally  AgWeb

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9 d. ago Takaichi 101: How to torpedo relations with China in a month

Takaichi 101: How to torpedo relations with China in a month  Responsible Statecraft

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1 week ago Hong Kong singer Ekin Cheng cancels Tokyo concert as China, Japan tensions grow

Hong Kong Cantopop singer Ekin Cheng Yee-kin has called off a concert in Tokyo next month, attributing it to “unforeseen force majeure circumstances”, as tensions between China and Japan escalate. The cancellation was announced on Tuesday evening on the social media account of Lam & Lamb Entertainment, a management company. Cheng’s concert had been scheduled for December 5 at the Yebisu Garden Place in Tokyo. “[It] has been cancelled due to unforeseen force majeure circumstances,” the firm’s...

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1 week ago German foreign minister in ‘last stages of coordinating’ trip to China

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has revealed he is now in the “last stages of coordinating” a trip to China, after his planned visit to Beijing last month was hastily cancelled. Speaking at the Berlin Foreign Policy Forum on Tuesday, Wadephul said he was “confident” that the trip would be rescheduled soon. It is thought that the conservative minister would be in the Chinese capital in the second week of December. Wadephul postponed his planned trip in October after failing to arrange...

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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 Indian airbase on China border is infrastructure upgrade, not a threat: analysts

India earlier this month inaugurated a high-altitude airbase near its disputed border with China, prompting analysts to suggest the development capped long-term efforts to upgrade infrastructure there rather than posing a threat to Beijing. According to reports from multiple media outlets, the base, named Mudh-Nyoma Air Force Station, is perched at a height of about 13,700 feet (4,176 metres) and only 30km (19 miles) from the Line of Actual Control, the de facto boundary separating the two...

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2 w. ago China’s aerospace giants seek to boost arms sales abroad at global air shows

China’s aerospace manufacturers have become a growing presence at overseas air shows as the country seeks to expand its arms sales abroad, bolstered by technological advances in the defence and aviation industries. More than 1,500 companies took part in this year’s Dubai Airshow, the largest air show in the Middle East, including around 80 Chinese companies, such as China National Aero-Technology Import & Export Corporation (Catic). Catic is the international arms sales subsidiary and the global...

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2 w. ago Is Beijing’s spat with Japan sending a message to other countries over Taiwan?

Beijing’s recent fury directed towards Japan is hammering home a point on Taiwan to the wider world, especially the United States and its allies, analysts in mainland China have suggested. Earlier this month, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said a conflict in the Taiwan Strait might be a “survival-threatening situation” that would justify military intervention. The comments appeared to challenge Japan’s policy of strategic ambiguity about how it would respond to any crisis – something...

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2 w. ago Japanese official’s ‘bow’; China’s soybean dilemma: 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. China tells Japan to ‘behave’ properly as it dismisses call for talks China has urged Tokyo to “behave with restraint” after it called for talks amid the diplomatic freeze over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comments about Taiwan. 2. Chinese rare earth magnet exports to US hit 9-month high as trade war resolves China’s shipments of rare earth permanent...

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2 w. ago China October rare earth magnet exports fall for a second month, but US shipments surge

China October rare earth magnet exports fall for a second month, but US shipments surge  Reuters

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