19 h. ago ‘Love yourself’ – young China’s new wellness mantra to cope with the rat race

For 26-year-old Tianjin office worker Celine Wang, it is an extra cup of milk tea. “One for me and the other for lao ji,” she said, placing the double order on a workday afternoon in January. “After going through all the difficulties from trying to be the best performer at school to surviving at my workplace, I feel tired. “I’ve decided to treat myself well ai ni lao ji,” she said, using a buzzword that took off in the gaming world and has become a mantra for personal wellness in China. The...

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31 h. ago Canada Secures Major Canola and Agriculture Trade Breakthrough in New China Partnership

Canada Secures Major Canola and Agriculture Trade Breakthrough in New China Partnership  Seed World

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38 h. ago Canada’s Mark Carney Meets China’s Xi Jinping in Beijing: ‘New World Order’

Canada’s Mark Carney Meets China’s Xi Jinping in Beijing: ‘New World Order’  Newsweek

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42 h. ago Canada’s Mark Carney refers to ‘new world order’ during visit to China

Canada’s Mark Carney refers to ‘new world order’ during visit to China  The Independent

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43 h. ago Europe after Trump: what EU citizens think about the US, China and a post

Europe after Trump: what EU citizens think about the US, China and a post-Western world  Decode39

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46 h. ago Carney meets Xi after touting importance of ties with China amid ‘new world order’

Carney meets Xi after touting importance of ties with China amid ‘new world order’  The Japan Times

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47 h. ago China’s US envoy says world faces ‘stark choice’ as 2026 opens with instability

China’s top diplomat in the United States delivered a sharply worded rebuke on Thursday over US President Donald Trump’s tumultuous approach to global relations, laying out a stark choice between a world informed by China-led stability and one battered by Washington. Chinese ambassador Xie Feng’s comments to the 1,000-member China General Chamber of Commerce come two weeks into Trump’s second year of his latest term in the White House. The past fortnight has already seen the Trump administration...

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50 h. ago Trump’s ‘America first’ agenda driving countries closer to China: survey

United States President Donald Trump’s “America first” agenda is helping to make China great again and ushering in a “truly multipolar world”, according to a survey by the European Council on Foreign Relations. “A year on from Trump’s return, in countries across the globe, many people believe China is on the verge of becoming even more powerful,” the think tank said after surveying 25,949 people from 21 countries, including the US, China, Russia, Britain and Brazil. Most respondents thought...

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57 h. ago China quietly builds worldwide space network, alarming US over future military power

China quietly builds worldwide space network, alarming US over future military power  Fox News

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60 h. ago Rising Star Zhang carries China’s hammer tradition into a new era

Rising Star Zhang carries China’s hammer tradition into a new era  worldathletics.org

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64 h. ago An internally split Europe can never fully engage China and Asia

When contemporary Europe engages with the world, it increasingly presents as two distinct Europes operating within the same institutional framework. This duality – a Europe of strategic dependence vs a Europe of normative assertion – creates a contradiction. For partners, particularly in China and across Asia, this is not merely an abstract identity crisis but a practical geopolitical puzzle that complicates engagement and challenges assumptions about Europe’s global role. One Europe, embedded...

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3 d. ago OpenAI expects another ‘seismic shock’ from China amid speculation of new DeepSeek release

The race between the US and China to dominate the world’s artificial intelligence industry has become “complex and challenging to forecast”, according to ChatGPT creator OpenAI. In a blog post this week, published ahead of the first anniversary of DeepSeek’s release of breakthrough reasoning model R1 on January 20, OpenAI said another “seismic shock” from China could be on the cards, as anticipation heightened about a potential new major release from the Hangzhou-based start-up around the Lunar...

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3 d. ago China posts world record $1.19T trade surplus as Carney begins Beijing visit

China posts world record $1.19T trade surplus as Carney begins Beijing visit  Juno News

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4 d. ago Lessons from Beijing: Can the world emulate China’s energy transition success?

Lessons from Beijing: Can the world emulate China’s energy transition success?  Stockhead

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4 d. ago World’s first 20 MW offshore wind turbine installed in China, will power 40,000 homes

World’s first 20 MW offshore wind turbine installed in China, will power 40,000 homes  Interesting Engineering

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4 d. ago China dismisses Philippines' South China Sea claims as 'misleading'

China dismisses Philippines' South China Sea claims as 'misleading'  TRT World

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5 d. ago Two Canadian Members of Parliament End Taiwan Trip Ahead of Carney's China Visit

Two Canadian Members of Parliament End Taiwan Trip Ahead of Carney's China Visit  U.S. News & World Report

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5 d. ago 2 supertankers sailing to pick up Venezuelan oil for China make U

Two China-flagged supertankers that were sailing to Venezuela to pick up debt-paying crude cargoes amid the US oil embargo on the Opec country have made U-turns and are now heading back to Asia, LSEG shipping data showed on Monday. Following the US announcement last week of a US$2 billion deal to export up to 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil stuck in storage, US President Donald Trump said China would not be deprived of Venezuela’s crude. But the Asian country, the first market of the...

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5 d. ago World Uyghur Congress warns repression crossing China’s borders

World Uyghur Congress warns repression crossing China’s borders  Muslim Network TV

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5 d. ago South Korea's Lee to Head for Japan Summit a Week After Meeting China's Xi

South Korea's Lee to Head for Japan Summit a Week After Meeting China's Xi  U.S. News & World Report

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