2 m. ago China’s new ‘durian express’ to bring prized fruit to northeast consumers faster

To get Southeast Asia’s coveted durians more quickly into the hands of Chinese consumers, a port operator in the relatively far-flung market of northeastern China is building a transit centre to handle seaborne imports of the pungent, spiky and often pricey fruit. Liaoning Port Group, part of which operates the major sea terminal in Dalian, kicked off construction of the Dalian Northeast Asia Fruit Transit Centre in late August, a group representative said this month. That project will...

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16 h. ago Mercedes doesn't fear China but working to bring down costs, CTO says

Mercedes doesn't fear China but working to bring down costs, CTO says  Reuters

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1 week ago Chinese envoy warns against sowing ‘fear and hostility’ as US plans visa revamp

Beijing’s top diplomat in Washington on Wednesday warned against undermining of people-to-people relations just hours after the US government proposed a sweeping revamp of visa rules for foreign students, scholars and media citing national security risks. “Going forward, we need to bring our people closer, rather than sow fear and hostility,” China’s ambassador to the US Xie Feng said during an event commemorating Chinese and American soldiers who fought together against Allied forces during...

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1 week ago Why Trump’s furniture tariffs could complicate efforts to reassemble China trade

US President Donald Trump’s renewed threat to impose tariffs on imported furniture could erode some of China’s exports while doing little to bring manufacturing back to America as he promised, according to analysts. And they added that such a move risks escalating tensions between the world’s two largest economies, whose earlier extension of a trade truce, coupled with conciliatory statements, had suggested a more amenable posture in trade negotiations. Trump announced plans to impose steep...

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2 w. ago Nvidia Earnings Bring Focus to China. What It Means for the Stock.

Nvidia Earnings Bring Focus to China. What It Means for the Stock.  Barron's

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3 w. ago Can China’s hypersonic drone carrier bring Nasa’s ‘scissor wing’ dream to life?

Chinese aerospace engineers are revisiting a decades-old, largely abandoned aviation concept – the oblique rotating wing – and transforming it into a potential cornerstone of future warfare: an unstaffed hypersonic mother ship capable of flying at five times the speed of sound and unleashing a swarm of drones behind enemy lines. Drawing inspiration from Nasa’s quirky AD-1 experimental aircraft of the 1970s – a small jet-driven plane with a “scissor wing” that pivoted diagonally across the...

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