7 h. ago Gov. Locke, Ambassador Chang Bloch talk fallout of worsening U.S.

Gov. Locke, Ambassador Chang Bloch talk fallout of worsening U.S.-China relationship  Northwest Asian Weekly

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61 h. ago How Chinese landscape paintings reflect changing art styles through history

How Chinese landscape paintings reflect changing art styles through history  South China Morning Post

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62 h. ago China, India and Brazil set to steer global climate change agenda at Cop30

As the West falters in its commitment to fighting climate change, analysts expect emerging economies led by China, India and Brazil to seize the initiative at next month’s UN climate summit. The Cop30 conference, from November 10 to 21 in the Brazilian city of Belem, comes as the United States under Donald Trump remains largely disengaged from climate challenges following his successive orders to withdraw the world’s largest economy from the 2015 Paris Agreement, while Europe’s attention appears...

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4 d. ago Air China Cancels 20 New Flights Over 8 Chinese Cities: Beijing, Chengdu, Wuhan, Taiyuan, Dali, Mianyang, Changchun, Nanjing and More Affected Areas in China – All You Need to Know

Air China Cancels 20 New Flights Over 8 Chinese Cities: Beijing, Chengdu, Wuhan, Taiyuan, Dali, Mianyang, Changchun, Nanjing and More Affected Areas in China – All You Need to Know  Travel And Tour World

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5 d. ago Nvidia chief holds onto hope as China market share disappears

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said the company’s position in China has dropped from 95 per cent of the advanced chip market to zero, as the US semiconductor giant is not allowed to sell its advanced products to mainland companies under US export restrictions. “Hopefully, we will continue to explain and inform and hold on to hope for a change in policy”, he said at a Citadel Securities event in New York on October 6. A video of the interview was published on Wednesday. “At the moment, we’re...

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7 d. ago Will China be a lower US defence priority? A new strategy report will soon tell

The Pentagon’s coming defence strategy report will contain major changes in the US’ plans to counter China’s military and economic strength, according to Chinese defence researchers. The new National Defence Strategy, a road map of defence priorities for each US president’s term, is expected to be released in the coming weeks. According to a Defence Department memo in May, the report will “prioritise defence of the US homeland, including America’s skies and borders, and deterring China in the...

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8 d. ago Tencent’s hit title Delta Force prompts sharpened focus on shooting games

For more than a decade, Tencent Holdings developer Leo Yao toiled in relative anonymity, churning out one shooting game after another. Then he scored one of the biggest Chinese hits of 2024 with Delta Force, a video game that continues to attract 30 million players daily. Now, Tencent’s top brass have tasked the 43-year-old with helping orchestrate a major shift at China’s most valuable company. Executives see a change in tastes among domestic gamers – long deemed a smartphone-dominant audience...

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1 week ago The West Just Got Outplayed — China’s 0.1% Rule Changes Everything

The West Just Got Outplayed — China’s 0.1% Rule Changes Everything  Binance

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1 week ago Trump to slap new 100 per cent tariff on Chinese goods, along with additional tech controls

In a major escalation of trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies, US President Donald Trump on Friday announced an additional tariff of 100 per cent on all Chinese imports, on top of levies already in place. “Starting November 1st, 2025 (or sooner, depending on any further actions or changes taken by China), the United States of America will impose a tariff of 100 per cent on China, over and above any tariff that they are currently paying”, he said in a social media post. “Also...

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1 week ago Donald Trump Changes Tune on Planned Meeting China’s Xi Jinping

Donald Trump Changes Tune on Planned Meeting China’s Xi Jinping  Newsweek

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1 week ago Donald Trump Changes Tune on Planned Meeting With China’s Xi Jinping

Donald Trump Changes Tune on Planned Meeting With China’s Xi Jinping  Newsweek

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1 week ago China’s CXMT edges closer to mainland IPO amid AI memory chip supply crunch

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China’s top DRAM chipmaker, is taking a step closer to a mega initial public offering (IPO) on the mainland, as the high-end memory chip market experiences supply shortages amid the global artificial intelligence frenzy. CXMT had “resolved issues” related to the election of employee representative directors and the identification of state-owned shareholders, according to a statement on the website of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC). The...

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1 week ago Unfair funding is holding back science in China. Can Beijing fix it?

As China drafts its 15th five-year plan – the next entry in a line of expansive blueprints that have set the tone for the country’s development over more than seven decades – we explore why achieving equitable funding distribution is important for Beijing to break free from Western sci-tech containment and lead the world. For more stories in this series, click here. Yusufu Aibibula, a theoretical physicist from Xinjiang University in China’s west, decided to change careers to raising chickens...

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1 week ago Beijing aids gold’s record run, kidney transplant first: 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. Pentagon nominee hints at Aukus changes, says Taiwan should ‘pay its way’ The Aukus defence technology-sharing pact between the US, Britain and Australia could be made more “sustainable”, according to the Donald Trump administration’s pick as its next assistant defence secretary for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs. 2. China’s central bank aids gold’s...

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1 week ago Pentagon nominee hints at Aukus changes, says Taiwan should ‘pay its way’

The Aukus defence technology-sharing pact between the US, Britain and Australia could be made more “sustainable”, according to the Donald Trump administration’s pick as its next assistant defence secretary for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs. At his confirmation hearing on Tuesday, John Noh, currently deputy assistant defence secretary for East Asia, also said he “strongly” believed that Taiwan needed to “do its part and pay” by increasing its spending on defence against possible attack from...

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2 w. ago China discovers new findings from Chang'e 6 farside lunar samples

China discovers new findings from Chang'e 6 farside lunar samples  news.cgtn.com

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2 w. ago Significant changes to China’s arbitration law to be introduced

Significant changes to China’s arbitration law to be introduced  Pinsent Masons

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2 w. ago The Rise of China in Global Travel: How US Policy Changes Impact Tourism

The Rise of China in Global Travel: How US Policy Changes Impact Tourism  Travel And Tour World

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2 w. ago My family’s journey through China’s changing educational landscape

As Beijing’s annual kindergarten and primary school enrolment season wrapped up in the summer, the mix of joy and disappointment among families was palpable. It brought to mind the dramatic evolution of China’s education system, as experienced by myself and my children. I was born in rural China in the 1980s and education was always going to be my escape route. “Knowledge is power” was not a cliché; it was a creed my parents, though farmers, held dear. Their sacrifices, coupled with my own...

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2 w. ago Being Chinese | My family’s journey through China’s changing educational landscape

Being Chinese | My family’s journey through China’s changing educational landscape  South China Morning Post

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