39 h. ago Tidal wave of Chinese tea brands place bets on winning over American tastebuds

Tidal wave of Chinese tea brands place bets on winning over American tastebuds  Reuters

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53 h. ago China Files Rare Countersuit Against Missouri Officials After State Wins $24 Billion COVID

China Files Rare Countersuit Against Missouri Officials After State Wins $24 Billion COVID-19 Judgment  American Ag Network

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1 week ago Trump gives green light for Nvidia to sell H200 AI chips in China

US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the US will allow Nvidia to ship its H200 artificial intelligence chips to approved customers in China, marking the latest lobbying win for the American chip company. The decision follows weeks of deliberations by the Trump administration about whether to grant permission to ship the H200 to China. It comes days after Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang met with Trump in Washington to discuss US export controls. “I have informed President Xi,...

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1 week ago Ant International signs WNBA star Sabrina Ionescu as brand ambassador

Ant International, the Singapore-based affiliate of Chinese fintech giant Ant Group, has named US basketball star Sabrina Ionescu as its global brand ambassador in a fresh partnership between sports and tech. The four-time all-star in the US Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) was chosen as part of an effort to expand access to financial tools via innovative technology, the digital payments provider said on Tuesday. The 28-year-old point guard – an Olympic gold medallist and the top...

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2 w. ago How Chinese lifestyle brands are finding fans abroad with toys, tea and trends

With their domestic profits narrowing and production capacity expanding, China’s firms are continuing to widen their overseas footprints in search of new, more lucrative markets. In this series, we examine China Inc.’s next phase of “going global” and the complex, challenging international environment its companies have chosen to enter. On a busy roadside in Riyadh, K-pop music – popular among the city’s youth – pulses from the speakers of Javis Wang’s bubble tea shop. His stores have...

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2 w. ago Rivals in Honduras presidential race locked in a ‘technical tie’

A businessman who has US President Donald Trump’s backing for the presidency of Honduras was locked in a “technical tie” with a right-wing television host after a preliminary vote count, the Central American country’s electoral body said on Monday. Nasry Asfura, 67, led 72-year-old rival Salvador Nasralla by just 515 votes, making it a “technical tie”, National Electoral Council (CNE) head Ana Paola Hall said on social media after a partial digital tally of Sunday’s down-to-the wire ballot. She...

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