15 h. ago As Trump urges cap on credit card rates, could China follow suit for online loans?

US President Donald Trump’s call for American credit card interest rates to be capped at 10 per cent for a year has sparked a debate in China about whether Beijing should impose a similar limit on online loans. The discussion comes as many in China – especially younger people – are being enticed by credit offers amid a weak job market and a boom in online loan services. “Apps now keep luring young people into borrowing,” a finance blogger with nearly 500,000 followers wrote in a social media...

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44 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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54 h. ago China's Geely Clearly Wants To Come To The U.S. Here's How It Could Pull That Off

China's Geely Clearly Wants To Come To The U.S. Here's How It Could Pull That Off  InsideEVs

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3 d. ago ‘Let China Come In’ to US Auto Industry Trump Says While in Detroit: TDS

‘Let China Come In’ to US Auto Industry Trump Says While in Detroit: TDS  The Drive

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3 d. ago China entrepreneur promises football team players a car each, retracts offer after landmark win

An entrepreneur in China has come under fire for promising to gift a car to every member of a city’s football team if they won an important competition, then reneging on her promise when they did. While many people criticised the woman, the local football association said it would not push the woman to fulfil her promise, saying they understood her financial predicament. The response was viewed 22 million times on one mainland social media platform alone. It also attracted praise from the state...

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5 d. ago We Test 5 Geely Cars from China—But Are Any Coming to the US Market?

We Test 5 Geely Cars from China—But Are Any Coming to the US Market?  Autoweek

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1 week ago How China’s history links military strength to fighting corruption

For China’s leadership, the most urgent lesson of modern military power comes not from a foreign manual but from its own history books. Its catastrophic defeat by Japan in 1895, born of internal corruption, forms the invisible backdrop to every Chinese showcase of modern hardware. The recent live-fire drill around Taiwan code-named Justice Mission 2025 – a forceful display of Beijing’s resolve to achieve reunification and deter any challenge to its core interests – was no exception. To Beijing,...

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1 week ago Opinion: Trump wants Greenland — so does China. Here’s where your money comes in.

Opinion: Trump wants Greenland — so does China. Here’s where your money comes in.  MarketWatch

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1 week ago Second street cleaner accident in a week as Hongkonger, 74, struck by car

An elderly cleaner was injured after being struck by a left-hand drive car with a trade licence plate at a Hong Kong public housing estate – the second street-worker accident in just over a week. Police received a report at 6.18am on Wednesday that a Geely multipurpose vehicle (MPV) was making a right turn out of a car park at Lek Yuen Estate in Sha Tin when it struck the cleaner pushing a trolley outside Kwai Wo House. The accident left the 74-year-old victim, surnamed Wong, in a semi-conscious...

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1 week ago China 2025 Box Office At $7.4B, +20%, But That Comes With An Asterisk

China 2025 Box Office At $7.4B, +20%, But That Comes With An Asterisk  Deadline

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1 week ago China 2025 Box Office At $7.4 Billion, +20%, But It Comes With An Asterisk

China 2025 Box Office At $7.4 Billion, +20%, But It Comes With An Asterisk  Deadline

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1 week ago China’s telecoms giants bet on AR smart glasses with major investment in RayNeo

Chinese smart glasses maker RayNeo on Monday said it secured funding from the country’s major state telecommunications operators, as eyewear emerges as the next gadget with the ability to access artificial intelligence services along with smartphones. The investment from subsidiaries of China Unicom and China Mobile comes as RayNeo debuts the world’s first consumer augmented reality (AR) glasses integrated with eSIM and 4G connectivity at CES, the annual consumer electronics trade show in Las...

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1 week ago After Trump’s Venezuela takeover, China’s investors prep for Latin American era of anxiety

Chinese companies operating in Latin America are bracing for greater uncertainty rather than abrupt rupture, as Washington moves to reassert dominance in the western hemisphere following the ousting of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, according to analysts. This sense of caution comes amid intensifying US efforts to curb China’s footprint in strategic resources, infrastructure and trade across the region. “There is little doubt that a Trump-style Monroe Doctrine is aimed squarely at...

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2 w. ago Japan says Trump has invited its leader to the US. It comes as ties with China are strained

Japan says Trump has invited its leader to the US. It comes as ties with China are strained  WTOP

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2 w. ago Great Green Wall 2.0: China is geoengineering deserts with blue

Deserts are hard to reclaim because plants cannot survive on shifting sand, but scientists in northwest China are changing that – by dropping vast amounts of blue-green algae onto the dry terrain. These specially selected strains of cyanobacteria can survive extreme heat and drought for long periods, according to China Science Daily on Thursday. When rain finally comes, they spring to life, spreading rapidly and forming a tough, biomass-rich crust over the sand. This living layer stabilises the...

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3 w. ago Copper futures hit new record in China, extend gains on Comex (FCX:NYSE)

Copper futures hit new record in China, extend gains on Comex (FCX:NYSE)  Seeking Alpha

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3 w. ago China university offers US$11,000 ‘micro’ overseas study to help students pass failed courses

A privately run college in China has come under fire for asking students who failed exams to pay as much as 79,800 yuan (US$11,000) to join a nonexistent “micro study abroad” programme to have their fail record removed. Xian Technology and Business College, financed by Beijing Northern Investment Group, is a little-known institute in Xian, Shaanxi province, northwestern China. In mid-December, some parents complained to the news outlet Benliu News that teachers at the school coerced them into...

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3 w. ago China Vanke’s Brewing Crisis Suggests Limited Property Easing to Come

China Vanke’s Brewing Crisis Suggests Limited Property Easing to Come  The Wall Street Journal

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3 w. ago China showcases US joint effort after pair sentenced over drugs

China has highlighted its success in joint law enforcement with the US, with state media publishing a rare report on a drugs-related money laundering case triggered by a tip-off from American authorities. Two men were sentenced in September in the case spanning both nations, the People’s Daily reported last week. This comes amid renewed US-China momentum against drug crimes, showcasing steady bilateral progress in anti-narcotics enforcement. Officers in Shenyang, in northeast China’s Liaoning...

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4 w. ago China’s resolve comes from strength and confidence: Chinese scholar Jiang Feng at Global Times Annual Conference

China’s resolve comes from strength and confidence: Chinese scholar Jiang Feng at Global Times Annual Conference  Global Times

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