Why More Chinese Are Risking Danger in Southern Border Crossings to U.S

nytimes.com Gao Zhibin tries to comfort his daughter, who was sick, vomiting and in pain while crossing the Darién Gap between Colombia and Panama to reach the United States in March.…

China has more space to cut reserve ratio instead of interest rates, says ex-official

finance.yahoo.com FILE PHOTO: Paramilitary police officers stand guard in front of the headquarters of PBOC in Beijing BEIJING (Reuters) - China is likely to implement proactive fiscal policy…

Why China is restricting exports of graphite

economist.com T government was caught off-guard in October last year when America hit it with tough export controls on high-powered semiconductors. Communist leaders in Beijing took…

Meet Ernie, China’s answer to ChatGPT

economist.com E has some controversial views on science. China’s leading artificial-intelligence ( ) chatbot, which was released to the public on August 31st, reckons that covid-19…

A corner of Italy that is forever China

economist.com I , like other Western countries, be hard at work “de-risking” its links to China; Giorgia Meloni’s government is considering leaving the Belt and Road Initiative that…

Why America struggles to make friends abroad

economist.com I the head of state of Saffronia, a midsized country which looks to America for its security. You are on your way to Washington for your first official visit, in the hope of…

Xi Jinping steps up his attempt to rescue China’s economy

economist.com W reported faster-than-expected economic growth for the third quarter of this year, some analysts felt a twinge of concern. They worried that China’s rulers might now rest…

Why investors cannot escape China exposure

economist.com F commerce secretary, midway through a trip to Beijing, to describe China as “uninvestible” might once have prompted an unpleasant diplomatic spat. Yet when Gina Raimondo…

US wants 'healthy' relations with China

dw.com The relationship between the world’s largest economies is improving but the US warned China against supporting Russia. The United States and China agreed on Friday to…

Philippines monitoring 'illegal' presence of more than 135 Chinese boats in South China Sea

reuters.com A Philippine supply boat sails near a Chinese Coast Guard ship during a resupply mission for Filipino troops stationed at a grounded warship in the South China Sea, October…

Belarus President Lukashenko to visit China from Sunday - BelTA

reuters.com Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko delivers a national statement at the World Climate Action Summit during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in…

Altman at Vingroup event, India rates, Evergrande wind-up hearing

asia.nikkei.com Welcome to Your Week in Asia. Debt-laden property developer China Evergrande Group is set to appear in a Hong Kong court on Monday to face liquidation if the company cannot…

Chinese developer Evergrande risking liquidation if creditors veto its plan for handling huge debts

abcnews.go.com FILE - A woman walks by a map showing Evergrande development projects in China, as she heads to an Evergrande city plaza in Beijing on Sept. 18, 2023. A Hong Kong court will…

US commerce chief warns against China ‘threat’

scmp.com The world’s top two economies are locked in a fierce commercial and geopolitical rivalry, in which her department plays a leading role. Speaking at an annual national…

Sustainability firms eyeing Hong Kong plastic waste reduction struggle to scale up

scmp.com “People in Hong Kong treat plastic [trash] as waste, but to us it is not waste,” Ma said in an interview. “It is treasure.” Weplastic was set up earlier this year with a…

Toyota says it halts some Tianjin operations after report of weak sales

reuters.com [1/2] A sign is seen outside a Tianjin Faw Toyota Motor Co. Ltd showroom, a joint venture between China's Tianjin FAW Xiali Automobile Co Ltd and Japan's automaker Toyota…

Honda's China joint venture dismisses 900 contract workers

reuters.com A staff member cleans Honda brand's accord sedan model at the booth of Guangzhou Automobile Group during the Auto China 2016 auto show in Beijing, China, April 26, 2016.…

17 Twitter Competitors: What Share Of Social Media Does It Have?

247wallst.com Social media has become part of our daily lives. It is our go-to medium to find out what’s trending, scroll pictures, watch videos, and search and download content. Nearly…

Climate Change Has Made These Cities The Worst To Live

247wallst.com The trend of each decade being warmer than the previous one is something that has been occurring since the 1980s and shows no sign of changing. The hottest years on record…

China Is Hiring Again. Public Service Jobs Offer Better Benefits

barrons.com “The benefits are better, and the government will help if there is trouble,” said Wang Jun, a 34-year-old manager at a Beijing-based bank branch, referring to his preference…

Behind China’s Plans to Build AI for the World

politico.com More than 140 cities around the world — from Kuala Lumpur to Nairobi to Quito — are being transformed into Chinese-enhanced “safe cities” and “smart cities,” leveraging AI…

Klete Keller, Olympic gold medalist swimmer, gets 6 months in home detention for Jan. 6 Capitol riot

politico.com Olympic gold medalist swimmer Klete Keller, who threw his USA team jacket in a trash can after he stormed the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced on Friday to six months of home…

Pentagon forges new high-tech agreement with Australia, United Kingdom, aimed at countering China

theglobeandmail.com From underwater drones to electronic warfare, the U.S. is expanding its high-tech military co-operation with Australia and the United Kingdom as part of a broader effort to…

China's real estate slump shatters myth of ever-rising prices

asia.nikkei.com BEIJING/GUANGZHOU/DALIAN -- China's real estate crisis enters a critical phase on Monday, when a Hong Kong court is expected to hand down a decision on the liquidation of…

Miami Art Week 2023: The Best Events, Parties, Exhibitions, Artists and Dinners During Art Basel (Updating)

hollywoodreporter.com Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union at Wayne & Cynthia Boich's Art Basel Party on Dec. 2, 2022 during Art Basel Miami Beach; Art Basel Miami Beach i last year at the convention…

Philippines builds new coast guard station on island in South China Sea

reuters.com An aerial view shows the Philippine-occupied Thitu Island, locally known as Pag-asa, in the contested Spratly Islands, South China Sea, March 9, 2023. REUTERS/Eloisa…

Five senators ask Biden to impose China travel ban after respiratory illness cases

reuters.com U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at CS Wind, the largest wind tower manufacturer in the world, in Pueblo, Colorado, U.S., November 29, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn…

A federal TikTok ban appears doomed by Montana ruling

politico.com The federal judge who blocked Montana’s blanket ban on TikTok may have just created an opening for lawmakers in Washington trying to think bigger than one social media app.…

China’s Property Lifeline Exposes Banks to Big Losses, Job Cuts

finance.yahoo.com China’s escalating push to have its banking behemoths backstop struggling property firms is adding to a maelstrom of woes for the $57 trillion sector. • None Billions Wiped…

Smart devices to be protected from cyber attacks after EU strikes deal

euronews.com Household products connected to the internet will soon have to be better protected from cyber threats after European Union countries and lawmakers agreed on new legislation…

Brussels braces for a politically explosive December

euronews.com The European Union's to-do list for the month of December is nothing short of sensational. Before embarking on their coveted winter break, European leaders and policymakers…

Biden’s Next Export Controls Targets Are Uncertain

forbes.com Since the Biden administration published its finalized semiconductor export controls in October, there has been little movement from the White House to impose restrictions…

Inside the Biden administration’s secret deal to stop a war in Congo

politico.com A top U.S. intelligence official presented a detailed proposal to the leaders of Congo and Rwanda last week for a pact to reduce fighting in eastern Congo — and promised to…

China's graphite export curbs take effect with uncertainty for EVs

asia.nikkei.com BEIJING -- China on Friday began requiring government approval for exports of graphite, a key material for batteries used in electric vehicles, in an apparent counter to…

Semiconductor giant Broadcom will lay off 2,000 American workers after sealing $69B deal to take over VMware -

dailymail.co.uk Broadcom has announced nearly 2,000 job cuts at VMware just one week after it took over the cloud computing giant in a $69 billion deal. The layoffs were confirmed following…

Myanmar's military losing ground against alliance of militias, buoying resistance hopes

pbs.org About two weeks into a major offensive against Myanmar’s military-run government by an alliance of three well-armed militias of ethnic minorities, an army captain, fighting…

Xi vows to protect China's maritime interests in coast guard visit

asia.nikkei.com BEIJING -- President Xi Jinping made a rare visit this week to a China Coast Guard headquarters in Shanghai that has jurisdiction over the East China Sea, vowing to boost…

What hasn’t gone wrong in the Middle East (so far)

aol.com The Israel-Hamas war is nowhere near settled, with fighting picking up again after a weeklong cease-fire to facilitate the exchange of hostages. The shooting could continue…

Montana’s Ban on TikTok Blocked By Judge Who Says It’s Unconstitutional

billboard.com Montana’s first-in-the-nation law banning the video-sharing app TikTok in the state was blocked Thursday, one month before it was set to take effect, by a federal judge who…

Biden’s latest China crackdown puts his EV ambitions at risk

politico.com It comes months after an earlier Treasury rule on domestic manufacturing locked out many vehicles from European, Japanese and South Korean automakers from receiving the tax…

As Chinese Stocks Tumble To 4 Year Low, Beijing Steps In, Buys ETFs

zerohedge.com As Chinese Stocks Tumble To 4 Year Low, Beijing Steps In, Buys ETFs While US stocks are trading just shy of 2023 highs and less than 5% from all time highs thanks to the…

Montana’s ban on TikTok is now on hold

techcrunch.com A ban on TikTok’s app in the state of Montana, enacted earlier this year, is now on hold. On Thursday, a U.S. federal judge in the state temporarily blocked the ban from…

Quiz of The Week: 25

theweek.com As global conflicts continue to dominate the headlines, the world marked the passing of the man who arguably masterminded US foreign policy during the Cold War. Henry…

"Endless Mountains

benzinga.com HANGZHOU, China, Dec. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The 4th edition of "Endless Mountains – An Exhibition of Art and the Tang Poetry Road: Mountain Trail of Infinite Longing" took…

China and Russia plan to take their partnership to the moon

newsweek.com Chinese media has called China's future lunar base with Russia a "perfect match" after Moscow approved the plan this week to take their "no-limits" partnership to the moon.…

U.S. to Limit China’s Ability to Benefit From Electric Vehicle Industry

nytimes.com The Ford F-150 Lightning plant in Dearborn, Mich. New government rules will try to shift more production of electric vehicle batteries and the materials that power them to…

Li Auto, Xpeng post record monthly sales in November driven by China’s love for EVs

scmp.com A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Get more with my NEWS Li Auto and Xpeng continue rewriting monthly sales records, charged by mainland China’s love for…

WiMi Announced DMD-SSD High-Speed Digital Hologram Playback

benzinga.com BEIJING, Dec. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. WIMI ("WiMi" or the "Company"), a leading global Hologram Augmented Reality ("AR") Technology provider, today…

Three-quarters of mosques in China have been altered or destroyed

theweek.com Chinese authorities have altered, closed or partially demolished thousands of mosques across China in a suppression of Islamic culture that has spread to almost every region…

Hong Kong journalist 'missing' during trip to China

asia.nikkei.com HONG KONG -- A reporter working for Hong Kong's South China Morning Post has become unreachable after her business trip to Beijing last month, following a similar incident…

China Lithium Prices to Tank in 2024 Amid Global Supply Surge

asiafinancial.com Lithium prices in China — the world’s largest producer of the key electric vehicle battery metal — are set to tank in 2024 with global miners poised to bump up supplies.…

Links 12/1/2023

nakedcapitalism.com “We Have More Allies than It Seems” Arktos Journal (Chuck L). Yes, you can see many in senior positions in business and government. NASA to Launch Stadium-Sized Craft Over…

Two Executives From China’s Zhongzhi Missing After Collapse

asiafinancial.com Two executives from Zhongzhi Enterprise Group – one of China’s biggest and most troubled shadow banks – are missing, and may have been taken into custody. The news comes…

Valery Gergiev, a Putin Ally, Chosen to Lead Bolshoi Theater

nytimes.com The Russian maestro, who heads the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, will also control the Bolshoi in Moscow, replacing Vladimir Urin, who spoke out against the Ukraine…

Nvidia Remains a Must-Own Growth Stock. Here’s Why

investorplace.com NVDA is arguably the most consequential stock of 2023 With global demand for its microchips and semiconductors accelerating, and the development of AI in its infancy, Nvidia…

Montana's first-in-nation TikTok ban blocked by judge who calls it unconstitutional and fixated on Chinese influence

fortune.com Montana’s first-in-the-nation law banning the video-sharing app TikTok in the state was blocked Thursday, one month before it was set to take effect, by a federal judge who…