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Films by mainland Chinese directors – one about the Covid-19 pandemic, the other a gay romance – won major prizes at the Golden Horse awards in Taiwan. Unencumbered by the strict censorship of mainland China, Taiwan’s Golden Horse awards typically attract a diverse selection of films. More than 200 films made in mainland China were […]
Mexican officials fear that rising tensions with the United States and Canada, in which they allege are serving as a conduit for Chinese parts and products into North America, could jeopardize their nation’s inclusion in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) as Mexico scrambles to replace the Chinese auto parts and products. What Is USMCA? The USMCA, […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has been taking a bashing lately for allegedly serving as a conduit for Chinese parts and products into North America, and officials here are afraid a re-elected Donald Trump or politically struggling Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could try to leave their country out of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement. […]
9 Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum denies that Mexico is a gateway for Chinese products, and she assures that she will demonstrate this to Canada and the US. The President, Claudia Sheinbaum, denied that Mexico is a gateway for Chinese products, after the warning of the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, about the doubts about […]
China’s Vice-Premier He Lifeng met Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser in Beijing on Thursday, underscoring efforts to open up the nation’s financial markets and attract foreign capital amid geopolitical tensions and a slowing economy. He, the country’s top finance official, told Fraser that the country is “deepening the reform of its financial system and continuing to […]
LONDON, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) — The economic partnership between China and the United Kingdom (UK) has always been “a ballast and propeller” for China-UK relations, Chinese Ambassador to the UK Zheng Zeguang said here on Thursday. “Such cooperation has played an important role in our respective economic developments and brought tangible benefits to people in […]
Two undersea internet cables were severed in the span of 24 hours earlier this week – and European governments suspect a Chinese vessel is responsible. On Sunday, a submarine cable linking Lithuania and Sweden stopped operating due to a reported cut in the line. The next day, a separate cable linking Finland and Germany was […]
A Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) model was released on Wednesday which claims to take on OpenAI’s o1 AI model in terms of advanced reasoning. Dubbed DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview, the large language model (LLM) is said to have outperformed the o1 model on several benchmarks. Notably, the AI model is available to test on the web for free, […]
China and the US have deep misunderstandings about nuclear deterrence, according to international relations experts, setting the two powers up for potentially disastrous consequences. According to Jiang Tianjiao, an associate researcher at Fudan University in Shanghai, the two countries even have different definitions of deterrence – one of the most important concepts in military strategy. […]
Chinese cargo ship and Russian captain create Baltic communications mystery Undersea cables accidents in the Baltic Sea, where the Nord Stream gas pipelines were blown up two years ago can hardly be called advantageous for any of the Baltic countries. Photo: unsplash.com by Thierry Meier, PDM An underwater cable was ruptured between Lithuania and Sweden […]