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A toddler cried non-stop during a flight. Two strangers locked her in the bathroom
Two airline passengers who locked a stranger’s crying grandchild in a plane restroom have caused outrage in China and sparked a heated online debate on how to handle upset children in public spaces.
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The Hidden, Magnificent History of Chop Suey
Discrimination and mistranslation have long obscured the dish's true origins.
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As The US Freaks Out About TikTok, It’s Revealed That The CIA Was Using Chinese Social Media To Try To Undermine The Gov’t There
You know that line, “every accusation is a confession?” For no reason at all, that’s coming to mind all of a sudden. No reason. If American freedom can’t resist an app of short videos, mostly used by kids, what kind of freedom is it really?
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China and cybercriminals are targeting American AI companies, FBI Director Wray says
U.S. companies are currently leading the AI race, and cybercriminals and nation-states are targeting those firms for their IP and other innovations.
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China's capitalist reforms are said to have moved 800 million out of extreme poverty – new data suggests the opposite
The World Bank used a tool known as purchasing power parity to make its calculations. An improved methodology suggests China’s pro-market reforms increased rather than shrank extreme poverty.
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Lagrange Points Could Become Battlegrounds in a New Space Race
A new 'space race' is heating up between the US and China in space exploration, and Lagrange points are emerging as a battleground.
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China’s Spaceplane Has Released Multiple Mystery Objects In Orbit
The nature of the objects is unclear, but at least some of them appear to be transmitting signals of different kinds.
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Flying autonomous taxis a step closer to reality in China
Chinese startup EHang has received the world’s first airworthiness certificate for an autonomous flying taxi.
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Chinese people are living two years longer thanks to 'war on pollution,' report says
Ten years ago, China’s capital was often covered in dense yellow and gray smog, so thick it shrouded nearly everything from view.
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New 'AI-brained' Chinese satellite has just been launched
Called "WonderJourney," a new AI-controlled satellite has made orbit to autonomously process Earth-side data in a fraction of the time as regular sats.
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China is too big for a Soviet Union-style collapse, but it’s on shaky ground
With its growth slowing, China’s future is uncertain. We should be grateful if the change is not sudden
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China warns Australian businesses will 'become victims' if TikTok and WeChat bans expand
The Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece, The Global Times, has warned Australian businesses will suffer if the government decides to ban China-based social media sites TikTok and WeChat.
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Remains found in China may belong to third human lineage
A team of paleontologists has found evidence of a previously unknown human lineage. In their study, reported in Journal of Human Evolution, the group analyzed the fossilized jawbone, partial skull and some leg bones of a hominin dated to 300,000 years ago.
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Chinese zoo denies its sun bears are humans dressed in costumes
Hangzhou zoo insists animals are real after video of one standing on hind legs triggers online speculation
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Foreign visitors to China can finally go cashless like locals | TechCrunch
China's two dominant mobile payment solutions, WeChat Pay and Alipay, announced foreign users can now pay at Chinese retailers by linking foreign credit cards.
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Scientists Discover Giant Sinkhole in China With Primeval ‘Lost World’ Inside
At 630 feet deep, the sinkhole would hide the Washington Monument and then some. The bottom of the pit holds an ancient forest spanning nearly three football fields in length, with trees towering over 100 feet high. And according to the Chinese government, it is one of 30 enormous sinkholes in the county.
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Apple opens store on China's WeChat platform
Tencent's WeChat said on Tuesday that iPhone maker Apple had opened a store on its social media platform, marking an expansion of the U.S. firm's retail channels in the world's second largest economy.
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In the aftermath of 'The China Initiative' a survey finds a third of Chinese scientists feel unwelcome in U.S.
A small team of biostatisticians and engineers from Princeton, Harvard, and MIT, has found via survey, that Chinese scientists working in the U.S. no longer feel welcome in the country. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes how they analyzed surveys taken by 1,304 Chinese academics working in the U.S. and what they discovered.
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Chinese researchers turn to $1 adhesive to counter billion-dollar laser weapon from the US
By adding few market-bought compounds, the researchers have further strengthened the heat coating on ballistic missiles , making them indestructible by lasers.
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China scientist concedes Wuhan lab leak theory for first time
The comments are the first admission by a senior official that Beijing’s took the so-called Wuhan lab leak theory seriously after years of heated denials.
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