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Blinken says Chinese surveillance balloon program spread over 5 continents
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday the Chinese surveillance balloon program is spread over five continents.
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Former Bank of China Adviser Calls to Lift Bitcoin Ban
Huang Yiping, formerly a member of the People's Bank of China's monetary policy committee, raised the idea that the country should review its ban on trading bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies.
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Disney drops 'Simpsons' episode in Hong Kong in which character references 'forced labor camps' in China, reports say
A character in the Simpsons episode says: "Behold the wonders of China: Bitcoin mines, forced labor camps where children make smartphones."
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Hollywood’s China Predicament: New Law Restricts U.S. Cooperation On Projects Modified To Appease Beijing
The furor over a Chinese spy balloon that flew over U.S. airspace has further chilled D.C.-Beijing tensions, but the entertainment industry already has been swept up in the heightened atmosphere of American hawkishness. Hollywood studios and producers are poised to get a new level of scrutiny over their dealings with China — reflecting a bipartisan hardline toward Beijing and escalating concerns over its influence.
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A Chinese iPhone factory worker says he saw a colleague have his pay reduced for spending too much time drinking water, report says
Nicknamed Hunter, he told Rest of World that working at the Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, China felt like he was stripped of his "rights and dignity."
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US halts Blinken China visit after spy balloon row
The US secretary of state's trip to China is postponed after a spy balloon is tracked across the US.
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Apple and Google face mounting pressure to remove TikTok from app stores
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) demanded that Apple and Google “immediately” remove TikTok from their app stores in a letter addressed to the companies’ chief executives, Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai, Thursday. Bennet’s push to restrict downloads of the app is just the latest in a series of mounting congressional actions to ban the embattled Chinese-owned app. Since January, Republicans and Democrats have been calling for either their colleagues or Biden administration officials to quickly impose stricter data collection restrictions or a nationwide ban on the app, citing its possible risks to US national security.
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European agency not planning to send astronauts to China’s space station
A top official with the European Space Agency said it had no plans to send European astronauts to the newly completed Chinese space station, making it clear for the first time that the agency is no longer committed to working with China in human space flight in the near future.
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China's 2022 smartphone sales plunge to lowest level in a decade
China's smartphone sales endured a record fall in 2022, tumbling 13% to their lowest level in a decade as COVID controls and a slowing economy sapped consumer appetite, data from third-party research firms showed.
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Google shut down thousands of pro-Beijing disinformation channels on Taiwan, COVID-19
Google says it shut down more than 50,000 accounts promoting pro-People’s Republic of China (PRC) disinformation in 2022 that focused on Taiwan, COVID-19 and U.S. politics. The takedowns are the latest salvo in an ongoing battle between Google and a campaign it has named “Dragonbridge.”
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Finding your essential self: the ancient philosophy of Zhuangzi explained
Zhuangzi was the gadfly of ancient Chinese philosophy. His paradoxical writings encourage a stance of therapeutic scepticism towards the world.
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A Chinese bank is offering customers a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine if they deposit $500,000 into an account
A Hong Kong-based bank is offering new and existing customers an express reservation for a complimentary BioNTech/Pfizer mRNA vaccine if they deposit at least HK$4,000,000, or about $512,200, into an account. The vaccine is being offered as mainland China lifts its cross-border restrictions with Hong Kong and is among a number of "privileges" China CITIC Bank International, which is held by Chinese state-owned CITIC Group, is rolling out until March 31.
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A colossal 18 MW wind turbine is about to debut in China
A Chinese manufacturer is on the brink of launching what will be the largest offshore wind turbine when it's complete.
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China suspends social media accounts of Covid policy critics
Social media platform Weibo says it acted over personal attacks against Chinese Covid experts.
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Putin expects China’s Xi to visit soon; Xi holds his line on Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he was expecting Chinese President Xi Jinping to make a state visit early next year in what would be a public show of solidarity from Beijing as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine falters. But an official Chinese readout of a video summit between the two leaders highlighted differences in approach to their developing alliance, making no mention of a visit and stressing that Beijing, which has declined to back or condemn the invasion, would maintain its “objective and fair” stance on the issue.
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Covid test for travellers from China could have been avoided, says MP
The requirement for travellers from China to England to provide a negative Covid test before departure could have been avoided if Beijing was “upfront” about its data, the chair of the Commons health committee has said. Rishi Sunak announced a major U-turn on Friday by imposing checks on travellers from China from 5 January, after criticism from a growing number of Conservative MPs over his “dithering”.
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Most assume writing systems get simpler. But 3,600 years of Chinese writing show it’s getting increasingly complex
The extraordinary Chinese writing system has over 4,000 core complex characters – and they’ve been getting more complex over time.
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Apple Releases Limited-Edition AirPods Pro in Celebration of Chinese New Year
In celebration of the upcoming Chinese New Year on January 22, Apple has released limited-edition second-generation AirPods Pro with a Year of the Rabbit engraving through its online store and retail stores in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau.
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Five ways TikTok is seen as threat to US national security
Many in the United States see TikTok, the highly popular video-sharing app owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, as a threat to national security.
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China bans AI-generated media without watermarks
China regulates generative AI tech with rules that aim to spur growth and ban deception.
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