China orders banks to boost lending, credit card use to get consumers to spend more
China has ordered banks and other financial institutions to encourage more consumer financing and use of credit cards as part ...
China's Xi Used Human Wall to Avoid Zuckerberg, Ex-Facebook Exec Says
In memoir, Sarah Wynn-Williams criticized the company's readiness to develop an "anti-freedom of expression version of ...
House GOP promotes use of ‘Taiwan’ over ‘Chinese Taipei’ in slight to Beijing
A group of House Republicans is introducing legislation to assert Taiwan as the official name of the independently-governed ...
China, Russia back Iran as Trump presses Tehran for nuclear talks
Senior Chinese and Russian diplomats said dialogue should only resume based on "mutual respect" and all sanctions ought to be ...
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Nuclear battery that could last for 100 years created in China using radioactive carbon
Chinese researchers have built the country's first nuclear battery using carbon-14, a rare isotope of carbon, which can run ...
China boosting development of AI for use in trade war with US
"China and the U.S. have pulled way out front in the AI race. China used to be one to two years behind the U.S. Now, it is ...
China Plans to Cut Energy Use Per Unit of GDP by 3% in 2025
China plans to reduce the amount of energy it uses to grow its gross domestic product by around 3% in 2025. That target is ...
China Condemns Panama Canal Deal, Asserting a Right to Influence the Region
The Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison’s planned sale of ports in Panama to a group led by BlackRock, the American finance ...
Don't use China as a hedge against US, Beijing's envoy warns Japan
China's top envoy to Japan has warned Tokyo against using better ties with Beijing as a hedge against uncertainty in its ties with Washington. On the sidelines of the annual "two sessions" in the ...
China’s shipbuilding dominance poses economic and national security risks for the US, a report says
A report details how China in two decades has grown to be the dominant global player in shipbuilding, dwarfing the U.S., ...