Canada, Carney and Chinese
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President Donald Trump set up the joke, and now Canada has delivered the punchline. Today Ottawa agreed to slash tariffs on 49,000 Chinese-made electric cars a year as part of a wider thaw that also lowers Chinese duties on Canadian canola and other farm goods. Prime Minister Mark Carney framed the reset as adapting to “new global realities.”
Harvard still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring academic output. Other American universities are falling farther behind their global peers.
With each passing year the presence of Chinese business abroad grows stronger, in rich and poor countries alike, and across a widening range of industries. Last year BYD, a Chinese maker of electric vehicles ( EV s),
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Aimed at the growing number of young Chinese who live alone, a new app asks: ‘Are you dead?'
In China, the names of things are often either ornately poetic or jarringly direct. A new, wildly popular app among young Chinese people is definitively the latter. It's called, simply, “Are You Dead?
Graphika identified over three dozen domains spoofing agencies like 'The Wall Street Journal' to push pro-Beijing narratives.
China’s AI hardware market, spanning both consumer products and industrial robotics, is forecast to grow by 18% annually through 2030, from a sizable $153 billion in 2025, according to market research firm Beijing Runto Technology. This includes devices like home appliances and wearable gadgets but excludes smartphones and cars.
Despite tariffs, software bans, and political friction, more Americans say they’d consider a Chinese car if given the chance. U.S. consumer familiarity with Chinese car brands rose from 52% to 65% since 2024. Security concerns about Chinese cars are ...
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Chinese military drills around Taiwan resume for a second day, aimed at warning ‘external forces’
The Chinese military says it dispatched air, navy and missile units for a second day to conduct joint live-fire drills around Taiwan to warn against what it calls separatist and “external interference” forces.
A Chinese-linked cyberespionage group targeted U.S. government and policy-related officials with Venezuela-themed phishing emails in the days after the U.S. operation to topple Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro,