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21.12.25 - 07:24
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China has set a bear trap for Keir Starmer – and our naive PM is walking straight into it | Simon Tisdall (The Guardian)
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The conviction of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong is another hostile act. How can Britain ignore Beijing's provocations and human rights abuses?The UK pushed hard to secure the release of Jimmy Lai, the newspaper publisher and British citizen who was a leading light in Hong Kong's brutally suppressed pro-democracy movement. So, too, did press freedom and human rights campaigners. But the Beijing-appointed high court judges in the former colony convicted him anyway, finding Lai guilty last week on fake charges of trying to “destabilise” the Chinese Communist party (CCP). For Xi Jinping, China's dictator-emperor, there is no greater crime.Protesting to China's ambassador, the UK's foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, condemned the trial as “politically motivated”. She's right, of course – but her angry words will make no difference. Beijing's contempt for Britain's views is as painfully obvious as the UK's weakness and indecision in the face of Chinese hubris. The breaking of its solemn promise to re...
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21.12.25 - 04:06
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From Labubu to blockbuster films, was 2025 the year China′s soft power went mainstream? (SCMP)
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Catch up on some of SCMP's biggest stories about China's soft power this year. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing.
1. Labubu, soft power of a stealthy 'ugly-cute' sort, takes on America
The Chinese-made dolls, a playful global megahit, give Beijing an opportunity to make inroads into deep US distrust.
2. 'Huge shift': why learning Mandarin is losing its appeal in the West
Available figures suggest enthusiasm for learning Mandarin abroad is waning after......
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21.12.25 - 03:06
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Dior, Louis Vuitton ditch China′s malls for shopping streets to replicate Ginza′s charm (SCMP)
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Stand-alone flagship stores with distinctive architectural facades, long prevalent in global metropolises like Tokyo, Seoul and New York, are gradually gaining traction in China, as the country's retail landscape undergoes a broader shift from enclosed malls towards open-air and street-facing formats.
More luxury brands are setting up such flagships in places like Beijing's Taikoo Li Sanlitun North, a trendy open-air commercial block developed and operated by Hong Kong's Swire......
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21.12.25 - 00:36
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China packs a patent punch in the race to build humanoid robots (SCMP)
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China has pulled far ahead in the race to build humanoid robots, issuing five times as many related patents as the United States over the past five years, Morgan Stanley said in its latest Robot Almanac.
In “Robot Almanac, Volume 3: Humanoids & Industrial Robots”, released on Tuesday as part of a six-volume series, Morgan Stanley said China recorded 7,705 humanoid patents over the past five years, compared with 1,561 in the US. Japan ranked next with 1,102, followed by the World Intellectual......
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20.12.25 - 16:12
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The 25-Year Shift That Made China a Global Superpower (Bloomberg)
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China's entry into the WTO in 2001 accelerated its rise as a global manufacturing and technology powerhouse, fueled export growth, and helped stabilize global demand during the financial crisis. As China expanded Belt and Road investments, advanced in EVs and AI, and entered a sharper economic rivalry with the United States, its property slowdown and domestic inequality exposed new vulnerabilities. Enda Curran, Elizabeth Economy, and Afsaneh Beschloss explain China's past 25 years and what its next phase means for the global economy. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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20.12.25 - 08:54
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Chinese AI ′tiger′ Zhipu edges towards Hong Kong listing expected to raise US$300 million (SCMP)
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Chinese artificial intelligence firm Zhipu AI has moved a step closer to a Hong Kong initial public offering to raise US$300 million after passing a listing hearing and filing its documents with Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing on Friday.
The Beijing-based start-up, officially named Knowledge Atlas Technology Joint Stock Company Limited and marketed overseas as Z.ai, is widely seen as one of China's “new AI tigers”.
The prospectus did not disclose a fundraising target or timetable, but brokers......
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20.12.25 - 04:03
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China Says Region Closer To War Due To US Record Taiwan Arms Package (ZeroHedge)
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China Says Region Closer To War Due To US Record Taiwan Arms Package
China on Friday heaped more condemnation on Washington's approving a record-setting $11.1 billion weapons package for Taiwan this week, warning that the deal risks turning the island into a "powder keg" and plunging the region into "military confrontation and war."
A significant amount of medium to long-range missile systems are part of the planned transfer, including 82 HIMARS launchers with Army ATACMS missiles, allowing Taipei forces to hit targets across the Taiwan Strait. This aspect has further infuriated China.
Beijing in the fresh comments accused Taiwan's leadership of "seeking independence through force" and charged that the United States is using the island to "contain China".
"The 'Taiwan independence' forces on the island seek independence through force and resist reunification through force, squandering the hard-earned money of the people to purchase weapons a...
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