US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) shakes hands with China’s Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on June 19, 2023. (Photo by Leah MILLIS / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LEAH MILLIS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Leah Millis | Afp | Getty … Read more
TikTok is feeling the heat after President Joe Biden on Wednesday morning signed a package of foreign aid bills which included a provision to force ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, to sell its stake in the platform or risk getting banned in the U.S. The platform, which has long been scrutinized by U.S. … Read more
BEIJING: By most measures, the last thing China needs is more electric cars crowding a market with more losers than winners, driving down prices at the expense of profit and taking the fight for market share beyond China. And that’s just what it is getting. Automakers are expected to launch 110 EVs and plug-in hybrids … Read more
Customers work a cafe and a co-working space in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Thursday, July 20, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Higher costs had the biggest impact on Asian businesses in 2023, even as they continued to grapple with a global economic slowdown and rising borrowing costs, according to a survey by UOB. More … Read more
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he is considering personally reactivating his TikTok account as the U.S. government moves in the opposite direction with the looming possibility of a ban on the popular social media platform over security concerns. “We’re making that consideration on how to get back on in a safe way,” said Singh at … Read more
One type of risk you’ve been very interested in for a long time is “biorisk.” What’s the worst thing that could possibly happen? Take us through that. I started out in public health before I worked in national security, working on infectious disease control—malaria and tuberculosis. In 2002, the first virus was synthesized from scratch … Read more
TOPSHOT – The Apple iPhone 15 series is displayed for sale at The Grove Apple retail store on release day in Los Angeles, California, on September 22, 2023. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images) Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty Images Apple’s iPhone sales dropped … Read more
Surveillance cameras are mounted above the German and Chinese flags in front of Tongji University. Scholz is on a three-day trip to China. Michael Kappeler/dpa | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Germany has arrested a national on charges of spying for the Chinese secret service and leaking information from the European Parliament, Germany’s federal prosecutor’s … Read more
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on Australia, United Kingdom, United States (AUKUS) Partnership as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia participate at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego, California, United States. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images The trilateral defense and security … Read more
China’s world-beating electric vehicle industry, at the heart of growing trade tensions with the US and Europe, is set to receive a big boost from the government’s latest effort to accelerate growth. That’s one takeaway from what Beijing has revealed about its plan for incentives that will encourage Chinese businesses and households to adopt cleaner … Read more
