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April 1, 2025
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Volkswagen Revamps China Strategy in Bid to Overtake Upstart EV Makers
Foreign automakers have been caught flat-footed in China by an EV boom that has shaken up the market.
April 24, 2024
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a press conference in Beijing, China, Monday, April 8, 2024.
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U.S. Will Push China to Change Policy That Threatens American Jobs
Some fear manufacturing overcapacity will send a wave of low-priced Chinese exports that will overwhelm U.S. factories.
April 9, 2024
Residents walk along a quiet street with a view of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower in Shanghai, China, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. A two-phase lockdown of Shanghai's 26 million people is testing the limits of China's hard-line 'zero-COVID' strategy, which is shaking markets far beyond the country's borders.
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Shanghai Lockdown Tests 'Zero-COVID' Limits
An unusual quiet cast over the bustling center of finance, manufacturing and trade.
March 29, 2022
In this Oct. 9, 2018, file photo, an embryologist who was part of the team working with scientist He Jiankui adjusts a microplate containing embryos at a lab in Shenzhen in southern China's Guandong province. Chinese state media says He has been sentenced to three years for practicing medicine illegally. He Jiankui was also fined 3 million yuan. Two others were also sentenced on the same charge.
Product Development
China Convicts Researchers
The defendants had not obtained qualification as doctors, pursued fame and profits, deliberately violated regulations on scientific research, and crossed an ethical line in both scientific research and medicine.
December 31, 2019
A worker checks on robot arms at a factory in Nanjing in east China's Jiangsu province, Thursday, June 6, 2019. China's Commerce Ministry will release a list of 'unreliable' foreign companies in the near future, a spokesman said Thursday, without giving a specific date. The new list, announced last week, is widely seen as a response to a U.S. decision to put Huawei Technologies on a blacklist for alleged theft of intellectual property and evasion of Iran sanctions.
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China May Restrict Tech Access
China says its Commerce Ministry would develop its own list of foreign entities that it regards as "unreliable."
June 10, 2019
In this photo provided on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019, by China National Space Administration via Xinhua News Agency, Yutu-2, China's lunar rover, leaves wheel marks after leaving the lander that touched down on the surface of the far side of the moon. A Chinese spacecraft on Thursday, Jan. 3, made the first-ever landing on the far side of the moon, state media said. The lunar explorer Chang'e 4 touched down at 10:26 a.m., China Central Television said in a brief announcement at the top of its noon news broadcast.
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China Begins Surface Exploration on Moon
The surface is reportedly soft and similar walking on snow.
January 4, 2019
In this photo provided Jan. 3, 2019, by China National Space Administration via Xinhua News Agency, the first image of the moon's far side taken by China's Chang'e-4 probe. A Chinese spacecraft on Thursday, Jan. 3, made the first-ever landing on the far side of the moon, state media said. The lunar explorer Chang'e 4 touched down at 10:26 a.m., China Central Television said in a brief announcement at the top of its noon news broadcast.
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China Lands Spacecraft on 'Dark' Side of Moon
The landing highlights China's growing ambitions to rival the US, Russia and Europe in space.
January 3, 2019
In this Nov. 21, 2018, file photo, a man walks past a Dolce&Gabbana store in Beijing, China. Dolce&Gabbana faced a boycott after Chinese netizens expressed outrage over what were seen as culturally insensitive videos promoting a major runway show in Shanghai and subsequent posts of insulting comments in a private Instagram chat.
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Dolce&Gabbana Fiasco Shows Risks of China Market
Don't mess with China and its growing cadre of powerful luxury consumers.
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Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd., also known as Foxconn, Chairman Terry Gou, center, answers a reporter's question next to Sharp President Kozo Takahashi, right, during a press conference.
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Foxconn's founder: "If we cannot drive change in Sharp, our global competitors will eat us alive."
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