#china

#china

Nvidia started producing chips tailored for the Chinese market after former US President Joe Biden banned the company from exporting its most powerful products to China, in an effort to rein in Beijing's progress on AI. Beijing's regulators have recently summoned domestic chipmakers such as Huawei and Cambricon, as well as Alibaba and search engine giant Baidu, which also make their own semiconductors, to report how their products compare against Nvidia's China chips, according to one of the people with knowledge of the matter.

China's annual international security gathering in Beijing is the first since the start of US President Donald Trump's second term. The event is part of Beijing's bid to bolster its recent power projection efforts in "upholding international order." The Xiangshan Forum, which runs from Wednesday to Friday, is widely regarded as China's answer to the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia's premier annual security gathering in Singapore, typically attended by minister-level officials from Western countries, including the United States and its allies.

According to data from World Population Review, people in China consume an average of 14.3 kilograms of garlic each year, which is 31 and a half pounds. That is more than double second-place South Korea at 6.2 kilograms, and more than five times third-place Bangladesh. While garlic bulbs vary in size, there are usually around 8 per pound, which means the average Chinese person eats around 250 bulbs of garlic a year.

OPINION - You can never count Russia out. More than three years after Vladimir Putin's failed blitzkrieg on Kyiv, Moscow is proving it still has plenty of punch on the world stage as Putin continues to pursue his brutal war on the conventional battlefields of Ukraine and expand his war of sabotage, propaganda, and political action against the United States and its allies around the world.

The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody and paralyzed in a hospital bed after a police beating with bricks.By then, surveillance was nothing new for the Yang family in rural China, snared in an intricate network based on U.S. technology that spies on them and predicts what they'll do.

Our biggest adversary is waiting for the West to collapse. The game goes to he who outlasts the adversary, and what the Chinese want to do is to just keep things really, really stable and just wait for the Western countries to collapse. Just how powerful has China really become? What does China's leadership really want? If America is in a new Cold War, who's going to win?

The parade through Tiananmen Square commemorating the 80th anniversary of Japan's defeat in World War II featured China's DF-61, which is believed to be its newest land-based intercontinental ballistic missile, and the DF-31BJ, an upgraded version of older ICBM models. For now, little is known about either system, including their operational status. Even if these systems are developmental, China has a sizable arsenal of land-based ICBMs.

Thousands of soldiers marching in tight formations, state-of-the-art weapon systems including intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), rocket launchers, and battle tanks and above all, Chinese President Xi Jinping projecting power standing in a grandstand above the iconic portrait of the founder of the People's Republic, Mao Zedong, on Tiananmen Square in Beijing. These images are circulating around the world on Wednesday.

When President Trump returned to the White House his intention was clear: Make America Great Again. But the United States's economic partners, and some of its rivals, are also benefitting from having the unorthodox showman back in the Oval Office. Investors are watching the U.S. stock market with both enthusiasm and trepidation: The S&P 500 is up 15% over the past year, Treasuries have remained relatively steady, and the Fed's monetary policy is expected to begin a downwards trajectory.

In the preceding decades of Mao Zedong's long reign, his cyclical policies of class struggle ended up leaving a mess in their wake. Mao achieved some modicum of reduced inequality, albeit in bloody fashion, but those years culminating in the disastrous Cultural Revolution did little to foster economic growth. The government leadership of the '80s, led by Deng Xiaoping, inherited an economy with dismal infrastructure, listless workers, and stagnation.

China's energy sector has cut its emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane by 21% between 2014 and 2021, according to an inventory published this month.

China and India are re-evaluating their historical relationship, possibly seeing each other as allies rather than adversaries due to changes in US trade policies.

China, having long been the world's largest shipbuilding force, is reinforcing its dominance with a merger that will create a massive industrial entity.

NASA is facing significant leadership challenges as it navigates devastating cuts to its science budget while aiming to return astronauts to the Moon through its Artemis program.

On 19 July, Chinese premier Li Qiang announced the launch of a project to build the world's largest hydropower station in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, known as the Brahmaputra in India and Bangladesh.

In the past few decades, China has rapidly transitioned from one of the poorest nations on Earth to the global kingpin in robotics production.

The China Manned Space Agency successfully tested a high-fidelity mockup of its 26-ton 'Lanyue' lunar lander, simulating lunar gravity and marking a significant step for China’s manned lunar exploration.

Swatch has faced backlash and accusations of racism for an advert that featured a model pulling the corners of his eyes, causing significant outrage on social media.

Within 18 hours, Xiaomi received about 240,000 orders for its YU7 crossover, showcasing a demand that significantly outpaces production capabilities.