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AliExpress fined record €550m by EU for failing to stop sale of illegal and fake goods
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The Guardian
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Chinese retail platform handed penalty over listings for items such as counterfeit products and unsafe toys
The Chinese online retail platform AliExpress has been fined a record €550m (£470m) by the EU over its failure to stop illegal goods including harmful clothing, cosmetics and kitchen gadgets being sold through its site.
The European Commission fine is the biggest imposed by the bloc under Digital Services Act (DSA) legislation to protect consumers from illegal goods and...
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Chinese AI models overtake US rivals as token share among American firms hits record 58%
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Benzinga on MSN
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Chinese artificial intelligence models now account for the majority of tokens processed by U.S. firms on OpenRouter, overtaking American rivals for the first time as developers increasingly adopt ...
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The Guardian view on perceptions of superpowers: the world isn’t Chinamaxxing, it’s America-avoidant | Editorial
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The Guardian
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Startling new research shows that in many countries – including old US allies – the public prefers Beijing to Washington
Earlier this year, a spate of western TikTok and Instagram creators – drinking hot water and wearing slippers around their homes. The primarily reflected the constant need of influencers for novel content. But social media trends also reflect a growing fascination with China, as the economic historian Adam Tooze .
While it broods over China’s economic,...
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Trump is invoking foreign election interference to justify his own | Jamil Smith
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The Guardian
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The president no longer treats the people who defeated him as voters. He treats them as suspects
There is a version of this country in which Donald Trump tells Americans the truth he has been handed: that their elections are secure. Once, he apparently wanted to.
after that a February 2020 election-security briefing pleased Trump so much he wanted to announce the news himself. The press conference never happened. The election did, and Trump lost it.
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Chinese-American community celebrates America's 250th with cultural fusion
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Bing
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The Chinese community in West Des Moines celebrated America's 250th with a unique event that blended American and Chinese traditions.
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Russia Bill Broadens Sanctions but Could Fuel Fears Over the Dollar
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New York Times
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The Trump administration has recently sought to scale back sanctions as adversaries develop workarounds that some believe could erode the U.S. dollar’s supremacy.
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Trump, not Iran, is the world’s greatest danger. He’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction | Simon Tisdall
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The Guardian
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As the bombing starts again, it’s clear the president has dragged the US into a limitless fiasco – and the world into an economic quagmire
Feckless and clueless, Donald Trump is lost in Iran, unable to find a way out of the disastrous war he started. Once again, the US military is and, increasingly, its civilian infrastructure. As before, this unlawful bludgeoning strengthens the resistance of a hardline regime that cares little for its people’s suffering. How often have Trump and...
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Experts cast doubt on Trump and DHS chief’s claim 250,000 noncitizens are registered to vote in four US states – as it happened
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The Guardian
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This blog is now closed.
Trump also took to Truth Social today to claim that there were “great reviews” of his address to the nation on Thursday – where he repeated baseless claims undermining the electoral integrity of the 2020 election, and the safety of the election process at large in the US.
During his speech, Trump also tried to unveil new information – with scant evidence – that China’s interfered in the race that he lost to Joe Biden. This despite...
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Fact-checking Donald Trump’s address on Chinese election interference – video
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The Guardian
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Donald Trump delivered a primetime address to the country on Thursday, claiming that declassified intelligence showed Chinese interference in US elections. The US president revived long-running attacks on election security, despite a US intelligence assessment that found no evidence Beijing altered the 2020 vote, which he lost. The Guardian's voting rights reporter Sam Levine factchecks some of Trump's claims
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Lam Wing-Kee, Hong Kong Bookseller Who Defied Authorities, Dies at 70
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New York Times
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One of five booksellers kidnapped by Chinese officials in 2015, Mr. Lam spoke out after his release and became an international cause célèbre.
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