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Footage of three-a-side game shows humanoids struggling to kick the ball or stay upright
They think it’s all over … for human footballers at least.
The pitch wasn’t the only artificial element on display at a football match in China on Saturday. Four teams of humanoid robots took on each other in Beijing, in games of three-a-side powered by artificial intelligence.

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Two Chinese Nationals are facing charges in connection with spying on the United States Navy and members of the Navy on behalf of the Ministry of State Security (MSS) for the People's Republic of ...

Two Chinese nationals have been arrested and charged as foreign government agents after spying on U.S. Navy bases and service members.

Lai Ching-te is ramping up his warnings about China’s threat to Taiwan. Critics say he is stoking divisions, and risking blowback from Beijing.

Growing popularity of mysticism can also be connected to increasing sense of cultural confidence as Chinese brands and products go global
Pass my exams. Meet Mr Right. Get rich. Pinned to a board by the entrance of a dimly lit fortune telling bar in Fengtai, an urban district in the south of Beijing, handwritten notes reveal the inner worries of customers coming for cocktails with a side of spiritual salvation.
One As All is one of several fortune telling bars to have opened in Beijing, Shanghai and other Chinese cities in recent years. Hidden on the 12th floor of a commercial building, the bar serves a wide range of drinks starting at an auspicious 88 yuan (£9) (eight is considered to be lucky number in China). As well as enjoying a sundowner with a view over Beijing’s skyline, customers can consult the in-house fortune teller who specialises in qiuqian, known in English as Chinese lottery sticks, an ancient style of divination often found in Taoist temples. From a private side-room, the smell of incense burning in front of a genuine Taoist shrine wafts into the bar.

A popular Richmond District bakery in San Francisco has opened its first expansion location. Breadbelly opened this week at Pier 70 in the city’s Dogpatch neighborhood, the bakery announced on social ...

The experience of a company in the textile business illustrates how the trade war could force some industries to shift production out of the United States.

Following a screening of How to Have an American Baby at Asia Society on June 25, filmmaker Leslie Tai joined ChinaFile Editor-in-Chief Susan Jakes to talk about the film and her process of making of ...

This has been a long time coming,” Multnomah County Board of Commissioners chair Jessica Vega Pederson said at the June 26 board meeting before it voted to unanimously approve a resolution apologizing ...

They think it’s all over … for human footballers at least.
The pitch wasn’t the only artificial element on display at a football match on Saturday. The players were too, as four teams of humanoid robots took each other on in Beijing, in games of three-a-side powered by artificial intelligence.
While the modern game has faced accusations of becoming near-robotic in its obsession with tactical perfection, the games in China showed that AI won’t be taking Kylian Mbappé’s job just yet. Footage of the humanoid kickabout showed the robots struggling to kick the ball or stay upright, performing pratfalls that would have earned their flesh-and-blood counterparts a yellow card for diving. At least two robots were stretchered off after failing to regain their feet after going to ground

The genre known as Boys’ Love, stories written mostly by and for straight women, has been in the authorities’ sights for years.