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Ethnoburbs — ethnic suburban enclaves — challenge assimilation and represent a form of resistance against the homogenizing pressures of American suburbia.

TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, boasts 170 million U.S. users. China’s AI chatbot DeepSeek surged to the top of Apple’s App Store rankings, including those in the United States, for several days ...

Minimum quotas for purchase of coal power and new project approvals threaten major advances in renewable energy production, thinktanks say
China’s energy production is putting coal and renewables in competition with each other, according to a new analysis that found continuing approval of coal-fired projects in 2024 undermined the “unprecedented” surge in clean energy production.
The analysis of China’s 2024 energy production – released on Thursday by two thinktanks, the Global Energy Monitor and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) – found China’s major advances in energy production were being held back by a commitment to coal power.

Some young people in China are finding that AI can offer the unexpected - emotional support

Study, adding to rising evidence of plastic-linked health risks, points to gut biome changes as a cause of heart failure
Eating from takeout containers may significantly increase the chance of congestive heart failure, a , and researchers suspect they have identified why: changes to gut biome cause inflammation that damages the circulatory system.
The novel two part, peer-reviewed study from Chinese researchers adds to mounting evidence of the risks associated with , and builds on previous evidence linking plastic chemicals to heart disease.

A new report claims that Chinese espionage threats increased in the United States during the Biden-Harris administration.

For other products, flows between America and China dominate global trades. Christmas and other party decorations are one such case: America’s imports account for about half of global trade in these ...

The US is targeting its own allies and its withdrawal from the region has left a power vacuum for China to fill in
While Donald Trump and his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, were last month, China’s ambassador to Bogotá was enthusiastically tweeting that diplomatic relations between China and Colombia had reached their “best moment”.
After Petro refused to receive a plane from the US carrying handcuffed deported Colombians, Trump retaliated by doubling tariffs and revoking visas for Colombian government officials.

The bench also asked the counsel appearing for the central government to seek instructions in response to the PIL ...

Xi Jinping seems to be in no rush to engage with President Trump, who has sent mixed signals about when a call might happen (or whether it already has).

Rate of marriages in China lowest since record keeping began in 1986, with cost of living and pushback against traditional gender roles contributing factors
Marriages in China plunged 20% to a record low in 2024 as young people resisted government efforts to convince them to settle down and have more babies.
Marriages in China dropped from 7.7m in 2023 to 6.1m last year, data from China’s civil affairs ministry showed. The figure was less than half the number registered in 2013, and the lowest since record keeping began in 1986.

New ambassador to US and his consultancy firm under spotlight over links to agency said to have aim of co-opting western businesspeople
Peter Mandelson’s face appeared at the top of the screen. Below him was Li Keqiang, then the Chinese premier. Ringed around them in the online “Europe-China business dialogue” meeting were top executives from some of the biggest European multinationals.
Covid was still rife so the February 2021 gathering took place online, with the British Labour peer in the chair. When a copy of the minutes was , they contained fawning opening remarks from Mandelson about China’s rulers and their ability to “prove [their critics] wrong”.