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During the TikTok ban debacle, many Americans moved to Xiaohongshu; what was the result? The post How the Chinese diaspora feel about American ‘TikTok refugees’ on Rednote appeared first on JoySauce.

During the TikTok ban debacle, many Americans moved to Xiaohongshu; what was the result? The post How the Chinese diaspora feel about American ‘TikTok refugees’ on Rednote appeared first on JoySauce.

During the TikTok ban debacle, many Americans moved to Xiaohongshu; what was the result? The post How the Chinese diaspora feel about American ‘TikTok refugees’ on Rednote appeared first on JoySauce.

DeepSeek roiled global markets and shocked Silicon Valley, but it’s just one of a raft of Chinese AI companies that could challenge US dominance
release of an artificial intelligence model that could replicate the performance of OpenAI’s o1 at a fraction of the cost has stunned investors and analysts. as Nvidia, a microchip and AI firm, shed more than $500bn in market value in a record one-day loss for any company on Wall Street. Investors feared that DeepSeek challenged the dominance of US AI leaders.
Donald Trump as a “wake-up call”. In China, DeepSeek’s founder, , has been hailed as a national hero and was invited to attend a symposium chaired by China’s premier, Li Qiang. The pace at which China has been able to catch up with frontier AI research in the US is accelerating.

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After Donald Trump’s return to the White House, Volkswagen, Germany’s largest carmaker, said that tariffs would have a “harmful economic impact” on American consumers, as well as the international automotive industry.
German automakers say the tariffs will cause inflation for consumers.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told Panama’s president in a face-to-face meeting that the Central American ally must reduce alleged Chinese influence over the Panama Canal or face potential ...

Fears grow for global trade, with major indices likely to plunge as US trading partners quickly retaliate, raising chance China and EU will follow suit
Investors are bracing for stock market falls after Canada and Mexico hit back against this weekend.
Trading on the brokerage IG’s weekend markets indicated shares were likely to fall on Monday after the US president signed an order on Saturday to , a move that with some of the country’s largest trading partners.

Donald Trump’s initiative echoes past mistakes and could provoke adversaries and undermine efforts toward nuclear diplomacy
With a stroke of his pen, Donald Trump last week ordered an “” – an act that risks sparking a destabilising global arms race. Mr Trump’s proposal takes its name from Israel’s air defence system, but it is cast in more ambitious terms for the US: a space-based interception system designed to counter nuclear, hypersonic and cruise missile threats.
It is also the latest turn of the wheel in a cycle of escalation. Moves by Washington to “increase security” have repeatedly ended up making the world more volatile and unsafe. The historic chance to eliminate nuclear weapons in slipped away over Ronald Reagan’s insistence on America’s unproven “Star Wars” missile defence system. In 2002, George W Bush – citing the threat from North Korea – ditched the anti-ballistic missile treaty, which was built on the idea that mutual vulnerability cools the nuclear arms race while unchecked defences fuel it. In The New Nuclear Age, Ankit Panda points out that Russia and China responded with countermeasures to ensure “their nuclear forces would have the ability to penetrate a sophisticated US system”.

President Donald Trump’s tariffs against China, Canada and Mexico target a trade provision that helped spur the rise of low-cost retailers, including Temu and Shein.

Trump accuses the US's main trading partners of not addressing concerns over illegal drugs and migration - his main election pledges.

DeepSeek’s success embodies China’s ambitions in artificial intelligence. But it could also threaten the grip on power the nation’s leaders hold.