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China censors public mourning as it holds former premier's funeral
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BBC News
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While hailing Zhu’s legacy, authorities are wary that the nostalgia could lead to criticisms of Xi’s rule.
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‘Bad in every aspect’: derided low-tech animation Niu Lai rivals blockbusters at Chinese box office
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The Guardian
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Commentary about the ‘so bad it’s good’ qualities of mother and son’s movie has driven people to see it at cinema
A crude, low-tech animation about a cow and a skylark has become a sleeper hit at China’s box office, sitting alongside blockbusters such as The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day in cinema revenue rankings.
Niu Lai, which translates to The Cow is Coming, is an 86-minute budget animation about a newborn calf and a skylark whose relationship develops over the...
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China’s economy showing signs that slowdown may be extending
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The Guardian
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Industrial output and retail sales slump in July after one of the country’s weakest quarterly growth rates ever
China’s economy is showing signs of extending a slowdown with a slump in industrial output and retail sales in July, adding to pressure on Beijing to intervene with measures to support activity.
After the world’s second largest economy posted one of its in the three months to June, the latest figures suggest it continued to falter in July.
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China Wants Its Data to Power the World’s A.I.
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New York Times
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China is exporting more than A.I. models. It wants its data to influence the world’s chatbots, raising fears that Beijing’s narratives will spread with the technology.
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Movie that went viral for terrible animation becomes China box office hit
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BBC News
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Niu Lai's confusing plot and laughable animation quality has won ironic fans on the internet.
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Trump Orders Pentagon to Curtail Military Exercises With Ally South Korea
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New York Times
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In a social media post, the president scolded South Korea for not helping denuclearize Iran, and also praised North Korea and its leader.
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After Hormuz, China looks to the promise – and peril – of the Arctic’s ‘ice silk road’
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The Guardian
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China has established the first scheduled transit through the northern sea route, but questions remain over the environmental and political risks
When Marco Rubio suggested that the world should look to new shipping lanes to bypass the logjammed strait of Hormuz, it’s unlikely he had the Arctic’s northern sea route in mind.
And yet in recent months the promise of this 5,500km channel – cleaved through frozen seas by nuclear-powered icebreakers and illuminated by a sun that never...
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As China Pushes to Expand in Asia, Trump Focuses on Iran
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New York Times
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Asian allies are beginning to wonder whether the United States would or could defend them in a war.
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A fake website and a deluge of CVs: the Australian firm embroiled in an FBI probe into alleged Chinese espionage
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The Guardian
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Exclusive: Fake consultancy impersonating Brisbane firm online is one of 13 websites seized by the US Department of Justice
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When the first emails arrived, they were easily dismissed as spam. But as strangers continued to boast about their defence and security credentials, they became impossible to ignore.
From mid-2025, a small Australian consultancy firm called Horizzen started receiving emails and strange calls from people applying for vague jobs in the United...
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Trump’s Other Hold on the Americas: The Visa
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New York Times
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As part of its expansionist approach to the Western Hemisphere, the Trump administration is trying to reassert its dominance, one U.S. visa at a time.
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