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Ola Källenius says it will ‘weaken the industry on both sides’ ahead of act intended to counter non-EU competition
Locking the UK out of the EU’s flagship industrial “Made in Europe” legislation would amount to a “deliberate choice” by EU leaders to “hurt” the car industry across the bloc, the head of Mercedes-Benz has said.
Speaking in his capacity as president of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), Ola Källenius said such a move would “weaken the industry on both sides”.

Facing a competitive job market, college graduates in China are trading corporate jobs for farming, equipped with smartphones and tech skills.

Exclusive: Business secretary says he will not change trade rules due to EU pressure and denies UK will become a ‘back door’ for cheap imports
The business secretary has hit back at European demands for British tariffs on Chinese imports, saying the government will not change its trade rules because of pressure from Brussels.
Jonathan Reynolds warned that the government would not bow to calls from other countries for the UK to hit Chinese vehicles with import taxes, despite political pressure to align with the EU in exchange for deeper future economic ties.

China’s exports grew last month at the fastest pace in almost any month since the end of the global financial crisis.

Microbiologist Aili Wang, 32, poisoned tea of colleague in Wyoming who had pending patents, prosecutors allege
A Wyoming microbiology graduate student from China has been arrested on accusations she poisoned the tea of a colleague who had pending patents and with whom she did not get along, then tried to flee the country after police questioned her.
Aili Wang, 32, was arrested 6 October at Los Angeles international airport, where prosecutors allege she sought to return to China. With her were laptops, electronic storage devices and documents now in the possession of police, who allege Wang was seen on surveillance video rummaging through the desk of the victim who specialized in technology for disease treatment – research similar to work she had done in China.

As loneliness grows in China, a new industry is emerging to provide companionship and support.

A new industry being dubbed the “loneliness economy” has emerged in China, with people hiring themselves out as companions to help the elderly.

True story about a former maths teacher who became a puzzle champion in retirement is squeezed into predictable sports-movie formula
It’s not quite up there with Leonardo DiCaprio to get into character, but to prepare for this Chinese drama in which she plays a real-life former maths teacher who became a champion in retirement. The true story is stretched and squeezed here, fictionalised to fit sports-movie formula; it ends up being so-so entertaining and funny in places, but disappointingly predictable. The biggest surprise is that cubing is so popular it has its own world championship.
Still, Yeoh gives a superb, spiky performance as blunt, foul-tempered Zhao Yanhong; following a stroke, Zhao is living in a nursing home where she is the resident badass, assaulting her robot care companion and making illicit trips to the off-licence. She discovers her natural talent for the Rubik’s Cube when a washed-up ex-champion called Wu Youwei (Haoran Liu) comes to the nursing home to give a tutorial. What follows is a classic sports-film structure, with qualifying heats and Zhao training day and night, lifting weights and pounding the city streets. (Yes, running is de rigueur in a Rubik’s Cube movie; physical strength is Zhao’s weak spot says Wu, who agrees to be her coach.)

This taken in April 1942 shows Guan Dongxiang (C), who was nine-year old at that time, standing behind an American pilot in Shangrao, east China's Jiangxi Province. (Xinhua) NANCHANG, Oct. 13 (Xinhua ...

There's a seismic shift underway as Chinese American households in San Francisco move away from historically Chinese neighborhoods.

ZyMix platform has contract with Tencent, which US alleges has links to People’s Liberation Army
A new messaging and payment “super app” marketed at British students uses servers owned by a Chinese company that has been put on a US military blacklist for its alleged affiliation to the People’s Liberation Army.
ZyMix, which is being pushed on university campuses as the UK’s first super app designed “for gen Z”, combining chat, payments and community features, has a contract with a German-based subsidiary of Tencent Holdings, a Chinese conglomerate in Shenzhen.

Fuyao Glass founder Cao Dewang urges Chinese companies expanding abroad to respect local laws, culture and workers Chinese billionaire Cao Dewang, whose glass-making empire was featured in the ...