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1 week ago | 
businesslive.co.za | Ellen Zhang |Liangping Gao |Claire Fu
Beijing/Singapore — After Chinese banks reduced deposit rates last week, Miro Chen launched a social media poll: “When interest rates fall, do you save or spend?”More than 80% of some 5,000 responses chose saving, underlining the challenge for policymakers seeking to shore up demand and economic growth. “The result is one-sided, indicating people are very worried,” said the 37-year-old, who works for an internet company in southern China.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Joe Rennison |Danielle Kaye |Claire Fu
After three days of global market turmoil not seen since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, stocks in Asia regained a measure of calm on Tuesday despite little let up in the escalating trade tensions caused by President Trump's tariffs. Before markets opened in China, the government unleashed a series of measures to stabilize stocks. In turn, share prices in Hong Kong, a day after plunging 13.2 percent, rose 2 percent.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | David Pierson |Claire Fu |Vivian Wang
Faced with economic disruption, Beijing is presenting itself as too powerful to succumb to U.S. pressure. It is also censoring criticism at home.
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2 months ago | 
thestar.com.my | Daisuke Wakabayashi |Claire Fu
China’s Xiaomi, a consumer electronics giant turned automaker, said it was cooperating with a police investigation into a fatal crash involving one of its electric vehicles while the driver was using the car’s autonomous driving features. A Xiaomi SU7 sedan drove into a concrete guardrail on an expressway in eastern China late Saturday at a speed of around 60mph (96kmph), according to a post on Xiaomi’s official social media account.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Daisuke Wakabayashi |Claire Fu
China's Xiaomi, a consumer electronics giant turned automaker, said it is cooperating with a police investigation into a fatal crash involving one of its electric vehicles while the driver was using the car's autonomous driving features. A Xiaomi SU7 sedan drove into a concrete guardrail on an expressway in eastern China late on Saturday night at around 60 miles per hour, according to a post on Xiaomi's official social media account.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Meaghan Tobin |Claire Fu
Since the founder of the Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek shook hands with Xi Jinping, China's top leader, last month, officials around the country have been racing to show how they are using the company's technology. Courthouse officials are using DeepSeek to draft legal judgments within minutes. Doctors at a hospital in Fuzhou, in eastern China, are using it to propose treatment plans. In Meizhou, a city in southern China, it is DeepSeek that answers a government help line.
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Mar 2, 2025 | 
watoday.com.au | Meaghan Tobin |Claire Fu
Exponential Interactive, Inc d/b/a VDX.tvCookie duration: 90 (days). Data collected and processed: IP addresses, Device identifiers, Probabilistic identifiers, Browsing and interaction data, Non-precise location data, Users’ profiles, Privacy choicesmoreCookie duration resets each session. View details | Privacy policyConsentCookie duration: 365 (days).
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Mar 2, 2025 | 
smh.com.au | Meaghan Tobin |Claire Fu
By Meaghan Tobin and Claire Fu March 2, 2025 — 4.00pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. After nearly a decade of trying, Apple finally gave up its effort to produce an electric car last year, cancelling a project that had soaked up $US10 billion ($16.1 billion). But last year in China, electronics maker Xiaomi launched its first electric car after just three years of development and delivered 135,000 vehicles.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Meaghan Tobin |Claire Fu
After nearly a decade of trying, Apple finally gave up its effort to produce an electric car last year, canceling a project that soaked up $10 billion. But last year in China, the electronics maker Xiaomi launched its first electric car after just three years of development. The company delivered 135,000 vehicles in 2024, and has vowed to deliver double that number this year.
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Feb 20, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Claire Fu |Daisuke Wakabayashi |Keith Bradsher
Legal warnings posted on the door of a private, for-profit hospital in eastern China tracked its descent into financial failure. Huiren Hospital in the city of Suqian was warned for failing to pay employees. Four months later, a judicial summons said it still had not paid back wages. Finally, in September a paper taped across its entrance declared the building closed. The hospital, once known for treating men with infertility or sexually transmitted diseases, had been hollowed out.
