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2 weeks 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 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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1 month 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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1 month ago | 
watoday.com.au | Meaghan Tobin |Claire Fu
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1 month ago | 
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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1 month ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Claire Fu |Daisuke Wakabayashi
The new king of the Chinese box office is an adorably ugly, demonic child fighting off monsters. In less than two weeks since its release, "Ne Zha 2," an animated film based loosely on Chinese mythology and a famous 16th century novel, has become the highest-grossing movie ever in China, with more than $1 billion in ticket sales. It is also the first film not made by a Hollywood studio to cross that mark.
