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China will launch 3 astronauts to space station tonight. Here’s how to watch live. China's Social Credit System

China will launch 3 astronauts to space station tonight. Here’s how to watch live.

Home News Spaceflight China is poised to launch its first crewed spaceflight in nearly five years. The Shenzhou-12 mission is scheduled to lift off tonight (June 16) from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 9:22 p.m. EDT (0122 GMT and 9:22 a.m. Beijing time on June 17), Chinese…
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June 16, 2021
Pony.ai Becomes First Company to Test Driverless Vehicles on Public Roads in Both the U.S. and China China's Social Credit System

Pony.ai Becomes First Company to Test Driverless Vehicles on Public Roads in Both the U.S. and China

Sorry, your browser doesn’t support embedded videos. Opening fully driverless Robotaxi service to the general public in California starting in 2022 FREMONT, Calif. — Silicon Valley-based Pony.ai, a leading autonomous driving company, today announced that it has begun regular and daily fully driverless testing on public roads in Fremont and…
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June 15, 2021
Joe Biden pushes NATO to adapt to ‘new challenges’ from Russia, China China's Social Credit System

Joe Biden pushes NATO to adapt to ‘new challenges’ from Russia, China

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, France's President Emmanuel Macron, and US President Joe Biden wait for the meeting to start of the North Atlantic Council at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters in Brussels on June 14, 2021. Photo: AFPBRUSSELS: US President Joe Biden…
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June 14, 2021
NATO leaders close ranks, send warnings to China and Russia China's Social Credit System

NATO leaders close ranks, send warnings to China and Russia

NATO leaders vowed Monday to work together against the "systemic challenge" posed by an increasingly assertive China and put Russia on notice about its flouting of international law, though France's Emmanuel Macron urged the alliance not to let Beijing distract it from more pressing issues. As US President Joe Biden renewed Washington's…
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June 14, 2021
Tencent’s game studio tries to combat employee burnout by banning long working hours — but will others follow suit? China's Social Credit System

Tencent’s game studio tries to combat employee burnout by banning long working hours — but will others follow suit?

“These policies ultimately work in the studio’s favor if you really think it through. Employees will continue to work long hours, but at home, secretly. At the same time, the company can save a lot of money by not providing overtime meal allowances and overtime pay,” a critic commented (in…
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June 12, 2021
Didi the Uber-slayer set for the world’s biggest initial public offering China's Social Credit System

Didi the Uber-slayer set for the world’s biggest initial public offering

Didi Chuxing CEO Chéng Wéi 程维 at a product launch event in Beijing, November, 2020. REUTERS/Yilei Sun Didi Chuxing, China’s ride-hailing giant, has filed to list in the U.S. in what will be the world’s biggest initial public offering this year, that could raise around $10 billion at a valuation…
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June 12, 2021