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China’s Social Credit System

Apple CEO Tim Cook says Apple Intelligence is accelerating its entry into the Chinese market China's Social Credit System

Apple CEO Tim Cook says Apple Intelligence is accelerating its entry into the Chinese market

On Saturday, Apple CEO Tim Cook made an appearance in Shanghai at the Global Wealth Management Forum 2025 Suhewan Conference, where he revealed that Apple Intelligence is stepping up efforts to introduce Apple Intelligence in China. Cook said that artificial intelligence has become deeply integrated into Apple’s product ecosystem, ranging…
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October 20, 2025
Battery catches fire on Air China plane, forcing flight to make emergency landing in Shanghai, Asia News China's Social Credit System

Battery catches fire on Air China plane, forcing flight to make emergency landing in Shanghai, Asia News

PUBLISHED ON October 19, 2025 5:45 AM BY Syarifah Nadhirah A flight en route from Hangzhou, China, to South Korea's Incheon International Airport on Oct 18 was diverted to Shanghai after a fire broke out in the cabin. A lithium battery stowed in a passenger's carry-on luggage in the overhead…
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October 19, 2025
Miningweb: China coal prices rise amid safety crackdown and extreme weather China's Social Credit System

Miningweb: China coal prices rise amid safety crackdown and extreme weather

Coal awaiting transportation at the Guoyuan Port container terminal in Chongqing, China February 17, 2025. PhotographerBloomberg/NaBian Published on :  16 Oct 2025, 9:53 am Key topics: Chinese coal prices rise amid tighter safety checks and weather risks Floods in Shanxi, Shaanxi likely to reduce coal supply in coming months Mixed…
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October 16, 2025
China’s Paper Chase: ‘Paper Mills’ Help Academics Commit Fraud China's Social Credit System

China’s Paper Chase: ‘Paper Mills’ Help Academics Commit Fraud

China’s “paper mills” are selling fake authorship and fabricated data to researchers. And they’re making tens of millions of yuan in the process. An exposé published Monday by domestic media outlet Hongxing News detailed the workings of two such fraudulent companies in southwestern China’s megacity of Chongqing from May. To…
bubmag
October 16, 2025
The Historian Showing How Trade Shaped China’s Ties to the World China's Social Credit System

The Historian Showing How Trade Shaped China’s Ties to the World

For decades, Li Bozhong has argued that understanding China’s long-term economic development begins with Jiangnan — the fertile delta south of the Yangtze River, where preindustrial China achieved a level of productivity rivaling Europe’s. Now 76 and chair professor of humanities at Peking University, Li has spent his career combining…
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October 16, 2025
China bans dealings with 5 US subsidiaries of South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean China's Social Credit System

China bans dealings with 5 US subsidiaries of South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean

HONG KONG (AP) — China’s Commerce Ministry said Tuesday it was banning dealings by Chinese companies with five subsidiaries of South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean in the latest swipe by Beijing at U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to rebuild the industry in America. The ministry also announced that it was…
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October 14, 2025
Trump’s tariff on China spurs record $10 billion volume for Bitcoin funds China's Social Credit System

Trump’s tariff on China spurs record $10 billion volume for Bitcoin funds

Crypto-based funds attracted $3.17 billion in new capital, even as markets reeled from tariff-related tensions between the United States and China, according to CoinShares weekly report. On Oct. 10, President Donald Trump announced that the US could raise tariffs in response to China’s new rare-earth export restrictions. The statement triggered…
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October 13, 2025