China’s Social Credit System

Midea president bans performative overtime and excessive PPT use within the company. Credit: Midea Chinese electrical appliance manufacturer Midea will deploy self-developed humanoid robots next month at a washing machine factory in Jingzhou, Hubei Province, to support machine operations, equipment inspections, and material handling, the company has announced. Beginning in…

BEIJING (Reuters) -China's foreign ministry on Monday said President Xi Jinping had not spoken to Donald Trump recently, nor were their respective administrations trying to strike a tariff deal, contradicting the U.S. president's claim in an interview with Time magazine. "As far as I know, the two heads of state…

Back in the '50s Americans used to go to GM’s Motorama shows to get a glimpse of the future, gasping in awe at fully functional concept cars like the turbine-powered, titanium bodied Firebird III and exhibits that showed autonomous driving technologies. Fast forward seven decades and the world comes to…

Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, a fascinating marine reptile first identified in 2003, has been fully described for the first time thanks to newly uncovered fossils from southwestern China. The discovery, detailed in the journal Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, was made by an international team of…

Photo: Peter Nicholls (Getty Images) In This Story Apple ( AAPL -0.39% ) is reportedly preparing to shift all production for U.S.-sold iPhones from China to India by the end of 2026, according to The Financial Times — a major acceleration of the company’s supply chain diversification strategy that comes…

Home Green Marine PIL’s first 8,200 TEU LNG dual-fuel boxship named in China April 25, 2025, by Ajsa Habibic Singapore-based shipping company Pacific International Lines (PIL) has held the naming ceremony for its first 8,200 TEU LNG dual-fuel containership. Courtesy of PIL The newbuild was named Kota Oasis at a ceremony…

Swiss artist Evelyn Schmocker builds tiny homes for "Wichtel," the German word for gnome. Every piece is placed by hand -- moss, twine, wood, and even glasses no bigger than a fingertip. To bring her ideas to life, she now sources many decorations from China. Read More

EUR/USD softens to around 1.1380 in Friday’s early Asian session. Trump said the US was negotiating with China on trade after Beijing’s denial.  Traders have become increasingly confident that the ECB will cut interest rates in the June meeting.  The EUR/USD pair weakens to near 1.1380 during the early Asian…

One must-read delivered daily to your inbox This morning, the White House announced that trade talks with China continue, albeit at a staff level. This came after a flurry of reports that Trump is planning to unilaterally ramp back the embargo-level tariffs he imposed on China earlier this month, advance…

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China’s sun-scorched plains: “Heaven has gone blind!” Thousands of starving farmers, their faces smeared with ox blood, marched toward the opulent vaults held by the Han dynasty’s elite rulers. As recorded in the ancient text Han Shu (book of…