Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Saker blog,
With the dogs of war on full alert, something extraordinary happened at the 19th summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) late last week in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Virtually unknown across the...
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NPR's Frank Langfitt wanted to get to know the real China, so he started a free taxi service in an effort to have conversations with a variety of people. His new book is the result of this reporting.(Image credit: Yongyuan Dai/Getty Images)
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Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek hosted a two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting with the heads of the 8 SCO member states and observer nations discussing a regional agenda and bilateral relations.
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China’s much-anticipated Science and Technology Innovation board officially launched in Shanghai today, marking Beijing’s major step in drawing high-potential tech companies to list at home.
The new Star Market, first announced by...
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Huawei has indefinitely postponed the imminent launch of a new Windows laptop, consumer division Richard Yu has confirmed to CNBC. The product was set for a reveal at the ongoing CES Asia show in Shanghai this week, but trade sanctions from the US...
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(SHANGHAI) — Chinese tech giant Huawei said Tuesday it would have become the world’s number one smartphone maker by year’s end if it were not for “unexpected” circumstances — a hint that pressure from the U.S. may...
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BEIJING (Sputnik) - Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi could discuss US trade protectionism and possible retaliatory steps on the sidelines of the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, China's...
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The key to trading this market: "empty your mind"...
China continues to catch down to US and European stocks' liquidity-fueled pumpathon this year...
Chinese markets slipped lower overnight, once again led by the tech-heavy...
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Shanghai (AFP) – Marcello Lippi says he will quit for a second time if he fails to guide ambitious China to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
The 71-year-old Italian World Cup winner is back as coach of China just four months after leaving.
But...
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After Japan, Beijing, Shanghai and – this week – New York City, Apple Pay Express Transit in London is up next.
When iOS developer Aled Samuel tweeted Transport for London to ask, the organization confirmed that it will be introduced ‘in...
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Beijing is picking winners and losers in China’s electric vehicle industry. And it appears the Chinese government has chosen to bestow its favor on NIO, a Shanghai-based company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
NIO is establishing a...
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Tesla has revealed that it will begin taking orders on May 31 for its Shanghai-built Model 3 for the Chinese market. The company is also expected to build its new Model Y SUV/crossover at its plant...
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Tyler Foggatt on the university’s president, Andrew Hamilton, who gave twenty commencement speeches this year, around the city and at campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai.
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For several months at the start of 2019, analysts, pundits and the media argued that the year was shaping up as a mirror image of 2016, and specifically a repeat of the Shanghai Accord in January 2016 which resulted in a global credit explosion...
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A new study warns that if nothing is done to curb carbon emissions, sea levels could rise by more than six feet by the end of the century, flooding major cities — including Shanghai, Miami, and Mumbai – and displacing about 200 million...
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Financial Times: “Roughly 47 per cent of the members of the American Chamber of Commerce in China and a similar group based in Shanghai said that on top of recently imposed tariffs, they faced retaliation such as slower customs clearance, more...
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Shanghai (AFP) – Paulinho has become the toast of Chinese football after the Brazilian fondly known as “Violent Bird” attempted to sing along in Mandarin to the national anthem before a game.
The international midfielder was seen...
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EV automaker and Tesla-competitor NIO has said that it is now probing another one of its ES8 models that "caught fire" in Shanghai on Thursday. The probe comes after another ES8, in the city of Xi’an, caught fire about three weeks ago. It's the...
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Shanghai (AFP) – Former Barcelona and Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has landed in China on a trial with second-tier Qingdao Huanghai, the club told AFP on Friday.
The 36-year-old has been without a team since December after an...
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A building that was being refurbished collapsed Thursday in downtown Shanghai, and at least nine people are trapped while 11 have been pulled from the rubble.
The building being converted into an auto showroom fell around 11:30 a.m., and the...
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