Busan welcomed more than 2.42 million foreign visitors between January and June – a 43.9 per cent jump compared to the same period last year
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China teen shares top university acceptance with hero who saved her from river 16 years ago
Sixteen years after being rescued from a river as a toddler, a young girl from eastern China earned a spot at the prestigious Peking University and shared this significant milestone with the man who saved her life.
Yu Xianguo, 66, from Taizhou in Zhejiang province, is a retired naval serviceman who served five years in the military, according to mainland media outlet Xinhuanghe.
In August 2010, two-year-old Zheng Yan was travelling with her grandparents on a three-wheeled vehicle as they prepared to
The numbers game: why the US is losing ground to China in the first island chain
As the People’s Liberation Army marks its 99th anniversary on August 1, one year from the deadline for its centenary goals, its evolution highlights the past, present and future of China’s military strategy. In the second part of a series , Gabriel Dominguez examines how Beijing is pushing the envelope on its near-seas island arc.
Beijing has urged the
Ready player 3: India offers Asean a US-China alternative
At a food fair in New Delhi, a vegetable exporter from the Philippines set out its wares: bags of dried moringa and lemongrass, bundles of taro leaves and a bowl of laing , the creamy coconut-milk stew made from them.
The question Dry Tech Manufacturing wanted to answer was simple: could the simple Filipino food it sells under its Sheentaro brand tantalise the taste buds of the world’s most populous country?
India has hundreds of millions
Trump officials drop Reflecting Pool charges against ex-US Olympian David Hearn
The US Justice Department moved Friday to dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
Government lawyers said in a 20-page court filing that information provided since the indictment of David Hearn shows that the damage was the result of a “flawed installation by the contractor” as well as “the rush to complete the project prior to
US lawmakers investigate DoorDash’s use of Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.6 model
Vincent Chow in Washington
The move underscores growing tensions between US lawmakers and industry, as Chinese AI models have become increasingly popular among US companies looking to save costs of AI adoption.
House Select Committee on China chairman John Moolenaar and House Committee on Homeland Security chairman Andrew Garbarino sent a letter on Friday to DoorDash co-founder and chief executive Tony Xu, requesting information by August 1
Trump envoy Steve Daines to return to Beijing as US and China lock in Xi summit agenda
Montana Republican is helping narrow differences on issues expected to dominate summit planned for September in Washington, source says
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US Senator Steve Daines is expected to return to China for another round of talks ahead of President Xi Jinping ’s planned September visit to Washington, according to people familiar with the preparations.
The trip was intended
Chinese buyers acquire US soybeans for October-November, traders say
Chinese government buyers bought at least eight cargoes of US soybeans on Friday for shipment from US Gulf Coast terminals and six cargoes for shipment from Pacific Northwest ports in October and November, two US traders with knowledge of the deals said.
The sales volume of at least 840,000 tonnes was among China’s largest single-day purchases this month after the world’s top soybean importer restarted purchases from the US in late June.
China had slowed purchases of American soybeans over much of
Will US or China win the next war? That’s the wrong question to ask
Who will win the next war? That is the question posed on the cover of the latest Foreign Affairs magazine which explores, among other things, the US-China military and technological rivalry . At its core is a clash of strategic philosophies between the US-led order and China’s world view, which has propelled the latter’s rise to the world’s second great power.
The magazine’s contributors reflect a deeply ingrained Western strategic tradition, rooted in liberal realism, that says that the United States
Google rolls back new satellite image AI tool after backlash
Google rolled back a new feature on Friday that allowed Google Earth users to generate AI visualisations on top of the service’s satellite imagery, following a furious backlash from researchers and open-source intelligence experts about the potential for disinformation.
“We’ve seen geospatial professionals using this feature for a range of useful purposes, however we’ve also seen people sharing screenshots of generated imagery that appear to violate our policies,” a Google spokesman said in a statement.
“So we’re rolling back this feature in