The Latest Breaking News from China

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Two Chinese astronauts installed more debris shielding on the Tiangong space station and assessed the damage to the attached Shenzhou 20 spacecraft during a spacewalk on Tuesday (Dec. 9).

The administration has reportedly paused plans for Salt Typhoon sanctions over trade talks.

“At the end of the day, the farmers, they just want to conduct business, not necessarily have to get these packages,” one agricultural economist said.

Nvidia can do some business with China via H200 exports, but Blackwell and Rubin are still banned.

Ouch, that's gotta hurt.

Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) just signed up for what traders are calling the ‘Dragon Fee’ — a built-in 25% Donald Trump-imposed skim on U.S. AI chip revenue tied to China. The catch-and-release policy lets Nvidia keep shipping H200 accelerators into the world's fastest-growing AI market, but only if Jensen Huang agrees…

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In a now deleted social media post, the Consul General of the People’s Republic of China to the Japanese city of Osaka recently threatened to “cut off” Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s “filthy head.”

An Instagram user's detailed posts reveal the strict routine, low cost, and closed-gate system behind a month-long Chinese weight-loss programme.

The U.S. will allow Nvidia to export its H200 data center accelerators to “approved customers” in China, President Donald Trump announced on Monday.