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The Chancellor earlier rejected calls to pull out of a trip to China to deal with economic woes in the UK

President-elect Donald Trump has sparked diplomatic controversy by suggesting the U.S. needs to acquire Greenland for reasons of “national security” and refusing to definitively rule out using military force to do so. Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory, “is not for sale,” said Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen.

In the remote Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, a rare fungus grows inside dead caterpillars. In traditional Chinese medicine, this parasitic fungus is prized for its purported medicinal effects. Known as Ophiocordyceps sinensis – colloquially, caterpillar fungus or “Himalayan gold” – it can fetch astronomical prices on the herbal medicine market: up to…

TikTok refugees flocked to Chinese platform Xiaohongshu on Monday, where users greeted them with offers of Mandarin lessons and jokes about spying.

Furious at the prospect of a US government ban on social media platform TikTok, American users have flocked to another Chinese-owned app in droves, many with a defiant message: "Take my data!"

Watch as Rachel Reeves answered questions in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 13 January, after returning from a trip to China criticised by political opponents for coinciding with a week of volatility for the pound and soaring yields on UK bonds.

New AI tech regulations are designed to enhance national security, but have been branded as a competition stifling measure to keep the US ahead.

The EU accused China on Tuesday of discriminating against European medical device producers in public contracts and warned of "decisive action" unless the issue can be resolved through dialogue with Beijing.

China flexed its dominance by banning certain rare earth elements for export to the United States, but some companies may actually benefit from the decision.

SpacemiT's VitalStone V100 has 64-cores, but its single-thread performance is comparable to that of 2011 processors.

The situation has become increasingly ironic, with users flocking to a Chinese app even as the U.S. government seeks to ban TikTok over concerns of data theft by China. Users are laughing at the paradox of trying to avoid one Chinese app by embracing another.