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China Declares Currency War: New Plan Aims to Replace the Dollar With the Yuan in Global Trade

Chinese authorities expect that this policy, which would allow Beijing to bolster its influence within global trade networks.

International Business Times UK

Is China the new cool? How Beijing is using pop culture to win the soft power war

IShowSpeed, a 20-year-old American YouTuber and internet star, recently livestreamed hourslong tours of Chinese cities including Beijing and Shanghai, showcasing the locations to some of his nearly 40 million viewers.

The Conversation

China's First 'Gold Melting ATM' Goes Viral as Customers Deposit Jewellery and Get Paid for Its Value

Gold at Your Fingertips: How a New Machine in Shanghai Is Changing the Way People Cash In on Heirlooms

International Business Times UK

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Nissan Surprises With Frontier Pro Plug-In Hybrid Truck

Seemingly out of nowhere, Nissan is launching an electrified Frontier. Although it carries the “Pro” suffix, the truck is unrelated to the Frontier Pro-X/Pro-4X sold in North America. The brand’s first electrified pickup broke cover today at Auto Shanghai in China and is based on the locally produced Nissan Dongfeng…

Motor1

All eyes on EVs as carmakers eye competition at Auto Shanghai 2025

Global car companies as BMW, Volkswagen and General Motors are attempting to retain their market share in China as tariffs and rising Chinese competition threaten sales.

Euronews

Auto Shanghai Showcases New EV Era Despite Tariff Speedbumps

The world's largest auto industry expo opens its doors Wednesday in Shanghai, showcasing the new electric world order even as mounting trade barriers risk dampening China's global ambitions.

International Business Times

EVs in the spotlight as China claims a leading global role at Shanghai's auto show

Leading automakers will be showcasing their latest designed-for-China models at the Shanghai auto show this week

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We're At The Shanghai Auto Show To See The Future

When automotive executives in the United States and Europe talk about electric vehicles, they usually talk about tomorrow: the need to prepare for some vaguely defined "future" where their customers are largely moving beyond gasoline. But in China, that's not the future at all. It's the present.

InsideEVs

Auto Shanghai To Showcase Electric Competition At Sector's New Frontier

The world's biggest auto show opens Wednesday in Shanghai, with foreign carmakers raring to show they can compete against the ultra-competitive Chinese firms that dominate the sector's new electric frontier.

International Business Times

The week in theatre: Speed; Shanghai Dolls – review

Mohamed-Zain Dada makes a darkly comic drama out of a speed awareness course, while clever design elevates Amy Ng’s play about Madame Mao

The Guardian - UK

Home Favorite Ashun Wu Cards Lowest Final Round To Seal Second China Open Title And Reclaim DP World Tour Card

Ashun Wu added to his 2015 China Open title with another in 2025 thanks to a superb final round 65 - propped up by a stunning back nine at Enhance Anting GC

Golf Monthly

A new Boeing jet meant for a Chinese airline reportedly returned to the U.S. because of the ongoing trade war

After the Chinese government reportedly told domestic airlines not to purchase new planes from Boeing, one jet had to be returned to the U.S. from a facility near Shanghai.

Fortune

New Lexus ES: Is It Going All-Electric Next?

The Lexus ES has always been a strong seller. Introduced in 1989, it's always been the mainstream Lexus sedan, but never the one that got the most attention. That may be changing. Lexus just announced it will reveal the eighth-generation ES on April 23 at the Shanghai motor show, which…

InsideEVs

F1 Panel: Has Piastri become favourite for 2025 F1 title?

Since letting his McLaren slide off the track on lap 44 in Melbourne and losing a lot of points, Oscar Piastri has been almost flawless. Two victories, in Shanghai and Bahrain, and a third place in Suzuka allowed him to regain almost everything he lost in the Formula 1 season…

Autosport

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Motorsport

F1 Panel: Is Oscar Piastri now the title favourite?

After letting his McLaren slide off the track on lap 44 in Melbourne and losing a lot of points, Oscar Piastri has been almost flawless since then. Two victories, in Shanghai and Bahrain, and a third place in Suzuka allowed him to regain almost everything he lost in the season…

Al Jazeera

The Zimbabwean singer who found fame in China – and obscurity at home

Jo Stak used to sing in Mandarin and get stopped by fans on the streets of Shanghai. That changed when he came home.

Evening Standard

Shanghai Dolls at the Kiln Theatre review: undeniably impressive

3/5 Two women across six decades of upheaval are covered in this astonishing true story of Mao Zedong’s revolution

The Guardian - UK

Shanghai Dolls review – treachery and affinity between the women of Mao’s world

Amy Ng’s ‘untold true story’ of two friends, who become China’s foremost theatre director and Mao Zedong’s wife, is a story of survival and a play of ideas

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The Independent UK

In Shanghai Dolls, Madame Mao’s life story of art, revolution and resentment is undone by clichés

2/5 This real-life tale of Mao’s wife and the first female director of China fails to meet its own potential

The Guardian - AU

Life in Shanghai, China’s commercial capital, goes on but anti-US sentiment is hardening

Chinese companies are relieved Trump’s wider tariffs have been paused but on social media, posts are full of defiance

International Business Times

Shanghai Finance Workers Worry After Front-row Seat To Tariff Turmoil

As stock prices flashed across a huge screen at a bustling intersection in China's business hub Shanghai, finance workers shared their concerns after getting front-row seats to the global market turmoil wreaked by Donald Trump this week.

Euronews

US stocks drop again following another day of market volatility

The dramatic fluctuations came after global stock rallies earlier in the day, with indexes rising 6% in Tokyo, 2.5% in Paris, and 1.6% in Shanghai.

International Business Times

Shanghai's Elderly Investors Keep Faith Despite Stock Market Woes

A raucous group of elderly investors held court at a Shanghai securities company on Tuesday, chatting loudly about the stock prices flickering on LED boards as Chinese markets stutteringly recovered from the brutal day before.

TechRadar

Microsoft's Chinese joint-venture set to halt operations, lay off staff

Microsoft’s joint venture in China has halted operations, laying off 2,000 workers in the process.

The Guardian - UK

Chess: Tan Zhongyi takes shock lead over Ju Wenjun in Women’s World Championship

Tan leads 1.5-0.5 in the first-to-6.5 series following Ju’s costly endgame blunder in game two

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