PUBLISHER’S NOTE: When Beijing launched the COVID War on its Lunar New Year, “The Year of the Rat” in January 2020 and imposed three years of draconian zero-COVID lockdown policies, it destroyed the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of its population. The bullshit line being sold by China and the rest of the locked-down......
Prices for consumer goods in China increased 1.3 percent in February, year on year, from January’s 0.2 rise.
Alibaba, ByteDance, and MoonShot are among the Chinese AI companies that released new models at the time of the Chinese New Year, accompanying the releases with special promotions and premiums to lure new users and upgrades from current customers.
Chinese AI developers DeepSeek, Minimax, and MoonShot have made “industrial-scale distillation attacks” on Claude, Anthropic’s AI that has become increasingly popular among businesses, the U.S. firm has claimed.
Chinese officials are considering imposing taxes on drinks that maintain the high levels of sugar because they believe it will help dissuade the public from imbibing these unhealthy products and increase the much-needed tax revenue.
The U.S. State Department announced last week that it will provide Manila with advanced missile systems and a slew of other weapons in Washington’s latest effort to thwart China in the South China Sea.
Nissan Motor will post losses totaling $4.2 billion this fiscal year as it continues its restructuring plan to survive in a global market defined by weak auto sales, U.S. tariffs, and a slower-than-expected shift among consumers to electric cars.
China has inaugurated the Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (URKL 2026), a mixed martial arts tournament that will last throughout this year. The ultimate victor will win a gold championship belt worth ¥10 million, or about $1.44 million.
Chinese customers are once again shopping in the country’s luxury boutiques, but they are fewer in number and spending less, The Wall Street Journal discovered.
As we have long forecast, the 20th Century was the century of the United States but the 21st Century will be the Chinese century.