How Chinese EV makers are slowly taking over the world

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Chinese EV players are expanding rapidly in developing markets like Brazil, Mexico, and Southeast Asia.

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China can't get enough of Elon Musk's mom

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Maye Musk's book "A Woman Makes A Plan" was a bestseller in China.

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Satellite images show apparent mock-ups of US fifth-gen fighter jets and a runway with blast marks and craters in a Chinese desert

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A satellite image of Chinese mockups of US aircraft in the Taklamakan Desert.
Satellite image from April 19, 2024, show Chinese mock-ups of what appear to be US aircraft in the Taklamakan Desert.

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'Only pirates do this,' a general said after China's Coast Guard, armed with bladed weapons, clashed with Philippine boats in the South China Sea

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A China Coast Guard vessel and China Coast Guard personnel on a rubber boat.
This photo taken on February 15, 2024, shows an aerial view of a China Coast Guard vessel and China Coast Guard personnel on a rubber boat over Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea.

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Chinese retail giants tried to juice spending with iPhone and Lululemon discounts in an annual shopping bonanza

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618 Mall Promotion in Hangzhou
An e-commerce anchor sold 618 promotional goods on a live broadcast at a mall in Hangzhou, China, on June 18, 2024.

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Video shows Chinese coast guard brandishing an ax in a low-tech clash with the Philippines navy

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A still from bodycam footage released by the Armed Forces of the Philippines, showing the view from a small Filipino boat as Chinese Coast Guard soldiers brandish an ax and what appears to be a knife at other Filipino boats, during a skirmish against a clouded sky, on June 17, 2024.
A still from bodycam footage released by the Armed Forces of the Philippines, depicting events on June 17, 2024.

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Apple Intelligence seems to have a ChatGPT-shaped problem in China

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Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2024.

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The thousands of Chinese migrants headed to the US-Mexico border just lost their key entry point to America

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Chinese Migrants attempting to cross into the US from Mexico sit by a fire as they are detained by US Customs and Border Protection at the border on November 12, 2023, in Jacumba, California.
Chinese Migrants attempting to cross into the US from Mexico sit by a fire as they are detained by US Customs and Border Protection at the border on November 12, 2023, in Jacumba, California.

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Awkward Chinese youths are paying AI love coaches $7 weekly to learn how to talk on dates

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Tsinghua University Commencement Ceremony 2023
Graduates attend 2023 Tsinghua University Commencement Ceremony on June 24, 2023 in Beijing, China.

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The global spike in luxury handbags, shoes, and clothing sales could be coming to an end due in part to China's 'luxury shaming,' study finds

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Worldwide sales growth of luxury goods is expected to slow in 2024, per a Bain Consultancy report.

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