Five years after finance chief Meng Wanzhou’s release from detention in Canada, the company itself is going on trial Financial Times
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The world is being driven to the brink by thugs and dictators, but there is a route to a brighter future | Simon Tisdall
Don’t look up! The world is a mess. The sky could fall in any day. Unending wars, expanding humanitarian crises, rising authoritarianism, dysfunctional democracies, rampant racial and religious extremism, and unchecked lawlessness cast a dark cloud as the west’s new political year begins. Set all that against a backdrop of staggering global economic inequality, corporate and individual greed, irresponsible government indebtedness, dangerous AI gambles, climate breakdown and proliferating nuclear weapons, and a truly apocalyptic global outlook begins to take shape. It’s enough to make anyone shut their eyes, cover their…
Russian gold floods through Hong Kong in wake of western sanctions
Shipments hit record high with almost 100 tonnes imported from Russia in first seven months of this yearFinancial Times
Rescuers in Nepal find two more people alive after flood disaster
Emergency responders rescued a Chinese man and a Nepali woman in two separate operations on Saturday, as authorities continued to search for thousands of people missing 10 days after massive floods hit Nepal. The Nepali military said a joint team comprising personnel from its army and South Korean disaster experts rescued the man from a 225-metre (740ft) tunnel in the Upper Trishuli-1 hydropower project, and that he was undergoing a health assessment. Pictures showed him being evacuated by helicopter after being carried out of the tunnel. Rescue efforts have focused…
Maga’s favourite combat sport takes off in China
The Las Vegas-headquartered UFC now has 20 Chinese fighters on its rosterFinancial Times
Humanoid Robots and China’s Vision of the Future
The robots lined up on the track. For a moment, it looked almost like an ordinary athletics meet. Then the race started. The machines lurched forward, their metal legs struggling to keep their balance as they sprinted toward the finish line. One of them, a Chinese humanoid robot called Tiangong Ultra, finished the 100 meters in 8.64 seconds – faster than Usain Bolt’s human world record. The scene took place this August at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, where more than 2,000 robots competed in 51 events. Some ran…
How the Chinese Government Has Controlled the Narrative on the Tibet Floods
As rescue efforts have continued on both sides of the border following the devastating floods in Nepal and Tibet, a fight over how the disaster is being reported has been growing in intensity on social media. The dispute centers on the claims and counterclaims following a story by the BBC’s China correspondent, Laura Bicker, about how China is censoring videos of the floods. Bicker said videos of the landslide and flood surge sweeping through Gyirong Port on the border was scrubbed from the internet, in part, because Beijing fears instability…
Luckin Coffee killed our lunch spot. Here’s what that says about geopolitics
Half a decade on from a fraud scandal, the Chinese chain is thriving in New York City — and pushing out the localsFinancial Times
China lashes back at US over G20 row ahead of Xi-Trump summit
Beijing says Trump’s tariffs and Iran war energy crisis are damaging to global economyFinancial Times
‘Everyone seems to have forgotten’: In Tibet, flood-hit families search for the missing and grapple with China’s silence
Fan Hong last heard from her husband on the morning of the Nepal-Tibet disaster. More than a week later, the 31-year-old is desperately searching for information about Lin Bo, who was working on a Chinese highway project in Nepal. Struggling to get information from authorities, Fan turned to social media for help. “My husband works on a project in Nepal, about 5 kilometres from the Gyirong border crossing. I want to know what the situation is, but I haven’t been able to reach him,” the 31-year-old from China’s Sichuan province…