Jan 3 (Reuters) – Following are reactions to Saturday’s U.S. strikes on Venezuela. FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON “The transition to come must be peaceful, democratic, and respectful of the will of the Venezuelan people. We hope that President Edmundo González Urrutia, elected in 2024, will be able to ensure this transition as quickly as possible,”…
As Tesla announces sales that are down 9 percent over last year, a new EV king is crowned. BYD sold over 2 million battery-powered vehicles last year, making it the largest EV manufacturer globally. The U.K. is currently BYD’s biggest market outside of China, and it’s looking to expand. Chinese automaker BYD finished 2025 strong,…
US President Donald Trump, alongside (L/R) Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaks to the press following US military actions in Venezuela, at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on January 3, 2026. President Trump said Saturday that US forces had captured…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Just hours before his capture by the U.S., Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro met with a Chinese envoy, highlighting the great power competition between Washington and Beijing in the Western Hemisphere. Maduro received Qiu Xiaoqi, the Chinese government’s special representative for Latin American affairs, at the Miraflores Presidential…
The strikes on Venezuela by the United States which eventually led to the “capture” of President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday, January 3, came just hours after Maduro had hosted dignitaries from China, an ally and fellow Communist regime. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro received Qiu Xiaoqi, special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping for Latin America…
When Chinese leader Xi Jinping entered a grand arena for the country’s 15th National Games in November, there was something different in the air. It wasn’t just that Xi had emerged victorious from a high-stakes trade meeting with US President Donald Trump a week earlier. It was that these national games, unlike the previous 14,…
China’s New Year holiday box office has surpassed 680 million yuan as of 14:30 on Saturday, the final day of the three-day break, according to data from online ticketing platform Maoyan. In Beijing, Huaxia Film Center, China’s first high frame rate LED multiplex, has emerged as a top destination for film enthusiasts. Featuring high dynamic…
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung said China has caught up with or surpassed South Korea in technology and capital in many fields, a shift he said is reshaping the basis of bilateral economic cooperation. The remarks were made during an interview with China Media Group (CMG) ahead of Lee’s official visit to China, during which…
On the last day of 2025, DeepSeek published a new technical paper, with founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng among the 19 co-authors, about “manifold-constrained hyper-connections” – a general framework for training artificial intelligence systems at scale, which suggested “promising directions for the evolution of foundational models”. That release was a fitting reminder to the world,…
The more than US$2 billion acquisition of agentic AI start-up Manus by US social media giant Meta Platforms could face scrutiny from Beijing over technology export controls, experts warn. The sale of Manus, a Singapore-based but Chinese-founded AI agent developer, could raise compliance questions around Beijing’s technology export regime, and expectations that the company can…