China’s box office revenue on the first day of the May Day holiday exceeded 200 million yuan (about 27.5 million U.S. dollars) by 17:30 Thursday according to box office tracker Dengta Data, including pre-sales and limited previews. More than 10 new films are released during the May Day holiday this year, ranging from biographies to…
The US Senate confirmed long-time China critic David Perdue as the new US ambassador to China on Tuesday, a key role amid escalated bilateral tensions and a high-stakes tariff showdown between the world’s two largest economies. Perdue, 75, a former US senator for the state of Georgia and a veteran business executive, was confirmed in…
US President Donald Trump‘s sky-high tariffs imposed in China have started making an impact even though China puts up a brave front. Tariffs have struck when China’s economy is struggling to fully recover from the pandemic effects and is also grappling with sluggish domestic demand and a protracted property sector crisis.China’s leaders are downplaying the…
Open-source satellite imagery appears to show that China is expanding one of its naval bases that hosts an aircraft carrier, as it seeks to challenge United States naval dominance. Newsweek has reached out to the Chinese Defense Ministry for comment by email. Why It Matters China has the largest navy in the world by hull…
China’s waterway passenger traffic during the five-day May Day holiday is projected to reach 7.75 million trips, more than 11 percent higher year on year as sailing continue to gain popularity as a holiday activity in recent years. The holiday, celebrated annually from May 1-5, is one of China’s busiest travel and leisure periods, as…
The Chinese military honed submarine-hunting skills as the United Kingdom assembled an aircraft carrier-led naval strike group, which included a submarine, for a Pacific deployment. Newsweek has reached out to the Chinese Defense Ministry for further comment by email. Why It Matters The British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales commenced Operation Highmast on April…
Hangzhou-based Alibaba’s cloud computing unit on Tuesday unveiled its much-anticipated Qwen3 family, consisting of eight enhanced models that range from 600 million to 235 billion parameters. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. In machine learning, parameters are the variables present in an AI system during training, which helps establish how data prompts yield the…
DeepSeek photo illustration of the AI app environment with the logo.DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial … More intelligence company that develops open-source large language models LLM in a fraction of the cost of the US based competition. DeepSeek logo displayed on a smartphone screen with the flag of China on a screen in the background….
Hangzhou-based Alibaba’s cloud computing unit on Tuesday unveiled its much-anticipated Qwen3 family, consisting of eight enhanced models that range from 600 million to 235 billion parameters. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. In machine learning, parameters are the variables present in an AI system during training, which helps establish how data prompts yield the…
China will hold off on entering serious trade talks with the US while it waits to see which of Donald Trump’s advisers will have his ear and how other countries will respond to the 90-day pause on tariffs, according to sources. The Trump administration was “too divided” and China was in no rush to negotiate…