By Claire Campbell and Girish Sawlani, ABC Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said he held numerous phone calls with his counterpart in Iran and across the Middle East. Photo: AFP An “11th-hour” call from Iran’s biggest trading partner, China, is believed to have led to successful ceasefire negotiations between Iran, the United States and Israel….
By David Brunnstrom and John Irish, Reuters Photo: Draft resolution seeks authorisation to protect Hormuz shipping China says authorising force would bring further escalation Resolution authorises “all defensive means necessary” Trump says US can reopen Strait with a little more time security The UN Security Council is now expected to vote next week on a…
By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN US President Donald Trump. Photo: AFP / Getty Images North America / Kevin Dietsch President Donald Trump has said countries that do business with Iran will face a new 25 percent tariff. The announcement appears to mean goods from China, a major trading partner of both Iran and the United States,…
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon greets Zhao Leji, chairman of China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee, in Auckland on Thursday. Photo: RNZ / Yiting Lin China’s top legislator met Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in Auckland on Thursday at the beginning of a three-day visit to New Zealand. Zhao Leji, chairman of China’s National People’s Congress Standing…
Zhao Leji sits only below president Xi Jinping and premier Li Qiang in order of importance. Photo: RNZ / Giles Dexter A small crowd has gathered on Parliament’s lawn, hours ahead of the visit of the third highest ranking member of the Chinese government. Zhao Leji, the chairman of the National People’s Congress, is visiting…
If you read any of WIRED’s recent AI edition, you know that lots of people are spending lots of time talking about how the technology is revolutionizing pretty much everything—from coding to writing to accounting. You’ve also probably heard by now, from us or somebody else, that we might very well be in an economic…
When did we start wearing mountain gear to the grocery store? That’s one of the driving questions in “Gear,” a new seven-part miniseries from the podcast Articles of Interest that gets to the origins of gorpcore by tracing the long-held relationship between the US military and the outdoor apparel industry. Articles host Avery Trufelman, who’s…
Big week for OpenAI! The company is running basically every tech industry playbook, all at the same time, and it actually seems to be working. The company is adding apps to ChatGPT, in an effort to turn the chatbot into something more like an operating system. It’s offering developers new tools to add ChatGPT into…
Lauren Goode: What’s an example of that? Louise Matsakis: So, for example, there were some Chinese influencers who were spreading these conspiracy theories that Indians were plotting to use the visa to immigrate to China en masse. Lauren Goode: Interesting. You’ve both covered China’s businesses and workforce for years. Was this backlash surprising to you?…
Ari Emanuel … podcast host? After years of representing the best and brightest from the worlds of entertainment, sports, music and culture, the WME Group executive chairman and TKO Group CEO is becoming talent himself, launching a new video podcast called Rushmore. The show, which debuts Tuesday Sep. 30, will see Emanuel and co-host Ben…