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Inside Maye Musk’s Cozy Relationship With China

In January, with a nationwide ban on TikTok looming, hundreds of thousands of people in the US began flocking to another Chinese social media app called RedNote—only to find that Maye Musk,...

Chinese Companies Rush to Put DeepSeek in Everything

What do a mobile shooting game, a nuclear power plant, and a local Chinese government office have in common? In the past two months, they have all tried incorporating DeepSeek’s R1 artificial...

Trump Still Considering Tariffs on Taiwanese Chips, Despite $100 Billion TSMC Deal

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s top producer of advanced computer chips, said Monday that it is planning to invest $100 billion in the United States to fund five new fabrication plants...

How Candise Lin Became the Unofficial Ambassador of Chinese Internet Culture

One day in mid-January, California-based social media influencer Candise Lin woke up and found that hundreds of thousands of so-called TikTok refugees were suddenly flocking to Red Note, a Chinese social media...

Temu and Shein Raised Prices, Removed Products as Trump’s China Tariffs Went Into Effect

Temu and Shein, the two biggest Chinese-owned ecommerce platforms that operate in the United States, have started raising prices and temporarily unlisting some products on their websites in response to new tariffs...

US Shoppers Face Fees of Up to $50 or More to Get Packages From China

One day after US president Donald Trump’s new tariffs on Chinese imports kicked into effect, shipping companies have already started charging higher import duties and processing fees, bewildering American consumers. Over the...

USPS Halts All Packages From China, Sending the Ecommerce Industry Into Chaos

The United States Postal Services has abruptly stopped accepting all packages from Hong Kong and China until further notice, according to an international service disruption notice posted on the USPS website. The...

Here’s How DeepSeek Censorship Actually Works—and How to Get Around It

Less than two weeks after DeepSeek launched its open-source AI model, the Chinese startup is still dominating the public conversation about the future of artificial intelligence. While the firm seems to have...

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