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China’s new graphite bomb signals shift to silent siege of Taiwan
Asia Times
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July 1, 2025
China’s tease of a graphite bomb signals a shift toward non-kinetic warfare aimed at crippling Taiwan’s power grid and eroding resistance from within. Recently the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that China in a state broadcaster video...
China is not alone in building a new cult of heroes and martyrs
Asia Times
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July 1, 2025
A tour guide competition was held in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late May. This was not some fun contest. According to Chinese state media, it was a carefully conceived effort to “attract and cultivate a group of politically firm and...
China Leads the World in AI Energy Innovation
Oil Price
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June 30, 2025
China is increasingly integrating artificial intelligence into its energy system to increase the sector’s efficiency and enhance national energy security. From managing energy storage to more accurately forecasting energy supply and demand, large...
Art Business Risk, Protection, and Legal Survival: How Artists Actually Stay in the Game – MoMAA
Savannah Herald - Georgia
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June 30, 2025
Copyright, Intellectual Property, and the War for Ownership The Copyright Delusion—Why Most Artists Give Away Their Power Most artists operate under the dangerous assumption that copyright just “protects itself” and that registration is for big...
China and C. Asia light path to a new order
China Daily Global
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This photo taken on June 14, 2025 shows the Baiterek Tower in Astana, Kazakhstan. [Photo/Xinhua] At the heart of Astana, Kazakhstan, under the expansive blue skies of Central Asia, President Xi Jinping's keynote address at the second China-Central...
China ‘folded boy’ stands up straight for first time after gruelling surgeries
South China Morning Post
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July 1, 2025
A university student, known as China’s “folded boy” due to his spinal condition, has inspired countless people online after undergoing a series of complex surgeries and achieving the remarkable milestone of straightening his body and lying flat in...
China’s grip on rare earths a lethal weapon in US trade war
Financial Review
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July 1, 2025
Updated Jul 1, 2025 – 2.38pm, first published at 2.14pm Gift this article Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Login In the subterranean battlefields...
Chinese student charged in Japan with English test cheating multiple times
South China Morning Post
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July 1, 2025
A Chinese student at one of Japan’s top universities has been charged for the third time with helping others cheat in English proficiency tests, a case that observers say may be part of a broader and more sophisticated cheating network involving...
Chinese Fund Manager, 30, Beats 97% Of Peers By Backing Labubu Dollmaker
News18
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June 30, 2025
Last Updated:June 30, 2025, 21:13 IST Xie Tianyuan’s fund returned 24 per cent so far this year, outperforming 97 per cent of nearly 2,300 mutual funds in China A woman visits the Yongle Auction office where limited-edition Labubu artworks are on...
China-Pakistan partnership offers 610 scholarships for 2025 autumn semester
Daily Times
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June 30, 2025
A China-Pakistan technical education centre has announced 610 scholarships for Pakistani students for the autumn 2025 semester to study for one year in China, officials said. The scholarships are part of the Chinese Culture and Technical Education...
China’s Bet on Iran: What Now?
The Diplomat
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June 30, 2025
One can imagine the shock at No. 2 Chaoyangmen South Boulevard, Beijing, the home of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, upon hearing the news that in the early hours of June 22 Iranian time, the United States had attacked, in extraordinary...
New Species of Permian Herbivorous Tetrapod Identified in China
Sci-News
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June 30, 2025
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of mid-sized pareiasaur from two fossilized specimes found in China in 2018. An artist’s reconstruction of Yinshanosaurus angustus. Image credit: X.-C. Guo, Institute of Vertebrate...
10 best chinese anime that you should watch
Sportskeeda
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July 1, 2025
Chinese anime, or donghua, has rapidly gained prominence internationally in recent years. With its unique aesthetic that blends traditional Asian art with contemporary animation, donghua offers imaginative and riveting stories for global...
Art & the Knock-On Effect
State College Magazine - Pennsylvania
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June 30, 2025
At the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania, a class in drawing with colored pencils. Photo by R Thomas Berner But what about the other 11 months? Everybody knows that July is a huge arts month in State College, primarily because of the Central...
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” threatens to pull plug on China solar players
KrASIA
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July 1, 2025
Chinese solar companies in the US are in a bind as sweeping legislation backed by President Donald Trump could bar them from receiving tax credits and subsidies that have spurred US solar manufacturing. The 1,000-page “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”...
The Best Lesbian Movies Ever Made, from ‘D.E.B.S.’ and ‘Carol’ to ‘Bound’ and ‘Pariah’
IndieWire
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July 1, 2025
If “Barbie” was supposed to be the Year of the Girl, then what do you call the three-month stretch of 2024 that gave us “Love Lies Bleeding,” “Drive-Away Dolls,” and a musical “Mean Girls” with lesbian intern Reneé Rapp? Hot Sapphic… Spring?...
Where Chinese and French brushstrokes meet
China Daily Global
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Works of four recipients of the Yishu 8 Prize, including French artists Lionel Sabatte (left) and Claire Nicolet (right) are on show at The Other Within the Self, an exhibition about encounters and artistic dialogue between France and China. CHINA...
"Ne Zha 2" ends record-breaking China run with 2.13-bln-USD haul, but global journey continues
Global Times
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A girl views copies of hand-drawn posters of Chinese animated blockbuster "Ne Zha 2" at an exhibition held in Beijing, capital of China, April 19, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Xin)After shattering virtually every box office record in Chinese film history, "Ne...
How Iran War Exposed Limits of Chinese Influence in Region
The Epoch Times
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June 30, 2025
| June 30, 2025Updated:June 30, 2025 The world had a moment of clarity during the Israel–Iran conflict. For years, analysts have noted that China is closing in on the United States as a peer competitor, whether in terms of high-tech industries,...
WIN! ALTER. at naked CASTLE – Musical Escape in Moganshan
That's
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July 1, 2025
On July 4 and 5, the historic naked CASTLE in Moganshan will transform into a vibrant hub of music and movement for ALTER.’s immersive castle party. Set against the backdrop of a century-old castle—originally built in 1910 by Scottish missionary...