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Mexico approves up to 50% tariffs on China and other countries
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BBC News
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The levies are set to take effect on 1 January and will apply to goods like cars, clothing and appliances.
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7 moments of Asian American and Black American solidarity
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AOL
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Stacker compiled a list of seven moments where Asian American and Black American solidarity paved the way for broad-stroke freedoms.
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‘The bullying can’t go on’: the film-maker following Filipino fishers under siege by China
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The Guardian
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Baby Ruth Villarama’s documentary Food Delivery depicts those struggling with the superpower to retain their trade. The director describes capturing their boats getting rammed by the Chinese coast guard During a televised debate in 2016, populist presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte made a typically belligerent statement that he himself would jetski to Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea and plant a Philippine flag there. Duterte claimed that he was ready to die a hero to keep the...
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From the archive: Is the IMF fit for purpose? – podcast
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The Guardian
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We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2022: As the world faces the worst debt crisis in decades, the need for a global lender of last resort is clearer than ever. But many nations view the IMF as overbearing, or even neocolonial – and are now looking elsewhere for help By Jamie Martin. Read by Kelly Burke
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Chip Company Plotted to Send Technology to China, Ex-C.E.O. Says
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New York Times
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The former chief executive of Nexperia, a Dutch chipmaker, said Dutch officials had known for years that the company’s Chinese owner sought to move its technology to China.
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I feel more Chinese in the US and more American in China. I have to switch between 2 personalities.
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Bing
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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jeff Niu, 31, a Columbia University graduate and American-born Chinese living in Beijing. His words have been edited for length and clarity. I'm ...
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Love Letters From a Chinese Jail
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New York Times
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The torn pieces of paper by Gao Zhen, a renowned artist jailed in China, show family portraits, memories of New York and expressions of faith. To his wife, they are love letters.
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The Guardian view on Trump and Europe: more an abusive relationship than an alliance | Editorial
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The Guardian
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The White House is aggressively seeking to weaken and dominate the United States’ traditional allies. European leaders must learn to fight back. Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz have become adept at scrambling to deal with the latest bad news from Washington. Their with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Downing Street on Monday was so hastily arranged that Mr Macron needed to be back in Paris by late afternoon to meet Croatia’s prime minister, while Mr Merz was due on for an...
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Trump clears way for Nvidia to sell powerful AI chips to China
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The Guardian
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Commerce department finalising deal to allow H200 chips to be sold to China as strict Biden-era restrictions relaxed Donald Trump has cleared the way for Nvidia to begin selling its powerful AI computer chips to China, marking a win for the chip maker and its CEO, Jensen Huang, who has spent months lobbying the White House to open up sales in the country. Before Monday’s announcement, the US had prohibited sales of Nvidia’s most advanced chips to China over national security concerns.
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Preparation for the Next Life review – deeply felt story of love among the marginalised in New York
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The Guardian
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Bing Liu’s film is an unflinching portrait of an undocumented Uyghur immigrant and a traumatised US veteran whose fragile connection is strained by their pasts Chinese-American film-maker Bing Liu made an impression with the about people from his home town in Illinois; now he pivots to features with this sad and sombre study of romance and life choices among those on the margins of US society, adapted from the prize-winning novel of the same name by Atticus Lish. The scene is the no-...
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