Major Chinese e-commerce platforms are offering steep discounts on Apple's iPhone 16 series, with cuts reaching 2,530 yuan ($351) on premium models, according to a recent Reuters report.

The conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir offers a potentially rich intelligence harvest for China in its own rivalry with India as it gleans data from its fighter jets and other weapons used in action by Pakistan.

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Although China is Bangladesh’s largest trading partner, Bangladeshi exports to China remain low.

Researchers from China's Zhejiang University, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, have created the world’s smallest light-emitting diodes (LEDs), measuring just 90 nanometers in size - around the size of a virus. According to a study published in the science journal Nature, these nano-perovskite LEDs (nano-PeLEDs) achieve a record pixel density of 127,000 pixels per inch (PPI), surpassing existing LED technologies.

Starlink's Ukraine role exposed single-provider risks. US threatens suspension; China eyes space.

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"China views all efforts dedicated to peace positively, including any consensus reached by the United States and Russia on peace talks," China's foreign ministry readout quoted Wang as saying.

China is calling on its colleges and universities to provide “love education” to propagate positive views on marriage, love, fertility and family, in an attempt to improve the country’s declining birth rate. 

China has been hit with extreme weather in recent months

China's commerce ministry slammed Washington's "erroneous practices"

A Chinese startup named DeepSeek has taken the lead in the AI race, with its assistant app becoming the most popular free app on Apple’s US App Store, surpassing ChatGPT, according to data firm Sensor Tower. The app, powered by the DeepSeek-V3 model, was launched on January 10 and has quickly gained attention in the United States.

Apple has lost its position as China's leading smartphone seller in 2024, with Vivo and Huawei overtaking the iPhone maker, according to data from research firm Canalys, states a recent Reuters report.

"This move gravely infringes on China's sovereignty and security interests," Beijing's foreign ministry said in a statement, adding it "firmly opposes this action".

Xi will attend the inauguration of Macau's new administration during his trip and "also conduct an inspection tour", state news agency Xinhua reported.

The China-based companies identified include Zhejiang Uniview Technologies, which US officials accuse of enabling human rights violations such as surveillance of Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minority groups.

Nepal and China signed an initial deal in 2017 for President Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative, which aims to build China's infrastructure and trade links with the world.

Beijing has been promoting various measures to try to make having children more attractive to young couples after China posted a second consecutive year of population decline in 2023.

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is suing a former intern for 8 million yuan (about $1.1 million), accusing him of deliberately disrupting its artificial intelligence (AI) training operations. The lawsuit, filed in Beijing's Haidian District People's Court, has sparked widespread interest in China owing to its unique nature.

Moscow has reacted furiously to a decision by US President Joe Biden to change policy on Ukraine and allow Kyiv to use US-supplied long-range missiles to strike Russian territory for the first time.