June 9, 2023
ByteDance The LLC is testing an AI-based chatbot among employees by joining rival Chinese Internet conglomerates from Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. To Baidu Inc. in the race to create a local version ChatGPT. tik takThe owner of the company named the project Grace, a ByteDance spokesperson said without giving details. Employees using the service will
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Singapore CNN — China’s defense minister on Sunday accused the United States and its allies of trying to destabilize the Indo-Pacific region just hours after the two countries’ warships nearly collided. In a hawkish speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore, Li Shanfu accused the US of “provoking bloc confrontation for self-interest” and
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Walking through Nagu, a small mountain town in southwest China, you can see signs of a vibrant Muslim community everywhere. Loudspeakers play excerpts from the Chinese translation of the Quran. Women in headscarves escort violent children home from school. Arabic script decorates the outside of houses. Towering above it all is the Najiaying Mosque, a
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When German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron recently made separate but friendly visits to China, it caused considerable unease among their fellow leaders in Europe and Washington. Especially considering the Beijing “unlimited partnershipwith Russia, attempts to treat China as something that Mr Macron, who has been called a “strategic and global partner”
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New data has shown that China will soon account for less than half of US cheap imports from Asia for the first time in more than a decade as Western companies move their operations out of the country. US efforts to reduce reliance on China as well as price-sensitive US buyers are pushing trade towards
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US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin warned that a war over Taiwan would have “devastating” consequences for the global economy. Austin made the announcement Saturday at the Shangri-La Dialogue Security Summit. in Singapore. “Conflict is neither inevitable nor inevitable. Containment is strong today and our job is to keep it that way,” Austin told those
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The foreign ministers of countries in the economic bloc led by China and Russia have made it clear that they intend to rebalance global power, claiming they seek a “multipolar” dynamic even as they seek to put themselves at the center. “At the heart of the problems we are facing is economic concentration, which leaves
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This weekend, the United States pressured Beijing from both sides, warning both of the short-term risks of military setbacks and the looming dangers of nuclear arms rivalry, prompting vehement accusations from a Chinese general that Washington was fomenting a confrontation. In speeches by National Security Adviser to President Biden Jake Sullivan happy fridayand Secretary of
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JOSE Ong Tajan, an outstanding community organizer, educator, and businessman, received the Major Contribution Award at the 2023 Filipino-Chinese Understanding (APPCU) Awards, a collaborative event spearheaded by the Association for Filipino-Chinese Understanding (APCU) and the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Republic Philippines. An active member of the APCU Baguio Branch for
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday criticized China for conducting risky aerial interceptions over the South China Sea and warned that Washington would not stop dangerous behavior in the Indo-Pacific. China has carried out “an alarming number of high-risk interceptions of US and allied aircraft legally flying in international airspace,” Austin said at the Shangri-La
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