All news on the topic: China

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How China’s "King of Fentanyl" built the Sinaloa cartel’s deadly supply chain
"Brother Wang was very important. He was number one," says Enrique, chuckling knowingly.
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EPPO freezes €11m in Chinese textiles in Italian VAT and customs fraud probe
Following an EPPO request, an Italian court ordered the seizure of over 7.8 million metres of fabric and 237,000 garments as part of an investigation into VAT and customs fraud involving smuggled Chinese textiles.
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Leaked documents expose secret Russia-China plan to destroy Starlink and jointly develop advanced weapons
Secret documents from a series of clandestine Russian-Chinese military forums reveal a joint plan to defeat Elon Musk’s Starlink and a weapons development partnership far deeper than either country will admit.
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Taiwan charges executives accused of helping Chinese hackers target officials by posing as journalists
The Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau probe corroborates ICIJ and Citizen Lab’s findings that attacks against journalists were part of a coordinated espionage campaign sponsored by Beijing.
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Chinese company faces calls for investigation after closing three historic private schools
Education minister Olivia Bailey said private schools are “responsible for ensuring their long-term viability” and “free to make their own business decisions”, but she was “shocked” at Galaxy Global Education’s (GGE) behaviour.
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China’s DeepSeek enters AI chip race with custom inference processor
Chinese startup DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip, according to three people familiar with the matter, a push that could reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei chips, which it has depended on to train and run its globally popular models.
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Former Chinese official sentenced to death over $325 million bribery scheme
A Chinese court has sentenced a former senior official to death for accepting more than 2.21 billion yuan ($325 million) in bribes over a 30-year period, according to a statement from the Changzhou Intermediate People’s Court in Jiangsu province.
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Shipping industry retreats from net zero as fossil fuels regain dominance and nuclear ambitions grow
The shipping industry’s backing for green power has sunk as the majority of vessel owners stick to traditional dirty marine fossil fuels or explore alternatives including nuclear energy.
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Andy Burnham urged to ditch Trump strategy and rebuild ties with Europe
Andy Burnham is being urged to prioritise Europe over the US amid criticism that his predecessor was too close to Donald Trump.
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Is fascism really back — or are today’s elites building something even more dangerous?
There’s hardly a ruler in the world who would identify as fascist, but if you trust the mainstream media, you will assume fascism is on the march.
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Britain faces growing "grey-zone war" threat from Russia, Iran and China
Britain is facing a major national security challenge from hostile states operating below the threshold of war, the country’s independent reviewer of terrorism and state threats legislation has warned.
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Italian court freezes 7.8 million metres of fabric in EPPO probe into Chinese textile smuggling
At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bologna (Italy), the Judge for Preliminary Investigations in Prato has issued a freezing order covering over 7.8 million metres of fabric and more than 237 000 garments, as part of an ongoing investigation into a VAT and customs fraud involving the smuggling of textile products from China.
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Putin personally approved secret Chinese military training for Russian troops, documents reveal
China’s covert military training of Russian forces last year was personally approved by President Vladimir Putin’s defence minister and directly involved at least four Russian and Chinese generals, according to two European officials and documents seen by Reuters.
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Apple seeks White House backing to source chips from Chinese company linked to China’s military
iPhone maker wants Trump administration to sign off on purchases to ease pressure from rising semiconductor prices.
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Aircraft crashes into Beijing skyscraper as pilot loses contact moments before impact
A plane has crashed into Beijing’s famous CITIC Tower skyscraper, also known as the China Zun.
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Chinese businessman wanted in Thailand as probe links him to "pig-butchering" crypto scams
Thailand has issued an arrest warrant for a Chinese businessman featured in a Reuters investigation into transnational crypto-investment fraud, alleging he was part of a network that laundered money from scams and online gambling through illegal cryptocurrency mining.
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Kenya signs $1.2bn China deal to transform Nairobi airport into regional aviation hub
Kenya has signed a $1.2 billion agreement with a Chinese state-owned construction company to expand and modernize the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), a major infrastructure project aimed at strengthening the country’s position as East Africa’s leading aviation gateway.
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Sanctioned Russian shadow fleet tanker enters English Channel after Smyrtos seizure
The tanker Forwarder (IMO: 9419448), which is under UK, U.S. EU, Canadian, Swiss, and Ukrainian sanctions, entered the English Channel under the Russian flag and is continuing its course south.
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China demands UK lift sanctions on Harxon over Russian Geran drone antenna supplies
China has demanded that the United Kingdom lift sanctions against four Chinese companies accused of supplying Russia with critical military equipment.
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SpaceX investor list reveals China-linked backer tied to sanctioned military contractors
One previously unreported SpaceX investor has ties to Chinese military contractors.
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Nitazenes flood US drug supply as synthetic opioids outpace fentanyl con
In high school, Ashley Delgado dreamed of becoming a doctor and one day buying her father a Rolls-Royce. “She wanted to heal people,” said her father, James Taylor.
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Former immigration official and ex-Hong Kong officer jailed for spying for China
A former British immigration official and a retired Hong Kong police officer have been jailed for spying for China.
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World’s richest consumers cause up to $5.7tn in environmental damage each year
The environmental damage bill racked up by the highest-consuming 10% of the world’s population has reached up to $5.7tn a year – larger than the economy of every country except the US and China, a study has found.
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Google sues China-based phishing network accused of $1.9bn scam operation
A lawsuit filed by Google against an alleged China-based phishing network may help the company seize reachable infrastructure and make fraud harder for criminals, but is unlikely to stop the broader scam ecosystem, a cybersecurity expert told OCCRP on Tuesday.
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Trump’s "American-proud" phone exposed as re-skinned HTC device built in China
Donald Trump’s highly anticipated "American-proud" smartphone is actually just a re-skinned gadget from Taiwan that is built in China, a new analysis has revealed.