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Received — 1 October 2025 ⏭ Rest of World

AI is reshaping childhood in China

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By: Viola Zhou
1 October 2025 at 05:00
The runaway success of Chinese artificial intelligence models such as DeepSeek and Qwen has spurred every industry, from health care to agriculture to education, to integrate AI.  Adoption of AI...

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Received — 18 September 2025 ⏭ Rest of World

Banned in the U.S. and Europe, Huawei aims for the developing world’s AI

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By: Viola Zhou
18 September 2025 at 05:00
Barred from many Western markets by U.S.-led restrictions, Huawei is doubling down on developing countries for its cloud and artificial intelligence businesses. The move has put Huawei on a collision...

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A view of a Huawei retail store shows the company's logo and a large advertisement featuring a foldable smartphone on September 9, 2025, in Chongqing, China.
Received — 2 September 2025 ⏭ Rest of World

My mom and Dr. DeepSeek

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By: Viola Zhou
2 September 2025 at 05:00
Every few months, my mother, a 57-year-old kidney transplant patient who lives in a small city in eastern China, embarks on a two-day journey to see her doctor. She fills...

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Why Apple can’t just quit China

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By: Viola Zhou
13 May 2025 at 05:00
Patrick McGee’s new book, Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company, is out this week, just as the U.S. and China agreed to lower tariff levels for...

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People are seen in the flagship Apple Store in Beijing, China, April 2025.
Received — 23 April 2025 ⏭ Rest of World

Chinese sellers and U.S. buyers prepare for the end of ultracheap shopping

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By: Viola Zhou
23 April 2025 at 05:00
Phillip Dampier, in Rochester, New York, spends up to eight hours a day on Chinese shopping sites, and has already shelled out about $3,500 on electronics and home goods. He...

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FILE -- A shopper at a Shein pop-up store at The Shops at Willow Bend in Plano, Texas, Aug. 26, 2022. Two bipartisan bills were introduced in Congress this week seeking to change a nearly 100-year-old trade law that allows imported packages that fall under a certain price threshold to receive less oversight while moving through the United States customs process. Shein is one of the companies the bills would affect. (Cooper Neill/The New York Times)
Received — 8 April 2025 ⏭ Rest of World

Trump’s tariffs are testing Nvidia’s chip supremacy. Can Jensen Huang weather the storm?

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By: Viola Zhou
8 April 2025 at 10:20
Stephen Witt’s new book, The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip, is out this week, just as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs have prompted fears...

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Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., on March 18, 2025.
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Foxconn stops sending Chinese workers to India iPhone factories

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By: Selina Cheng and Viola Zhou
10 January 2025 at 06:00
Foxconn is halting new work rotations for its Chinese employees at its Apple iPhone factories in India, and sending Taiwanese workers instead, according to five people familiar with Foxconn’s operations...

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Employees test mobile phones on an assembly line in the mobile phone plant of Rising Stars Mobile India Pvt., a unit of Foxconn Technology Co., in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, India, on Friday, July 12, 2019.
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