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

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By: Viola Zhou
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)
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Tracking the global fallout of Trump’s escalating trade war

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By: Rest of World Staff
Update: As of April 9 at 2PM ET, President Trump has announced that the tariffs will be paused for 90 days and replaced with a near-universal 10%. This does not...

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Workers sort out packages at a delivery company warehouse to be delivered to customers during "Singles' Day" -- the world's biggest 24-hour shopping event -- in Beijing on November 11, 2019. - Chinese consumers closed in on a new spending record November 11 during the annual "Singles' Day" frenzy, the world's biggest 24-hour shopping event, which kicked off this year with a glitzy show by US megastar Taylor Swift.
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Trump’s tariffs are testing Nvidia’s chip supremacy. Can Jensen Huang weather the storm?

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By: Viola Zhou
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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Uber wades into a fierce price war to stay competitive in India

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By: Cheena Kapoor
India’s homegrown ride-hailing startups are forcing Uber to rethink its strategy. In February, the Silicon Valley giant ditched its commission-based pricing for two- and three-wheeler segments, allowing drivers to pay...

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New Delhi, Indien. Blick von der Dachterrasse des Vivek Hotel in New Delhi auf das pulsierende Leben dieser Großstadt. © Andy Ridder / VISUM
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iPhones were already losing ground in China. Then came Trump’s tariffs

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By: Selina Cheng and Joanna Chiu
At a Huawei store in a bustling shopping mall in northern Hong Kong last week, shoppers flocked to the Mate XT, the world’s first tri-fold smartphone, which can turn into...

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A woman looks at her smartphone while walking past an Apple-authorized store offering government subsidies on electronic devices, with discounts of up to 15% or 500 yuan, on March 10, 2025 in Chongqing, China.
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Myanmar’s internet blackout is costing lives in earthquake-hit areas

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By: Lam Le
As Myanmar remains shaken by last week’s devastating earthquake, which has claimed more than 3,000 lives, a lack of connectivity is proving to be an obstacle to relief and rescue...

(250401) -- MANDALAY, April 1, 2025 (Xinhua) -- Members from the China Search and Rescue Team carry out rescue work at a quake site in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 30, 2025. Following the devastating earthquake in Myanmar, multiple Chinese rescue teams have arrived in the disaster-stricken areas, working with local responders around the clock to search for survivors.
The rescuers combed through the ruins of apartments, hotels and hospitals to find signs of life. Continuous aftershocks, power cuts, destroyed roads and communication interruptions made their rescue work even harder.
Meanwhile, more Chinese rescue teams are heading to Myanmar, bringing in earthquake experts, structural engineers, medical personnel and canine units, as well as life detectors, demolition equipment and field hospital systems. (Xinhua/Cai Yang)
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