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Tesla’s path in China clears as Musk courts both Trump and Xi
Billionaire CEO is well connected in the US and China, something that could smooth the road ahead for the electric vehicle maker amid a looming tariff war
If it pays to have friends in high places, few among us can claim to be better placed than Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and one of the only people to have cosy relationships with both Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. His commercial and political connections to both may prove pivotal as the feud between the US and China plays out over the next four years, particularly as Trump promises steep tariffs.
Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, once supported Joe Biden. But his relationship with the current US president soured over the past four years as, among other insults, Musk felt that the White House gave Telsa, his car and green energy company, “the cold shoulder”. Trump, meanwhile, has described Tesla as “incredible” even while pledging to do away with subsidies for electric vehicles. This year, Musk formally endorsed Trump as the presidential candidate, campaigned for him online and off and donated more than $100m to his re-election effort.
Continue reading...Read more乌镇“网事”｜构建网络空间命运共同体，习近平主席念兹在兹
11月20日，国家主席习近平向2024年世界互联网大会乌镇峰会开幕视频致贺。
Read more时政微纪录丨习主席的拉美时间：开启中巴关系下一个“黄金50年”
当地时间11月19日下午，国家主席习近平乘专机抵达巴西利亚，开始对巴西进行国事访问。
Read more看图学习·众行致远丨心系、扎根、支持全球南方发展 习主席阐明中国主张
当地时间11月18日，习近平主席在G20峰会第一阶段会议就“抗击饥饿与贫困”议题发表重要讲话，呼吁作为世界主要大国领导人应该秉持命运共同体意识，扛起历史责任、展现历史主动、推动历史进步。习主席表示，中国始终是“全球南方”的一员，是发展中国家可靠的长期合作伙伴，并宣布中国支持全球发展的八项行动，愿同各方一道行动，建设一个共同发展的公正世界。
Read more【讲习所·众行致远】中国减贫成果激励着许多国家
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Read more推动毕节高质量发展专家指导组调研座谈会召开
推动毕节高质量发展专家指导组调研座谈会召开
Read more外交部：今年第三季度外国人入境818.6万人次，同比上升48.8%
中新网11月22日电 国务院新闻办公室22日举行国务院政策例行吹风会。外交部领事司负责人童学军指出，开放是中国式现代化的鲜明标识。单方面免签政策，正是中国推动高质量发展和高水平对外开放的重要举措。
Read more第1视点｜继往开来 开启中巴关系下一个“黄金50年”
当地时间11月20日上午，国家主席习近平在巴西利亚总统官邸黎明宫同巴西总统卢拉举行会谈。两国元首宣布，将中巴关系定位提升为携手构建更公正世界和更可持续星球的中巴命运共同体。
Read more一见·特别的安排！从北京到巴西利亚的两首歌
当地时间11月20日，国家主席习近平出席巴西总统卢拉举行的欢迎仪式。欢迎仪式上，巴西艺术家用中文演唱《我的祖国》。
Read more视频画报｜“黄金搭档”的握手——习近平主席的巴西利亚时间
当地时间11月19日下午，国家主席习近平在结束二十国集团领导人第十九次峰会活动后离开里约热内卢，乘专机抵达巴西利亚，开始对巴西进行国事访问。
Read more外交部：目前已同25个国家实现全面免签
中新网11月22日电 国务院新闻办公室22日举行国务院政策例行吹风会。外交部领事司负责人童学军在会上介绍，近一段时间以来，外交部持续推出签证便利化举措，不断改进外籍人士来华体验。
Read more国家开发银行原党委委员、副行长李吉平被提起公诉
中新网11月22日电 据最高人民检察院官方微信消息，国家开发银行原党委委员、副行长李吉平涉嫌受贿一案，由国家监察委员会调查终结，经最高人民检察院指定，由河南省信阳市人民检察院审查起诉。近日，信阳市人民检察院已向信阳市中级人民法院提起公诉。
Read more乌镇“网事”丨世界青年乌镇话数字未来
11月20日，世界互联网大会乌镇峰会正式启幕，来自17个国家和地区的“全球青年领军者”集体亮相，央视新闻专访了其中五位，探讨他们眼中数字未来的模样。
Read more载人登月画面提前“剧透” 中国载人航天精彩可期
央视网消息：11月21日，第六届载人航天学术大会在广东深圳开幕，载人航天相关领域800多名专家学者共议中国载人航天发展蓝图。
Read more第14次中国-东盟防长非正式会晤在老挝举行
中新社北京11月22日电 第14次中国-东盟防长非正式会晤21日下午在老挝万象举行。会议由中国国防部长董军和东盟轮值主席国老挝副总理兼国防部长占沙蒙共同主持。
Read more【讲习所·乌镇“网事”】中国成为许多国家数字化发展的典范
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Read more【乌镇“网事”】习言道｜构建更加普惠繁荣的网络空间
当前，新一轮科技革命和产业变革迅猛发展，人工智能等新技术方兴未艾。习近平主席高度重视互联网、发展互联网、治理互联网，作出一系列重要论述。
Read moreHoward Lutnick’s China ties draw fire after Trump taps him to lead trade war
Commerce secretary pick has substantial business links with China, raising questions of possible conflict of interest
The investment banker Howard Lutnick’s exposure to China came into sharp relief, after the Republican president-elect, Donald Trump, tapped him to lead the agencies that have become the tip of the spear in the US-China trade war.
The financial services firms helmed by Lutnick have profited from ties to China: from BGC Group, which has a joint venture in Beijing with Chinese-state owned China Credit Trust, to Cantor Fitzgerald, which has helped take Chinese firms public in the United States.
Continue reading...Read moreSnow Leopard review – enigmatic tale of man v beast is late Tibetan film-maker’s final word
Pema Tseden’s swan song about the fate of a snow leopard imprisoned by a vengeful farmer gains new layers of political meaning following the director’s death
Tibetan film-maker Pema Tseden died of heart failure last year at the age of 53, just months after completing this movie; his health was almost certainly weakened by rough treatment from Chinese police in a notorious 2016 incident at an airport where he was prevented from retrieving his luggage, and the ensuing row escalated when police officers became involved and Tseden ended up in hospital. This ugly and possibly tragic event must surely have influenced Tseden’s final film, which mixes satirical comedy and social commentary and an enigmatic Zen reverie of innocence and experience. The fact that Tseden did die also alters the film’s meaning.
A TV crew is seen making its way in a four-wheel drive across the vast Tibetan plateau to where a monk has told them a furious farmer is keeping a snow leopard – a nationally protected animal – illegally penned up, and intending to kill it in revenge for killing nine of his lambs. The monk is riding along with the crew; he is nicknamed “Snow Leopard” because he himself was radicalised into his vocation as a young man by rescuing another snow leopard – or, who knows, perhaps this very same one – from his farming family who had strung the animal up, intending to whip it to death.
Continue reading...Read more三叠纪大灭绝后陆地生态如何复苏？1.9亿年前“渝州生物群”揭秘
中新网北京11月22日电 (记者 孙自法)发生在约2.01亿年前的三叠纪大灭绝，是地球历史上最大的灭绝事件之一。这一事件对海洋生态系统的生态影响证据较为充分，但由于化石记录稀缺，对陆地生态系统的影响仍不清晰。三叠纪大灭绝后陆地生态如何在早侏罗世复苏是地质古生物学研究中关注的热点之一。
Read more两岸产业交流对接系列活动在江苏举办
中新社南京11月21日电 台资制造业企业产业链供应链对接会、2024两岸机械工业交流会21日分别在江苏省苏州市、南通市举办。
Read moreTransgender woman wins record payout in China after electroshock treatment
Case marks first time a trans person has successfully challenged use of such conversion practices in country
A transgender woman in China has won a record amount of compensation from a hospital that subjected her to several sessions of electroshock conversion practices without her consent.
Changli county people’s court in Qinhuangdao, a city in Hebei, approved a 60,000 yuan (£6,552) award to Ling’er, a 28-year-old performance artist who was recorded male at birth but identifies as a woman. LGBTQ+ activists described the award, approved on 31 October, as a victory for trans rights in China.
Continue reading...Read more台胞刘德文“灵魂摆渡”大陆老兵 盼两岸越走越亲
中新社北京11月21日电 (黄欣欣)“两岸民众本就是一家人，一定要多多交往、越走越亲”，台胞刘德文21日在北京的一场文化交流活动上表示。
Read more登广告吁救台湾教育 区桂芝指现行课纲绑架所有师生
中新社台北11月21日电 (记者 路梅)21日起，一则呼吁救台湾教育、废除现行课纲的广告出现在台北多处捷运站及公交车上。发起人之一、台北第一女子高中语文老师区桂芝表示，现在的台湾，意识形态凌驾教育，对教育造成伤害，现行课纲绑架甚至霸凌了所有老师和学生。
Read more携手构建命运共同体，中巴关系开启下一个“黄金50年”
中新社北京11月21日电 (记者 李京泽 张素)“我们就中巴关系未来发展达成新的战略共识，其中最重要的是，我们共同决定将双边关系提升为携手构建更公正世界和更可持续星球的中巴命运共同体，同时将共建‘一带一路’倡议同巴西发展战略对接。”
Read more东西问丨刘志强：中华典籍中的人权理念为何受到世界关注？
中新社长沙11月21日电 题：中华典籍中的人权理念为何受到世界关注？
Read more东西问丨杨国荣：中国传统哲学蕴含何种人权思想？
中新社上海11月21日电 题：中国传统哲学蕴含何种人权思想？
Read more东西问丨意大利汉学家梅毕娜：人权理念研讨有何现实指向？
中新社长沙11月21日电 题：人权理念研讨有何现实指向？
Read more第二届海峡两岸中华摄影奖揭晓 共塑两岸摄影中华语境
中新社杭州11月21日电 (郭其钰)第二届海峡两岸中华摄影奖颁奖典礼暨第五届海峡两岸影像文化周开幕式21日在浙江杭州举行。来自两岸的一幅幅摄影作品立足弘扬中华文化，旨在打造两岸摄影的中华语境。
Read more高清大图｜习近平主席乘专机离开巴西利亚
当地时间11月21日上午，国家主席习近平在结束出席二十国集团领导人第十九次峰会并对巴西进行国事访问后乘专机启程回国。
Read more习近平结束出席二十国集团领导人第十九次峰会并对巴西进行国事访问 乘专机离开巴西利亚
中新社巴西利亚11月21日电 (记者 郭金超 黄钰钦)当地时间11月21日上午，中国国家主席习近平在结束出席二十国集团领导人第十九次峰会并对巴西进行国事访问后乘专机启程回国。
Read more73分钟凑5000万交保，台湾绿营官商“家底”有多厚？
凑足5000万元新台币(约等于1112万元人民币)的现金，需要多长时间？
Read more台商台企：大陆内需市场与完备供应链不容忽视
中新社苏州11月21日电 (张杨彬 葛勇)台资制造业企业产业链供应链对接会21日在江苏苏州举行。多位台商受访时表示，大陆广阔的内需市场与完备供应链不容忽视，是持续吸引台资台企来到大陆、留在大陆的重要原因。
Read more第11届东盟防长扩大会在老挝举行 董军出席并发言
中新社北京11月21日电 第11届东盟防长扩大会21日上午在老挝万象举行，中国国防部长董军出席并发言。
Read more‘Resurgence’ in China aid to Pacific amid tussle with US for influence
Thinktank’s report says Beijing has emerged from Covid-induced lull with a ‘more competitive, politically targeted model’ of engagement in the region
China has renewed efforts to curry favour in Pacific island nations, a new report has found, after charting a “resurgence” in Beijing-backed aid and infrastructure funding.
Over the past decade, China has lavished billions of dollars on Pacific island nations, part of ongoing efforts to build influence in competition with the US and its allies.
Continue reading...Read moreSwedish police focus on Chinese ship after suspected undersea cable sabotage
Investigators gather evidence at two Baltic sites while Danish navy is shadowing Chinese cargo ship
Swedish police investigating the believed sabotage of two fibre-optic undersea cables in the Baltic Sea have said a Chinese ship off the coast of Denmark was “of interest” as Danish officials said its navy was shadowing a Chinese-registered cargo ship.
The ship, identified by Denmark as the Yi Peng 3, passed the two cables on Sunday and Monday about the time it is believed they were severed in a suspected malicious attack. The ship has been shadowed by a Danish navy vessel since it was located in waters between Sweden and Denmark.
Continue reading...Read moreJimmy Lai trial: key points from media mogul’s testimony on first day
Detained pro-democracy activist spoke for first time about charges against him under Hong Kong national security law
Jimmy Lai, the detained pro-democracy activist and media mogul who is the target of Hong Kong’s most high-profile national security case, took the stand in court on Wednesday. For the first time since he was detained in December 2020, Lai spoke publicly about the charges against him, for which he faces spending the rest of his life behind bars.
Four years after his arrest, the 77-year-old seemed older and not as strong as he used to be. His first words – swearing an oath on the Bible – were delivered hoarsely.
Continue reading...Read more‘You have to be prepared for the worst’: making a film on the fight for democracy in Cuba
Documentary film-maker Nanfu Wang found difficulties while following an activist in Cuba for her revealing, and timely, new film Night is Not Eternal
“I don’t believe in America being the beacon of democracy,” says the documentary film-maker Nanfu Wang. “America sliding into autocracy is not something that is unimaginable.”
Terms such as democracy and autocracy have been thrown around a lot since the re-election of Donald Trump as US president. But Wang speaks with unusual authority on this subject. She was born in China and lived under its authoritarian regime until 2011 when, aged 26, she moved to the US because of its promise of democracy and freedom.
Continue reading...Read moreMy friend Joshua Wong is among those jailed in Hong Kong – the UK must stand up for these political prisoners | Nathan Law
I too suffered this repression. The harsh sentences handed down to democracy activists cannot go unchallenged
Joshua Wong, one of Hong Kong’s best-known pro-democracy activists, was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison on Tuesday. He received a one-third sentencing cut to that period by pleading guilty. Even so, coupled with other charges he faced for his peaceful participation in the 2019 democratic protests, he will be in prison until at least 2027.
I spent my formative years with Wong. We were both student leaders in the 2014 Umbrella Movement, and co-founded the now-dissolved youth-led political party Demosistō in 2016. He gave everything he had to support me in my bid to become the youngest legislator in Hong Kong the same year. In 2020, I departed the city; he remains. The pain of survivor’s guilt hits me every night.
Continue reading...Read more‘Quite dodgy’: what kind of outfit does $80 buy at Temu and Shein?
On the surface, it is possible to assemble a reasonable outfit from ultra fast fashion sites. But look to the seams and you’ll find a mess of raw edges, loose threads and wonky lines
The black cargo skirt on Temu’s website is mid-length with a split up the back. It’s available in three colours and in every photo the model stands in exactly the same pose. From the detail I can see in the waistband, I’m pretty sure the quality will be OK for the $21.98 price tag. I click “add to cart”.
On the next screen I’m told both the skirt and the mesh Mary-Jane ballet flats ($18.78) I’m buying, are “almost sold out”. A small red clock indicates I should hurry. Strategies like this, that generate a sense of urgency and reward, have led to Temu being accused of using addictive and manipulative sales tactics. (When reached for comment, a Temu spokesperson said these “gamified elements” and time-limited deals allowed customers to access even greater discounts.)
Continue reading...Read more‘Capitalism incarnate’: inside the secret world of McKinsey, the firm hooked on fossil fuels
Interviews and analysis of court documents show how the world’s most prestigious consulting firm quietly helps fuel the climate crisis
Two giant, mirrored walls are set to rise out of the sands of the Arabian desert. They will run parallel for more than 100 miles from the coast of the Red Sea through arid valleys and craggy mountains. Between them, a futuristic city which has no need for cars or roads will be powered completely by renewable energy.
This engineering marvel, its creators say, will usher in “a revolution in civilization”. It’s the jewel in the crown of a $500bn Saudi government project known as Neom, turning a vast scrubland into a techno-utopia and world-class tourist and sporting destination. Perhaps a harbinger for the end of oil, it will supposedly put the powerful petrostate at the forefront of the energy transition. For American consulting giant McKinsey & Company, its advising on this project appears to be making good on the firm’s green promises.
Continue reading...Read moreHong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai defiant as he gives evidence in foreign collusion trial
Founder of Apple Daily paper denies seeking to influence foreign policy against China and says advocating for the independence of Hong Kong was ‘a reality too crazy to think about’
The pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai has said he never tried to influence foreign policy or ask foreign officials to take concrete action on Hong Kong, on his first day giving evidence at his national security trial.
However, he “hoped against hope” that Donald Trump would stop Beijing imposing its national security law on the city, and so sought to have Apple Daily’s coverage of the then president be less critical.
Continue reading...Read morePacific island governor backs $800m US military upgrade amid China threat
Northern Mariana Islands governor says ‘the world is changing in the Indo-Pacific’ as work continues in the US territory on defense development
The governor of the Northern Mariana Islands says an $800m US military upgrade plan which includes a new airfield in the Pacific territory “has to happen” amid concern over China’s recent missile tests in the region.
Tinian, home to about 3,500 people, is one of the three main islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, an unincorporated US territory. During the second world war, the US launched a nuclear bomb against Japan from Tinian, and now a major rehabilitation of a deserted airfield and other military upgrades are under way on the island.
Continue reading...Read moreTrump tariffs are coming, but some Chinese companies may already know how to avoid them
Some experts liken tariffs to a game of whack-a-mole, with trade flows simply rerouted if the potential rewards are big enough
Businesses are bracing for the economic impact of a second Trump presidency, which, if his campaign promises are to be believed, will mean tariffs across nearly all imports to the US, especially those from China.
But amid the gloom over the spectre of a renewed global trade war, some manufacturers may be looking to those who already have a playbook on dealing with aggressive US levies, such as China’s solar companies.
Continue reading...Read moreStarmer twice declines to directly condemn jailing of Hong Kong pro-democracy figures
UK prime minister was condemned by Iain Duncan Smith, who is on Beijing’s sanctions list
Keir Starmer has twice declined to directly condemn the jailing of dozens of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy figures, less than 24 hours after meeting China’s president at the G20 summit.
The UK prime minister was asked both during a BBC interview and at his press conference in Rio de Janeiro to respond to the jailing of the activists, including being asked if he would condemn the sentences directly, but he reiterated the importance of building bridges with China for the sake of economic growth.
Continue reading...Read moreThe Guardian view on a showtrial in Hong Kong: a new authoritarian low | Editorial
The jailing of 45 pro-democracy activists testifies to the ruthless suppression of a once-vibrant civil society
Defending Beijing’s draconian crackdown on political freedoms in Hong Kong, following the extraordinary protest movement in 2019, the territory’s former leader, Carrie Lam, would claim that there was no “one-size-fits-all” approach to doing democracy. Such rhetoric was, of course, only ever disingenuous sophistry. The conclusion of Hong Kong’s largest-ever national security trial on Tuesday confirmed the grisly trajectory of recent years under Ms Lam’s successor, John Lee: a consolidation of nakedly authoritarian rule has led to the suppression of a once vibrant and politically diverse civil society.
In all, 45 pro-democracy activists were jailed under Hong Kong’s punitive national security law (NSL), imposed by Beijing in 2020. Charged the same year with conspiracy to commit subversion against the state, their “crime” had been, in fact, to pursue a peaceful route to goals including democratic elections for the city’s leader and police accountability.
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Continue reading...Read moreChina and India should not be called developing countries, several Cop29 delegates say
Delegates from poorer nations say classifications that date back to 1992 are obsolete and two countries ‘should be contributing’
China and India should no longer be treated as developing countries in the same way as some of the poorest African nations are, according to a growing number of delegates from poorer country at the Cop29 UN climate talks.
China should take on some additional responsibility for providing financial help to the poorest and most vulnerable, several delegates told the Guardian. India should not be eligible for receiving financial help as it has no trouble attracting investment, some said.
Continue reading...Read moreCar driven into crowd outside China primary school
State media says "several students and adults were injured and fell to the ground".
Read moreInternational outrage over sentencing of 45 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong
Human rights groups concerned after handing down of sentences of up to 10 years
Governments and human rights groups have expressed concern and outrage at the sentencing of 45 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong after the city’s largest national security trial.
On Tuesday, a court handed down sentences, ranging from four years and two months to 10 years, to activists, former legislators, councillors and academics, who with two people acquitted in May made up a group known as the Hong Kong 47.
Continue reading...Read moreHong Kong jails 45 pro-democracy campaigners for subversion
Benny Tai and Joshua Wong were among dozens sentenced in a controversial national security trial.
Read moreHK47: dozens of pro-democracy activists jailed in Hong Kong’s largest national security trial
Members of ‘Hong Kong 47’ – charged in 2021 over involvement in pre-election primary – sentenced to between four and 10 years
Dozens of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy figures have been jailed – one for 10 years – in the territory’s largest national security trial, after a prosecution that has been widely criticised as politically motivated.
Those jailed are among 47 people, known as the “Hong Kong 47”, who were charged in 2021 under the punitive national security law (NSL) with conspiracy to commit subversion over their involvement in pre-election primaries held in 2020 before the Hong Kong general election. Most have already spent more than three years in jail, but none were released on Tuesday.
Continue reading...Read more'He is a good person': anger and distress as Hong Kong activists sentenced to prison – video
Some of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy figures have been jailed, one of them for 10 years, in the territory’s largest national security trial, after a prosecution that has been widely criticised as politically motivated. The jailed are among 47 people, known as the 'Hong Kong 47', who were charged in 2021 under the punitive national security law with conspiracy to commit subversion. Relatives of those jailed who were outside the high court were outraged by the sentencing
HK47: dozens of pro-democracy activists jailed in Hong Kong’s largest national security trial
Activists, professors, legislators: who are the Hong Kong 47?
Popular weight-loss drug Wegovy goes on sale in China
There are 180 million people living with obesity in China, who will now be able to purchase the treatment.
Read moreWho are the activists jailed in Hong Kong's largest national security trial?
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