China and Russia veto UN resolution on protecting Hormuz shipping

By David Brunnstrom
April 7 (Reuters) - China and Russia on Tuesday vetoed a U.N. resolution encouraging states to coordinate efforts to protect commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, calling the measure biased against Iran, while Washington's ambassador to the world body called on "responsible nations" to ‌join the U.S. in securing the waterway.
The 15-member Security Council voted 11 in favor of the resolution presented by Bahrain, with two against - China ‌and Russia - and two abstentions.
U.S. President Donald Tr

Washington moves to cut China out of the machines powering US Bitcoin mining

The new Mined in America Act tries to reshore Bitcoin mining hardware, reduce China-linked supply risk, and fold the industry into America’s broader digital-asset strategy.
Gino Matos is a law school graduate and a seasoned journalist with six years of experience in the crypto industry. His expertise primarily focuses on the Brazilian blockchain ecosystem and developments in decentralized finance (DeFi).
America holds roughly 38% of global Bitcoin mining capacity, and the specialized hardware powering that positi

Hyundai Motor aims to double China sales, launch 36 new models in North America

By Heekyong Yang and Joyce Lee
SEOUL, March 26 (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor on ‌Thursday said it would seek to ‌more than double its China sales in the medium term and it planned to launch 36 new models in the North American market by 2030.
Here are some details:
* At ‌its annual shareholder ⁠meeting, Hyundai Motor CEO JoseMunoz said the South Korean automaker aims ⁠to sell 500,000vehicles annually in China as part of its medium-term efforts,which would be more than double its current volumes. * In North ‌Americ

Trump urges allies to defend the Strait of Hormuz, but no one's fully signed on

U.S. President Donald Trump is urging other countries to help secure the Strait of Hormuz as Iran targets ships in the vital oil route, but so far there are few firm commitments.
In a social media post Saturday, Trump suggested that many countries were already prepared to send naval vessels to keep the waterway open. He named China, France, ***** an, South Korea and the United Kingdom as countries that could "hopefully" deploy ships to help ensure freedom of navigation.
"Many Countries, especially those who ar

UK 'discussing options' to help US secure Strait of Hormuz

President Donald Trump may have risen the stakes in the US and Israel's war in Iran, while millions of displaced Palestinians have been hit by a heavy sandstorm, ITV News' Mahatir Pasha and Sabah Choudhry report.
Trump has appealed to the UK and other nations including France, China and ****** an to send warships to the Strait – a vital passage for global shipments of oil and natural gases
US forces have struck targets on Iran's Kharg Island – a vital part of the country's oil infrastructure – with Donald Trump threatening to "wip

Trump delivers ultimatum to Iran

President Donald Trump said he hoped “many countries” would send warships to help open the Strait of Hormuz, a shipping route that’s become a flash point in the Iran war, hours after U.S. forces bombed military targets in an area key to Iran’s oil industry.
“Hopefully China, France, **** an, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send Ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a Nation that has been totally decapitated,” Trump said in a statement March 14.
Iran threatened to att

Record haul of rare Yuan Dynasty blue-and-white porcelain discovered at shipwreck off Singapore

In the waters off Singapore, a recently uncovered a shipwreck with a huge cargo of blue-and-white porcelain is shedding light on the storied Chinese craft produced during the turbulent era of the Mongol Empire.
The roughly 650-year-old ship, which was likely sailing from China to Temasek, a historic settlement on the site of modern-day Singapore, contained a record haul of Yuan Dynasty porcelain, according to the paper that detailed its discovery.
It took Michael Flecker, the marine archaeologi

China's GDP surpasses 140t yuan for the first time

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Veteran ****** yst warns of shocking Bitcoin crash to $10K

Bitcoin (BTC), the world's first decentralized cryptocurrency, was launched in 2009 in the wake of the global financial crisis in 2008. The goal was to give financial autonomy to the people and liberate them from the clutches of Wall Street.
But the way Bitcoin has increasingly become integrated into the mainstream financial system, macroeconomic forces now tend to affect King Crypto's price trajectory.
That is exactly what happened when U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threat against China led to a massive liquidation in the

China executes 11 members of Myanmar-based group in crackdown on scam operations

BANGKOK (AP) — China executed 11 people it found guilty of killing 14 Chinese citizens and running scam and gambling operations worth more than $1 billion, authorities said.
The Wenzhou city Intermediate People's Court announced the executions in a statement Thursday morning. It sentenced the 11 people to death in September. They included Ming Guoping and Ming Zhenzhen, members of the Ming family who the court found led the scam and gambling operations, as well as Zhou Weichang, Wu Hongming and Luao Jianzhang,

Trump says China 'will completely' devour Canada if it strikes trade deal

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump threatened Canada with 100% tariffs against all its exports to the US if it makes a trade deal with China, escalating tensions between the US and its northern neighbor.
Trump, referring to Prime Minister Mark Carney as “Governor Carney,” said the Canadian leader was “sorely mistaken” for opening up his country to more business from China, including a recent deal allowing an increase in Chinese electric vehicle exports. Trump has trolled Canada about his desire for it to become th

Bitcoin held near $88,000 on Friday as markets eased into the first trading session of 2026, with holiday-thinned volumes keeping moves measured and investors lining up for a year packed with policy and tech-driven catalysts.
Early risk-taking showed up most clearly in Asia, where Hong Kong and South Korea led gains as technology and semiconductor shares extended a late 2025 bounce. **** an and mainland China stayed shut for holidays, which kept liquidity light across the region.
Crypto traders kept a close eye on whether Bitcoin can turn that calm into momentum, after a choppy stretch aroun

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In 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed the GENIUS Act into law, established a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve with 200,000 BTC worth $17 billion, and his family’s crypto ventures generated over $1 billion in profits even as critics called it the most corrupt presidency in history.
Trump’s transformation defined 2025.
He went from calling Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) “a scam” to declaring himself the “Bitcoin President” while championing America’s dominance over China in digital ****** ets.
“I notic

An international team of scientists is into some seedy business — but with ****** le intent.
The research group has been co-led by the University of Kentucky and China's Northwest A&F University. It says it has found a genetic on/off switch of sorts in corn seeds that could be used to help them last longer, thereby reducing waste, according to a UK news release.
The group's findings were published in October in the journal The Plant Cell.
This genetic knowledge about a seldom-considered part of a seed's journey could be transformational for many parts of everyday life, study co-author and U

Space debris: will it take a catastrophe for nations to take the issue seriously?

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China routinely sends astronauts to and from its **** e station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station and return to Earth, but there's nothing routine about its journey home.
The Shenzhou-20 capsule will carry no crew, because one of its

Silver markets sent a clear signal on Christmas Day. While Bitcoin traded quietly in thin holiday liquidity, silver prices in China surged to record local levels, driven by tight physical supply and strong industrial demand.
The divergence highlights a growing macro theme. During periods of scarcity and geopolitical stress, capital is flowing toward hard ***** ets rather than digital alternatives.
The latest silver move originated in China, where local prices reached record levels on December 25. Evidently, China is facing a shortage of physical silver.
Globally, spot silver hovered near re

In recent days, bitcoin mining stocks with AI exposure, including IREN, have rebounded as bitcoin moved back above US$90,000 following earlier regulatory-driven disruption in China’s Xinjiang region.
This recovery has coincided with growing attention on AI-focused infrastructure deals across the sector, such as Hut 8’s very large US$7 billion, 15‑year hosting agreement with Fluidstack and Anthropic, which highlights investor interest in miners pivoting toward AI compute.
Against this backdrop, we’ll explore how renewed enthusiasm for AI-centric bitcoin miners, and IREN’s AI infrastructure pi

Pandas and ping-pong: Macron ending China visit on lighter note

An ancient dam, pandas and ping-pong: French leader Emmanuel Macron concluded his fourth state visit to China on Friday, striking a more relaxed note in the city of Chengdu after tough discussions on Ukraine and trade with his counterpart Xi Jinping a day earlier.
Far from the imposing Great Hall of the People in Beijing where the two leaders held talks, Xi and First Lady Peng Liyuan showed Macron and his wife Brigitte around the centuries-old Dujiangyan Dam, a World Heritage Site set against the mountainous landscape of Sichu

Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa

By Humeyra Pamuk
WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Wednesday announced increased vetting of applicants for H-1B visas for highly skilled workers, with an internal State Department memo saying that anyone involved in "censorship" of free speech be considered for rejection.
H-1B visas, which allow U.S. employers to hire foreign workers in specialty fields, are crucial for U.S. tech ‌companies which recruit heavily from countries including India and China. Many of those companies' leaders threw t

Two major economies are tightening control over digital currencies just as the US pushes to cement its leadership in the stablecoin sector. Israel is accelerating its digital shekel plans while China continues to expand the digital yuan.
These moves signal a broader global shift toward sovereign digital money that could challenge the reach and influence of US dollar–based stablecoins.
Stablecoins have become a central pillar of the digital ***** et market, moving well beyond their early role as a trading convenience.
The sector now processes more than $2 trillion in monthly volume and holds

A mild uptick in bitcoin mining in China has prompted calls for Beijing to loosen its restrictions and let the power-hungry industry tap into the country's oversupply of energy, but experts said the likelihood of China ending its mining ban was low.
China's bitcoin mining market share by hash rate rose from 13.75 per cent in the first quarter of 2025 to 14.06 per cent in the current quarter, making it the third largest bitcoin mining country behind the US and Russia, according to Hashrate Index, a data platform operated by US bitcoin mining firm Luxor Technology.
The Hashrate Index did not d

BEIJING (Reuters) -‌China's ‌market regulator issued an anti-⁠unfair ‌competition compliance guidance for ‍smartphone makers and mobile application platform ‌firms in Shenzhen on Wednesday, Chinese ⁠state media reported on Thursday.
No firms ‍were ⁠named in the report.
⁠(Reporting ‌by Beijing ‌newsroom)

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BEIJING (AP) — China launched the Shenzhou 22 ***** ecraft on Tuesday to help bring back a team of astronauts after a damaged ***** ecraft left them temporarily stranded on China's ***** e station.
The Shenzhou 22 will be used sometime in 2026 by the three astronauts who docked on the Tiangong ***** e station on Nov. 1.
Earlier this month, another group of Chinese astronauts from the Shenzhou 20 mission faced a nine-day delay in their return to Earth after their craft's window was damaged. They eventually returned using the Shenzhou 21 ***** ecraft, which had just carried the replacement cre

China conducted an urgent unmanned ******* ecraft launch on Tuesday, after damage to a previous mission's return capsule left the crew on its ******* e station without a means of getting back to Earth.
The Long March-2F rocket carrying Shenzhou-22 lifted off shortly after midday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China, footage from state broadcaster CCTV showed.
Recent Shenzhou missions have been used to crew China's Tiangong ******* e station, exchanging teams of three astronauts every six months.
Shenzhou-22 was originally slated for a crewed launch in 2026.
But it wa

BEIJING (Reuters) -China's Shenzhou-‌22 ******* eship will be ‌launched on Tuesday at 12:11 p.m. ⁠(‌0411 GMT), state ‍broadcaster CCTV reported.
The ******* ecraft will travel to China's permanently ‌inhabited ******* e station Tiangong, where three Chinese astronauts currently reside with ⁠no flightworthy vessel that could return them to Earth in ‍the ⁠event of an emergency.
(Reporting ⁠by Eduardo Baptista;‌ Editing by ‌Jacqueline Wong)
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China will launch an empty ******* ecraft to the Ti

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BEIJING (Reuters) -China will launch the Shenzhou-‌22 ****** ecraft on November 25,‌ state broadcaster CCTV reported on Monday, a move that will ⁠help return ‌the country's ****** e station and ‍manned flight programme to normality after a vessel was damaged in early November.
The ‌Shenzhou-22 ****** ecraft is being sent to China's ****** e station Tiangong to replace the Shenzhou-⁠21, which was forced to return to Earth six months before schedule ‍after ⁠another vessel docked at the station was ⁠damaged.
(Reporting by Eduardo ‌Baptista; Editing by ‌Jan Harvey)

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(Reuters) -Bitcoin mining is quietly staging a comeback in China despite being banned four years ago, as individual and corporate miners exploit cheap electricity and a data center boom in some energy-rich provinces, according to miners and industry data.
China had been the world's biggest crypto mining country until Beijing banned all cryptocurrency trading and mining in 2021, citing threats to the country's financial stability and energy conservation.
After having seen its global bitcoin mining market share slump to zero as a result of the ban, China crept back to third place with a 14% sh

China imports no US soybeans for second month, Brazil arrivals up 29%

BEIJING (Reuters) -China imported no soybeans from the U.S. for a second straight month in October even as total imports surged to a record high on purchases from South America, with buyers aiming to avert ‌supply disruptions amid trade tensions with Washington.
Data from China's General Administration of Customs on Thursday showed U.S.‌ soybean imports in October fell to zero from 541,434 metric tons a year earlier.
The decline followed China's imposition of high tariffs on U.S. soybeans earlier in the year and the dep

Imagine being trapped on a **** e station orbiting Earth with no available ride home. Three Chinese astronauts, or taikonauts, are facing that very scenario.
Since Friday, the trio has been stranded on board the Tiangong **** e station without a viable return craft.
The only craft available to them was hit by **** e junk in early November, cracking the craft's viewing port.
The cause of the collision was a "tiny piece of **** e debris," the China Manned **** e Agency (CMSA) said in a statement at the time.
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