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Add preferred source On November 1, several Chinese EV startups released their October 2026 delivery figures. Xiaomi Auto delivered more than 50,000 vehicles for the month. XPeng delivered 50,237 new vehicles, up 22% month-on-month and 20% year-on-year, a record high for a single month, including 13,326 deliveries outside China, up 166% year-on-year. Li Auto delivered…

Add preferred source China’s National Energy Administration disclosed on October 30 that in the first three quarters, China added 180 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity, accounting for 71.7% of all new capacity, with wind and solar combined making up nearly 70%. As of the end of September, China’s renewable energy capacity reached 2.518 billion kilowatts,…

Add preferred source Global Top E-Commerce’s (002640.SZ) 2026 third-quarter report shows first-three-quarter revenue of 3.8 billion yuan (approximately $571.4 million), down 5.43% year on year, while net profit attributable to shareholders jumped 1,280.91% to 199 million yuan (approximately $29.9 million). Stripping out non-recurring items, however, the company still posted a net loss of 5.1184 million…

As Kanangwa Newlove walked through her 10-acre farm just outside Lusaka, Zambia, one day in October 2025, she felt as if her dreams were withering away in front of her. The spinach, lettuce and mustard wilted in the heat. Tomatoes shriveled on their vines. She uprooted entire rows of organic vegetables — once sought-after by…

BUSINESS / ECONOMY China’s southern power market opens, giving AI firms new leverage on token costs

The rapid development of artificial intelligence capabilities is broadening the way China defines the risks posed by this technology. Alongside espionage, cyber threats, and familiar national security threats, Beijing is increasingly addressing the risks originating from advanced AI systems themselves—including autonomous operation and loss of control. At the same time, technological lag and dependence on…

SPY outpaced MCHI by 30 points in 2026, with the S&P 500 up 11% while the China fund sank 18%, marking an all-time record gap.

Alibaba’s US-listed shares fell 2.5% on Thursday after China’s market regulator called in the company and its e-commerce rivals over product quality and consumer protection.

Add preferred source Ahead of Double 11, ByteDance’s AI app Doubao has embedded Douyin livestream rooms into its product recommendations, letting users watch livestreams, claim coupons, place orders and pay inside the app without jumping to Douyin. The platform is also proactively pushing Douyin Mall spend-and-save coupons and e-commerce feature cards, breaking with the convention…

China is the only country other than the United States that controls substantial portions of nearly all the technologies required for artificial intelligence – the so-called AI stack. China has cheap electricity and critical minerals upstream, semiconductors and their software ecosystems in the middle, and models at the end. It is also working on governance,…