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Sunday Saw a Big First for Chinese Aviation

First domestically made large passenger jet flew its maiden commercial flight

(Newser) - China’s first domestically-made large passenger jet flew its maiden commercial flight on Sunday, as China looks to compete with industry giants such as Boeing and Airbus in the global aircraft market, the AP reports. The C919 plane, built by the Commercial Aviation Corporation of China, carried about 130 passengers...

Company Fined $2M Over Comedian's Joke

Li Haoshi used Chinese military slogan while telling story about adopted dogs

(Newser) - A Chinese comedian could go to prison over a joke about his dogs. Li Haoshi, whose stage name is House, was arrested after a performance over the weekend in which he talked about the stray dogs he adopted chasing a squirrel, the BBC reports. "Other dogs you see would...

Feds: Apple Engineer on 'Need to Know' Project Took Data, Ran to China

'Disruptive Technology Strike Force' announces 5 similar cases involving trade secrets

(Newser) - Federal authorities on Tuesday said a former Apple engineer who was working on an extremely secretive project for the company stole trade secrets and then fled to China. Weibao Wang, a Chinese citizen, was hired by the tech giant in 2016 to work on a "robot car" autonomous vehicle...

US Citizen, 78, Gets Life Sentence on Spying Charges in China

John Shing-Wan Leung was detained in 2021

(Newser) - China sentenced a 78-year-old United States citizen to life in prison Monday on spying charges, the AP reports. John Shing-Wan Leung, who holds permanent residency in Hong Kong, was detained April 15, 2021, by the counterintelligence agency in the southeastern city of Suzhou. The city’s intermediate court announced Leung’...

Looks Like We Have Our First ChatGPT Arrest

China does not have much patience for man's fake train wreck story

(Newser) - Mere mortals have done no shortage of tongue-wagging and fretting over ChatGPT: The "godfather" of AI is done with it , Elon Musk is going to reinvent it , and now China has apparently given us our first arrest over it. As Quartz reports, China arrested a man in Gansu province,...

Report: China Frees COVID Whistleblower After 3 Years

Sources say Fang Bin is back home in Wuhan in good health

(Newser) - A whistleblower who disappeared three years ago after publicizing videos of overcrowded hospitals and bodies during the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak in China has been released from jail and returned to his Wuhan home, sources tell the BBC . The report has not been independently verified. Fang Bin and...

China's Most Famous Mogul Has a New Gig in Japan

Jack Ma, who disappeared after angering Chinese bank regulators, is teaching at Tokyo College

(Newser) - It appears that Chinese mogul Jack Ma is indeed settling into life in Japan. Ma, once China's richest person, has taken a teaching position at Tokyo College, reports Insider . The 58-year-old founder of Alibaba largely disappeared from public view after criticizing Chinese bank authorities in a 2020 speech, setting...

Xi to Zelensky: China Will Not 'Add Fuel to the Flames' in War

In first call between 2 men since Russian invasion, Xi seems to want to stay neutral, help with peace talks

(Newser) - Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky hasn't had a phone call with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, but that changed Wednesday with a conversation that Zelensky describes as "long and meaningful." Per the Guardian , aides say the call on the...

Chinese Panda Loaned to Thailand Dies Suddenly

Panda Lin Hui fell ill on Tuesday

(Newser) - A giant panda on long-term loan from China died in a zoo in northern Thailand on Wednesday, six months before she was due to return home, officials from the Chiang Mai Zoo said. The cause of Lin Hui’s death was not immediately clear but she appeared to have become...

China Is Once Again Busy in the Antarctic

Beijing is building a fifth facility, which is raising surveillance fears

(Newser) - China is back to building in Antarctica. Satellite images from January show new support facilities, temporary buildings, a helicopter pad, and foundations for a main building at the site of the country's fifth Antarctic research station on Inexpressible Island near the Ross Sea. China began building there in 2018...

Patients Used Bedsheets as Ropes in Deadly Hospital Fire

At least 21 die in Beijing fire

(Newser) - A fire killed at least 21 people at a hospital in Beijing on Tuesday and forced dozens of people to evacuate, Chinese state media reported. As clouds of black smoke billowed into the sky, people trapped in the multistory building apparently tied bedsheets into makeshift ropes and escaped by climbing...

2 Arrested Over China's 'Secret Police Station' in NYC

Prosecutors say men tracked, harassed dissidents

(Newser) - Two New York City residents have been arrested on suspicion of operating what the Department of Justice describes as "an illegal overseas police station" on behalf of Chinese authorities. The outpost in Manhattan's Chinatown, which was searched by FBI agents last fall, was one of around 100 such...

Return of Chinese Panda Is a Relief to Her Advocates

Ya Ya is going back home from the Memphis Zoo after 20 years

(Newser) - Ya Ya, a female giant panda, is returning to China after spending two decades on loan to the Memphis Zoo. This follows concerns raised by animal welfare activists and Chinese citizens, reports the New York Times . While the Memphis Zoo refutes allegations of inadequate treatment and has given explanations for...

India Milestone Is a 'Big Moment in Human History'

Nation is about to overtake China as most populous nation, if it hasn't already

(Newser) - India will surpass China's population this month. Or maybe in July. Or, perhaps it's happened already? Demographers are unsure exactly when India will take the title as the most populous nation in the world because they're relying on estimates to make their best guess. But they know...

Dalai Lama's Defenders Blame China for 'Tongue' Flap

Top Tibetan official sees interaction with boy as innocent, suspects Beijing of viral campaign

(Newser) - Earlier this week, the Dalai Lama made headlines for the wrong reasons—his office apologized after a video showed the Tibetan spiritual leader asking a boy to suck his tongue during a public greeting in India. Now, the leader of Tibet's government-in-exile is backing the explanation that the greeting...

China: No Weapons for Russia or Ukraine

Foreign minister says country is maintaining a 'prudent and responsible attitude'

(Newser) - China's foreign minister on Friday said the country would not sell weapons to parties involved in the conflict in Ukraine and would regulate the export of items with dual civilian and military use. Qin Gang was responding to concerns from the US and others that China was considering providing...

WTA Gives Up on Boycott Over Player's Safety

China has not let the organization contact Peng Shuai

(Newser) - A 16-month boycott to pressure China into proving that one of its players is unharmed has been futile, the Women's Tennis Association announced Thursday, so play there will resume. "We are convinced that at this point our requests will not be met," President Steve Simon told BBC...

Macron Continues Push for 'European Sovereignty'

But he's facing a lot of criticism on both sides of the Atlantic

(Newser) - After French President Emmanuel Macron warned that Europe shouldn't let the US drag it into conflict with China over Taiwan, Sen. Marco Rubio wondered whether Macron was speaking only for France or for all of Europe. Based on the reaction being rounded up in various outlets—at least from...

China's Military 'Ready to Fight' After Taiwan Drills

Military says it is prepared to 'resolutely smash' any 'foreign interference'

(Newser) - China’s military declared Monday it is "ready to fight" after completing three days of large-scale combat exercises around Taiwan that simulated sealing off the island in response to the Taiwanese president’s trip to the US last week. The "combat readiness patrols” named Joint Sword were meant...

Someone Spent $25.3M for This 'Highly Important' Bowl

Chinese antique sold in Sotheby's auction

(Newser) - The bowl is pretty and small, and also represents the "peak of painting on porcelain." The Chinese antique also just went for $25.3 million at an auction over the weekend, with an unknown entity scooping up the "highly important" artifact crafted sometime in the mid-18th century,...

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