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Guangdong, missing GDP target yet again, among China’s slowest economies in 2024 Southern economic hub reports GDP growth of 3.5 per cent in 2024, the fifth-slowest rate among China’s 31 provincial jurisdictions ...

Feb 3, 2025 · Such obstacles pushed the country’s best tech minds overseas, hindered domestic innovation, and widened China’s tech gap with the United States, resulting in the need for substantial “deregulation”, they said in the article, which was …

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Feb 4, 2025 · Three Philippine fighter jets and two American bombers on Tuesday conducted joint air patrol exercises – the first under US President Donald Trump’s administration – that brought them near Scarborough Shoal, a key flashpoint in the South China Sea. Analysts said the exercise underscored Manila ...

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Jan 19, 2025 · China has one of the fastest growing EV markets in the world with an estimated 500 electric car makers having piled into the world's largest vehicle market. As the Chinese government prods home-grown brands, such as Nio, Xpeng and Li Auto, to get a larger slice of the market under the Made in China 2025 industrial master plan. What are the infrastructure limitations, socioeconomic factors, and ...

Ringing the changes: 1970s-style bell-bottoms are back on the runways