STORY: Chinese app Xiaohongshu – or RedNote in the West – has seen a spike in new users from the US, just days before a proposed ban on social media TikTok. In fact, it topped the free download rankings on Apple’s US App Store this week. More than 50,000 American and Chinese users joined the…
Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter which explores what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. The US government has imposed fresh export controls on the sale of high tech memory chips used in artificial intelligence (AI) applications to China. The rules apply to…
CHANCAY, Peru (AP) — On the edge of Peru’s coastal desert, a remote fishing town where a third of all residents have no running water is being transformed into a huge deep-water port to cash in on the inexorable rise of Chinese interest in resource-rich South America. The megaport of Chancay, a $1.3 billion project…
