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In the final quarter of 2023, BYD, the Shenzhen-based company backed by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway group, outsold Tesla for the first time.

China’s BYD cemented its lead on Elon Musk’s Tesla in five minutes

Musk’s politicking damages Tesla’s brand, but the underlying problem goes much deeper: It’s Tesla’s relatively old line-up of electric car models.

  • Liam Denning

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Xpeng founder He Xiapeng.

Tesla killers: China is racing to unleash its super-smart cars

China’s electric vehicle makers are amping up the pressure on Elon Musk and Tesla.

Xi Jinping (right) shaking hands with once-sidelined entrepreneur Jack Ma in Beijing ahead of a business summit last month chaired by the Chinese president.

Xi brought Ma in from the cold. AI investors took notice

He was one of China’s most well-known faces before disappearing from public view. Now Jack Ma is back.

  • Lisa Visentin
Shoppers walk pass the World of Ralph Lauren in Taiku Li Sanlitun, a popular shopping and dining area in Beijing.

What a $5000 Chanel handbag tells you about China’s economy

In Beijing, the squeezing of the upper middle class shows just how far into Chinese society the economic slowdown is reaching.

  • Lisa Visentin
Military delegates march ahead of the opening session of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

‘Changes unseen in a century’: China braces for shifting global order

As a trade war with the United States begins, China wants to fire up its economy and plans to increase defence spending.

  • Lisa Visentin
China and the US have been locked in an ongoing trade spat.

Red alert: Xi’s plan to protect China from the worst of Trump

China’s leaders meet this week in Beijing. Top of mind will be the threat posed by the US president.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Jack Ma

Jack is back: Why China has brought its billionaires out of the shadows

After four years of a brutal crackdown that has cost them billions, Jack Ma and the rest of China’s best and brightest have been welcomed back into the fold by Xi Jinping. The message is clear.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Xi Jinping won’t allow himself to be pushed around by Trump

China’s ‘Mr Big’ is playing a dangerous game with Trump

Dealing with an unpredictable, domineering Trump is not for everyone. Is Xi Jinping up for the fight?

  • Shuli Ren

Greenlanders should join Trump’s America. They’d be richer and safer

The Greenlanders could be among the richest people on the globe if they allowed “The Great Developer” to take control of the island.

  • Christopher Pyne
This satellite picture shows a laser ignited fusion research centre located in Mianyang, China. Image courtesy Planet Labs.

China’s ‘artificial sun’ has sent shockwaves through the West

The emergence of a grainy series of satellite images taken over a city in central China has fuelled fears about the future of energy.

  • James Titcomb

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