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China's Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou showcased robots, EVs, and a self-driving yacht, but questions remain over the US-China trade dispute and profits (Andrew Higgins/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/world/asia/china-tech-trade.html…

A Tech Expo Shows What China Can Make, but Not Who’ll Buy It All
The vast Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou stood as a rebuke to U.S. efforts to hem in China’s technology. But the real competition is internal, and profits are hard to find.

Exclusive: Justice Amy Coney Barrett defends overturning Roe v. Wade and reveals Supreme Court dynamics in new book (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/politics/amy-coney-barrett-book-supreme-court-abortion
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p9#a250902p9

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/world/asia/xi-jinping-china-south-korea-spying.html
“You can check if there’s a backdoor.” What a knee slapper.
That Time When China’s Leader Joked About Espionage

That Time Xi Jinping Joked About Espionage
Xi Jinping gave two cellphones to South Korea’s president, who asked how secure they were. “You can check if there’s a backdoor,” he said with a laugh.

Ashley Allison, a CNN commentator and Democratic consultant, buys The Root from G/O Media, returning the brand to Black ownership (Brian Stelter/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/media/the-root-go-media-ashley-allison

The Root returns to Black ownership
Ashley Allison, a Democratic political strategist and CNN commentator, said Thursday that she is acquiring The Root from G/O Media.

As it celebrates the 80th anniversary of Japanese surrender,
China is trying to recast wartime history by downplaying U.S. help while emphasizing Moscow’s role.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/01/china-world-war-2-history/

On WWII anniversary, China seeks to erase U.S. role in victory
As it celebrates the 80th anniversary of Japanese surrender, China is trying to recast wartime history by downplaying U.S. help while emphasizing Moscow’s role.

China schränkt Einsatz von Nokia und Ericsson in Telekommunikationsnetzen ein
China erschwert europäischen Netzausrüstern den Marktzugang durch verlängerte Sicherheitsprüfungen. Nokia und Ericsson verlieren Marktanteile.

China's recently launched K visa program hopes to attract foreign STEM graduates, but faces online backlash over fears of companies favoring overseas applicants (Anniek Bao/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/01/cnbcs-the-

CNBC's The China Connection newsletter: China's K-visa plans spark worries of a talent flood
Despite signaling a greater openness to global talent, the policy does not represent a sweeping liberalization of China's immigration stance.

Charles Bierbauer, a former CNN correspondent and White House Correspondents' Association president from 1991 to 1992, has died at the age of 83 (Alison Main/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/politics/charles-bierbauer-correspondent-dies-83

Charles Bierbauer, former CNN correspondent, dies at 83
Bierbauer retired from CNN in 2001 after two decades covering news in Washington, DC, and around the world.

China court sentences 11 people to death over alleged role in family-run Myanmar scam operations
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/30/china-court-sentences-11-people-to-death-over-alleged-r…

Microsoft researchers say AI models can be used to design toxins that evade biosecurity systems used to screen DNA orders for potential biothreats (Antonio Regalado/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/0…

Microsoft says AI can create “zero day” threats in biology
Artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls.