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- U.S. and China commit to ‘taking enhanced climate actions’ after Kerry’s negotiations in Shanghai
- Chinese celebrity apologizes for texting employees at all hours after social media backlash
- Huawei to hire 5,000 engineers for electric car tech
- COVID-19 spurs more — and younger — Chinese people to create wills
- Jimmy Lai gets a year in prison for pro-democracy protests
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In China, delivery workers struggle against a rigged system
China’s 7 million food delivery drivers, classified as part of the gig economy, lack protection from the country’s labor laws. Their attempts to improve their working conditions have repeatedly been rebuffed.
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Chinese bookshops nearly died under the assault of ecommerce companies, but they are booming again as cultural centers and recreational spaces where books are just one part of the offering.
The global RMB is coming. Here’s why.
With Western sanctions piling up, the urgency is increasing for China and Russia to develop financial alternatives to the dominant dollar-Euro financial system. The RMB, while far from replacing the dollar, is slowly gaining traction as an international currency.
Bitcoin mining is still huge in China despite new ban in Inner Mongolia
Since 2017, the Chinese government has imposed many regulations that have made life difficult for miners of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But they soldier on, and look set to prosper.
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