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A man and a woman are being detained in China after being accused of cutting a path through the Great Wall of China.

Meredith Whittaker said in a recent interview that factors like competition and government support leave little possibility for a WeChat of the West.

Colin Huang resigned from Google in 2007 to set up a series of companies, including ecommerce giant Pinduoduo. Now, he's worth more than $34 billion.

Net emigration has jumped in recent years, with tens of thousands of wealthy people choosing to leave China.

US and Chinese military strategists are realizing that the ability to control the air at "all times over all areas" may be a thing of the past.

Almost a million years later, that tiny group of human ancestors has now grown to 8 billion people worldwide, according to the study.

By some estimates, 86% of those who have left Russia are under the age of 45, and 80% have a college education.

The Chinese government recently approved several generative AI chatbots. Bloomberg News tested them out and got some disturbing answers.

Russia's grand return to the moon ended with its robotic lander crashing and forming a crater. That doesn't bode well for its lunar ambitions.

August's often a tough month for markets as investors head off on vacation and trading volume plunges – and 2023 proved to be no exception.

In the decades after World War II, US troops rarely had to worry about enemy aircraft. Recent wars have shown that they no longer have that luxury.

The renminbi has plummeted against the dollar this year, with growth stagnating and China battling a property crisis.

An 87% value wipeout for Chinese developers' dollar bonds is symptomatic of the wider crisis facing the nation's property sector, which has seen 53 companies collapse in about two years.

There has been a rebound in car, furniture, appliance and luxury purchases, said Shehzad Qazi, managing director of China Beige Book.

Net sales by offshore traders on Chinese equity markets totaled $12.4 billion in August alone.

China's Xi Jinping is one of few world leaders to have kept close ties with the Kremlin amid the invasion of Ukraine.

China's factories have been struggling for months because of a slump in global demand and reduced domestic consumer spending.

Chinese property developers have been over-building for a number of years and the over-capacity can now be absorbed, he said.

Huang is worth $32.8 billion as of August 30, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, making him the 41st richest person in the world.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese government have a brilliant plan to deal with the country's economic turmoil: hide how bad it is.