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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Locked in overheated battle with its clone at home, Luckin eyes expansion in U.S. 正文:“Going out” was and remains a mantra for Chinese businesses in search of new growth opportunities and relief from fierce competition at home. But the latter part of that equation, going out to escape competition, is quickly becoming …
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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Huawei’s new made-in-China software takes on Apple and Android With its latest operating system, it is cutting ties with Western tech 小标题:Huawei's new made-in-China software takes on Apple and Android 正文:When Huawei, the Chinese tech giant, releases its latest smartphone this month, techies will strip it down to figu…
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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Gold Beans All the Rage With China’s Gen Z as Deflation Bites 正文:With China’s deflation at its worst in 15 years, a volatile stock market and bank interest rates too low for her liking, 18-year-old Tina Hong is placing her financial security in gold beans. Weighing as little as one gram, the beans — and other forms o…
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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:A Vivid Trump-Harris Contrast in the Campaign’s Grueling Final Days 正文:It was the final Sunday of the campaign for president, and Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald J. Trump were continuing to race across battleground states in their search for support. But in message and demeanor, Ms. Harris, the Democrat, and …
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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:What will happen the day after the US election? 正文:Late on election night four years ago, Donald Trump saw the so-called “red mirage” and pounced. His vote count was still ahead of Joe Biden in several swing states. Around 2.30am he appeared before White House cameras to declare victory. Any ballots counted after the…
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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and the Billions of Ways to Influence an Election 正文:Entrepreneurs become legends when they make big bets on technology that pay off in a huge and dramatic way. Elon Musk is now applying that all-or-nothing philosophy to a presidential election, tying his reputation and perhaps his future to a w…
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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Can Men in China Take a Joke? Women Doing Stand-Up Have Their Doubts. Comedy has become a way for women to skewer China’s gender inequality. Some men aren’t happy about it. 正文:On the list of topics best avoided by China’s comedians, some are obvious. Politics. The Chinese military. Now add: Men’s fragile egos. That, …
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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Ratan Tata, Whose Indian Business Empire Went Global, Dies at 86 正文:Ratan Tata, one of India’s most powerful and admired magnates, who transformed his family’s business conglomerate, the Tata Group, into a multinational corporation with globally recognizable brands, died on Wednesday in Mumbai. He was 86. 知识点:admired…
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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The blistering rally in gold augurs ill for the power of the dollar Central banks are shifting away from the greenback 正文:Not long ago gold seemed to have lost its lustre. In the decades after President Richard Nixon abandoned the gold standard in 1971, the yellow metal fell out of favour with central banks, which ho…
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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:It’s not just obesity. Drugs like Ozempic will change the world As they become cheaper, they promise to improve billions of lives 正文:Every day seems to bring more exciting news. First the drugs tackled diabetes. Then, with just an injection a week, they took on obesity. Now they are being found to treat cardiovascula…
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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Can Google or Huawei stymie Apple’s march towards $4trn? The contest for global smartphone dominance gets interesting 正文: To call apple a corporate behemoth is to be uncharitable. It is much bigger than that. On many financial measures it makes more sense to compare the iPhone-maker not with other companies but with …
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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:How China is trying to win back foreign tourists Come, spend, don’t worry about a visa 正文:Interesting, safe and easy to get around, China has what it takes to be the top tourist destination in Asia. Indeed, it was. In the first half of 2019, before covid-19 hit, China’s travel agencies handled 8.6m tourist visits, mo…
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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Is Elon Musk’s $1m giveaway to American voters illegal? His lottery scheme raises thorny questions—and sets a new precedent 正文:Easy money is usually too good to be true. Elon Musk, a billionaire, is promising it nonetheless. The tech mogul is offering to pay registered voters in American swing states at least $47 if …
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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Not your average internet celebrity: China’s CEOs turn online influencers 正文:I really want to become a wang hong (internet celebrity),” said Mr Lu Fang. And while internet stardom is something younger people typically aspire to, the 48-year-old chief executive of a Chinese luxury electric vehicle maker recently voice…
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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:What the surging gold price says about a dangerous world Financial fears and geopolitical tremors combine to great effect 正文:Less than a mile from Singapore’s luxurious Changi Airport sits a rather less glamorous business park. Residents of the industrial estate include freight and logistics firms, as well as the bac…
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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:McDonald Trump had a shift serving fries. Will the stunt supersize his base? 正文:Remember the creepy clown sightings that started in 2016? All over the world, scary clowns started popping up, terrifying small children. The trend also frightened executives at McDonald’s, who started to phase out Ronald McDonald as a re…
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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The sperm donor bros of tech Genetic largesse from some of Silicon Valley’s elite appears to be a mix of narcissism, altruism and dreams of immortality 正文:Before he was arrested in France for failing to adequately moderate criminal activity on his social media app, tech billionaire Pavel Durov was known for three thi…
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