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Starbucks opened its first store in China in 1999, when drinking coffee in a Western-style café was still a novel idea to many locals. But in the years…
Read more Chinese Beverage Chains Spread Across the US, Challenging Starbucks’ Dominance“Often, sweat was dripping down my back within the first two hours of a shift and would not stop dripping until the next morning,” writes Hu Anyan in…
Read more “I Sweated So Much I Never Needed to Pee”: Life in China’s Relentless Gig EconomyWhen Chinese AI startup DeepSeek became a global sensation in January, it not only shocked Silicon Valley but also startled ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company. The Chinese tech giant…
Read more How ByteDance Made China’s Most Popular AI ChatbotThe bottom line is that, unlike the US, China is not a country of immigrants. In 2020, only about .1 percent of the mainland population was made up…
Read more China Rolls Out Its First Talent Visa as the US Retreats on H-1BsA trove of internal documents leaked from a little-known Chinese company has pulled back the curtain on how digital censorship tools are being marketed and exported globally. Geedge…
Read more How China’s Propaganda and Surveillance Systems Really Operate