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Mexico's Congress approves tariff hikes on imports from China and others

Mexico's Congress has approved tariff increases on over 1,400 products from China and other countries without free trade agreements

The Independent UK

Detroit suburb finds a real Christmas tree — instead of a fake one from China — just in time

A Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in a Detroit-area community will go on as planned

The Independent UK

China starts list of government-approved AI hardware suppliers: Cambricon and Huawei are in, Nvidia is not

Chinese government began to add government-approved AI suppliers to the Information Technology Innovation List in a bid to accelerate deployment of domestic hardware. But can Chinese semiconductor industry satisfy the needs of domestic AI industry?

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Trump Says China Didn't Buy Soybeans While Biden Was President. Here's What the Data Show.

American farmers exported more than 26 million metric tons of soybeans to China annually during Biden's term. Trump's deal with China would cover less than half that amount.

Reason

‘TURN HER MIC OFF!’: Karoline Leavitt caught out in bald-faced lie about Trump and the Biden administration

People didn't let Karoline Leavitt after her provably false lie.

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The Buick Electra L7 Proves Western Carmakers Can Build A Great EV In China—If They Want To

The Buick Electra L7 is a made-in-China sedan that feels more interesting than it's U.S. counterparts. But you’ll never ever get it. And that’s a big shame.

InsideEVs

As Trump Greenlights AI Chip Sales to China, Should You Buy Nvidia Stock?

Nvidia stock continues to trade at a discount to consensus price targets in December 2025 despite its spectacular bull run over the past decade.

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Fears are growing that Chinese-made electronics could leave the US in the dark during a cyber attack

Chinese-made devices called inverters are widely used by U.S. power companies and could be vulnerable to hacking, a new report indicates

The Independent UK

Trump Will Let Nvidia Sell Chips to China, the Feds Will Keep 25 Percent of the Profits. Here's the Downside.

Why make the government a middleman in the chip war?

Reason

Nvidia decries 'far-fetched' reports of smuggling in face of DeepSeek training reports — unnamed sources claim Chinese company is involved in Blackwell smuggling ring

DeepSeek is allegedly involved in a "phantom data center" smuggling scheme to get Blackwell GPU servers into China as part of training its newest LLM generation. While Nvidia refutes the claims as "farfetched", some proof indicates otherwise.

Tom’s Hardware

2026 Is When The Real EV War Begins. Here's Why

Western companies are finally launching their third-generation EVs, with better pricing, more range and more polished software.

InsideEVs

China holds 'emergency meetings' to discuss Nvidia H200 purchases following export rule change, report claims — ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba asked to assess demand

China convened emergency meetings with its largest technology companies on Wednesday to assess how many of Nvidia’s H200 accelerators they intend to buy.

Tom’s Hardware

Nvidia develops software-based tracking for AI GPUs to quash smuggling concerns — solution devised to prevent shipments to nations with export controls in place

Nvidia has quietly developed a software-based location-verification system for its Blackwell-generation GPUs that can approximate where the hardware is operating, which could prevent smuggling of AI GPUs to China.

Tom’s Hardware

BMW's New CEO Has His Work Cut Out

In today's morning news roundup, we also cover trouble at VinFast and Tesla's lackluster China sales.

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The Guardian - UK

‘The bullying can’t go on’: the film-maker following Filipino fishers under siege by China

Baby Ruth Villarama’s documentary Food Delivery depicts those struggling with the superpower to retain their trade. The director describes capturing their boats getting rammed by the Chinese coast guard

The Independent UK

China beats SpaceX’s launch record

Three Long March rockets lifted off within 19 hours of each other, as China seeks to become a space superpower

Latin Times

Analysts See Venezuela More Isolated as China and Russia Prioritize Other Conflicts: 'This Time Maduro is Completely Alone'

Venezuela's authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro is increasingly isolated as Beijing and Moscow limit their support to rhetoric while focusing on other geopolitical priorities, according to regional analysts cited by BBC Mundo.

The Conversation

Donald Trump’s peace agreements are also business deals

The US president, Donald Trump, presided over two major agreements in early December. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda signed a peace deal initially negotiated in June. At the same ceremony, Trump announced a strategic partnership between the US and the DRC.

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Euronews

29 hours in the sky: China Eastern’s Shanghai-Buenos Aires flight sets record for ultra-long travel

The continent-spanning journey has a two-hour stopover in Auckland.

Tom’s Hardware

White House U-turn on Nvidia H200 AI accelerator exports down to Huawei's powerful new Ascend chips, report claims — U.S. committed to 'dominance of the American tech stack'

According to a new report, the Trump Administration's U-turn on allowing exports of the Nvidia H200 AI accelerator chip is down to competition from China's native Huawei, which offers comparable power.

International Business Times

Trump Allows Nvidia to Sell Faster Chips to China, But There's a Costly Catch

Nvidia can now sell its faster H200 chips to approved buyers in China under Trump's new rules, but a steep 25% tariff adds a major twist to the deal.

The Independent UK

IMF urges China to address economic imbalances as trade surplus hits $1 trillion

The head of the International Monetary Fund has urged China to fix its economic imbalances, echoing longstanding calls for the world's second-largest economy to rely more on domestic spending and investment instead of exports

Barchart

Stock Index Futures Muted Amid Caution Ahead of Fed Rate Decision

December S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESZ25) are down -0.01%, and December Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQZ25) are down -0.05% this morning as investors refrain from making big bets ahead of the Federal Reserve’s final interest rate decision of the year, with all eyes on the central bank’s outlook for interest…

Newslaundry

2025’s hard truth, underlined by year-end Putin visit: India lacks the clout to shape a world in flux

At the end of a year of many setbacks for the Modi government’s foreign policies, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent visit aptly captured the Indian effort to find its centre of gravity in an era of massive geopolitical upheavals.

The Independent UK

UN says Hong Kong using ‘draconian’ security laws against citizens calling for accountability after fire

Authorities arrest at least four people after warning ‘anti-China disruptors’ against attempts to ‘exploit’ tragedy

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