As some of you know, Huawei is currently on the US government’s Entity List. As such, US companies such as Google have been banned from doing business with Huawei. It also prevents Huawei from accessing certain features and services that they relied on in the past, one of which is Google Maps. Advertising However, it […]
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BEIJING — It’s piled up in landfills. It clutters fields and rivers, dangles from trees, and forms flotillas of waste in the seas. China’s use of plastic bags, containers and cutlery has become one of its most stubborn and ugliest environmental blights. So the Chinese government has introduced measures to drastically cut the amount of […]
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Landing in Shanghai recently, I found myself in the middle of a tech revolution remarkable in its sweep. The passport scanner automatically addresses visitors in their native tongues. Digital payment apps have replaced cash. Outsiders trying to use paper money get blank stares from store clerks. Nearby in the city of Hangzhou a prototype hotel […]
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WUHAN, China — The mysterious coronavirus that has killed at least three people and sickened more than 200 in China is now capable of spreading from person to person, a prominent Chinese scientist said on Monday, adding to fears of a broader pandemic. The disclosure increased pressure on the Chinese government to contain a growing […]
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Volkswagen is readying to purchase a 20 percent stake in Chinese electric vehicle battery manufacturer Guoxuan, sources tell Reuters. It is understood that the car manufacturer intends on acquiring the stake in the publically-traded battery maker through a discounted private share placement in the coming weeks. Guoxuan has a current market capitalization of $2.8 billion […]
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The number of people infected by a pneumonia-like virus in China tripled over the weekend as authorities confirmed on Monday that the coronavirus had spread to many more regions and cities, including the capital Beijing. With just days to go before hundreds of millions of people travel to celebrate Chinese New Year, the tripling of […]
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SHANGHAI — Beijing’s alliance with the World Economic Forum started in 1979 with the arrival in Davos, Switzerland, of a small team of free-market economists led by a wizened Chinese intellectual, Qian Junrui, who had barely survived Mao’s Cultural Revolution. He had been imprisoned for eight years, tortured and repeatedly beaten unconscious. China and Davos […]
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VANCOUVER — Global politics, big money, high technology and the intricacies of Canadian law will come together on Monday when the extradition hearing of Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, begins in a Vancouver courtroom. Ms. Meng, 47, a former secretary at Huawei who rose to become a public […]
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Facebook apologized on Saturday after its platform translated Xi Jinping, the name of the Chinese leader, from Burmese to a vulgar word in English. The mistranslation caught the company’s attention when Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto civilian leader of Myanmar, wrote on her official Facebook page about Mr. Xi’s two-day visit to […]
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BEIJING — The Chinese authorities on Sunday said that 17 more people had been infected with a mysterious new virus, raising questions about how it is being transmitted and adding to concerns about the spread of the illness ahead of China’s busiest travel season. The announcement by the health commission in Wuhan, a central Chinese […]
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YARKAND, China — The winding, crowded lanes of old Yarkand, an ancient Silk Road town, preserve patterns of life that go back centuries. On a recent morning, smoke wafted from sputtering grills of lamb and ovens lined with baking flatbread. Clangs rang from a coppersmith shaping bowls with a hammer. Twangs from a dutar, a […]
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In recent days both this newspaper and The Wall Street Journal have carried reports on one of the most important geopolitical facts of the 21st century: The world’s great rising power, the People’s Republic of China, is headed for a demographic crisis. Like the United States and most developed countries, China has a birthrate that […]
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Chinese leaders stretching back to Deng Xiaoping have often thought in terms of decades. A decade encompasses two of China’s famous five-year plans, and it’s a long-enough period to notice real changes in a country’s trajectory. As it happens, I spent time in China at both ends of the decade that just ended, first in […]
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While we’re on the subject of American (or somewhat American) automakers looking to beat the Chinese at their own EV game, Tesla has announced a new direction in that massive electric vehicle market. With Model 3s now rolling into buyers’ hands from its just-opened Shanghai assembly plant, the automaker has turned its eye to the […]
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Ram Rebels and Power Wagons are a tough fit for China’s cramped, heavily taxed new vehicle market, but “new energy” vehicles (electric cars) are not. With this in mind, Fiat Chrysler is aiming to put EVs in the hands of Chinese consumers through a potential joint venture. Clearly seeing an avenue for growth — and […]
Read MoreIf this week is the “Super Bowl” of trade policy—as Republican Senator Rob Portman called it Wednesday—the planet won’t be getting a ring. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the Nafta replacement that passed 89-10 through the Senate on Thursday, never mentions the climate crisis. It will do plenty to fuel it. “Trump’s Nafta 2.0 is a […]
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By Wolf Richter, editor of Wolf Street. Originally published at Wolf Street Tesla doesn’t disclose deliveries in the US, unlike other automakers. It only discloses global deliveries. We have to look at other data to see how Tesla is doing in the US; and in the US, deliveries have been plunging in recent months. In […]
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Maybe it won’t be needed, what with a new sport-utility vehicle on the way, but Aston Martin’s deflated stock price and profit dive has the British automaker in search of a financial parachute. By that, we mean investors who can pump a little cash into the company while boosting shareholder confidence. After a disappointing year, […]
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<img data-attachment-id="1704426" data-permalink="https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2020/01/2020-volkswagen-passat-s-rental-review-big-and-basic/20200108_143043/" data-orig-file="https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200108_143043-e1578522092260.jpg" data-orig-size="3264,2015" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.9","credit":"","camera":"SM-J337A","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1578493843","copyright":"","focal_length":"2.91","iso":"40","shutter_speed":"0.0013717421124829","title":"","orientation":"3"}" data-image-title="2020 Volkswagen Passat S" data-image-description=" Corey Lewis ” data-medium-file=”https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200108_143043-e1578522092260-450×278.jpg” data-large-file=”https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200108_143043-e1578522092260-610×377.jpg” class=”aligncenter wp-image-1704426 size-large” src=”https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200108_143043-e1578522092260-610×377.jpg” alt width=”610″ height=”377″ srcset=”https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200108_143043-e1578522092260-610×377.jpg 610w, https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200108_143043-e1578522092260-75×46.jpg 75w, https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200108_143043-e1578522092260-450×278.jpg 450w, https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200108_143043-e1578522092260-768×474.jpg 768w, https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200108_143043-e1578522092260-120×74.jpg 120w” sizes=”(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px”>When your author’s 2019 Golf SportWagen (to be revealed soon) went into the shop for warranty work after […]
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