Monthly Archives: August 2022

A16z-backed Shein challenger Cider is growing rapidly

Shein has shown the world how combining social media marketing, data analytics, and China’s well-oiled supply chain has created a $100 billion fast fashion behemoth. Its success naturally spawns imitators and challengers. Among its fastest-growing challengers is Cider, which, like Shein, relies on China’s responsive clothing manufacturers to sell affordable, trend-led pieces to customers around…

China releases video flexing the capabilities of its navy, army, and air force amid threats of military action over Nancy Pelosi’s potential Taiwan trip

Chinese troops training in Fujian, the mainland Chinese province closest to Taiwan. Yang Enuo/Future Publishing via Getty Images China’s People’s Liberation Army posted a video showcasing its military equipment on Monday. The video features artillery strikes and missile launches against an unspecified target. It comes amid China’s warnings of a possible military response if Nancy…

China’s biggest social media network is roiling with anti-American vitriol surrounding Nancy Pelosi’s possible visit to Taiwan

Social media users on Weibo have unleashed an outpouring of rage at the US and Speaker Nancy Pelosi ahead of her possible visit to Taiwan. Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Nancy Pelosi’s potential visit to Taiwan has elicited an outpouring of anti-US vitriol on Weibo.The site’s top trending topic on Monday morning was a…

Delta sent a passenger’s $30,000 wheelchair from her vacation in Florida to California, instead of her home in New York — and it got broken along the way

After a trip to Disney World Orlando to celebrate her graduation, Delta sent Jessica Dalonzo’s wheelchair to the wrong state. Both photos courtesy of Jessica Dalonzo Delta sent a passenger’s $30,000 power wheelchair to California instead of New York. The chair was damaged on both the outward and return journeys. “I can’t believe someone would…

Indigenous senator in Australia told to repeat oath of allegiance after she called Queen Elizabeth ‘the colonizing Her Majesty’

Senator Lidia Thorpe, a member of Australia’s Green Party, is descended from the country’s First Nations tribes. Sam Mooy/Getty Images An Indigenous Australian senator called the Queen a colonizer while taking an oath of allegiance. Senator Lidia Thorpe’s alteration of the oath prompted immediate criticism from her colleagues. She was then asked to repeat the…