After Japanese air-conditioning giant Daikin and technology giant Sony left China, Japanese media reported that Mitsubishi Motors may cease production in China. In recent years, Japanese companies have left China one after another. Experts believe that as geopolitical tensions intensify, the”political cold yet economic hot” relations between Japan and China will change. Japan’s key supply chains will gradually separate from China, derisking in the short term and decoupling from China in the long term. Mitsubishi Motors has been reported that it may end its car production in China and is discussing exiting with local joint venture partner Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC). Mitsubishi Motors responded that the company is “discussing future plans” with the shareholders of the joint venture, and “no decision has been made yet.”...Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/japanese-companies-are-leaving-china-to-de-risk-5501665
From Yunnan, one of the poorest provinces in China, and 30 years ago, an impoverished w0man sold her own child and then abducted a dozen other children to sell over three years. A local court recently sentenced her to death. On Sept. 18, a court in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, accused Yu Huaying and her partner of abducting 11 children from 1993 to 1996 in Guizhou Province and Chongqing city, then selling them to Handan and another place in north China’s Hebei Province. The 60-year-old woman confessed that she started the human trafficking business with her biological child for a transaction price of 5,000 yuan (about $684). Since then, she has never found out what happened to the child, according to state media.... 
The TOR330—TOR DES GÉANTS (TDG) “Journey of the Giants” is an event requiring participants to complete a circuit around the mountains of northern Italy, about 330 km (205 miles) in total, and requires going around more than 25 mountains, often at over 2,500 metres (8,200 ft) above sea level. There is one 29,608-meter (18.4 mile) uphill trek, making the race aptly named the “world’s hardest” cross-country race. Hong Kong cross-country trekker Wong Ho Chung (also known as Sir Chung) made his debut in this year’s event, and completed the race in 77.5 hours, ranking first in Asia and eighth overall. During the four-day trek of TDG, Mr. Wong could only afford two hours for sleep and two hours for replenishment....
Days after a relatively subdued performance at the second GOP presidential debate, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy pitched to California Republicans about the dangers of cronyistic “woke capital” from leftist corporations at their autumn convention on Sept. 30. “I’ll take you back to the 2008 financial crisis,” 2024 presidential candidate Mr. Ramaswamy said. He described how the pre-woke “old Left” responded to bank bailouts that President George W. Bush signed into law: “Occupy Wall Street showed up to say … we want to redistribute money from those wealthy corporate fat cats and give it to poor people to help poor people.” But since then, he argued that the rise of wokeness and identity politics has blunted that frontal assault on the system....