Artificial intelligence is advancing at a breathtaking pace. Countries and companies are racing to build more powerful models and push the boundaries of what machines can do. But for much of the
The Trump administration on Friday delivered a stark warning to Canada over its decision to allow China to import up to 49,000 electric vehicles, signaling that the move could strain North American
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Chinese authorities declared a milestone in January when they announced that Beijing had “essentially eliminated” heavy air pollution, a dramatic turnaround for a capital once infamous for choking smog and soot-darkened streets.
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In a factory in China’s Yiwu, widely known as the “world’s supermarket,” a mistake unexpectedly sparked a toy sensation in early 2026: a horse’s mouth stitched in the wrong direction. Recently, a
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Ai Weiwei, the 68-year-old Chinese dissident and globally renowned artist, has long been synonymous with defiance against the Chinese state. Yet in a recent interview with The Times UK, Ai offered a
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China is placing population policy at the heart of its economic strategy as it prepares to report a fourth consecutive annual population decline, with official data due on January 19 expected to
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China’s military announced that it is developing more than 10 experimental quantum cyber warfare tools, many of which are reportedly being tested in front-line operations. The disclosure, published by the official Science
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If anyone still believes that Asia’s industrial future is being shaped by polite multilateral dialogue and neat development plans, the latest deep-dive produced by Oxford Economics for the Hinrich Foundation should end
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The Dalai Lama is still alive, but the struggle over his death has already exposed how fragile the boundary between faith and power has become. According to a new report by the
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According to two sources familiar with the matter, companies including Broadcom-owned VMware, Palo Alto Networks, and Fortinet from the United States, as well as Israel’s Check Point Software Technologies, are among those
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China ended 2025 with a historic trade surplus of $1.189 trillion, a figure that places the world’s largest manufacturing nation in a category usually reserved for the output of major economies. The
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