21 h. ago Fighting back: Beijing builds its own ‘small yard, high fence’ to shut out US tech

“Small yard, high fence” was how Jake Sullivan, national security adviser under President Joe Biden, described US tech policy towards China. The approach, designed to fence off sensitive US technologies from China, was most commonly associated with export controls that, among others, restricted Chinese firms’ access to Nvidia’s advanced chips, the critical inputs for developing cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems. Beijing is now fighting back by taking a leaf out of that playbook. For...

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38 h. ago China dominates global humanoid robot market with over 80% of installations

China accounted for more than four out of five humanoid robot installations globally in 2025, driven by domestic start-ups AgiBot and Unitree Robotics, as mass production and commercialisation accelerated, according to a report by Counterpoint Research. A total of 16,000 humanoid robots were installed globally in 2025, mainly for data collection and research, as well as in the logistics, manufacturing, and automotive sectors, according to Counterpoint data released on Wednesday. The market was...

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58 h. ago Chinese firms to incur higher costs for deploying advanced AI chips from US: analysts

Chinese companies are expected to shoulder higher costs for deploying advanced chips from the US, owing to a new 25 per cent tariff imposed by Washington on select high-performance semiconductors, according to analysts. The administration of US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the new import duties on advanced artificial intelligence chips covered Nvidia’s H200 and Advanced Micro Devices’ MI325X graphics processing units, as well as their equivalent products and derivatives. According to...

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58 h. ago Chinese firms to incur higher costs for deploying AI chips from US: analysts

Chinese firms to incur higher costs for deploying AI chips from US: analysts  South China Morning Post

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64 h. ago Nexperia and Chinese owner fight for control of chipmaker in Dutch court

The battle for control of Dutch chipmaker Nexperia entered a new phase on Wednesday, as lawyers representing the firm and its Chinese parent Wingtech Technology traded blows during a seven-hour court hearing in the Netherlands. The Enterprise Chamber – a special Dutch court handling corporate disputes – scheduled the hearing to determine whether it should order a formal investigation into alleged mismanagement at Nexperia or overturn its earlier ruling, with a verdict set to be issued by...

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3 d. ago Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US and Israeli cybersecurity software

Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US and Israeli cybersecurity software  The Times of Israel

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3 d. ago Zhipu AI breaks US chip reliance with first major model trained on Huawei stack

Chinese artificial intelligence firm Zhipu AI said its new image generation model was trained on chips from Huawei Technologies, making it the first powerful open-source model to be developed on an entirely domestic training stack. The Beijing-based company, fresh off its Hong Kong initial public offering, said on Wednesday that the achievement proved the feasibility of developing powerful multimodal models without US semiconductors, as Beijing pushes for self-reliance in China’s AI industry...

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3 d. ago Exclusive: Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US and Israeli cybersecurity software, sources say

Exclusive: Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US and Israeli cybersecurity software, sources say  Reuters

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3 d. ago Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US and Israeli cybersecurity software, sources say

Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US and Israeli cybersecurity software, sources say  TradingView — Track All Markets

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3 d. ago Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US, Israeli cybersecurity software, sources say

Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US, Israeli cybersecurity software, sources say  The Standard (HK)

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3 d. ago Exclusive: Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US, Israeli cybersecurity software, sources say

Exclusive: Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US, Israeli cybersecurity software, sources say  Reuters

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3 d. ago India proposes reopening government bidding to Chinese firms as ties thaw

India plans to lift long-standing restrictions on Chinese companies bidding for government contracts, a move officials say is aimed at easing shortages and project delays as relations with Beijing show tentative signs of stabilising. The proposal, first reported by Reuters, would roll back curbs, imposed after the two countries’ deadly 2020 border clash in the Galwan Valley, that effectively shut Chinese firms out of a vast segment of India’s public procurement market. In October 2024, India and...

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3 d. ago DeepSeek stays mum on next AI model release as technical papers show frontier innovation

Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek continues to keep the world guessing on when its next major release – the much-anticipated updates to its V3 and R1 models – will be launched, according to analysts, amid its recent publication of technical papers. The papers underscored DeepSeek’s efforts to improve the underlying infrastructure of AI systems in China at a time when geopolitical tensions and domestic production hurdles restricted the country’s access to advanced semiconductors to...

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4 d. ago Chinese firm Sinovac to supply vaccine to Chile ahead of flu season

The Chilean government has awarded a contract to Chinese biopharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech to supply its influenza vaccine ahead of the southern hemisphere winter. The vaccine will be part of Chile’s nationwide immunisation programme, which public health body Cenabast said was “internationally recognised for its impact on public health protection, particularly among high-risk groups”. Beijing-based Sinovac’s influenza vaccine uses an inactivated virus based on a split-virion platform – a...

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5 d. ago Chinese semiconductor firm OmniVision jumps 16.2% in Hong Kong trading debut

Chinese semiconductor firm OmniVision jumps 16.2% in Hong Kong trading debut  Reuters

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5 d. ago Beijing Job Fair Bridges Pakistani Graduates/Professionals and Chinese Firms in Pakistan

Beijing Job Fair Bridges Pakistani Graduates/Professionals and Chinese Firms in Pakistan  China Economic Net

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5 d. ago Chinese semiconductor firm OmniVision climbs 6.7% in Hong Kong trading debut

Chinese semiconductor firm OmniVision climbs 6.7% in Hong Kong trading debut  Reuters

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5 d. ago Why overseas residency is a ‘practical advantage’ for Chinese firms going global

Why overseas residency is a ‘practical advantage’ for Chinese firms going global  South China Morning Post

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6 d. ago China applies to put 200,000 satellites in space after calling Starlink a crash risk

Chinese firms have signalled plans to launch more than 200,000 internet satellites, filing submissions with a UN agency just as Beijing criticised Elon Musk’s SpaceX for crowding shared orbital resources. A dozen or so submissions from various Chinese satellite players were filed with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) at the end of December. The biggest projects – CTC-1 and CTC-2 – were for 96,714 satellites each and filed by the newly established Institute of Radio Spectrum...

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7 d. ago Report: China outpaces U.S. in 2025 humanoid robot production

Report: China outpaces U.S. in 2025 humanoid robot production  news.cgtn.com

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