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| Oct 5, 2026 | American investors are touring China’s robot factories to size up the competition | Last year, when Ryan Cunningham, a Silicon Valley investor, floated a trip to China in a WhatsApp group of robotics investors, the response was lukewarm. One person jokingly asked if he could smuggle a humanoid robot home.
This year, the jo... |
| Sep 25, 2026 | China rebuffs AI slowdown calls ahead of Trump-Xi summit: 5 things to know | Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s calls to slow the pace of artificial intelligence development over potentially existential safety risks have thrust the AI rivalry between the US and China into the spotlight days before the two superpowers’ lea... |
| Sep 23, 2026 | Trump-Xi meeting: Why China’s self-sufficiency changes the calculus | U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to meet this week for a second in-person summit of the year.
While the U.S. trade deficit with China last year briefly reached its lowest point since 2017, surging de... |
| Sep 15, 2026 | Xi Warned AI Could Escape Human Control; Beijing Still Calls Safety Fears Propaganda | By Joshua Mitchell
Published: Sep 15 2026, 4:42 AM EDT
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| Sep 15, 2026 | China Sets World’s First AI Brain-Data Standard; FDA Has No Equivalent | By Brandon Fisher
Published: Sep 15 2026, 8:03 AM EDT
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| Sep 4, 2026 | AiMOGA Mornine Passes First Humanoid EU Cybersecurity Test: China Intel Law Travels With It | By Clayton Lewis
Published: Sep 04 2026, 11:10 AM EDT
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| Sep 2, 2026 | China Builds Humanoid Robots Faster Than Any Factory Can Actually Use Them | By Collin Mercer
Published: Sep 02 2026, 4:55 PM EDT
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| Sep 1, 2026 | China is rewriting the rules of open-source software | As you read this article on your computer or smartphone, you are almost certainly using open-source technology in some way. It forms the foundation of the global digital economy, from operating systems and web servers to databases and encry... |
| Aug 26, 2026 | China’s Humanoid Robots Win Factory Contracts: VLA Models Drive Orders | By William Chan
Published: Aug 26 2026, 12:23 PM EDT
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| Aug 26, 2026 | Leapmotor Joins Humanoid Race as Xpeng Robotics Hits $6.3B Record Valuation | By Adrian Parham
Published: Aug 26 2026, 1:07 PM EDT
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| Aug 25, 2026 | China’s GalaxySpace Delivers First Private Turnkey Satellite Export to Southeast Asia | By Benjamin Eddie
Published: Aug 25 2026, 4:31 PM EDT
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| Aug 7, 2026 | Russia-China Trade Hits $159B Record as Dollar Exits Bilateral Payments | By Collin Mercer
Published: Aug 07 2026, 10:37 AM EDT
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| Jul 23, 2026 | Chery Bets on Psibot’s VLA Platform as China Births Another Embodied AI Unicorn | By Brandon Fisher
Published: Jul 23 2026, 7:21 AM EDT
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| Jun 18, 2026 | Humanoid Robots: China Ships 90% of Global Units and Now Leads AI Benchmarks | By Richard L. Wells
Published: Jun 18 2026, 13:52 PM EDT
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| May 26, 2026 | Huawei proposes “Tau scaling law” to extend chip advances beyond Moore’s law | Huawei has proposed a new semiconductor development framework called the “Tau scaling law,” framing it as an alternative method to improve chip performance as Moore’s law becomes harder to sustain.
The proposal was introduced on May 25 at t... |
| May 26, 2026 | China’s investment in Europe hits seven-year high, still far from peak | China’s investment in Europe has reached its highest level since 2018 and surpassed other high-income economies for the first time, a new report shows, although exports remain Chinese companies’ preferred means of doing business.
While Chin... |
| May 23, 2026 | China's Economic Tightrope: US Trade Deals, Russia Alliance, and Domestic Woes | China faces economic headwinds. April data shows retail sales hitting a multi-year low. Industrial output and investment also underperform. The property sector struggles. Yet, Beijing asserts its diplomatic strength. Recent high-profile sum... |
| May 19, 2026 | Chinese greenfield investment in Europe reaches new record, newspaper reports | BERLIN, May 18 : Chinese investment in Europe reached a new record in 2025, with more factories being built than ever before, German business daily Handelsblatt reported on Monday.
Greenfield investment - where foreign investors build new p... |
| May 19, 2026 | Putin heads to Beijing days after Trump in test of China’s balancing act | The summit marks the second time the Chinese and Russian leaders have met in the past year.
The Kremlin has signaled it expects tangible outcomes, including a “serious” oil and gas deal.
Beijing is seen as holding considerable leverage whil... |
| May 15, 2026 | Takeaways from Trump’s trip to China: Taiwan, a new framework for relationship and flattery for Xi | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By WILL WEISSERT, AAMER MADHANI, KANIS LEUNG, SIMINA MISTREANU, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and HUIZHONG WU, Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) — For three days in China, President Donald Trump was unusually qui... |
| Apr 14, 2026 | Towards a Shared Arctic Vision: Japan and the Nordic States in an Interconnected World | Back to Publications
Alexander Stubb, President of Finland, with Speaker of the House of Representative Nukaga Fukushiro in 2025: Photo: Japan’s House of Representatives (Shugiin) The Arctic Institute Japan Series 2026
As Arctic ice melts a... |
| Feb 12, 2026 | European VCs join forces to boost flagging biotech investment in the region | Heavyweight European venture capital firms like Novo Holdings and Sofinnova Partners have joined together to make the case for more urgently needed funding in the continent's biotech ecosystem.
The European Life Sciences Coalition (ELS... |
| Jan 13, 2026 | Is China a threat to Greenland as Donald Trump argues? | BEIJING: US President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to take Greenland by force from NATO ally Denmark in order to keep the Arctic island from Beijing's hands.
But analysts suggested that China is a small player in the Arctic r... |
| Dec 14, 2025 | China's smaller manufacturers look to catch the automation wave | YANCHENG, China: In a light-filled workshop in eastern China, a robotic arm moved a partially assembled autonomous vehicle as workers calibrated its cameras, typical of the incremental automation being adopted even across smaller factories ... |
| Oct 7, 2025 | Chinese electronics manufacturer Baseus wants to be number one in Europe | When He Shiyou founded Baseus to manufacture power banks in Shenzhen 11 years ago, Europe seemed like a distant dream.
But this month, the chief executive appeared at IFA Berlin, Europe’s biggest consumer electronics trade show, to launch h... |
| Apr 20, 2025 | Opinion: Linggong Kong: In trade war with the US, China holds a lot more cards than Trump may think | And as an expert on U.S.-China relations, I wouldn’t expect China to. Unlike the first U.S.-China trade war during Trump’s initial term, when Beijing eagerly sought to negotiate with the U.S., China now holds far more leverage.
Indeed, Beij... |
| Apr 4, 2025 | China to impose tariffs of 34% on all US goods from Apr 10 | BEIJING: China on Friday (Apr 4) announced a slew of additional tariffs and restrictions against US goods as a countermeasure to sweeping tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump.
The commerce ministry said it would impose additional ta... |
| Dec 3, 2024 | The Future Battlefield is Melting: An Argument for Why the U.S. Must Adopt a More Proactive Arctic Strategy | Back to Publications
A Royal Netherlands Navy Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel is anchored as U.S. Marines prepare to disembark the HNLMS Rotterdam for an amphibious beach landing during Exercise Cold Response 2022, Norway, March 21, 2022. P... |
| Nov 30, 2022 | The mBridge to Somewhere: Central Banking Is Having Its Sputnik Moment | Last month, an international institution that is barely known outside central banker circles released a report that should concern all U.S. policymakers seeking to preserve U.S. influence in the global financial system. The Bank for Interna... |
| Sep 10, 2022 | «Серый Кардинал» Восточной Европы: как Китай отжимает Старый Свет | |
| Jul 7, 2022 | The global semiconductor industry is interconnected, like it or not | You would be hard-pressed to name a modern digital device that does not contain a semiconductor. Found in smartphones, medical devices, and military systems, semiconductors are the lifeblood of the digital economy, and of equivalent importa... |
| Mar 30, 2022 | Faced with CATL battery dominance, U.S. trade experts mull a China-like tech transfer | |
| Jan 13, 2022 | Big Tech, Regulators And Conservationists Must Unite To Tackle Online Wildlife Trade | Endangered Timneh parrots in illegal trade in West Africa. Rowan Martin/World Parrot Trust |
| Jan 13, 2022 | Big Tech, Regulators And Conservationists Must Unite To Tackle Online Wildlife Trade | Endangered Timneh parrots in illegal trade in West Africa. Rowan Martin/World Parrot Trust
Every month, Facebook attracts 2.89 billion active users. Every minute there are hundreds of thousands of comments and status updates. Each could be ... |
| Dec 1, 2021 | U.S.-China Tech Decoupling Accelerates With New Export Controls on Chinese Quantum Computing Companies | Decoupling between the United States and China accelerated in late November as both countries adopted new trade restrictions against the other. On Nov. 24, the U.S. Commerce Department announced export controls on eight Chinese quantum comp... |
| Jun 22, 2021 | Disinformation, Annexation, & Deterrence: Why the CCP Is More Likely to Subvert Taiwan Than Invade | Introduction
Over the past year, Taiwan has been brought to the forefront as a pressing international relations issue. From its handling of the coronavirus pandemic to supporting pro-democracy movements in the region, Taiwanese President Ts... |
| Jun 11, 2021 | Biden Issues Executive Orders on Chinese Companies and Apps | Biden Issues Executive Orders on Chinese Companies and Apps
On June 3, President Biden signed an executive order prohibiting Americans from investing in 59 Chinese companies with alleged links to the Chinese military. This latest move marks... |
| May 9, 2021 | China’s ‘social credit’ system ranks citizens and punishes them with throttled internet speeds and flight bans if the Communist Party deems them untrustworthy | Beijing in 2014. FRED DUFOUR/AFP via Getty Images
China has been rolling out a system that ranks its citizens based on their “social credit.”
People can be punished if they drive badly, buy too many video games, or steal.
It’s not yet a uni... |
| Jan 6, 2021 | China and the European Union Finalize Investment Agreement; China Approves Vaccine | As of Dec. 30, negotiations between the European Union and China over a new agreement on direct investment are finished.
If the European Parliament ratifies the agreement, it will include rules on transparency, a prohibition on forced techn... |
| Nov 25, 2020 | Asia-Pacific Trade Deal RCEP Is Signed; Xi Signals Potential Interest in CPTPP | Asia-Pacific Trade Deal RCEP Is Signed; Xi Signals Potential Interest in CPTPP
On Nov. 15, the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand signed the world’s l... |
| Nov 4, 2020 | Ant Group IPO Suspended; Five-Year Plan Unveiled | Chinese Regulators Suspend Ant Group’s IPO
On Nov. 3, Chinese regulators announced the suspension of Ant Group’s initial public offering, taking the financial world by surprise. The financial technology giant was poised to break the record ... |
| Oct 21, 2020 | Beijing Restricts Exports Related to National Security; China Joins COVAX | Beijing Restricts Exports Related to National Security
On Oct. 17, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee passed a new law to control exports of sensitive goods, which will apply to all companies in China. The law is focused on “... |
| Oct 8, 2020 | U.S. Courts Halt Bans on Chinese Apps | Federal courts have stayed President Trump’s August orders for nationwide bans on two Chinese-owned apps—WeChat, the multipurpose app with more than a billion users worldwide, and TikTok, the video-sharing app that has gone viral among youn... |
| Jun 4, 2020 | Trump Revokes Hong Kong’s Special Status; China Pushes to Win Global Tech Race | After China Passes National Security Legislation, Trump to Revoke Hong Kong’s Special Status, Among Other Measures
On May 29, President Trump announced that he would direct his administration to “[eliminate] policy exemptions that give Hong... |
| Apr 24, 2020 | Lawsuits Demand Compensation From China for COVID-19; U.K. Reconsiders Huawei’s 5G Role | A Flurry of Lawsuits Demand Compensation From China for COVID-19
In recent weeks, U.S. federal courts have seen a wave of lawsuits seeking compensation from China for losses incurred as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. While experts sa... |
| Mar 27, 2020 | Beijing Turns to Public Diplomacy and Messaging Campaigns, as the Coronavirus Spreads Worldwide | The novel coronavirus has now spread to countries around the globe and infected more than 500,000 people, sending shockwaves through the global economy and severely straining health care systems worldwide. The virus is spreading rapidly in ... |
| Mar 12, 2020 | Coronavirus Infection Rates Rise in U.S., as China Curbs the Virus’s Spread; Justice Department Charges Two Chinese Nationals | Coronavirus Spreads Quickly in the United States, as China Curbs the Virus’s Spread
Having infected more than 100,000 people globally, the novel coronavirus, which causes the respiratory disease COVID-19, has spread to most U.S. states, as ... |
| Feb 14, 2020 | Department of Justice Announces Indictments Against PLA Officials | Department of Justice Announces Indictments Against PLA Officials for 2017 Equifax Hack
The Department of Justice has announced indictments against four members of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) for a 2017 breach of Equifax’s system... |
| Feb 9, 2020 | Europe Needs a China Strategy; Brussels Needs to Shape It | Editor’s Note: Europe's relationship with China is fraught with disagreements and inconsistencies. Different countries have different approaches, and they are not capitalizing on the collective power of the European Union—all to China’... |
| Jan 22, 2020 | U.S. and China Sign "Phase One" Trade Deal but Leave Key Issues Unresolved | U.S. and China Sign “Phase One” Trade Deal but Leave Key Issues Unresolved
On Jan. 15, the United States and China signed a “phase one” trade deal that the Trump administration says will provide safeguards for intellectual property, boost s... |
| Nov 8, 2019 | U.S. Launches National Security Probe Into Chinese-Owned App TikTok | U.S. Launches National Security Probe Into Chinese-Owned App TikTok
The Treasury Department’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has reportedly launched a national security investigation into TikTok, a rapidly grow... |
| Oct 25, 2019 | U.S. and China Reach Verbal Trade Agreement; Tensions Flare Over NBA GM’s Tweet on Hong Kong | U.S. and China Reach Verbal Agreement on “Phase One” of Trade Deal, but Uncertainty Remains
After Oct. 11 negotiations in Washington, D.C, the U.S. and China reached a verbal agreement under which the U.S. will cancel an Oct. 15 increase in... |
| Oct 10, 2019 | Trump Encourages China to Investigate Biden Family, Clouding Trade Talks | Trump Clouds Trade Talks With Comments to Media
Speaking to reporters on the White House lawn on Oct. 3, President Trump called on China to investigate former vice president and current presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter B... |
| Sep 27, 2019 | U.S., China Move Toward October Trade Talks | President Trump on Sept. 12 announced that the U.S. would delay tariff increases on $250 billion of Chinese imports until Oct. 15, creating a possible opening for the two sides to reach an agreement during a round of negotiations scheduled ... |
| Aug 29, 2019 | U.S. Social Media Companies Block Accounts From China Over Hong Kong Disinformation | Twitter, Facebook, and Google Block Accounts Over Hong Kong Disinformation Campaign
On Aug. 19, Twitter issued a public statement revealing the existence of a “significant state-backed information operation focused on the situation in Hong ... |
| Jul 31, 2019 | Trade Talks Resume in Shanghai | Face-to-face trade negotiations resumed this week between representatives of the United States and China for the first time since President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to restart talks in June. U.S. Trade Representa... |
| May 21, 2019 | The U.S.-China Trade War Is a Competition for Technological Leadership | The United States has significantly ratcheted up its trade war with China in recent weeks by firing two new shots. First, President Trump signed an executive order that is expected to restrict Chinese telecommunications companies Huawei and... |
| Feb 12, 2019 | It isn’t just apps. China’s cinemas broke records during Lunar New Year | China celebrated Lunar New Year last week as hundreds of millions of people travelled to their hometowns. While many had longed to see their separated loved ones, others dreaded the weeklong holiday as relatives awkwardly caught up with the... |
| Feb 1, 2019 | A government propaganda app is going viral in China | Besides binge-watching TikTok videos and battling enemies in the magical land of mobile games, many Chinese people may also pass time during the upcoming Lunar New Year on Xuexi Qiangguo, a news and chat app developed by the country’s top i... |
| Jan 28, 2019 | China’s social credit system won’t tell you what you can do right | For the past few years, China has been rolling out a Black Mirror / Harry Potter-esque social rating policy known as the Social Credit System (SCS). Far from just a credit score in the financial sense, an SCS score can determine whether a p... |
| Dec 11, 2018 | Geoeconomics: the U.S. Strategy of Technological Protection and Economic Security | This is the fourth post in a series. Read the first three parts here, here and here.
In three previous posts, we have looked at the emerging Geoeconomic World Order, the increased convergence of economics and security in this new order and ... |
| Oct 1, 2018 | Is China Interfering in American Politics? | Speaking before the General Assembly of the United Nations on Sept. 26, President Trump issued an incendiary charge against China. “We have found,” the president declared, “that China has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming 2018 el... |
| May 30, 2018 | SinoTech: Whiplash in U.S.-China Tech Trade Relations, with More Conflict on Horizon | The U.S.-China trade conflict appeared to reach a temporary détente last week after the Trump administration agreed to resuscitate Chinese telecom giant ZTE in exchange for a package of concessions by the Chinese government. The truce follo... |
| May 23, 2017 | Does India have more people than China? – China’s latest top news | |
| Feb 3, 2017 | News roundup: Self-taught villager wins lawsuit against chemicals company | |
| China's 'social credit' system ranks citizens and punishes them with throttled internet speeds and flight bans if the Communist Party deems them untrustworthy | China's property sector is central to its economy. Getty Images
China has been rolling out a system that ranks its citizens based on their "social credit."
People can be punished if they drive badly, buy too many video games,... |
| Some tiny islands near Yemen could have a big role in the competition between the US and China | A Soviet-era tank rusts on the northern coast of Yemen's Socotra archipelago, April 14, 2021. PETER MARTELL/AFP via Getty Images
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