Spotlight

China's Energy Transition

China’s Energy Transition Moves From Capacity Race to Grid Test China entered 2025 with the world’s largest clean-energy build-out and a harder question: whether its power system can absorb wha...

May 17, 2026

Trump-Xi Summit Ends Amidst Unresolved Tech Tensions and Geopolitical Hurdles

Trump-Xi summit ends with promises, pageantry and unresolved technology tensions BEIJING — President Donald Trump left China on Friday claiming progress in talks with President Xi Jinping, but th...

May 15, 2026

How BYD Became a Global EV Powerhouse

How a Shenzhen battery maker became the world’s most formidable electric-car company From Battery Workshop to Car Company In 1995, Wang Chuanfu, a young chemist in Shenzhen, founded ...

May 11, 2026

China's Homegrown AI Superclusters

China Accelerates Deployment of Massive AI Computing Clusters China is aggressively scaling its domestic artificial intelligence capabilities by massive, home-grown computing clusters to bypass int...

May 6, 2026

China's Fight with Meta over AI Sovereignty

Beijing Draws a Hard Line to Stop Meta China’s decision to block Meta’s proposed $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a fast-rising domestic artificial-intelligence start-up, marks a notable escalati...

Apr 30, 2026

The Blue Frontier: How China is Winning the Underwater Data Race

China’s Deep Dive into Underwater Data Centres China has moved decisively beyond experimentation in underwater data centres (UDCs), turning what was once a speculative concept into a pillar of its ...

Apr 29, 2026

Two Nations, Two Approaches to the AI Frontier: China vs. Germany

China's Massive Scale vs. Germany's Industrial AI Specializationr The recent opening of Xiaomi Auto's R&D facility in Munich, Germany, to develop European electric vehicle (EV) production shines a ...

Apr 27, 2026

DeepSeek and the $6M AI Revolution

Deepseek's Origins: From High-Frequency Trading to Frontier AI With a new version of DeepSeek's large large language model due imminently, it has been some fifteen months since the Chinese company ...

Apr 19, 2026