Spotlight

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 a ...

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 escalation i...

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 di...

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