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Allen Sun fields calls from anxious recruiters almost daily. The Beijing-based headhunter targets Chinese engineers at Meta, Google, Anthropic and Amazon. His clients authori...

China Signals Thaw With U.S. Energy and Beef as Three LNG Tankers Head to Tianjin

Three LNG carriers slipped out of Louisiana ports last week bound for China. Their cargoes could mark the first direct U.S. shipments of liquefied natural gas to reach Chines...

Trump Secures 200 Boeing Jets From China but Falls Short of Wall Street Hopes

President Donald Trump stood in Beijing this week and declared a win for American manufacturing. China, he said on Fox News, had agreed to order 200 Boeing jets. "One thing h...

US Trade Envoy Greer Sidesteps Chip Curbs in Beijing as Nvidia’s H200 Hopes Fade

Jamieson Greer delivered a blunt assessment. U.S. export controls on advanced semiconductors did not feature prominently in this week's high-stakes meetings in Beijing. The T...

DeepSeek’s Huawei Pivot Exposes Cracks in U.S. Chip Strategy

DeepSeek did it again. The Chinese artificial intelligence startup released a preview of its V4 model in late April. This time the breakthrough carried a sharper edge. For th...

China’s Quiet Bid for U.S. AI Weapons Meets a Firm No

American frontier models keep pulling ahead. Chinese officials and analysts watch with mounting alarm. Last month in Singapore a representative from a Chinese t...

BYD Brings LiDAR to $10,000 EVs as Seagull and Sealion Models Redefine Affordable Autonomy

BYD just did it again. The Chinese automaker launched the 2026 Seagull with an optional roof-mounted LiDAR sensor. This marks the first time such hardware appears in an entry...

China’s Auto Market Unravels as Gasoline Cars Collapse and War Fuels the Pain

China's car sales crashed 21.5 percent in April. Passenger vehicle deliveries sank to 1.4 million units. That marked the lowest April figure since the 2022 Covid lockdowns. T...

Autonomous Agents Take Charge: How AI Systems Move Beyond Chat in 2026

Executives once asked what AI could tell them. Now they ask what it can do without them. The question lands differently in boardrooms this year. Companies race to hand over w...

China Mandates Human Oversight in Agentic AI Push

China’s top internet regulator has released new guidelines that embrace the rapid spread of agentic systems while insisting humans stay firmly in control. Issued on May 8 by...

Trump Heads to Beijing as Iran Shadows Loom Over High-Stakes Summit With Xi

President Donald Trump lands in Beijing this week for talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The meeting, set for May 14 and 15, carries heavy baggage. Trade tensions. Taiwan....

China Hits the Brakes on Robotaxis After Baidu Fleet Freezes in Wuhan

Beijing has drawn a firm line. After dozens of Baidu Apollo Go robotaxis abruptly halted across busy streets in Wuhan on March 31, stranding passengers for up to two hours an...

Chinese Micromotors Act Like Tiny Predators to Extract Uranium from Seawater

Chinese researchers have built microscopic machines that swim through water like hunters in search of uranium. These self-propelled particles, each about 2 micrometres wide,...

Chinese Supercomputers Rewrite Yellowstone’s Volcanic Origins

Yellowstone National Park hides one of Earth's most powerful volcanic systems. Its past eruptions dwarfed anything in recorded history. Now Chinese researchers have used vast...

Chinese Exporters Grow Numb to Trump Tariffs as Beijing Summit Looms

President Donald Trump heads to Beijing later this month. Chinese factory salespeople barely shrug. One of them, Yu Yangxian, sells electric lockers and vending machines. A l...

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