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The US and China are competing for supremacy in the suite of advanced technologies that will affect the means of future economic production. US efforts to curtail China's access to American technology are threatening to unravel decades of globalisation and interdependent supply chains and raising the risk of a confrontation that has been likened to a new cold war.
- In the face of a potential ban of TikTok in the US, Chinese merchants selling on the platform are preparing for the worst
- Leaving the US, a global trendsetter and major source of viral content, would be far more devastating to TikTok than exiting other markets like India
Huawei is the sole funder of a research competition that has attracted hundreds of proposals from scientists, including those at top US universities.
Silicon Valley giants including Microsoft, Amazon and Google, along with Chinese tech conglomerates such as Alibaba, are making a big push to grow in Southeast Asia.
Huawei’s recognition as an accredited lab expired on Tuesday and its request for an extension of its recognition was denied by US authorities.
Antony Blinken is the latest senior US official to visit China, but some analysts believe Washington needs to set out a clear vision for future relations.
The leadership reshuffle at Huawei’s consumer business group comes as the company regains lost ground in China’s smartphone market and doubles down on electric vehicle systems.
Sahil Kumar used to have more than 1.5 million followers on TikTok – four years later, only 94,000 people follow his folk dances on Instagram after India’s ban on the Chinese-owned app.
Several Chinese online media outlets falsely reported that a Tokyo-based research firm found more than 90 per cent of the handset’s parts to be domestically sourced.
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies is eyeing opportunities in digital and artificial intelligence transformation to regain ground in Asia-Pacific, according to its deputy chairwoman Meng Wanzhou.
Chinese researchers detail how technology has transformed the region’s textile industry and led to record surge in exports.
King Yuan Electronics Co, one of the world’s largest chip testing and packaging services firms, has divested its entire stake in a subsidiary at manufacturing hub Suzhou in eastern China.
China is demanding more and better research to unearth the technology of tomorrow – but a research culture based around titles and participation in certain programmes is limiting the potential of its scientists.
The city’s focus on China-made graphics processing units shows how mainland authorities are scrambling to build up computing resources, despite US export restrictions on advanced chips.
TikTok is in the cross hairs of authorities in the US, where new legislation threatens a nationwide ban unless its China-based parent ByteDance divests.
The short video format enables TikTok’s algorithm to become much more dynamic and even capable of even tracking changes in users’ preferences and interests across time.
The FCC has cited national security concerns in revoking or denying Chinese companies’ rights to provide US telecoms services.
ByteDance-owned TikTok is set to pursue legal action challenging the constitutionality of the measure, which US President Joe Biden has signed into law.
China’s status as a ‘near-peer competitor’ is driving efforts to limit access to key technologies such as semiconductors and counter its global influence.
Taiwan’s exports to the US in the first quarter beat shipments sent to mainland China, with analysts pointing to a ‘strategic plan’ by Washington to construct and lead a world supply chain and market order.
Within monthsof the Indian ban, Google rolled out YouTube Shorts and Instagram pushed out its Reels feature, mimicking short-form videos TikTok excelled at.
SenseTime’s shares gained as much as 36 per cent after the company launched the latest iteration of its SenseNova large language model.
The open-source technology, which can be used to build smartphone chips and advanced processors, is being used by major Chinese tech firms.
Washington has ‘seriously harmed’ Chinese interests with moves to suppress the country’s economy and trade, foreign ministry official says.
The country remains the US tech giant’s main manufacturing base, home to over a third of the factories run by its disclosed suppliers.
Among the buyers were the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Shandong Artificial Intelligence Institute, the Hubei Earthquake Administration and a state-run aviation research centre.
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump sought to blame President Joe Biden for legislation that would force the sale of social media platform TikTok, even though he attempted to ban the company himself when in office.
