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The ammonium fluorooxoborate (ABF) crystal is at the heart of a breakthrough by Chinese scientists who say they have attained the shortest wavelength of a laser beam generated from a crystal. Photo: Handout
Science

China’s first-of-kind ABF crystal creates most energised solid-state laser beam

Breakthrough could open possibilities in quantum computing, space platforms, precision manufacturing and the chip industry.

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US-China relations

Opinion | China has Trump 2.0 to thank for emerging stronger in tech and trade

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Science

Editorial | China is no longer a follower in the race for quantum supremacy

Science

Wilczek’s Multiverse | Prize for Physics that proves big things can be quantum too

This year’s winners were honoured for their work with an electrical circuit that could open up a path for further computing breakthroughs.

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Illustration: Henry Wong
Technology

Opinion | How AI, quantum and space technologies will define the Asian century

Together, they form an engine that will determine which nations shape the century ahead and which struggle to keep pace.

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Science

Quantum chip gives China’s AI data centres ‘1,000-fold’ speed boost: researchers

Emerging tech that uses light to boost computer power is already being used in aerospace, biomedicine and finance.

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‘Historic’: Chinese team makes world’s first 2D industrial chip for military use

The chips continue to function even when exposed to high levels of gamma radiation and could have a range of strategic and military uses.

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The chips could be used in space or weapons systems. Photo: Shutterstock
US-China relations

China must more actively seek global lead in quantum race: think tank

Beijing could also diversify its technological partnerships overseas and exchange expertise, says influential mainland research house.

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Technology

How quantum computing puts Asia’s financial systems at risk

Uneven security safeguards leave the region vulnerable to quantum disruptions that could destabilise trust in digital finance, experts warn.

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US-China relations

As I see it | As Nobel laureates show, the US can’t take tech lead over China for granted

It’s hard to tell who will ultimately win the tech race but this year’s Nobel economics prize gives us some clues.

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A researcher conducts pest-control experiments at a branch of Sinograin in Chengdu, Sichuan province on October 15. Photo: Xinhua
China Future Tech briefing

Semiconductors | Chinese quantum computer cracks billion-year problems in seconds

Superfast and powerful, quantum computers could help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges, as well as transforming finance, drug discovery and other fields.

Chinese quantum computer cracks billion-year problems in seconds
China economy

Opinion | How China can position its K visa for success in race for global tech talent

Beijing must assuage local concerns while ensuring transparent selection, institutional support and the equitable integration of foreigners.

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United States

Opinion | Will the US republic survive stress test of Trump’s presidency?

America is facing a rare array of pressures including expanding executive powers, strategic dependencies, legitimacy deficits and fiscal rigidity.

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Open Questions series

Open Questions | Top mathematician on China’s talent gap, role of pure science

Tsinghua University’s Shing-Tung Yau on how China can stop being a follower in science, an opportunity for Hong Kong and chaos in Trump’s US.

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Illustration: Henry Wong
United States

Quantum leap: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for groundbreaking discovery

The UK-US-French trio of John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis were honoured for their discoveries in quantum mechanics.

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John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis are announced as this year’s Nobel Prize winners in Physics, by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday Photo: TT News AgencyReuters
China technology

Opinion | Techno-nationalism is now the critical battlefront in geopolitics

The assumption that technology is a neutral force driving shared progress is giving way to a reality of competition and contest.

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In a first, Chinese team captures rare quantum friction effect in folded graphene

Team at Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics made unexpected finding while folding ultra-thin sheets of graphene.

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New Dawn: Pan Jianwei reveals high-orbit quantum satellite for global network

China’s ‘father of quantum’ tells German conference that project has laid groundwork to potentially redefine international basic unit of time.

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Leading Chinese physicist Pan Jianwei says China’s Dawn high-orbit quantum communication satellite will carry an optical atomic clock and be a new platform for quantum metrology research. Photo: Soho/星空军事
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China can’t buy Nvidia’s RTX 4090. Now its optical chip is twice as fast

‘Optical computing … can meet AI’s ever-growing computational demands and unleash a wave of new applications’: Professor Xie Peng.

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Science

Chinese scientists catch cosmic rays meddling in quantum computer operation

Study finds direct link between correlated errors in multiple qubits and the activity of subatomic particles and gamma rays.

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Semiconductors

A quantum leap: Chinese institute begins photonic chip production

Photonic chips are a critical hardware component for quantum computing and high-speed optical communications.

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The campus of Shanghai JiaoTong University. One of its affiliated institutes has begun production of photonic chips. Photo: AFP
Science

US still king of critical tech, but China quickly closing gaps: report

Contrary to other global trackers, university’s tech race scorecard puts US in front in critical fields with China gaining from ‘research achievements, human capital’.

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A staff member stands under a robotic hand at an exhibition centre at Beijing Robotics Industrial Park last month. According to a Harvard report, China largely trails the US in all key technology fields, but it is steadily narrowing the gaps, despite structural challenges. Photo: Reuters
US-China relations

Opinion | US-China rivalry morphing into a multifront war with no easy way out

It’s not just trade, tech, student visas and academic collaboration – the military stakes are rising too in this contest of endurance.

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US-China tech war

China’s 2030 metrology action plan targets chip, quantum wins in race with US

Plan aims to tackle several ‘pain points’ or shortcomings in China’s metrological capabilities, official Science and Technology Daily says.

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US-China relations

Senior US Democrat slams ‘horrible’ reversal of AI rule as helping China

Trump administration’s move to rescind Biden-era prohibitions said to enable Saudi Arabia, UAE to make advanced chips ‘available’ to Beijing.

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US congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, an Illinois Democrat, is the ranking member of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. Photo: Reuters
United States

Opinion | Trump’s attack on science risks dismantling a century of innovation

Restrictive visa policies, rhetoric targeting academic institutions and proposed budget cuts to scientific agencies mark the start of US retreat.

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United States

Opinion | What Trump should do instead to make US manufacturing great again

Instead of competing with China in shipping, rare earths or EVs, the president should target leading-edge industries like aerospace and quantum computing.

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US-China relations

US must cut China tech reliance, says Trump’s pick for No 2 at Commerce

Nominee asked how he would keep America first as Washington lawmakers fret over Beijing’s lead in EVs, telecoms and advanced manufacturing.

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