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US-China relations

Why China may be better placed than US in tussle for rare earths

While Beijing has long engaged with resource-rich nations, Trump’s Washington is seen as more ‘aggressive’ and reactive.

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Science

Man behind 99% chips: semiconductor legend Chih-Tang Sah’s ashes leave US for China

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Robotics

Tsinghua University sets up research institute in push for robotics talent

Artificial intelligence

Huawei-style ‘chip stacking’ seen as a path for China to rival Nvidia’s GPUs

With US curbs biting, experts say near-memory computing and chip stacking could narrow the AI hardware gap with Nvidia.

China hopes to steal a march on Nvidia by combining relatively mature chips with new computing architectures. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

Alibaba Cloud team wins top AI award for breakthrough in model efficiency

The research could help reduce training and inference costs for Alibaba’s next generation Qwen models without sacrificing accuracy.

Science

How China turned a cement factory into a haven for mathematicians

Beijing research institute has become a magnet for global talent, drawing Fields medallists, quantum physicists and others from 21 nations.

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Robotics

China’s robotics twin stars join national committee to shape industry standards

Unitree’s Wang Xingxing and AgiBot’s Peng Zhihui have been appointed to the Standardisation Technical Committee for Humanoid Robots.

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Unitree founder Wang Xingxing (left) and AgiBot co-founder Peng Zhihui have been named to China’s new robotics standardisation committee. Photo: Handout
China-Russia relations

Missile defence in focus as China, Russia generals pledge deeper cooperation

Zhang Youxia and Russian counterpart discuss collaboration ‘blueprint’ in Moscow as US pushes Golden Dome, nuclear weapons testing.

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Science

QS university rankings ridiculed in China as latest listing bombs online

Social media commenters point out anomalies, calling the results ‘nonsense’ and ‘unintentionally funny’.

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US-China relations

‘Not enthusiastic’: why China finds Trump’s ‘G2’ talk too costly in geopolitics

While the term treats China and the US as equals, Beijing is probably ‘not enthusiastic’ about its ‘hegemonic’ undertones, analysts say.

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Taiwan

Beijing irked by Taiwan No 2’s speech, but measured response likely: analysts

Unofficial engagement at European Parliament is expected to prompt mainland officials to ‘be a lot more vigilant’ about political stunts.

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Taiwan’s No 2 leader, Hsiao Bi-khim (centre), after addressing an event at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, on Friday. Photo: AP
Science

Rising star mathematician Wu Meng returns to China from Finland

Now affiliated with Hunan University, the award-winning professor solved a major part of Furstenberg’s conjecture dating to the 1960s.

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DeepSeek

China’s DeepSeek makes rare comment, calls for AI ‘whistle-blower’ on job losses

Remarks by CEO Liang Wenfeng’s delegate highlight potential dangers of race to build superintelligent systems.

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Science

Half of China’s raw building materials could be recycled by mid-century: study

Circular economy model could change the future of the nation’s sand and gravel industry, according to researchers.

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Workers are seen on a rooftop of a residential building under construction by Chinese property developer Poly Real Estate in Nanjing, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, in May. Photo: AFP/China OUT
China manufacturing

Factories first: why China is determined to shield manufacturing from decline

Reversing deindustrialisation is notoriously difficult, making industrial protection a top priority, official publication says.

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Workers at the Seres Super Factory in Liangjiang New Area, southwest China’s Chongqing on September 19. Photo: Xinhua
US-China relations

Beyond a trade deal: will more Xi-Trump summits lead to new era of stability?

After the Biden presidency, the two leaders seek to chart a new course with more meetings and a focus on ‘bigger picture ideas’.

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Taiwan

What does the Xi-Trump summit’s silence on Taiwan mean?

The self-ruled island is less of a priority for the US leader and could affect others playing the ‘Taiwan card’, analysts say.

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US-China trade war

China and US must halt escalating weaponisation of trade, Chinese scholar urges

Both sides will ‘need to have some kind of self-restraint’ to move past a recent flare-up in tensions, Tsinghua University professor says.

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Da Wei, director of the Centre for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University, has called on the United States and China to show self-restraint as they try to cool down tensions over trade and technology. Photo: Tsinghua University
DeepSeek

Will DeepSeek’s new model break the ‘long-context’ bottleneck holding back LLMs?

The solution proposed by DeepSeek in its latest paper is to convert text tokens into images, or pixels, using a vision encoder.

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Science

Letters | Let’s inspire the future scientists from Hong Kong secondary schools

Readers discuss how to excite student interest in science, the legacy of physicist Chen-ning Yang, and typhoon leave.

Artificial intelligence

Chinese AI start-up Shengshu unveils Vidu Q2 in challenge to OpenAI’s Sora

Membership tiers range from free access to a flagship plan costing up to US$84 a month, which offers faster output and more capacity.

A screenshot from a demo clip of an earlier Vidu model. Photo: Handout
Apple

Apple CEO Tim Cook pushes AI system launch in China after iPhone Air release

‘Cook has leveraged his personal brand to transform Apple’ into an ‘engaged participant attuned to local sentiments’, consultancy M360 says.

Apple CEO Tim Cook poses for a selfie with photographer Trunk Xu and Vogue China editorial director Rocco Liu in Beijing. Photo: Weibo
Science

Chinese team aims to test powerful chip on world’s largest optical telescope

Scientists say breakthrough could shorten the time needed to map the Milky Way from millennia to less than a decade.

Apple

Apple’s iPhone Air sells out in China after CEO Tim Cook’s visit

Pre-sales for the model, which only received Chinese regulatory approval recently, began on Friday morning.

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Science

Top scientist Hu Ye quits US for China after giving up millions in funding

Hu has been appointed founding dean at the new school of biomedical engineering at his alma mater, Tsinghua University.

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Biomedical scientist Hu Ye has commented publicly on freezes and cuts to NIH funding affecting his research projects in the United States. Photo: Handout
Science

China unleashes battery export controls amid strides in solid-state science

Analysts say the measures are meant to consolidate China’s advantage in the lithium battery industry and slow the progress of competitors.

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China plays a substantial role in the global battery supply chain, providing over 70 per cent of battery materials and more than 60 per cent of power batteries worldwide. Photo: Shutterstock
Apple

Apple CEO Tim Cook pledges increased investment in China in meeting with MIIT

Cook acknowledges the support of China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as the iPhone Air launches next week.

Apple

Apple CEO Tim Cook’s latest China visit boosts promotion for the iPhone Air

According to Apple, iPhone Air pre-orders on the mainland start at 9am on Friday, while shipments begin next Wednesday.

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