Why the US-China space race could come down to a...
In the high‑stakes space race between the United States and China, the decisive advantage could come down to a metal cap that few outside the industry have ever heard of:...
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‘China’s real-life transformer’: new rescue tech used in dramatic flood...
It is part-boat, part-bridge and part-life raft – and in the massive floods in southern China, it has been all rescue vehicle. The foldable, self-propelled pontoon barge has emerged as...
Taiwan’s opposition TPP launches historic first trip to mainland China
The Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) has sent its first formal delegation to mainland China since the party’s founding, seeking to maintain cross-strait peace through dialogue amid heightened tensions with Beijing....
Trump scraps Hormuz toll plan but presses ahead with Iran...
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday abandoned plans to impose a 20 per cent charge on commercial cargo passing through the Strait of Hormuz, less than a day after unveiling...
EU signals emergency import curbs after dramatic growth in Chinese...
The European Union is prepared to introduce emergency measures to combat China’s extraordinary export surge as new figures showed the trade gap had widened dramatically, its top trade enforcer said...
China’s No 4 official Wang Huning to head to North...
China’s fourth-ranked official, Wang Huning, will head to North Korea this week, the latest in a flurry of high-level exchanges between Beijing and Pyongyang. Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported...
China’s missile test reveals fragile state of world nuclear governance
On July 6, a Chinese strategic nuclear submarine fired a missile carrying a training dummy warhead into a designated area of the Pacific. Beijing described the launch as routine, said...
Lindsey Graham’s death removes one of Washington’s most influential China...
The death of US Senator Lindsey Graham has removed one of Washington’s most influential advocates of a hardline approach towards China at a moment when Republicans are debating how aggressively...
Pan Jianwei becomes first Chinese scientist to win the top...
Chinese quantum scientist Pan Jianwei has won the United Nations’ top fundamental science prize for his work in quantum computation and communications, Unesco has announced. Pan is a laureate of...
China’s optical chip breakthrough boosts AI speed 100-fold using fraction...
Chinese researchers have developed a new all-optical interconnect system linking standard electronic chips, boosting AI distributed inference speeds by over 100 times while using just one-ninth of the typical computational...
