China has opened an antitrust investigation into Trip.com, the country’s largest online travel services provider, reports the South China Morning Post. The moves comes just weeks before hundreds of millions of people on the mainland go away on holiday during the Lunar New Year break. The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) on Wednesday said the group–operator of namesake platform Trip.com, Skyscanner, Ctrip, […]
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Huawei Technologies edged out Apple to reclaim the no. 1 spot in mainland China’s smartphone market in 2025, reports the South China Morning Post, as the domestic handset maker overcame crippling US sanctions. For the full year, Huawei captured 16.4% of China’s smartphone market with 46.7 million units shipped, narrowly beating Apple, which shipped 46.2 million iPhones for […]
Chinese customs authorities told customs agents this week that H200 artificial intelligence chips are not permitted to enter China, reports Reuters, citing three people briefed on the matter. Chinese government officials also summoned domestic technology companies to meetings on Tuesday where they were explicitly instructed not to purchase the chips unless necessary, Reuters said, quoting the […]
The US House of Representatives has passed a bill aimed at tightening restrictions on foreign access to advanced American AI chips via cloud computing services, reports Caixin. The bill was passed with a focus on preventing Chinese entities from circumventing export controls. The legislation, known as the Remote Access Security Act, was approved on January 12 […]
China has reported a record trade surplus of nearly $1.2 trillion for 2025, which comes as it seeks to diversify away from the US to other markets, and also seeks to downplay exports in favor of domestic consumption. The first is working to some extent but the second is not. Outbound shipments in December hit […]