China Economic ReviewThe White House has said that sales of Nvidia’s powerful H200 chips to China have not yet gone ahead, adding that Beijing has not approved the purchase by Chinese companies of the chips. The approval for the sale of the chips to China by the Trump administration in January drew sharp criticism from those in […]
The number of Chinese students enrolling in overseas universities and institutions dropped to its lowest level in a decade in 2025, according to data from China’s Ministry of Education. Around 570,000 students headed abroad during the year, a drop of 20% from the historical peak of 2019 and a return to the level of 2016. […]
A US congressional advisory body has warned that China’s dominance of open-source AI is challenging America’s lead in the tech race, despite restrictions on Chinese access to advanced AI chips. According to Reuters, China’s large language models (LLMs) are already surpassing app downloads such as ChatGPT and Claude in app stores, and Reuters even estimates […]
China’s second biggest chip manufacturer, Hua Hong, has developed the capacity to produce AI chips, according to Reuters, which has cited unnamed sources. If this is the case, then Hua Hong will be only the second Chinese company to be able to do so, with the other being SMIC. Reuters says that Hua Hong is […]
China’s domestic car sales plunged 23.1% year-on-year to 2.8 million vehicles during the first two months of 2026, as fading subsidies and policy changes have dampened demand. New energy vehicles (NEVs) had a particular large drop, with sales falling 27.5% during the period. One big hit to NEV sales was the removal of a tax […]