China Economic ReviewChina has added ten US companies it accuses of having connections to the US military to a blacklist, meaning Chinese companies are banned from exporting dual-use items to those on the list. China’s Commerce Ministry said this move is in direct response to the US adding tech companies such as BYD, Baidu and Alibaba to […]
China has undertaken a massive overhaul of its university system since 2021, ditching around a third of all courses—mostly from the arts, humanities and languages, and replacing them with tech and AI-focused majors. As China moves towards an AI-led future, the stated goal is to give its students the skills needed to find employment in […]
China has just broken ground on the construction site for yet another gigantic megaproject, a series of mega ship locks–colossal structures also known as “water elevators” or “water staircases” built into the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River. The project will take around a decade to build and cost $11.4 billion. The ship locks […]
China’s fast-fashion giant Shein has been fined around $26 million by French authorities for violating consumer protection and environmental rules. It was found that the company failed to comply with return rights, lacked traceability information on its products and did not disclose whether items contained plastic microfibers. This is the third such fine that Shein […]
The 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 […]