The AI industry is moving beyond technological competition and towards an era of AI-driven financial infrastructure.
CNBC’s The China Connection newsletter: China learns to build without Nvidia
Chinese companies are increasingly seeking Nvidia alternatives to develop self-sufficient systems, even if their own tech remains in the early stages.
China’s DF-27 can sink a US aircraft carrier from thousands of miles inland — and the Pentagon says it can now reach the American homeland too
Summary and Key Points: China has fielded a weapon that can threaten a US aircraft carrier from a launcher sitting thousands of miles inland — and according to the Pentagon’s most recent assessment, …
China’s first commercial small modular reactor is set to start generating power this year — the country racing ahead of every Western SMR project on the schedule
Why small modular reactors matter Traditional nuclear plants are enormous, expensive, and slow to build. The Vogtle expansion in Georgia, the only new conventional reactor project completed in the …
China built a missile to sink US Navy aircraft carriers — there’s just one problem nobody can answer
Summary and Key Points: China calls it the aircraft carrier killer. The DF-26B is built to do what most weapons can’t — track a U.S. aircraft carrier moving across open ocean and slam into it from …
China Aims A.I. at Predicting Who Could Pose a Political Risk
New research examines how a Chinese company struggled to develop its predictive surveillance technology while U.S. restrictions were in place.
China’s property market shows more positive signs with price, sales upticks
Sector has ‘weathered its most severe adjustment’, with overall market sentiment ‘turning noticeably positive’, analyst says China’s home prices saw a modest recovery in May, adding to growth in March …
Iran, Russia, and China are still hunting submarines together in the Gulf of Oman — a Chinese sub-killer frigate working inside US carrier range for a second week
For the second week running, a Chinese anti-submarine warfare frigate is operating alongside Iranian and Russian warships in the Gulf of Oman, conducting coordinated drills in waters that sit squarely …
China Sends Muscular Coast Guard To Mark Territory
China views cooperation between U.S. allies Japan and the Philippines as undermining its longstanding claim to Taiwan.
China’s investment-driven role in global growth is underestimated, study says
Standard metrics understate China’s physical investment gap with the US and its wider economic influence, researchers say.