On Monday, Xi Jinping presided over a highly publicized meeting with CEOs from China’s tech giants. In the eyes of many observers, the meeting served as a signal that, after years of relentless regulatory crackdowns on the...
As geopolitical competition and national security continue to dominate the China-U.S. relationship, Chinese nationals are finding it increasingly difficult to live in the U.S. This month, Tsinghua University highlighted top chip...
DeepSeek’s rapid rise to fame this month after the release of its new AI chatbot has supercharged debates about the efficacy of U.S. export controls and the race to AI-tech superiority. Many in China celebrated DeepSeek’s...
Chinese AI company DeepSeek has taken the world by storm by releasing its latest AI chatbot. The free chatbot has been touted as mostly open-source, more efficient, and by certain measures better performing than the latest...
Among Xi Jinping’s many Party-bestowed titles and hundreds of banned netizen nicknames is one that points to his penchant for claiming personal leadership over and insight into seemingly everything: “Compass-in-Chief.” The...
CDT Chinese editors have compiled a series of year-end articles on special topics such as 2023’s most sensitive and oft-censored words (parts one and two), most notable reports, outstanding people of the year (stand-up...
Earlier this week, Apple removed over 100 generative AI and ChatGPT-related apps from its mainland Chinese store in response to new Chinese government regulations on managing generative AI. The regulations were introduced in...
The CCP has become synonymous with surveillance. On an increasingly authoritarian trajectory, Xi Jinping has bet his and the Party’s longevity on its ability to not only neutralize challenges to authority but also anticipate...
At a press conference on September 13, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning fielded a reporter’s question about the Biden administration’s plans to expand restrictions on semiconductor exports to China with a fiery...
The United States Senate has passed a landmark, bipartisan bill to dramatically increase government spending on technological development. The bill, known as the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, allocates $250 billion to...
U.S. measures against China’s burgeoning tech sector are set to continue despite an anticipated truce in the two countries’ ongoing trade war, The Wall Street Journal’s Bob Davis and Katy Stech Ferek reported...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
This week’s Economist looks at the global growth of facial recognition technology, of which...
The conventional view of China’s tech industry has long been that local companies mimic...
In 2013, former deputy director of Xinhua News Agency Lu Wei was appointed head of the State...
New Scientist’s Jacob Aron reports that China’s Jade Rabbit moon rover has been...
Gwynn Guilford reports in Quartz that while China plans to become “an...
In her latest “Letter from China,” the New York Times’ Didi Kirsten Tatlow provides an overview of the newly released book Chinese Industrial Espionage: Technology Acquisition and Military Modernisation....
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