I believe we should be able to find a solution that allows both sides to maintain peaceful and stable relations,” President Tsai Ing-wen said in a year-end news conference. Tensions have grown since China suspended…
Monthly Archives For January 2017
How China Built ‘iPhone City’ With Billions in Perks for Apple’s Partner
And many rely on local manufacturing partners like Foxconn. While Apple came later than many technology companies, it now generates nearly a quarter of its revenues from sales in China and has some of the…
The Machines are Coming: China’s role in the future of artificial intelligence
And with billions of dollars being sunk into AI research by Silicon Valley’s biggest players as well as China’s big three “BAT” technology firms – Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent – coupled with an explosion in…
China hi-tech hub mayor adds party chief to his résumé
Xu’s predecessor Ma, who became Shenzhen party chief in March 2015, also had a strong technology background, overseeing the Chang’e-3 lunar programme as the director of China National Space Administration. Pundits had expected that Ma,…
Top Space News 2016: EmDrive updates and controversies
Though this technology has been claimed to be impossible, China shocked everyone by claiming to carry out the EmDrive test successfully, and defeated NASA in this space race after conducting research on the technology for…
Foxconn invests $8 bn in China LCD plant
“We have in China a government that knows how to be efficient and supports new technology,” said Foxconn president Terry Gou in an interview with China’s 21st Century Business. “As to whether we’ll invest in…
China’s state broadcaster rebrands in push to extend global reach
CCTV and the official Xinhua News Agency have expanded aggressively in recent years with dual missions of becoming globally credible media heavyweights while sustaining their roles as vital propaganda organs of the Communist Party. China…
China's money rates rise over the year as c.bank tightens liquidity
SHANGHAI, Dec 30 China’s primary money rates rose this week and were largely higher this year, driven by the central bank’s tight liquidity stance in the second half aimed at curbing bubbles and reducing leverage…
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