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Monthly Archives For August 2025
Morning brief: Beijing’s jab at Washington, Nvidia’s setback, Musk courts Zuckerberg
A busy night in global affairs saw Beijing sharpen its rhetoric ahead of hosting world leaders, Nvidia forced to pause a key chip rollout under Chinese scrutiny, and Elon Musk making an unlikely …
Trump tariffs live updates: Trump says US to tariff furniture imports following investigation
President Trump said that the US is investigating furniture imports and will impose a tariff on the products once the probe is complete. “Furniture coming from other Countries into the United States …
China cut itself off from the global internet for an hour – but was it a mistake?
The country’s “Great Firewall” disrupted all traffic on TCP port 443, used for HTTPS, for 74 minutes on August 20, 2025, but with most citizens asleep during the outage (00:34-01:48 Beijing time), was this intended…
Nvidia talking to Trump admin. about new China chip
Nvidia is working with the US government to bring a follow up to its H20 chip to China, CEO Jensen Huang told reporters while traveling in Taiwan. The new chip would be based on N…
China’s economic data is famously unreliable—and could be a warning if Trump meddles with the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Beijing “is really intolerant of economic instability, and so everything gets smoothed,” says Derek Scissors of the American Enterprise Institute.
Crypto Biz: Bitcoin miners face tariff hit, blockchain courts Wall Street
US Bitcoin miners face $100 million-plus in tariff charges, Trump-linked firm dodges duties, Polkadot eyes Wall Street, SharpLink buys $667M ETH, China weighs stablecoin.
China’s stock market woes fuel high savings rate, hinder economic growth
At the heart of why consumers in China save so much and spend so little, and why Xi Jinping and Donald Trump will struggle to change that behavior even if they want to, lies the…
How Nvidia’s chips became central to the U.S.-China trade war
When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed Friday that the company is working with the Trump administration on a new computer chip designed for sale to China, it marked the latest chapter in a long-running …
Vietnam island building in Spratlys may soon surpass China’s, report says
Vietnam has significantly expanded island-building work in areas it claims in the Spratly Islands chain of the disputed South China Sea and will match and likely surpass the scale of such activity …
Nvidia in ‘dialogue’ with US government on next-gen chip sales to China
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Friday that the company is “in dialogue” with the U.S. government about selling next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China. “Offering a new …
China’s top engineering academy seeks more private-sector blood, with innovation in mind
Adding more private enterprise executives and scientists to the Chinese Academy of Engineering is also expected to ‘influence the global flow of capital and talent’.
Pakistan set to get ADB finance for rail upgrade that China was to fund but didn’t
The Asian Development Bank is set to fund a $2B upgrade of Pakistan’s Karachi-Rohri railway, supporting the Reko Diq copper mine after Chinese delays.
