Even an $8.5 billion government windfall couldn’t save Intel
Over the last 20 years or so, Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) has become the global leader in chip manufacturing, now controlling roughly 60% of the semiconductor foundry market. Foundries are 3rd-party c...
China’s attempt at a Starlink killer launches first batch of satellites
China is trying to close the gap in the satellite space race. According to Chinese media reports, the state-owned Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology (SSST) launched a rocket carrying over a dozen ...
Conscious uncoupling: Foreign investment in China turned red in 2023
Conscious uncoupling On the list of China’s economic problems, a shrinking population is very much in the “long-term” bucket, with ramifications that won’t fully materialize for decades. However, the...
US-China: Xi Jinping and Biden meet this week
East meets West On Wednesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to arrive in San Francisco for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, which will include a meeting with Joe Biden — thei...
Huawei: The tech giant is hoping its new phone can revive sales
Missing phone On Monday, Huawei held its own big product launch, just a few weeks after Apple debuted its latest iPhone range. The Chinese tech giant made a lot of noise about new $200+ earbuds, and ...
No new data: China has stopped reporting youth unemployment
Data not available After 6 consecutive months of rising youth unemployment in urban areas of China, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced it would no longer be publishing the figures — it...
Intertwined: Why US-China relations are so complicated
Blinken you’ll miss it The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, traveled to China this week in an effort to cool the simmering geopolitical tensions between the two nations . The summit comes after...
Buoyed by Beijing: China's been huge for Tesla through the years
Beijing beckons On Tuesday, Elon Musk's private jet touched down in Beijing, marking his first visit to China in over 3 years. The billionaire met with the nation's foreign, commerce, and industry mi...
Chip-for-tat: Why Micron is at the center of the latest US-China flashpoint?
Chip-for-tat The Cyberspace Administration of China announced this week that key infrastructure firms would be banned from purchasing chips manufactured by Micron Technology , an Idaho-based company,...
China x Hollywood: American movies are struggling in China
Disney has secured a coveted Chinese theatrical release for James Cameron’s long-awaited Avatar sequel, some 13 years after the initial release of the record-breaking blockbuster smash. The incredibly...
China: The context behind the CCP's 20th National Congress
On Sunday, the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party kicked off with General Secretary Xi Jinping consolidating his power after a decade leading the world’s most-populous country. The ...
Skipping class: Chinese students are looking beyond the US
In 2015, almost 275,000 visas were granted to Chinese students to come and study in the US. Since then, however, the numbers have dropped precipitously, with new data out this week showing that just 3...
Space station split: Russia is withdrawing from the ISS.
Switching stations Russia has said that it will be withdrawing from the International Space Station (ISS) after 2024, effectively ending over two decades of space-based cooperation with the West. Ro...
VPNs: How Russians are getting by the increasing number of internet restrictions
The "splinternet" Russia's population is increasingly cut off from the rest of the world, and we're not talking about just physically. With complete bans on major social media platforms like Facebook...
NATO: Why the defense alliance is key to what's happening in Ukraine
Massing Russian troops on the borders of Ukraine have elevated tensions between eastern and western powers in a way not seen since the cold war. The 100,000+ Russian troops near the Ukrainian border o...
US-China relations: How does the US public view China?
This week the United States' top diplomat, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, strongly rejected the idea that the US and China were entering a "cold war" in an interview with the Financial Times — des...
Adobe and Canva would be the secret winners of a TikTok ban
One of the biggest stories in tech is President Biden's TikTok ban. In April, Biden signed a law that would ban TikTok unless it's sold to non-Chinese ownership in the next year. However, TikTok's par...
GM has a China problem
General Motors suffered a $210 million equity loss so far this year from its Chinese joint venture with with state-owned SAIC. The automaker, faced with declining demand in China, said it has taken st...
Big tech is delighted to rent American chips to Chinese companies banned from buying them
One of the defining geopolitical struggles of the last few years has been America’s attempts to limit Chinese access to advanced artificial intelligence chips through export bans . China is America’s ...
Chip stocks are getting routed by political news
Semiconductor stocks staggered through their worst day in four years, as potential new Biden administration regulations on chip-related tech exports to China, and bombastic Trump comments aimed at Tai...