Tag: China
China’s economic data is famously unreliable—and could be a warning if Trump meddles with the Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the federal government’s lead statistician after a disappointing jobs report spurred warnings over the potential fallout if...
DeBriefed 22 August 2025: Pakistan floods; China emissions drop; Climate-adaptive architecture – Carbon Brief
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to...
‘It’s up to, of course, the United States government’: Jensen Huang says a new China chip is in the works with Trump weighing in
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Friday that the company is discussing a potential new computer chip designed for China with the Trump administration.
Huang was...
China’s DeepSeek just dropped a new GPT-5 rival — optimized for Chinese chips, priced to undercut OpenAI
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek shocked the world in January with an AI model, called R1, that rivaled OpenAI and Anthropic’s top LLMs. It was...
Africa Is Buying a Record Number of Chinese Solar Panels
While overall sales to African countries are still small compared to these traditional export markets, the Global South appears to be at a turning...
China Briefing 21 August 2025: China’s CO2 decline; ‘Two mountains’; China’s cement challenge – Carbon Brief
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing.
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Meet Wukong, the AI Chatbot China Has Installed on Its Space Station
The latest addition to China’s Tiangong space station is an AI chatbot with expertise in navigation and tactical planning. Named Wukong AI—after the protagonist...
Chinese ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts
The salesperson hawking Brother printers on Taobao works hard—like, really hard. At any time of the day, even when there’s no audience on the...
Pop Mart shares soar 11% as CEO announces new mini Labubu
Shares of Chinese toy maker Pop Mart International Group Ltd. rose the most in nearly four months on Wednesday, after chief executive officer Wang...
Bessent says China tariff status quo ‘working pretty well’
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent indicated the U.S. is satisfied with the current tariff set up with China, a signal the Trump administration is looking...