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The United States imposed a series of sanctions on China in 2020 over human rights concerns. The US imposed visa restrictions and sanctions on Chinese officials and businesses, citing repression of Uygurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang and Beijing's militarisation of its claims in the South China Sea. The US also sanctioned Hong Kong and mainland Chinese officials deemed responsible for undermining Hong Kong's autonomy and freedoms. Beijing responded by banning a slew of US officials from entering China or doing business in China. US President Joe Biden's administration has signalled that human rights concerns will be a priority, and it could impose further sanctions on China.
Pledge to use city’s new domestic national security law only in compelling circumstances and to promote ‘soft power’ suggests a subtle change in government stance.
If Washington is serious about human rights, and not in it for just cheap propaganda, there are other places with huge numbers of cases worthy of its attention.
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- Four out of five people who responded to the poll say their opinion of mainland China is unfavourable, about the same as last year
- Older Americans have more hawkish attitudes, while those under age 29 don’t think limits on China’s power and influence should be a top priority
The leadership reshuffle at Huawei’s consumer business group comes as the company regains lost ground in China’s smartphone market and doubles down on electric vehicle systems.
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies is eyeing opportunities in digital and artificial intelligence transformation to regain ground in Asia-Pacific, according to its deputy chairwoman Meng Wanzhou.
Indonesia has offered the island of Bali and the nation’s new capital Nusantara as potential locations for Microsoft’s new research facility and data centre.
Chinese researchers detail how technology has transformed the region’s textile industry and led to record surge in exports.
King Yuan Electronics Co, one of the world’s largest chip testing and packaging services firms, has divested its entire stake in a subsidiary at manufacturing hub Suzhou in eastern China.
The city’s focus on China-made graphics processing units shows how mainland authorities are scrambling to build up computing resources, despite US export restrictions on advanced chips.
But American treasury secretary says the policy option is something Washington ‘would be prepared to use if necessary’.
Chinese electric vehicle start-up Xpeng said its partnership with AI chip supplier Nvidia has not been affected by tighter US trade sanctions, but it will keep its options open with local suppliers.
Reports suggest US has discussed sanctions on some Chinese banks over their trade with Russia, but analysts say moves to remove China from the Swift interbank financial system could create a ‘huge problem’ for global trade.
SenseTime’s shares gained as much as 36 per cent after the company launched the latest iteration of its SenseNova large language model.
The open-source technology, which can be used to build smartphone chips and advanced processors, is being used by major Chinese tech firms.
State Department accused Beijing of continuing to ‘dismantle’ Hong Kong’s political freedoms and autonomy in violation of Sino-British Joint Declaration and Basic Law.
Among the buyers were the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Shandong Artificial Intelligence Institute, the Hubei Earthquake Administration and a state-run aviation research centre.
Microsoft will invest US$1.5 billion in the UAE’s top artificial intelligence firm, G42, after the Abu Dhabi-based company worked out an unusual deal with the US government to end any cooperation with China.
US exports control could unintentionally lead to a Chinese dominance of global legacy-chip production, researchers say.
The company’s latest AI push could fuel further debate on whether China can continue relying on open-source development, instead of bolstering its own tech ecosystem.
In Beijing’s Tongming Lake IT City, a group of prominent Chinese firms are leading efforts to become self-sufficient in core technology.
Sitonholy, which has been added to the US Entity List, is one of a few ‘elite-level’ Nvidia data centre product solutions providers in China.
Huawei announced new versions of its Luxeed S7 electric sedan and a PC with AI built in, but people are still awaiting its next big smartphone launch since the Mate 60.
Seeking economic opportunity, Chinese merchants build bustling wholesale markets, sell Made in China goods and deal with occasional resistance from Mexican vendors.
Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai said US chip export restrictions to China have ‘definitely affected’ mainland tech firms, including the e-commerce giant’s cloud computing business.
The 2nd Global Innovation & Technology Summit, held at the Hong Kong Science Park on Wednesday, put a spotlight on the city’s efforts to enlarge the local tech talent pool.
Merchants at Shenzhen’s Huaqiangbei, the world’s biggest wholesale electronics marketplace, are stockpiling graphics cards ahead of the revised US curbs’ roll-out on April 4.
From Biden’s State of the Union and TikTok to fury over Hong Kong’s security law and anger over a possible TikTok ‘ban’, here are a few highlights from the SCMP’s overseas correspondents from March 2024
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin warns US over possible travel restrictions floated by Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
‘A large number of Luxeed S7 vehicles’ have rolled off production and are now being delivered to customers, according to Huawei’s Richard Yu Chengdong.
Singapore-based Granite Asia plans to assemble a private-credit investing team as early as the second half of this year, according to people familiar with the matter.
The meeting underscores Huawei’s long-standing ties with PetroChina in projects that have helped modernise its operations in the energy industry.
