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Canada’s Michael Spavor blames fellow prisoner Michael Kovrig for China arrest The consultant shared information with Kovrig, a report says, not knowing it would be relayed to the Canadian government and its Five Eyes intelligence partners The detention of the ‘two Michaels’ was seen as...

China’s GPS-like BeiDou navigation system recognised as global standard for commercial aviation in ‘important milestone’ China’s BeiDou system, which is similar to the US’ Global Positioning System (GPS), has been recognised by the International Civil Aviation Organisation The move will bring...

Chinese and African delegates tour the Africa CDC research lab following its official opening on Friday. Photo: Xinhua Chinese-funded Africa CDC laboratory opens in Ethiopia as Beijing looks to health diplomacy to boost influence The Dr Wu Lien-teh Laboratory will include biosecure labs and...

Imagine if Huawei did not have production bottlenecks. A Huawei Technologies smartphone advertisement at Chaoyang Joy City shopping centre in Beijing. The company’s popular Mate 60 Pro 5G handset continues to experience supply shortages. Photo: Shutterstock Huawei has a big problem with the...

Chinese scientists bring record-breaking Stirling generator to life while Nasa’s patent stays on paper A prototype for a thermoacoustic Stirling generator has passed a milestone, in good news for space and submarine sectors But, though Nasa has a patent for a similar power system, it has not...

The Shandong is China’s first domestically produced aircraft carrier. Photo: Xinhua via AP Chinese Shandong carrier strike group heads to South China Sea after week of drills near Japan The aircraft carrier was accompanied by at least nine vessels on its third training run in the western...

Xiaomi has become the latest Chinese industry player to create a single system that works across smartphones, vehicles and IoT products. Photo: Reuters Xiaomi launches home-grown cross-device system with HyperOS, as US-sanctioned Huawei moves further from Google’s Android The new HyperOS forms...

An artist’s impression of a Chinese supersonic drone powered by low-cost turbofan engine. Photo: Zhu Junqiang, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences ‘War of money’: can China drag rivals into bankruptcy in a new arms race with drones? A new low-cost engine for...

China just did something crazy to Uyghur Muslims

YMTC has made surprise tech breakthrough with memory chip, says TechInsights. Photo: Handout China’s YMTC makes world’s most advanced memory chip in ‘surprise technology leap’: TechInsights report YMTC advance follows on from TechInsights analysis of Kirin 9000S 5G chip found in Huawei’s Mate...

Bhutanese Foreign Minister Tandi Dorji (left) attends talks with China’s top diplomat Wang Yi in Beijing on Monday. Photo: Xinhua In ‘big test’ for India, China and Bhutan push to solve border dispute and establish official ties Chinese and Bhutanese officials wrap up new round of border...

President Xi Jinping (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin head to a group photo session during the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on October 18. Representatives from more than 130 countries attended the forum. Photo: dpa China’s focus on peaceful development in stark contrast to West’s...

What did German Sinologists find in Xinjiang China?

Australia decides against canceling Chinese company’s lease of strategically important port ROD McGUIRK, Associated Press 11 hours ago An Australian Border Force patrol boat is docked at the Port of Darwin, on May 17, 2016. The Australian government announced Friday, Oct. 20, 2023, it has...

Chinese CPU Maker, Phytium Unveils Next-Gen Architecture, 3 GHz Chip on Par With 4 GHz AMD Zen 3 Muhammad Zuhair•Oct 18, 2023 08:00 AM EDT151 Image Source: Phytium Chinese chipmaker, Phytium, has unveiled its next generation of high-performing CPUs, competing with the likes of AMD and ARM...

Some areas of China have indicated a greater willingness to have more children, contrary to national trends. Photo: Future Publishing via Getty Images China population: province bucks trend with surveyed interest in bigger families Survey of families across the southern province of Guangdong...

A man cleans the logo of Chinese smartphone company Vivo outside a store in Ahmedabad, India, on October 10. Officially, India is open to Chinese business. But the government has used various measures to make Chinese firms’ lives in India difficult or impossible. Photo: Reuters Opinion...

Chinese scientists unlock potential of memristor semiconductor building block that could boost artificial intelligence, self-driving cars and more World’s first fully system-integrated memristor chip could make artificial intelligence smarter and up to 75 times more efficient, researchers say...

A section of the Colne Valley Viaduct as construction continues on the HS2 high-speed rail line in Denham, near London, on February 3. Photo: Reuters Opinion Outside In by David Dodwell UK high-speed rail fiasco: the West has much to learn from China in building infrastructure The failures...

An artist’s impression of China’s Tiangong space station that will host the multinational Polar-2 telescope to capture data from gamma-ray bursts. Photo: Weibo Scientists from China, Europe to target gamma rays from Tiangong space station The multi-country Polar-2 mission aims to learn more...