The first US presidency of Donald Trump coincided with a rapid growth in China’s ability to transfer its emerging technologies between military and civilian use, according to a study by Chinese researchers. The project team led by Tian Qingfeng of the school of management at Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU) draws a line between US sanctions…
2 By Alexander Jones, International Banker “China and the United States have effectively switched places as the overwhelming leader in research in just two decades.” That’s the brutally honest assessment delivered by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) shortly after publishing its Critical Technology Tracker on August 28—an assessment that highlights just how far…
AstraZeneca’s China president is under investigation in mainland China, the drug company said on Wednesday. Leon Wang was described as cooperating “with an ongoing investigation”, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology company said in a statement. “Our China operations continue under the leadership of the current general manager of AstraZeneca China,” the British-Swedish company added. The company…
Hong Kong’s main technology park operator and Saudi Arabia’s start-up incubator have agreed to collaborate, giving fintech companies in the city access to financing from a Middle East fund to pursue their growth ambitions. Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks (HKSTP) and Beta Lab signed an agreement in Riyadh on Tuesday as the annual Future…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in a roundtable with the CEOs of American tech companies including Google and Adobe. In the roundtable anchored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in New York, Modi focused on fostering collaborations in cutting-edge fields such as semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, and biotechnology. He also shared details of his…