As Shenzhen approaches 45 years as a special economic zone (SEZ), the importance of opening up in driving China’s progress was stressed by none other than Huawei Technologies founder Ren Zhengfei. “The more open the country becomes, the more it will drive our progress,” he told People’s Daily in a recent interview, speaking also of…
Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. China fires back after US official takes swipe at aid to Global South Beijing has accused Washington of undermining the welfare of the Global South to serve its own…
Security raids on the homes of a noted Chinese-American cybersecurity researcher have reignited fears of racial profiling in Trump-led America, under what some are calling a de facto “China Initiative 2.0”. According to local media, officers from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security on Friday searched two homes owned by…
China’s growing number of universities funded by entrepreneurs are attracting more world-class scholars, aligning with Beijing’s intensifying push for hi-tech self-sufficiency, analysts said. Fuzhou’s Fuyao University of Science and Technology (FYUST), established with a US$10 billion donation from billionaire Cao Dewang, the chairman of glass manufacturer Fuyao Group, began enrolling students this year, and says…
Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Freed from US jail, top immunologist picked up where he left off – in China Prominent immunologist Song Guo Zheng has rebuilt his career in Shanghai following his release…
Prominent immunologist Song Guo Zheng has rebuilt his career in Shanghai following his release from a US jail after he was targeted by the now-defunct China Initiative. Zheng was one of the highest profile and most severely penalised researchers under the controversial programme launched during US President Donald Trump’s first term to counter alleged Chinese…
Despite the changing relationship between Washington and Beijing over the decades, the US defence industry has seen marked contributions from experts of Chinese heritage since at least the dawn of the nuclear age. But rising competition between the two powers, along with a general anti-China sentiment in research and development, has narrowed the path into…
China should focus on developing original technologies and scientific knowledge and leverage the expertise of scientists returning from the United States, according to a top Chinese-American mathematician. Yau Shing-Tung retired from Harvard University in 2022 to teach at Tsinghua University and help China become a maths powerhouse. He said many ethnic Chinese students had been…
Nationalism has emerged as a potent force shaping global tech policy, nowhere more so than in the United States. With Donald Trump returning to the White House for a second term, his vision for America’s technological future is coming into sharper focus. At home, Trump promises a sweeping deregulatory agenda coupled with industrial policy aimed…
US president-elect Donald Trump’s second term could have severe repercussions for American and Chinese societies if fears of an expanded national security posture and rising economic barriers are realised, according to a US-China relations expert. Stephen Orlins, president of the National Committee on US-China Relations, a New York-based non-profit advisory group, said a worst-case scenario…