Tesla’s sales in China have fallen sharply in the first six months of this year. Now the brand is trying to regain a foothold in the world’s most competitive electric vehicle market with a new Model Y version. The Model Y L is an extended wheelbase version with room for six and more power than…
“I don’t think I changed his mind,” Huang told a cluster of journalists, many of whom asked for his autograph or to take selfies with him. A carefully organized press conference at a luxury hotel descended into a crowd scene when Huang arrived in his trademark leather jacket and started taking questions randomly in his…
Chinese advanced air mobility developer TCab Tech signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on July 16, 2025, to sell 350 of its E20 eVTOLs to Emirati firm Autocraft. This agreement, which could potentially be worth US$1 billion, is the largest single order for a Chinese-made eVTOL to date. Autocraft is the advanced air mobility arm…
China criticized US President Donald Trump’s proposal to impose tariffs on the trade partners of Russia if the war in Ukraine is not ended within 50 days. This proposal, which aims to put pressure on Russia by targeting countries still doing business with the Kremlin, has drawn strong opposition from Beijing on July 15. Lin…
TOKYO – Japan said Wednesday the detentions of its citizens in China are damaging public sentiment toward the neighboring country, after a Beijing court convicted a Japanese businessman of espionage. The issue “has become one of the major obstructive factors for people-to-people exchanges…and improvement of public sentiment,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Toshihiro Kitamura told a regular…
China’s expanded efforts to encourage visitors continued to pay off in the first half of 2025, with the number of visa-free foreign entries rising by more than half compared to the same period a year earlier. Foreign nationals made 38 million trips in and out of the country, a 30 per cent increase year on…
The US is falling behind in the global tech race, and former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said a sovereign wealth fund could be the country’s best shot at catching up. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Tuesday, Gelsinger endorsed President Donald Trump’s proposal to create a US sovereign wealth fund, calling it “the country’s…
An estimated 650 companies from 60 countries have gathered at the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has called China’s open-source artificial intelligence a “catalyst for global progress” and says it is “revolutionising” supply chains. In a speech during Wednesday’s opening ceremony of the China International Supply Chain Expo in…
A Chinese funeral and an Indian wedding took place on the same street on the same day in Malaysia, but the two families managed to coexist and show mutual respect, winning applause online. Both ceremonies took place on July 5 in Tampin, in the Malaysian state of Negeri Sembilan. The funeral was that of the…
Nvidia’s ability to get a reprieve from restrictions on chip sales to China could mark a shift in the U.S.-China technology rivalry, as well as pave the way to a further de-escalation in the tensions that rattled markets just months ago. The chip manufacturer said overnight that it had been given assurances that it could…