101 East investigates why Chinese nationalists have committed violent, sometimes deadly acts against Japanese civilians. September 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of China’s victory in the Second Sino-Japanese War. In the decades since, deep resentment towards Japan has remained among much of the Chinese population, with Beijing maintaining that Tokyo has never fully apologised for…
—Rhiannon Williams Earlier this summer, I visited the AI company Synthesia to give it what it needed to create a hyperrealistic AI-generated avatar of me. The company’s avatars are a decent barometer of just how dizzying progress has been in AI over the past few years, so I was curious just how accurately its latest…
China’s display of advanced military technology at its Victory Day parade could help it overtake Russia in global arms sales, but geopolitical factors might keep it from entering markets with ties to the US, according to analysts. During the military parade on Wednesday to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in World War II,…
By Yonnex Li ( September 4, 2025, 04:56 GMT | Insight) — China’s existing regulatory framework is adequate to address competition concerns in the booming tech sector, a senior antitrust official has said, dismissing the need to adopt EU-style digital-market rules. Hu Pinjie also outlined Beijing’s evolving strategy to address misconduct among Big Tech companies. China’s…
As the leaders of China, Russia and North Korea gathered for a grand military parade in Beijing, President Trump on Wednesday took pains to brush off the striking show of solidarity among America’s adversaries. In remarks from the Oval Office, Mr. Trump praised the parade as “beautiful,” and “very, very impressive.” “I understood the reason…
Nick Schifrin: For a perspective on today’s parade in Beijing and the gathering of leaders from Russia, North Korea, Iran, and others over the past few days in China, we turn to Kurt Campbell, the former deputy secretary of state, who was the chief architect of the Biden administration’s policy toward Asia. Kurt Campbell, thanks…
China is making progress in artificial intelligence “agentic frameworks”, the tools required to make AI agents, as the country’s tech giants begin to take on US players such as AutoGen and OpenAI Swarm. Tencent Holdings was the latest to join the fray after the Shenzhen-based company open-sourced its new Youtu-Agent agentic framework on Tuesday. Developed…
Date and time: Friday, September 19, 2025 10.30am-11.30am (HKT) The US-China chip war is escalating, with Washington’s goal of limiting Beijing’s technological advancement now sparking a counter-reaction that may accelerate China’s drive for chip self-sufficiency. The latest actions in this conflict – including US export controls and China’s push for domestic alternatives – are reshaping…
China’s military parade on Wednesday – featuring the latest AI-powered uncrewed vehicles, laser weapons and missiles – signalled an arms race fuelled by scientific and technological advances. Artificial intelligence, optics and physics and information technologies have underscored how innovations will shape the future of modern warfare, paving the way for futuristic intelligent systems. “The parade…
Since the launch of the Made in China 2025 plan a decade ago to foster industrial upgrading, it has been widely depicted in the West as a state-led market distortion and doomed to fail. Yet the outcome is far from failure. State-led efforts under the 10-year plan have provided a solid foundation for advancements, especially…