TLDRs: China has threatened unspecified retaliation after Taiwan blacklisted Huawei and SMIC. Taiwan’s move marks a significant shift toward U.S.-aligned tech restrictions on China. Cross-strait economic ties complicate Beijing’s ability to strike back without self-harm. Taiwan is leveraging its semiconductor dominance as geopolitical leverage in the tech war. China has issued a stern warning to…
China is recalibrating its tech policy, elevating private enterprise to counter US export controls and drive innovation. On June 10, 2025, as US and Chinese trade negotiators met in London for another round of tense talks, a different kind of negotiation was playing out on the front page of China’s People’s Daily. There, in a…
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In a move to minimize dependency on foreign software amid increasing sanctions from the West, particularly the US, China has successfully tested an indigenously-developed operating system in space. After launching into the orbit, the Dalian-1 Lianli CubeSat spent over 1,000 hours testing satellite subsystems powered by OpenHarmony real-time operating system (RTOS)—a streamlined, light-weight, open-source version…
Chinese President Xi Jinping recently commemorated the 120th birth anniversary of Chen Yun, one of the foundational economic planners of the Communist Party of China. Amid the commemoration’s celebratory tone, Xi’s speech signals a rhetorical shift. The references to communist conviction so prominent in the 2015 address delivered for Chen’s 110th birthday were relatively sparse…