China and the US are engaged in a “new cold war” over technology and Beijing is narrowing the gap, the Munich Security Conference has heard. Participants said Washington was likely to try to maintain its edge by increasing investment in military technology and tightening export controls on advanced chips. “We’re not competing for competing’s sake….
China’s box office records were smashed this week as animated blockbuster Nezha 2 became the highest-grossing film in the country’s history following its January 29 release. Millions around the country flocked to cinemas over the Lunar New Year holiday to watch the latest instalment in the Nezha phenomenon, which is adapted from the epic tale…
Yuan Zheng is deputy director of the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is also the vice-president and secretary general of the Chinese Association for American Studies. This interview first appeared in SCMP Plus. For other interviews in the Open Questions series, click here. You said that China should…
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President Biden and President-elect Donald Trump both advocate a tough stance on China, but have substantially different strategies on how to interact with Beijing. Before Trump took office in early 2017, the two governments had over 90 official channels of communication. He and his team had little patience for such formalized communication, seeing them as…
Chinese President Xi Jinping is promoting the idea of a “shared future in cyberspace” at the country’s annual internet conference this year amid an intensifying US-China rivalry that has raised concerns about technological decoupling, particularly in artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductors. The advance of AI technologies has improved humans’ ability to change the world, but…
Last week, eight US senators urged President Joe Biden to order a security review of the global network of undersea communications cables, citing the “threat of sabotage” by Russia – and China. It was just the latest expression of US concern over China’s potential espionage in handling network traffic, an accusation Beijing has repeatedly rejected….