Newly announced agreement between China and Russia reflects deepening ties between Beijing and Moscow while addressing China’s need to enhance food security. | Continue reading
The legal interpretation from the Supreme People’s Court could put a person who raises US$8 million in cryptocurrency in prison for more than 10 years, adding to tightening financial regulations. | Continue reading
A website has been set up to answer questions from worried US parishioners, including: ‘Does this affect my marriage?’ and ‘Do I need to go to confession?’ | Continue reading
Ding Peng, a famous investor in China, is facing backlash after he said he plans to teach his son to watch porn and date many women so he does not have a hard life as he did. | Continue reading
Chinese companies came to dominate mining and processing of increasingly important resources as Western firms ceded ground over the last decade or so, particularly in Africa. | Continue reading
Argentina is the first of South America’s major economies to join Beijing’s infrastructure initiative. | Continue reading
An unidentified aircraft recently flew over a Taipei-controlled island housing key military outpost, off the mainland’s southeastern Fujian province. | Continue reading
Injured officer returning to work soon, after spending 19 days in hospital, 200 days on medical leave. | Continue reading
Reject lockdowns as a ‘pandemic policy instrument’, urges review of worldwide impact led by Johns Hopkins economist Steve Hanke. | Continue reading
US-based consultancy firm Eurasia Group believes China’s zero-Covid policy is likely to remain for the remainder of 2022 despite warnings of social and economic damage.on consumption. | Continue reading
Search engines display results based on previous behaviour of their users, an effect called ‘algorithmic bias’. People need to understand that search engines and their results are a reflection of society. | Continue reading
Leaked documents show Beijing’s negotiating position over an inspection of Xinjiang conditions has not changed for years, amid criticism of a ‘mutually convenient stalemate’. | Continue reading
Being isolated by an ‘alliance of tech democracies’ and drawing talent back from studies in the US identified as barriers for China. | Continue reading
Technology won’t be a problem for its future application, but legal and ethical concerns might, warns Beijing-based researcher. | Continue reading
System developed in Sichuan cuts ‘training’ time by learning 5,000 times faster than US counterpart. | Continue reading
Paiduidao, currently open only to users with an invitation code, is designed to let users interact in a virtual community | Continue reading
Researchers say a new manufacturing method will allow them to produce high-quality, ultra-modern weapons at a low cost. | Continue reading
Vice foreign minister Le Yucheng says Beijing is more interested in ‘people’s desire for a better life’ than status as the next superpower, a day after China posted better-than-expected economic growth figures for last year. | Continue reading
Dropping prosecution of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor would be a high-profile setback for the Justice Department’s China Initiative. | Continue reading
Trained robot monitored co-worker’s brain waves and muscle signals to predict needs, China Three Gorges University team says in domestic peer-reviewed paper. | Continue reading
With the process for new approvals in limbo, about 140,000 small studios and video gaming-related firms in China went out of business over the past several months. | Continue reading
The Beijing-3 small commercial satellite can take images while rotating at up to 10 degrees per second, a speed not seen on a satellite before: paper. | Continue reading
There is no choice of meal, and no concessions offered for vegetarians, or anyone with religious restrictions, with members of either group being few and far between in largely homogenous Japan. | Continue reading
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said it will suspend work with Alibaba Cloud as a cybersecurity threat intelligence partner after the firm reported a critical security flaw to Apache. | Continue reading
Within hours of Legco polls closing, central government publishes strategy on developing Hong Kong-style democracy. | Continue reading
Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin agree to accelerate attempts to create a system that cannot be influenced by ‘third parties’ | Continue reading
Mandarin may have 10 times as many speakers but Cantonese is a one-of-a-kind linguistic art form, a cult Chinese language, and in no danger of an imminent demise. | Continue reading
Government-backed surveillance projects are deploying brain-reading technology to detect changes in emotional states in employees on the production line, the military and at the helm of high-speed trains. | Continue reading
The Cyberspace Administration of China punished more than 20,000 influential social media accounts this year, effectively creating an echo chamber where voices not in sync with the government are silenced. | Continue reading
Why US senators live so long | Continue reading
The Washington summit next week is the very symptom of what is so terribly wrong with American democracy, rather than what is wrong with democracy generally around the world that needs a course correction by American politicians. | Continue reading
The roles played by Australia, Sweden and Britain under pressure from America to persecute the founder of WikiLeaks is well-known. However, Ecuador and its domestic politics in the past decade may be even more relevant, but little understood | Continue reading
As pointed out by at least one British pundit, the founder of WikiLeaks would have been celebrated and hailed as a hero by the West, instead of facing extradition to the US. Unfortunately, he exposed Western, especially American crimes, rather than Chinese ones | Continue reading
China’s AI industry may triple to 453.26 billion yuan in value by 2025 from last year, while a broader AI-driven industry may be as large as 1.66 trillion yuan, which underscores the strategic importance of the field in the Made in China 2025 industrial master plan. | Continue reading
The two new bases will maintain optical fibre lines on the seabed that carry internet data, making them critical to economic and security interests. | Continue reading
Operation commands able to be sent using particles of light relayed by Mozi, the world’s first quantum satellite, for reliable protection against blackouts. | Continue reading
Advice to change injection site for German-made vaccine issued to minimise chances of heart inflammation. | Continue reading
Scientists say they have used the technology to build a pistol-sized coilgun that is the smallest and most powerful of its kind. | Continue reading
The exact location has not been revealed but signals can reach submarines across vast distances, researchers say. | Continue reading
Beijing Deniu Technology CEO Zhang Chaojie was convicted of ‘sabotaging computer systems’ for apps that spoofed Wi-Fi and location data, which he argued ‘isn’t very serious’. | Continue reading
The actions of PhD student Zhong Hansen and four other students have been rewarded but the incident has drawn attention to an overwork culture among China’s researchers. | Continue reading
Prototype design for a powerful nuclear reactor for the country’s space programme has been completed and some components have been built, according to researchers. | Continue reading
It is not known how long the suspension will last and the Chinese ministry has not published any information about the ban. | Continue reading
Scientists recognised for completing task on a classical computer in roughly the same time as a quantum device. | Continue reading
Heat from Earth’s crust forces engineers to cool things down on the most challenging rail construction in history, including 70 tunnels through remote terrain. | Continue reading
A Russian military official said the first unit of the S-400 air defence missile system would arrive in India by the end of 2021. | Continue reading
A British drinks trade body upheld a complaint alleging that Fok Hing Gin’s name ‘is clearly intended to shock’ because it sounds like an English profanity. The brand is named after a street in Hong Kong. | Continue reading
Chinese Academy of Sciences team says it has developed an algorithm to perform a task ‘thought to be impossible for classical computations’. | Continue reading