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Two attitudes toward Chinese robots: A mirror revealing who is reversing course - August 02, 2026
Recently, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added foreign-made advanced robotic devices to its Covered List, effectively banning new models from entering US market. Almost simultaneously, the BBC published an extensive feature documenting how Chinese robots are "transforming the UK's retail industry."
China's July PMIs point to improving economic structure - August 02, 2026
China's purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the manufacturing sector in July indicated an improving economic structure despite a reading of contraction due to seasonal factors, with equipment and high-tech manufacturing maintaining expansion, official data showed last Friday.
Two narratives behind China's trade surge - July 30, 2026
Even a war in the Middle East and waves of Western protectionism couldn't trip up China's trade engine. In the first half of 2026, trade surged by 16.9 percent to reach 25.47 trillion yuan ($3.76 trillion).
Reading China’s economy: escaping Western flawed lens - July 30, 2026
In his recent article for Foreign Affairs, titled "China's Moment of Weakness: Economic Decay and America's Strategic Opening," Logan Wright, a partner at Rhodium Group, articulates a perspective that epitomizes the prevailing consensus in Washington regarding China's economic situation.
A single report ‘brings down’ ASML’s stock: Whose anxiety does it expose? - July 29, 2026
The evaporation of massive market value due to an industrial report shows that Western investors' blind faith in the effectiveness of "blockades" has been shaken, and the US-led "decoupling" strategy has lost much of its momentum. One day, the technologies once used to constrain China's development will simply become ordinary components of its independent industrial system.
Consumption gives a new face to urban development - July 29, 2026
China's economy is changing in ways that conventional indicators only partly capture. In the first half of 2026, services value accounted for 59.5 percent of GDP, while per capita services made up 49.1 percent of household consumption expenditure.
Hard tech takes center stage in China - July 28, 2026
Monday marked a historic day in China's capital markets. CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies), a leading domestic producer of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips, officially debuted on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's STAR Market.
Looking for 'Xinjiang' in ketchup, Australian media is seriously sick - July 28, 2026
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has recently set its sights on Xinjiang tomatoes once again. A joint investigation by its program Four Corners and a forensic laboratory found that some ketchup and tomato paste products on the Australian market had discrepancies between their labeled origin and actual source.
'Data point' revealing of China-bashers' zero-sum approach to ties, nothing more - July 28, 2026
According to a report by the South China Morning Post, a bipartisan congressional delegation of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which visited China earlier this month on a "fact-finding" trip, after a seven year gap, was given the "cold shoulder" when it tried to engage with China's leading technology companies.
China’s ‘next new three’ create open platform for global innovation - July 27, 2026
Just as China's "new trio" products are sweeping across global markets and winning over consumers, another wave is already arriving - a "next new three" of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and innovative medicines.
