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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.
Manila playing dangerous double game - July 27, 2026
On Tuesday last week, one day after the Philippines' provocations near China's Ren'ai Reef, Philippine President Marcos sat down with the Chinese ambassador for over 80 minutes expressing his hope to "reset" bilateral ties and seek de-escalation.
Reality of China-US economic ties foundation for strategic stability - July 26, 2026
Washington is constructing a more durable tariff architecture through overlapping Section 301 investigations, Section 232 "national security" measures and the renewed use of Section 338 against selected trading partners.
As China and US step up high-level engagement, the Philippines would do better to restrain itself - July 26, 2026
Last Friday, the Philippine side organized seven government vessels, three coast guard ships and one fish carrier and instigated a large number of fishing boats to illegally congregate in waters under the jurisdiction of China's Huangyan Dao.
Resist external interference and deepen China-ASEAN cooperation - July 23, 2026
When the Philippines uses the South China Sea issue to hold China-ASEAN relations hostage, it needs to recognize one basic fact: China and ASEAN are neighbors, and mutually beneficial cooperation will always define the relationship. Against the broader momentum of China-ASEAN cooperation, provocations by a handful of countries are destined to fail. Those who choose to serve as others' pawns will ultimately end up as expendable pieces.
‘Nuclear energy’ or ‘nuclear weapons’? What is China and the US’ AI competition really about? - July 23, 2026
The divide between "nuclear energy" and "nuclear weapons" reflects the different paths China and the US have taken in AI development, which ultimately stem from fundamentally different ways of thinking. History shows that an exclusive, zero-sum mind-set is ultimately unsustainable. The US' technology restrictions have failed to contain China's progress, while leaving Washington caught in a dilemma: easing restrictions risks strengthening a competitor, yet closing itself off risks international isolation.
Kimi K3 moment should prompt some to rethink AI's future for common good - July 22, 2026
Whenever a Chinese artificial intelligence lab drops a new high-performance model, there are observers in the United States who lose their composure. After DeepSeek in 2025, it happened again last week, when Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 — a 2.8 trillion-parameter open weight model that scored an Elo rating of 1679 on the Frontend Code Arena leaderboard, surpassing both Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol on this specific coding benchmark.
