To many Chinese, DeepSeek’s success is a victory for China’s education system, proof that it equals that of the United States or has even surpassed it. The core team of developers and scientists behind DeepSeek, the Chinese start-up that has jolted the A.I. world, all attended university in China, according to the company’s founder. That’s…
President Trump’s claim that China controls the Panama Canal has placed a Hong Kong tycoon and his conglomerate at the heart of a showdown between the United States and China. That sprawling company, CK Hutchison Holdings, is one of Hong Kong’s most valuable publicly listed firms and counts some of the world’s biggest investors as…
China retaliated against tariffs from the United States on Tuesday with a series of measures that took aim at American companies. Along with imposing tariffs and import restrictions, the country said, it had launched an antitrust investigation into Google. The announcement of the investigation was vague — just one line on a Chinese agency’s website….
China’s DeepSeek, which has triggered a storm in the US over its advanced AI capabilities, has remained silent on politically sensitive topics, refusing to acknowledge the Tiananmen Square massacre or discuss territorial disputes such as Arunachal Pradesh. The chatbot’s refusal to answer questions on these subjects has raised concerns about censorship and Beijing’s influence over…
As the world scrambles to understand DeepSeek — its sophistication, its implications for the global A.I. arms race — one natural question has arisen: Given that it is made by a Chinese company, how is it dealing with Chinese censorship? I decided to test it out. I’m based in China, and I registered for DeepSeek’s…
NEW DELHI: In an instance of a key Chinese electronics vendor localising its production in India, Chinese telecom equipment company TP-Link has outsourced its production to local contract manufacturer Optiemus Electronics Ltd.The two companies on Monday announced a partnership that will see the Noida-based Optiemus manufacture TP-Link’s networking devices and smart home products.Under the partnership,…
A jolt of panic hit big technology stocks on Monday, with investors rattled by fears that advances in artificial intelligence by Chinese upstarts could threaten the moneymaking power of tech giants in the United States, Europe and beyond. The chipmaker Nvidia was one of the hardest hit, falling about 13 percent in early trading, a…
To get its citizens to have more children and stop its population from shrinking, China has tried it all, even declaring having babies an act of patriotism. And yet, for the third year in a row, its population got smaller. Not even a surprise uptick in the number of babies born, a first in seven…
Workers inspect items at a chip maker in Binzhou city in east China’s Shandong province. China’s economy hit the government’s growth goal last year, after an 11th hour stimulus blitz combined with an export push before looming US tariffs turbocharged activity in the final quarter.Gross domestic product rose 5% in the world’s second-largest economy, data…
China announced on Monday that its trade surplus reached almost $1 trillion last year as its exports swamped the globe, while the country’s own businesses and households spent cautiously on imports. When adjusted for inflation, China’s trade surplus last year far exceeded any in the world in the past century, even those of export powerhouses…