China’s Social Credit System

Concept art of a crewed lunar base. Credit: ESA – P. Carril As the world watches the push for crewed lunar missions, it is tempting to frame the unfolding dynamic between the United States and China as a modern-day space race, with the lunar surface as the stage for a…

By Tsvetana Paraskova - Nov 03, 2025, 6:00 AM CST Sanctioned LNG vessels carrying liquefied natural gas from Russia’s sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project are running into early winter ice on the Northern Sea Route and deliveries to China from the Russian export plant could drop off as temperatures in…

HELSINKI — China launched a new Yaogan reconnaissance satellite late Sunday, following India’s launch of its highest mass communications satellite to date. A Long March 7A lifted off at 10:47 p.m. Eastern, Nov. 2 (0347 UTC, Nov. 3) from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on the southern island province of Hainan,…

By Irina Slav - Nov 03, 2025, 2:03 AM CST Chinese refiners are canceling Russian oil cargos and adopting a wait-and-see attitude after the latest U.S. sanctions on Russia’s oil industry. Bloomberg reports, citing traders, that state-owned majors including Sinopec and PetroChina had canceled previously ordered Russian oil cargos, while…

WASHINGTON – China will effectively suspend implementation of additional export controls on rare earth metals and terminate investigations targeting US companies in the semiconductor supply chain, the White House announced. The White House issued a fact sheet on Nov 1 outlining some details of the trade pact agreed to earlier…

Just three hours after lift-off on Friday, a trio of Chinese astronauts – and four mice – arrived at the Tiangong space station for China’s first in-orbit mammal study. The Shenzhou-21 crew was launched aboard a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert at…

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Published: October 31, 2025 Reading Time: 2 min read China launches its next-gen open-source AI community AtomGit, integrating models, data, and domestic GPU/NPU power to build an open, full-stack AI ecosystem. Zhidx News, October 31 — On October 28, the OpenAtom Foundation officially unveiled the next-generation AtomGit platform and a…

Published: October 31, 2025 Reading Time: 3 min read China’s GPU maker Moore Threads secures approval for its STAR Market IPO, set to become the country’s first domestic GPU stock. According to IPO monitoring reports, Moore Threads Technology Co., Ltd. (Beijing) (摩尔线程智能科技（北京）股份有限公司, "Moore Threads") has received approval for its initial…

After years of runaway expansion, China’s marathon calendar unraveled this autumn, with nearly 100 events canceled or scaled back, according to public notices and organizer statements. The cancellations cover both major city marathons and smaller “fun runs,” marking the sharpest nationwide pullback in the sport since the pandemic. Officials and…