China’s Social Credit System

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reveales that last year extreme Canadian wildfires drove aerosol levels around 30% above normal, sharply reducing solar irradiance across Canada and even impacting Europe, while the Congo Basin also saw worsening aerosol conditions. In contrast...Read More

Despite a slowing economy, recurring trade frictions and intensifying price competition, the value of China’s exports rose in 2025 by 6.1 per cent, year on year, to a record 26.98 trillion yuan (US$3.87 trillion) – cementing its position as the world’s largest trading nation. Behind that growth, China’s export machine…

China’s “infrastructure first” approach to developing its artificial intelligence industry will help unlock frontier innovation in the fast-moving technology, according to the president of Kimi model developer Moonshot AI . The country’s energy buildout had made the supply of electricity “very cheap”, which was essential for fundamental research and innovation,…

MANILA, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The Philippines, as ASEAN chair, will ‌insist ​that a long-delayed Code of Conduct ‌with China on the South China Sea explicitly references the U.N. Convention ​on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) as it works to complete the document by this year, its foreign minister…

makasana photo - stock.adobe.com Policy-makers need to figure out how they can carve a niche in a world dominated by China and the US By Cliff Saran, Managing Editor Published: 22 Jan 2026 13:05 Policy-makers are being urged to focus on investments in artificial intelligence (AI) in a way that…

To say that China had a successful 2025 would be an understatement. According to President Donald Trump’s campaign agenda and early months of his second administration, the United States was going to be tough on China. Trump went heavy on tariffs, limited chip exports, and tried to assert dominance over…

This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Aug. 15, 2025 shows Shenzhou-20 astronaut Chen Dong performing extravehicular activities outside China's orbiting space station. (Xinhua/Li Yanchen) JIUQUAN, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The return capsule of the Shenzhou-20 spaceship, carrying no astronauts, touched down at the Dongfeng landing site…

BEIJING: An explosion at a steel plate factory in China's northern region of Inner Mongolia on Sunday killed six people, and rescue efforts were underway as four remained missing, state-run news agency Xinhua reported on Monday (Jan 19). The blast left 84 people injured, Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Union, whose…

Published January 20, 2026 1:36am The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) on Monday warned that debris from China’s latest launch of its Long March 12 rocket may have fallen within the country’s archipelagic waters. In an advisory, PhilSA said the two possible drop zones are approximately 22 nautical miles (NM) away…

By Charles Kennedy - Jan 18, 2026, 4:00 PM CST Tesla has brought the largest and most advanced lithium refinery in the U.S. online. Tesla is using a first-of-its-kind process to convert spodumene ore directly into battery-grade lithium hydroxide. The refinery is a major step toward reducing U.S. dependence on…