China’s Social Credit System

Concerns over valuations of artificial intelligence companies have rocked China’s stock market in recent weeks, posing a major test for Beijing’s efforts to engineer a steady upward trend, known as a “long bull.” Policymakers’ main defense against volatility is a so-called national team of state-owned investment companies that directly intervene…

Chinese artificial intelligence chipmaker Biren Technology projects that its first-half revenue could shoot up by up to 2,107 per cent amid the AI hardware boom, joining industry peers like Hygon Information Technology and Cambricon Technologies in reporting accelerating demand for home-grown chips. The Shanghai-based graphics processing unit (GPU) maker, which…

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China has been the world’s biggest polluter since 2006, but in recent years, it has emerged as a clean energy superpower. Huge swathes of China – from the mountain plateaus of Tibet, where the sun shines brighter in the thin air, to the coast off Qingdao – are now covered…

MANILA, Philippines — China’s high-profile arrest of allegedly more than 100 undocumented Filipino workers could be a warning to Manila that Beijing was prepared to respond to actions against Chinese citizens in the Philippines, according to a Manila-based policy institute.In an interview, Asia-Pacific China Studies Institute (ACPSSI) president Herman Tiu Laurel said…

The  monster boat that carried 230 illegal migrants to our shores this week is now rolled up like a farmer’s hay bale at a Government warehouse not far from Britain’s south coast. Border Force officials have been told by ministers to keep the huge inflatable, made of the same cheap…

The White House said in a report on Thursday that more than 40 countries had helped China sidestep US tariffs by routing exports through nations that face lower American import duties. The countries named include Canada, India, Mexico, Japan and South Korea, which the White House said had helped China…

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“My contact lenses are comfortable even after wearing them all day. Do you want to try them?”  So says a young woman in glasses with transparent lenses, in response to a friend who says her contacts are painful. She then takes a contact box out of a black handbag, offers…

On a rain-washed weekend morning, mist clings to the peaks surrounding Ze’e Village in the southwestern Sichuan province. Over the sound of a rushing mountain stream, 24-year-old Jifu Lama leads a procession of children in matching kits. They navigate through rice paddies, along irrigation canals and over earthen mounds until…