ByteDance, the Chinese owner behind TikTok, has set aside a capital expenditure of over 150 billion yuan, that is around $20.64 billion, for capital expenditure in the current year, according to a Reuters report. Moreover, the company plans to spend around half of this amount internationally on AI-related infrastructure, primarily targeting data centers and networking

REGIONAL STRATEGIC AND POLITICAL STUDIES PROGRAMME About the Hybrid Seminar Trump’s return to the White House could accelerate the fracturing of the global trading economy, and especially of globalised supply chains for high technology industries. The EU and Japan are also doubling down on ambitious ‘reshoring’ and industrial policy, with growing domestic political pressure to

FIRST ON FOX: The movement to eliminate the free trade perks China enjoys in the U.S. is gaining steam under Republican control of the government.  GOP leaders in the House and Senate are once again introducing legislation that would end China’s most favored nation status by repealing Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR). Sen. Tom Cotton,

China’s emergence as a tech and trade superpower threatens both the US and Europe. The allies are struggling to respond. For more than two decades, China has worked to free itself from dependence on Western technology while making the West dependent on Chinese products. It protects priority industries and subsidizes them into becoming export juggernauts. 

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) -China announced plans on Thursday to channel hundreds of billions of yuan of investment from state-owned insurers into shares as part of the government’s latest efforts to support a struggling stock market. The plan by the country’s six financial regulators including the securities regulator was first announced on Wednesday just as Donald

BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mixed on Thursday after China rolled out more moves to try to boost its lagging stock markets by raising confidence that prices will rise. Officials in Beijing said pension funds and mutual funds would be required to increase purchases of shares, to guarantee that market value rises. Listed companies

Nyima Pratten BBC Eye Investigations BBC Zhang Junjie held up a blank piece of paper to symbolise censorship and was sent to psychiatric hospital When Zhang Junjie was 17 he decided to protest outside his university about rules made by China’s government. Within days he had been admitted to a psychiatric hospital and treated for

Trump revealing his China strategy for next 4 years Heritage Foundation senior fellow Michael Pillsbury discusses how Chinese President Xi Jinping is sending his vice president to attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’ FIRST ON FOX: Republican senators are putting forth legislation that would ban China from buying U.S. land entirely.  The