China has launched formal investigations into U.S. technology trade practices, targeting export and investment rules in advanced tech. The move raises the risk of fresh trade restrictions affecting U.S. semiconductor firms, including NasdaqGS:SMTC. These probes introduce added uncertainty for global chip supply chains and future cross border technology flows. For you as an investor looking

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — China has massed obsolete J-6 fighters converted into attack drones at six air bases near the Taiwan Strait, a Reuters-cited Mitchell Institute report warns, bolstering Beijing’s capacity to saturate defenses in any assault on Taiwan.  “China Airpower Tracker” satellite images from February reveal lines of swept-wing J-6s — 1960s MiG-19 derivatives

Atlantic Trivia (n.): that quiz which is too easy when one gets three of three correct and too difficult when one correctly answers any fewer. Atlantic Trivia From a story by Ross Andersen What ninth-century Chinese invention was at first employed primarily for fireworks rather than in the capacity that would change the world centuries

Liberal MP Michael Ma’s apology for confronting an academic witness about whether her evidence on forced labour in Chinese aluminum supply chains could be “hearsay” coincides with a highly sensitive moment in Canada’s ongoing trade war with the Trump administration. After some of the tariffs Canada faced were struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court

BEIJING, March 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A news report from China.org.cn on a story sparked by a Chinese Candy Wrapper in Milan: Karem, a front desk clerk at a hotel in Milan, probably never expected to cross paths with a rather “special” group of Chinese visitors, who approached him not to check in, but handed

When a Chinese carmaker announces a European R&D restructuring, the instinct of the automotive establishment is often to reach for a familiar template: an overseas design studio, a handful of foreign hires, a press release padded with references to world-class engineering. Geely Auto Group has done something considerably more substantial. On 26 March 2026, the

Since the launch of its first EV model in early 2019, XPeng Motors has emerged as a major domestic player making waves in China, with its AI-powered smart driving cars increasingly ubiquitous on the streets of Beijing, as it looks to challenge the dominance of Chinese giant BYD, now the world’s largest EV maker, and