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Donald Trump Hosts Chinese Tech Leaders: Navigating Geopolitics, De-risking, and Global Cooperation

A state dinner hosted by the US President for top Chinese technology leaders underscored a complex pivot toward structured economic cooperation despite ongoing geopolitical tensions between Washingt...

Sep 25, 2026

US Regulatory Scrutiny Threatens China's Ascendant Position in Global Biotechnology

China’s ability to move promising drugs into early clinical trials quickly and at relatively low cost has helped make its biotechnology companies attractive partners for global pharmaceutical groups...

Sep 23, 2026

Anthropic's Role in Reshaping China's AI Dominance

Anthropic is helping reshape China’s artificial intelligence industry — if not in the way it necessarily intends. The California company has instead emerged as an influential rival whose technology,...

Sep 19, 2026

Asia's AI Boom Stalls: Talent Shortage Becomes Biggest Growth Bottleneck

Asia's surging AI expansion is critically bottlenecked by an acute, widening shortage of specialized technical talent according to a recent report in the Nikkei Asia . The rapid integra...

Sep 16, 2026

How AI Tools Are Reshaping China's Financial Ecosystem and Investment Research

Artificial intelligence is moving deeper into China's financial markets, transforming technology once used mainly to automate routine work into systems capable of analysing companies, identifying in...

Sep 12, 2026

AI is the New Gateway: How Algorithms are Reshaping Chinese Consumerism

For decades, online shopping meant typing a product into a search box, scrolling through pages of results and deciding what to buy. In China, artificial intelligence is beginning to dismantle that f...

Sep 10, 2026

Nomura Warns AI Rally Masks U.S. Economic Vulnerabilities, Challenging 'Tina' Doctrine

China's accelerating artificial intelligence push is beginning to challenge one of the assumptions that has helped sustain U.S. financial dominance: that global investors have few credible alternati...

Sep 5, 2026

Optimism Rises for EU-China Trade Deal as Deadline Nears

Former European Council President Charles Michel has expressed optimism that China and the European Union can make meaningful progress in negotiations aimed at easing mounting trade tensions, even a...

Aug 31, 2026

Hong Kong's Transformation: Becoming a Global Hub for AI and Robotics

Hong Kong is seeking to turn its longstanding strengths in finance, research and international trade into a platform for artificial intelligence and robotics, as officials compete with other Asian c...

Aug 26, 2026

WuXi Biologics Posts 4.3% Profit Rise, Defying Biotech Sector Headwinds

WuXi Biologics reported a 4.3% increase in first-half profit, demonstrating resilience amidst broader industry headwinds facing the biotechnology sector. The Chinese biopharma giant posted financia...

Aug 25, 2026