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Hong Kong Overtakes Switzerland as World's Largest Cross-Border Wealth Hub, Says BCG
Hong Kong surpassed Switzerland to become the world's largest cross-border wealth hub, according to a new analysis by Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The shift reflects Hong Kong’s increasing appeal a...
May 27, 2026
What Will a SpaceX Mega-Listing Mean for China's Markets and Space Tech?
JPMorgan has recently asserted that SpaceX’s widely anticipated mega-listing is unlikely to create significant ripples within Hong Kong’s financial markets, even as the company’s rise reshapes the str...
May 23, 2026
China's New Framework for AI Agents
At the beginning of May, China formalized its first comprehensive policy framework for AI agents, signaling a deliberate governmental move to guide the rapid development and deployment of autonomous a...
May 22, 2026
China's Energy Transition
China’s Energy Transition Moves From Capacity Race to Grid Test China entered 2025 with the world’s largest clean-energy build-out and a harder question: whether its power system can absorb what it...
May 17, 2026
Trump-Xi Summit Ends Amidst Unresolved Tech Tensions and Geopolitical Hurdles
Trump-Xi summit ends with promises, pageantry and unresolved technology tensions BEIJING — President Donald Trump left China on Friday claiming progress in talks with President Xi Jinping, but the ...
May 15, 2026
How BYD Became a Global EV Powerhouse
How a Shenzhen battery maker became the world’s most formidable electric-car company From Battery Workshop to Car Company In 1995, Wang Chuanfu, a young chemist in Shenzhen, founded a ...
May 11, 2026
China's Homegrown AI Superclusters
China Accelerates Deployment of Massive AI Computing Clusters China is aggressively scaling its domestic artificial intelligence capabilities by massive, home-grown computing clusters to bypass int...
May 6, 2026
China's Fight with Meta over AI Sovereignty
Beijing Draws a Hard Line to Stop Meta China’s decision to block Meta’s proposed $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a fast-rising domestic artificial-intelligence start-up, marks a notable escalation i...
Apr 30, 2026
The Blue Frontier: How China is Winning the Underwater Data Race
China’s Deep Dive into Underwater Data Centres China has moved decisively beyond experimentation in underwater data centres (UDCs), turning what was once a speculative concept into a pillar of its di...
Apr 29, 2026
Two Nations, Two Approaches to the AI Frontier: China vs. Germany
China's Massive Scale vs. Germany's Industrial AI Specializationr The recent opening of Xiaomi Auto's R&D facility in Munich, Germany, to develop European electric vehicle (EV) production shines a ...
Apr 27, 2026