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China is launching a Moon mission to find water ice. It’s unlike anything NASA has done
China is preparing a lunar mission unlike any NASA has attempted: probing the Moon’s permanently shadowed south pole craters to map and access billions of years’ worth of buried water ice.
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LandSpace recovers Zhuque-3 booster, then loses it to post-landing fire
LandSpace recovered the Zhuque-3 first stage on land, China’s first such vertical landing for a commercial reusable rocket.
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China’s top solar giants sign ‘no-sales-below-cost’ pact to end price war
China’s eight top polysilicon makers pledge to stop selling below cost in a bid to end the solar sector’s price war.
News
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Zhipu’s GLM-5.3-Flash runs on ~100,000 Chinese chips — and confirms the ‘Ox’ mystery model
Beijing’s Zhipu AI claims its new GLM-5.3-Flash model runs on roughly 100,000 Chinese-made chips — and confirms it was the mystery ‘Ox’ model that topped OpenRouter usage.
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‘Toothless’ ASEAN is losing its faith in the US
‘Despite Rubio’s efforts, it was clear to most officials that his words had little meaning’
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Trade tensions with Beijing reach a ‘breaking ‘point’
China’s currency is now up to ‘30% below its true value,’ boosting the country’s export surge
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China and the US draw up the final frontier battle lines
Beijing ‘aims to match’ Washington in its Cold War push for satellite arrays and spies in the skies
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Reflections on the face-off between China and the US
Beijing is now viewed more favorably than Washington in most nations surveyed in a major report
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Global race is on to meet the Climate Clock deadline
While the US stumbles, the pace of China’s renewable energy growth has been staggering
The Long Read
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Property crash fallout engulfs Southeast Asia
Chinese companies exported its playbook across borders. Now it is exporting the collapse
News
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China’s ghost in the machine is haunting ASML
Chinese state-run group plans to mass-produce the tech that underpins the chip world
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Alleged tech theft and the rise of China’s CXMT
‘This IPO brings together multiple goals, including promoting AI and advanced tech’
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Evolution, not revolution, is China’s energy goal
Export fears stopped Beijing from taking greater advantage of the Strait of Hormuz oil crisis
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China’s economic illusion is looking like a lie
A warts-and-all assessment hovered around zero growth or an ‘economy in outright recession’
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China calls for a baby boom amid ‘AI lovers’ crackdown
Beijing doesn’t ‘like the idea of a large portion of the population being in chatbot relationships’
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Legacy brands reel from China’s shock and awe wave
As more drivers go electric, major models and luxury carmakers are scrambling to stay relevant
Replay
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US-China the ‘fiercest Thucydian rivalry of all time’
Trump and Xi need to grapple with the contradiction amid a time of intense competition
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Property crash fallout engulfs Southeast Asia
Chinese companies exported its playbook across borders. Now it is exporting the collapse
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Pope Leo hit by crazy ‘Chinese communist agent’ claim
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s bizarre allegation after the pontiff called for strict regulation of AI
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US left rocked by China’s ‘Grand Theft AI’ attack
‘Foreign entities like China are siphoning American AI models … It is outrageous’
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China’s missile launch triggers a barrage of flak
The test ‘is clearly an indication that Beijing will use military force or the threat of force’
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Merz trades blows with Beijing over export flood
What is clear is that the relationship between Europe and China ‘is entering a contentious stage’
