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Commentary: What if the AI race isn’t about chips at all?
SEOUL: China is going to win the artificial intelligence race, says Jensen Huang.
At first glance, it is easy to assume Nvidia’s billionaire founder is just talking his book. Nvidia does stand to gain the most from any narrative that encourages the US …
China’s Messy History With Mongolia
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief.
The highlights this week: We take a look at the increasingly strained history of ethnic ties between China and Mongolia, Japan’s new prime minister makes clear her stance on Taiwan, and China shines at the annua…
The AI Cold War That Will Redefine Everything
Nine months later, Chinese startup DeepSeek turned heads in Silicon Valley with a powerful new AI model. Hope began to take hold.
“China finally has a model it can be proud of,” Premier Li Qiang told officials, according to people familiar with the com…
The AI Cold War that will redefine everything
Chinese tech companies were so far behind on generative artificial intelligence early last year that many were relying on Meta Platforms’ open-source Llama models, which can be downloaded for free. Worse, U.S.…
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Inner Mongolia Commences Ambitious 16 GW Renewable Energy Project
The renewable energy sector expands its horizons in Inner Mongolia as the region initiates the implementation of a colossal 16 GW renewables project. This ambitious endeavor signals a significant leap towards sustainable energy practices in the prosper…
World’s climate change crisis has tourists seeking ‘coolcations’
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Heat waves in Europe saw tourist sites including the Eiffel Tower in Paris shut this summer.
Record heat waves, blazing wildfires and oppressive humidity are transforming the world’s touri…
The world wants China’s rare earth elements – what is life like in the city that produces them?
Central Baotou, an industrial hub of 2.7 million people that abuts the Gobi desert in north China, feels just like any other second-tier Chinese city. Large shopping malls featuring western chains including Starbucks and KFC stand alongside street afte…
China’s dominance leaves US vulnerable, as critical minerals become political
Way back in 1992, on a visit to Inner Mongolia, China’s then-leader Deng Xiaoping uttered what has since proven to be a visionary declaration.
“The Middle East has its oil, China has rare earths,” he famously quipped.…
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Factbox-List of Chinese entities who have turned to the cloud for access to restricted US tech
(Reuters) – State-linked Chinese entities are using cloud services provided by Amazon or its rivals to access advanced U.S. chips and artificial intelligence capabilities that they cannot acquire otherwise, recent public tender documents showed.&…
BlueScope Steel warns a ‘large volume of steel’ is leaving China and flooding markets in Australia and overseas
A prolonged downturn in China’s property market will have significant flow-on effects for the Australian government’s finances and the local steel industry, economists have warned.
The Asian superpower’s real estate sector was seen as…