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Efforts to choke China will fail, Xi Jinping vows at 2026 economic agenda meeting

China’s achievements amid global uncertainty proved its development was unstoppable, President Xi Jinping said at an annual conference, while emphasising…

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China’s growing young billionaire class masks innovation hurdles, analysts say

While China continues to produce many young self-made billionaires, showcasing its economic dynamism, observers have urged the creation of a…

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Macroscope | From climate change to health, global problems need investors to step up

People love to hate governments, and they loathe having to pay taxes. However, from now on, we’ll have to embrace…

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European firms need to abandon overreliance on China and US, chamber report warns

A new report recommends European companies diversify away from overreliance on China and the US, as companies find themselves squeezed…

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DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng makes the cut in top 10 ‘people who shaped science in 2025’

The Nature’s 10 profile of Liang recognised the disruption caused in January by the release of DeepSeek-R1, a reasoning model…

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As US, EU and Japan boost defence spending, is stimulus their true intention?

More than six decades after British historian AJP Taylor termed war the “mother of invention”, economies around the world appear…

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China’s open-source models make up 30% of global AI usage, led by Qwen and DeepSeek

China’s open-source artificial intelligence models accounted for nearly 30 per cent of total global use of the technology, while Chinese-language…

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As China defies US tech blockade, can local AI chipmakers capture Nvidia’s market share?

With the technology race between the United States and China, the world’s two largest economies, intensifying even though a trade…

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Opinion | How yuan internationalisation is helping to close the climate finance gap

As the United States renounces its climate commitments, a chain reaction of wavering pledges and scaled-back investments by other donors…

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Explainer | Why is China alarmed by the new US-Malaysia trade deal? Poison-pill provisions explained

China has expressed “serious concerns” regarding a trade agreement signed last month between Malaysia and the United States, and some…

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