Tech is becoming the battleground. It may help make China great again.

China approves Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance to order NVIDIA H200 chips after initial ban, balancing AI competition needs with semiconductor independence goals.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has emphasized the importance of advancing AI in his first formal meeting of 2026 with ministers.

China’s tech story was full of unexpected resilience in 2025. The year began with predictions of stagnation and ended with record exports, headline-grabbing AI breakthroughs, and a triumphant New Year’s speech from Xi Jinping. In official telling ...

China eases curbs on Nvidia’s H200 chip sales, signaling a cautious reopening to advanced AI tech while balancing domestic innovation and geopolitical risk.

Last year, a low-cost generative AI model from China's DeepSeek, on par with US rivals, upended assumptions of American dominance in the fast-moving field

BEIJING—In cities and small towns across China, two seemingly contradictory facts are simultaneously true: China is closing the gap with the U.S. for global technological dominance, and yet big parts of its economy are a mess. Locally pioneered electric ...

Chinese officials have told the country’s largest tech firms including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. they can prepare orders for Nvidia Corp.’s H200 AI chips, suggesting Beijing is close to formally approving imports of components essential to powering artificial intelligence.

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Lingling Wei: Are we ready? Hello and welcome to the What's News Sunday Podcast. I'm Lingling Wei, your host today. I'm the chief China ...

The nation is electrifying faster and using less fossil fuel per capita than China did when it was at similar levels of economic development, according to a report from the think tank Ember. It’s a sign that clean electricity could be the most direct way to boost growth for other developing economies too.