Tag: china
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This March, a group of women gathered under the roof of a modest wooden shop in the Kurisa fishing village on Sulawesi, an Indonesian island east of Borneo. They held… more ›
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QUANZHOU, China/TAPIEI — In the southeastern Chinese port city of Quanzhou, a near-derelict factory hit by U.S. sanctions four years ago has discreetly come back to life. Fujian Jinhua Integrated… more ›
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New U.S. Export Controls on AI and Semiconductors Mark a Transformation of U.S. Technology Competition with China Introduction On October 7, 2022, the Biden administration announced a new export controls… more ›
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Diners in Shanghai will be able to see their meals being prepared live from the restaurant kitchen on their phone screens. The city’s market watchdog on Tuesday asked restaurants to… more ›
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It sounded too good to be true, almost like finding a cheat code for Chinese real estate. Tired of big city life after years in Beijing and Hangzhou, freelancer Pan… more ›
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Shein (pronounced She In) is the fastest-growing ecommerce company in the world. It reportedly did almost $10 billion in revenue in 2020, and has grown over 100% for each of the past… more ›
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I think that, because we’re in a capitalist society, we think of AIs as amplifiers for production and consumption. But they can force-multiply on any vector if suitably directed. And,… more ›
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Like thousands of others in China, they have poured their savings into buying a presale apartment — only to see the developer fall into financial difficulties and halt construction on the… more ›
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Today’s fatalism about China is the fallacious assumption that its trajectory is inevitably upward, so it must be accommodated. Demographics tell a different story. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/17/how-united-states-beats-china/ more ›
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These changes will permanently alter the map of our energy economy. But they suffer from one major limiting factor: the mineral inputs are increasingly expensive and increasingly unavailable. Solar and… more ›