52 stories tagged china, newest first.
547 points by cmrdporcupine | 496 comments
Reuters news article about a DHS order banning the Chinese AI DeepSeek from U.S. federal civilian agency IT systems; the capture shows only a device verification screen.
38 points by ilreb | 20 comments
The Register article reporting that X removed over 13,000 accounts tied to suspected Iranian, Russian, and Chinese influence operations ahead of the US midterms.
152 points by speckx | 73 comments
Lawfare article arguing the US sold off its rare earth industry and that financing to rebuild domestic supply should reflect China's strategic control risk.
17 points by semiquaver | 0 comments
Semafor opinion column by China editor Andy Browne arguing that speculation over Xi Jinping's health and succession will become a global spectacle.
116 points by mushstory | 98 comments
Yomiuri Shimbun news article reporting that China surpassed the U.S. as the world's top R&D spender in 2024, citing Japanese science ministry data.
147 points by thicTurtlLverXX | 148 comments
A LessWrong linkpost essay by alkjash sharing intuitions and anecdotes about social reality in China, in the context of spreading AI safety and rationalist ideas there.
43 points by cramer4next | 25 comments
CNBC article reporting Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calling AI model distillation 'competition,' contrasting with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calling it 'theft.'
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55 points by 1659447091 | 38 comments
Guardian News YouTube video showing a six-year-old girl in Wuhan, China breaking the women's world record for solving a Rubik's Cube.
285 points by nmeagent | 287 comments
Ken Klippenstein Substack article reporting that the Trump administration views opposition to AI data centers as driven by China and treats critics as foreign agents.
391 points by realsarm | 306 comments
CNN report on a US military near-incident after an AI system produced a hallucinated intelligence report, reportedly involving a Chinese ship.
349 points by Markoff | 381 comments
Traders Union news article reporting that Deutsche Bank has become the first foreign bank in Europe approved to clear yuan transactions.
322 points by Shortness8 | 184 comments
Science magazine article reporting on a girl's undisclosed death in a Chinese gene-editing trial whose parents paid over $800k; page shows a Cloudflare check.
1182 points by benwerd | 894 comments
Blog post by Ben Werdmuller arguing China's open-weights AI strategy is winning while America's closed, proprietary approach is failing.
924 points by mfiguiere | 785 comments
Stratechery article by Ben Thompson examining Chinese AI models and the strategic concerns and debates surrounding them.
721 points by htrp | 1164 comments
News article reporting that Anthropic accused Alibaba of illicitly accessing Claude to extract its AI model capabilities.
355 points by Tomte | 132 comments
Josef Prusa's X thread (via xcancel) alleging BambuStudio violates PrusaSlicer's AGPL license and linking it to Chinese national intelligence and data laws.
365 points by yakkomajuri | 260 comments
CNBC news article reporting that China's state planner has blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus, asking both companies to withdraw the deal.
319 points by 1970-01-01 | 385 comments
Electrek article reporting Canada cutting its 100% tariff on Chinese EVs to about 6% under a deal with a 49,000-unit annual quota, diverging from US policy.
647 points by mrtksn | 471 comments
Yale Environment 360 digest item presenting photos of the massive scale of China's wind and solar energy installations.
335 points by toomuchtodo | 548 comments
Bloomberg news article reporting that Chinese automaker BYD sold 4.6 million vehicles in 2025, meeting its revised sales target.
337 points by Amorymeltzer | 254 comments
Dan Wang's 2025 annual letter, a year-in-review essay comparing Silicon Valley and the Chinese Communist Party, among other reflections.
781 points by Vincent_Yan404 | 347 comments
A Substack memoir about growing up in a classified Chinese atomic bomb base in the Gobi Desert, a city known as "404" that was never on maps.
442 points by artninja1988 | 544 comments
Japan Times article on how China organized a large state-backed effort, likened to a Manhattan Project, to develop AI chips rivaling Western technology.
380 points by onemoresoop | 349 comments
BBC News article reporting that pro-democracy Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was convicted in his high-profile national security trial.
599 points by nreece | 732 comments
Bloomberg Law news article reporting that iRobot, maker of the Roomba, filed for bankruptcy with control passing to its Chinese supplier and lender Shenzhen PICEA Robotics.
332 points by dredmorbius | 187 comments
ScandAsia news article reporting that Norway is reviewing cybersecurity after a remote-access capability was found in Chinese-made buses.
611 points by Brajeshwar | 527 comments
Yale Environment 360 digest article reporting that China has added forest area roughly the size of Texas since 1990.
683 points by piskov | 584 comments
CNBC article reporting that the Dutch government invoked its Goods Availability Act to take control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia.
413 points by Mgtyalx | 606 comments
Wall Street Journal article on U.S. investors and the Trump administration nearing a deal with China over TikTok's U.S. operations; page shows a captcha.
408 points by yourapostasy | 124 comments
GFW Report blog post by Mingshi Wu analyzing the leak of internal documents from Geedge Networks and MESA Lab, linked to China's Great Firewall.
609 points by rcarmo | 374 comments
Josef Prusa's article arguing open hardware desktop 3D printing is dying due to Chinese utility model patent filings, with an update on Anycubic's MMU-related patent.
438 points by anigbrowl | 311 comments
Sixth Tone news article about Shanghai's program letting bus riders propose and design their own customized bus routes.
643 points by perihelions | 552 comments
CNBC article reporting the Port of Los Angeles expects shipping volume to drop 35% the following week as China tariffs take effect.
442 points by andrewfromx | 719 comments
Fortune article reporting the Port of L.A. executive director's warning that retailers have about seven weeks of full inventories left amid the U.S.-China trade war.
521 points by putzdown | 697 comments
Blog post by Molson Hart arguing that the April 2025 US tariffs underestimate how hard it is to bring manufacturing back to America.
1735 points by belter | 3307 comments
BBC News live coverage of US tariff announcements, including 34% on China and 20% on the EU, with EU and Chinese reactions.
393 points by bookofjoe | 374 comments
Wall Street Journal article reporting that China has told its AI leaders to avoid travel to the U.S. over security concerns; the page showed a captcha.
476 points by DannyPage | 469 comments
USPS service alert announcing that, effective Feb. 4, 2025, it temporarily suspends acceptance of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong Posts; letters and flats are unaffected.
425 points by soundworlds | 246 comments
404 Media article on a bill from Senator Josh Hawley that would impose penalties, including jail time, for downloading Chinese AI models like DeepSeek.
645 points by timsuchanek | 1445 comments
Financial Times article reporting OpenAI's claim that it has evidence China's DeepSeek used its models to train a competing AI model.
392 points by rntn | 321 comments
The Register article reporting that AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen confirmed Salt Typhoon breaches by Chinese state-backed hackers, with White House comments.
345 points by elsewhen | 526 comments
An X (Twitter) post by Taylor Ogan about the size of BYD's factory; the post content did not load.
429 points by nabla9 | 400 comments
A Global China Pulse article about character amnesia, the phenomenon of Chinese speakers forgetting how to handwrite characters.
338 points by huerne | 540 comments
DroneDJ article reporting that a bill banning DJI drones passed the US House as part of the NDAA and moves to the Senate.
331 points by jbegley | 712 comments
New York Times article reporting that the US House passed a bill requiring ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban in the United States.
408 points by wyldfire | 248 comments
NBC News article reporting leaked emails showing Hugo Awards organizers vetted and excluded science fiction authors to avoid offending China, where the 2023 awards were held.
346 points by ChrisArchitect | 288 comments
New York Times article reporting that a Hong Kong court ordered Chinese property developer Evergrande to be liquidated after years of debt troubles.
439 points by ahaucnx | 171 comments
AirGradient blog post by Achim Haug sharing lessons and tips from making plastic injection molds for its air quality monitors with Chinese mold makers.
590 points by ricksunny | 624 comments
The Times Insight investigation into what happened inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the weeks before the Covid-19 outbreak.
502 points by consumer451 | 347 comments
Business Insider article on a lawsuit alleging TikTok owner ByteDance maintained a backdoor allowing Chinese Communist Party access to US user data.
360 points by ShaurAsar | 282 comments
Economist business article on Alibaba splitting into six separate businesses, which investors read as a sign that China's tech crackdown is ending.
388 points by remote_phone | 261 comments
Techdirt article criticizing Midjourney CEO David Holz for blocking satirical images of Xi Jinping to keep the AI image generator available in China.