China on Saturday criticized the latest US decision to tighten export controls that would make it harder for China to obtain and manufacture advanced computing chips, calling it a violation of international economic and trade rules that will “isolate and backfire” on the US. “Out of the need to maintain its…
The Biden administration on Friday published a sweeping set of export controls, including a measure to cut China off from certain semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world with US equipment, vastly expanding its reach in its bid to slow Beijing’s technological and military advances. The rules, some of which go…
For most of China’s 1.4 billion people, regular COVID-19 tests have become a way of life. Siyuan Zhuji is trying to turn them into a work of art. Since March, the 33-year-old multi-disciplinary artist from Jiangsu province has been filming his own nucleic acid tests with a small camera in his…
President Joe Biden will sign orders on Monday to push more government dollars to the U.S. biotechnology industry, aimed at reducing dependence on China for materials to generate clean energy, weave new fabrics and inoculate populations against the COVID-19 pandemic. The executive order allows the federal government to direct funding…
The death toll in this week’s earthquake in western China has jumped to 74 with another 26 people still missing, the government reported Wednesday, as frustration rose with uncompromising COVID-19 lockdown measures that prevented residents from leaving their buildings after the shaking. The 6.8 magnitude quake that struck just after…
The US government’s efforts to restrict the shipment of high-performance chips by Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to China added to mounting tension between the countries over technology and security. The chips are designed to run artificial intelligence applications and power data centres and the restrictions would affect Chinese firms’…
US President Joe Biden signed an order to implement the 2022 CHIPS Act on Thursday. The executive order will ensure subsidy for manufacturing semiconductor chips in the US. The US government’s implementation plan worth $52.7 billion (nearly Rs. 4,21,000 crore) aims at encouraging chip manufacturing and research in the country….
Indiana’s Republican governor became the latest US lawmaker to lead a delegation to Taiwan following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip earlier this month that sparked condemnation and military threats from China. Gov. Eric Holcomb met with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday, part of a four-day visit to Taiwan and…
Chinese tech giant Tencent on Wednesday posted its first drop in quarterly revenue since going public, as the company grapples with China’s economic downturn, pandemic disruptions and ongoing scrutiny from regulators. Revenue in the second quarter fell three percent to CNY 134 billion (roughly Rs. 1,57,000 crore) compared to the year…
Digital attacks against Taiwanese government websites ahead of US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s arrival in Taipei on Tuesday were likely launched by Chinese activist hackers, or “hacktivists,” a cybersecurity research organisation said. The website of Taiwan’s presidential office was targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Tuesday…
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