China exports more electric cars than anyone else
500,000 electric cars in 2021
China is now the world’s biggest exporter of electric cars.
US attempts to crack down on spying turned out to be just racism
Let's get the Chinese brainboxes they must be spies
The US Justice Department is giving up on its controversial China Initiative which was supposed to crack down on foreign spying but was just a cover to target Chinese academics and tech researchers.
Cambodia discovers there is a hole in its Great Wall Internet plans
Someone forgot to buy the gear
Redfaced Cambodian government officials slammed the brakes on a plan to build a great firewall similar to China because someone forgot to order the right gear.
Chinese want local chips
Decoupling might be a bad thing
Manufacturers in China are increasingly looking to source chips locally because they fear the US and other governments may prioritise domestic users of the semiconductors vital to national security.
China closing games companies
Holding off on game licences
China is continuing to hold off from issuing new game licenses to app developers, in regulatory inaction that has led to the shuttering of around 140,000 small game studios and related companies in the country.
China’s moon plans making the NASA look a bit silly
Space travel is really for socialism
"China has formally approved three missions targeting the south pole of the moon, with the first to launch around 2024. each with different goals and an array of spacecraft.
China has glorious five year robotics plan
Pushed forward due to US hate
China will work to become a leading global player in robotics by 2025 under a glorious five-year plan to build a high-tech manufacturing sector resilient to American sanctions.
AMD’s Xilinx deal delayed due to China
Acceptable in the rest of the world
AMD's $35 billion acquisition of Xilinx is now expected to close in the first quarter of 2022, which is a few months after AMD and Xilinx's originally proposed closing of the deal before the end of 2021.
Apple realises that Foxconn’s treatment of women is bad PR
Puts company on probation
Fruity cargo cult Apple has realised that Foxconn’s poor treatment of women workers in its Indian plant is doing the same sort of PR damage it saw when there were similar problems in China.
China to build great wall of data centres
Data centre clusters so big you can see them from space
China has approved plans to build four mega clusters of data centres in the country's north and west with the aim of supporting the data needs of Beijing and major coastal centres.