China

Electric Vehicles

Outsold By BYD and Toyota, Tesla Finds Allies Among Retail Investors

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BYD’s aggressive international ambitions have set off alarm bells among the western auto manufacturers and governments.

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Consumer

Loser of 2024: The Luxury Market

Luxury brands were riding the subway instead of lounging in limos this year, though a couple of brands were able to buck the trend.

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International Economics

Does a Popular Internet Router Pose a National Security Threat?

If similar cases are a guide, the US has given equal weight to both known and hypothetical threats to national security.

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Artificial Intelligence

ByteDance is Winning the China AI Race. That’s Bad News for TikTok.

ByteDance, the China-based TikTok owner and political punching bag, is emerging as the nation’s answer to OpenAI.

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Economics

The World’s Big Central Banks Play It Safe With Rate Holds

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As Kenny Rogers sang, gamblers have to know when to hold them. When it comes to interest rates, so, too, do central banks.

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Semiconductors

Nvidia Fights to Stay One Step Ahead of AI’s Many Evolutions

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This year’s Nvidia GTC event comes after the bombshell DeepSeek moment, the acceleration of a global trade war, and a broader market rout.

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Power Corridor

The Bounds of Trump’s Friendship with Elon Musk

Donald Trump has forged an alliance with Elon Musk, but history shows the two have trouble working together. And then there’s China…

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International Economics

Europe Lays Plans to Extract China’s Battery Know-How

There’s a little bit of “What goes around comes around” behind Europe’s latest industrial policy initiative.

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International Economics

China’s Trade Surplus Closing in on $1 Trillion, Bolstering Trump’s Tariff Pledge

Just in time for Trump 2.0, China is on pace for history’s first $1 trillion trade surplus by a single nation, according to Bloomberg.

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International Economics

China Targets America’s Farms as Trump Tariffs Spur Retaliation

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After Trump increased tariffs on China last week, Beijing responded by imposing its own increased tariffs of on American agricultural goods.

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CIO Upside

DeepSeek’s Rise is the Tip of the Open-Source Iceberg, Experts Say

“You have to be tracking open source as an option.”

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Industrials

Hypersonic Missiles Startup Raises $100 Million for “Non-Nuclear Deterrent”

The startup promises to fill a void in one area where US military research and development has been caught flat-footed.

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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI Suggests DeepSeek Illicitly Used ChatGPT to Build its AI

To be clear, OpenAI has not yet come down hard saying DeepSeek definitely stole its intellectual property.

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