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I would suspect that every Chinese medical technology company has deep ties to the Chinese government and communist party, but good to know about this one.
Espionage-linked Chinese company embedded in top US research labs
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Espionage-linked Chinese company embedded in top US research labs
United Imaging, which has ties to the Chinese Communist Party and a history of industrial espionage, has a presence in top US research installations.

Uspol, genocide
In case you're wondering whether "political violence" is escalating in the U.S.A. right now, of *course* it is as we move into an era of concentration campus and domestic military deployments. But both domestic genocides and purges as well as political violence targeted at individual prominent figures has been a *constant* throughout American history, from gun duels fought between political rivals to massacres of Native Americans in order to steal their land, to pogroms against Catholics, to literal wars on local Black success and political participation, all dating back before the American Revolution to the beginning of colonization. Thanks to Wikipedia, here's a *small sampling* where I attempted to whittle things down to about one event per decade before recent times.
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_political_violence_in_Washington,_D.C.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
Killings, woundings, and plots against political figures:
Aaron Burr killing Alexander Hamilton in 1804
Sam Houston beats Rep. William Stanbery in 1832
Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson in 1835
Fight between Representatives Churchwell & Cullom in 1854
Caning of Sen. Charles Summer in 1856
Brawl on the House floor in 1858
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865
Assassination of President James A. Garfield in 1881
Assassination of President William McKinley in 1901
Attempted Assassination of William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz in 1909
Wounding of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
Bombing of the U.S. Senate reception room in 1915
Attempted Assassination of President Herbert Hover in 1928 (in Argentina)
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1947
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1950
The United States Capitol Shooting in 1954
Planned Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1960
Attempted Assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1963
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
Weather Underground bombings in 1970, 1971, and 1975
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1972 (Alabama Governor George Wallace was targeted & injured instead)
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1974
Planned Assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1974
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Gerald Ford in 1975
Wounding of President Ronald Reagan in 1981
Attempted Kidnapping of Federal Reserve Board members in 1981
Planned Assassination of President George Bush in 1993 (in Kuwait)
Attempted Assassinations (x3) of President Bill Clinton in 1994
Attempted Assassination of President Bill Clinton in 1996
Anthrax attacks on US senators in 2001
Attempted Assassination of President George W. Bush in 2005 (in the foreign country of Georgia)
Planned Assassination of President-Elect Barrack Obama in 2008
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2009 (in Turkey)
Attempted Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2011
Shooting of Rep. Gabby Gliffords in 2011
Planned Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2012
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2013
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2015
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Donald Trump in 2017
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2018
Pipe bombs mailed to Democratic leaders in 2018, including former President Barack Obama
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2019
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2020
Kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020
Planned Assassination of Former President George W. Bush in 2022
Planned Assassination of Former President Barrack Obama in 2023
Attempted Assassination of President Joe Biden in 2023
Planned Assassinations (x2) of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Wounding of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Massacres and other mass killings, mostly with genocidal motivations:
The Acoma Massacre in 1599
The Paspaheg Massacre in 1610
The Wessagusset affair in 1623
The Mystic Massacre in 1637
The Pound Ridge Massacre in 1644
The Susquehannock chiefs massacre in 1675
The Apalachee Massacre in 1704
The Massacre at Fort Narhantes in 1712
The Norridgewock Massacre in 1724
The 1745 Massacre at Walden (in 1745)
The 1756 Massacre at Walden (in 1756)
The Killings by the Paxton Boys in 1763
The Yellow Creek Massacre in 1774
The Gnadenhütten Massacre in 1782
The Canyon del Muerto Massacre in 1805
The Battle of Tallushatchee in 1813
The Philadelphia Nativist Riots in 1844
The Bloody Island Massacre in 1850
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857
The Sand Creek Massacre in 1864
The Opelousas Massacre in 1868
The Chinese Massacre in 1871
The Election Riot of 1874
The Haymarket Affair in 1886
The Buffalo Gap Massacre in 1890
The Wilmington Massacre in 1898
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre (in 1906)
The Ludlow Massacre in 1914
The Elaine massacre in 1919
The Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921
The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921
The Bonus Army Conflict in 1932
The 1937 Memorial Day massacre (in 1937)
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963
The Kent State shootings in 1970
The Greensboro massacre in 1979
The MOVE Bombing in 1985
The 4 O'Clock murders in 1988
The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
The September 11 Attacks in 2001
The Fort Hood Shooting in 2009
The Holocaust Memorial Shooting in 2009
The Isla Vista killings in 2014
The Charleston Church shooting in 2015
The San Bernardino attack in 2015
The Orlando Nightclub Shooting in 2016
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting in 2018
The El Paso Walmart shooting in 2019
The January 6th Capitol Attack in 2021
The 2022 Buffalo Shooting (in 2022)

[Link] The Chinese Firewall Technology That Every Western Company Now Uses“: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/10/12/link-the-chinese-firewall-technology.html

Sources: Alibaba and Baidu have begun using their own internally designed chips to train their AI models, partly replacing AI chips made by Nvidia (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/alibaba-baidu-adopt-ai-chips-m…

Alibaba and Baidu Adopt Their Own AI Chips in Major Shift for Chinese Tech
Chinese tech giants Alibaba Group and Baidu have begun using their own internally designed chips to train their artificial intelligence models, partly replacing AI chips made by Nvidia, according to four people with direct knowledge of the moves. The move is the latest sign that a decoupling of ...

A look at MicroCo, a Hollywood startup aiming to tap into the micro drama craze, as Chinese apps gain US traction with millions of downloads, per Sensor Tower (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/1…

A Hollywood Start-Up Targets the Micro Drama Craze
A new app will focus on super-short TV shows shot for phones, a bit like Quibi, an earlier app aimed at quick content.

ShiZhi: A Chinese Lightweight Large Language Model for Court View Generation
Zhitian Hou, Kun Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09297 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

ShiZhi: A Chinese Lightweight Large Language Model for Court View Generation
Criminal Court View Generation (CVG) is a fundamental task in legal artificial intelligence, aiming to automatically generate the "Court View" section of a legal case document. Generating court views is challenging due to the diversity and complexity of case facts, and directly generating from raw facts may limit performance. In this paper, we present ShiZhi, the first large language model (LLM) specifically designed for court view generation. We construct a Chinese Court View Generation datase…

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Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Exporting Protected Turtles (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-national-pleads-guilty-exporting-protected-turtles
http://www.memeorandum.com/250812/p8#a250812p8

According to the latest annual Nature Index, which tracks research institutions by their contributions to leading science journals,
the single remaining U.S. institution among the top 10 is Harvard,
in second place, far behind the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
A decade ago, C.A.S. was the only Chinese institution to figure in the top 10.
Now eight of the 10 leaders are in China.
If this does not constitute a Sputnik moment, it is hard to imagine what would.

Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
As China threatens to overtake U.S. leadership in science and technology, America has responded by sabotaging its own engines of progress.

Chinese company Zinwa is reviving BlackBerry Classic with Android #Android

BlackBerry Classic is being revived with Android, and it can be yours for $400
A Chinese company is reviving the decade-old BlackBerry Classic with new hardware and installing Android on it for a modern experience.

HISPASpoof: A New Dataset For Spanish Speech Forensics
Maria Risques, Kratika Bhagtani, Amit Kumar Singh Yadav, Edward J. Delp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09155 https://

HISPASpoof: A New Dataset For Spanish Speech Forensics
Zero-shot Voice Cloning (VC) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) methods have advanced rapidly, enabling the generation of highly realistic synthetic speech and raising serious concerns about their misuse. While numerous detectors have been developed for English and Chinese, Spanish-spoken by over 600 million people worldwide-remains underrepresented in speech forensics. To address this gap, we introduce HISPASpoof, the first large-scale Spanish dataset designed for synthetic speech detection and attribut…

baidu: Chinese online encyclopedias (2011)
Four networks from Chinese online encyclopedias Baidu (百度百科, http://baike.baidu.com/) and Hudong (互动百科, http://www.hudong.com/

John Searle, known for "the Chinese Room" thought experiment on AI consciousness, died on Sept. 16 at 93; his UCB tenure ended over alleged sexual harassment (Alex Traub/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/books/john-searle-dead.html

John Searle, Philosopher Who Wrestled With A.I., Dies at 93
His blunt debating and imaginative theorizing about artificial intelligence and the human mind made him a leading scholar. But sexual-harassment allegations ended his career.

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Good night all! 💤
#WristCheck (kinda)

"‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head"
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/aug/11/leeds-teenager-china-chloe-cheung-democracy-p…

From Platform Migration to Cultural Integration: the Ingress and Diffusion of #wlw from TikTok to RedNote in Queer Women
Ziqi Pan, Runhua Zhang, Jiehui Luo, Yuanhao Zhang, Yue Deng, Xiaojuan Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07579

From Platform Migration to Cultural Integration: the Ingress and Diffusion of #wlw from TikTok to RedNote in Queer Women
Hashtags serve as identity markers and connection tools in online queer communities. Recently, the Western-origin #wlw (women-loving-women) hashtag has risen in the Chinese lesbian community on RedNote, coinciding with user migration triggered by the temporary US TikTok ban. This event provides a unique lens to study cross-cultural hashtag ingress and diffusion through the populations' responsive behaviors in cyber-migration. In this paper, we conducted a two-phase content analysis of 418 #wlw …

Sources: Tata Electronics bought the Indian unit of Justech Precision, a China-based Apple supplier that provides CNC machines to Foxconn, for ~$100M in August (Anniek Bao/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/tata-electronics-buys-chines…

Tata Electronics acquires Chinese iPhone supplier Justech's India unit for about $100 million, sources say
Tata Electronics seeks to expand iPhone manufacturing capacity as Apple aimed to make all of the iPhones intended for the U.S. market in India by end-2026.

Yep https://mastodon.social/@Theblueone/115187021623766270

There’s another name for that…
Analysis | The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics - The Wall Street Journal https://apple.news/AX_EJXTACTMSc4TPv3huykQ

Communication-Learning Co-Design for Differentially Private Over-the-Air Federated Distillation
Zihao Hu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Jia Yan (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Ying-Jun Angela Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06557 …

Communication-Learning Co-Design for Differentially Private Over-the-Air Federated Distillation
The ever-growing learning model size nowadays challenges the communication efficiency and privacy preservation of the traditional federated learning (FL). In this paper, we propose a novel differentially private (DP) over-the-air federated distillation (FD) framework, where wireless devices (WDs) periodically share noise-perturbed model outputs with the parameter server by harnessing the superposition property of multi-access channels. Accordingly, over-the-air FD enables the shared responsibil…

Major US online retailers remove listings for millions of prohibited Chinese electronics
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/major-us-online-retailers-remove-listings-…

Free artificial intelligence technology released by Chinese tech companies appears to be more powerful and popular than that developed by American rivals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/13/china-us-open-source-ai/

Analysis | China leads the U.S. on this measure of technological influence
China’s open AI models are now more powerful and popular than those released by American rivals, a shift with implications for the future of technology.

A large part of Russian (and Chinese, for that matter) propaganda consists of presenting themselves as allies in anti-colonial struggles around the world, and some people are all too happy to parrot that point. They should really read this.
Russia (and China, for that matter) is a colonial empire, violently repressing its own subjugated peoples, as clearly expressed here by members of those peoples.

Acoustic source depth estimation method based on a single hydrophone in Arctic underwater
Jinbao Weng (Laboratory of Ocean acoustics and Remote Sensing, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, China, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Physical and Geological Processes, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, China), Yubo Qi (State key laboratory of acoustics, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China), Yanming Yang …

Acoustic source depth estimation method based on a single hydrophone in Arctic underwater
Based on the normal mode and ray theory, this article discusses the characteristics of surface sound source and reception at the surface layer, and explores depth estimation methods based on normal modes and rays, and proposes a depth estimation method based on the upper limit of modal frequency. Data verification is conducted to discuss the applicability and limitations of different methods. For the surface refracted normal mode waveguide, modes can be separated through warping transformation.…

On the Optimality of Tracking Fisher Information in Adaptive Testing with Stochastic Binary Responses
Sanghwa Kim (KAIST), Dohyun Ahn (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Seungki Min (Seoul National University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07862

On the Optimality of Tracking Fisher Information in Adaptive Testing with Stochastic Binary Responses
We study the problem of estimating a continuous ability parameter from sequential binary responses by actively asking questions with varying difficulties, a setting that arises naturally in adaptive testing and online preference learning. Our goal is to certify that the estimate lies within a desired margin of error, using as few queries as possible. We propose a simple algorithm that adaptively selects questions to maximize Fisher information and updates the estimate using a method-of-moments …

China's vision for its autonomous vehicle industry, backed by state support and infrastructure investment, is driving its lead in ADAS and robotaxi deployment (Yi-Ling Liu/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/china-ai-powered-self-driving-cars/

China’s vision for a driverless future is miles ahead of everyone else’s
Strong government backing and strict regulatory oversight of the Chinese autonomous vehicle industry contrasts sharply with the piecemeal laws and slower adoption in the U.S.

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LLMs vs. Chinese Anime Enthusiasts: A Comparative Study on Emotionally Supportive Role-Playing
Lanlan Qiu, Xiao Pu, Yeqi Feng, Tianxing He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06388 https…

LLMs vs. Chinese Anime Enthusiasts: A Comparative Study on Emotionally Supportive Role-Playing
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in role-playing conversations and providing emotional support as separate research directions. However, there remains a significant research gap in combining these capabilities to enable emotionally supportive interactions with virtual characters. To address this research gap, we focus on anime characters as a case study because of their well-defined personalities and large fan bases. This choice enables us to effectively ev…

Interesting, a lab that wants to build opensource (!) attracts a lot of funding 🤔
Reflection AI raises $2B to be America's open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/reflection-…

Reflection AI raises $2B to be America's open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek | TechCrunch
Reflection, once focused on autonomous coding agents, has raised $2B at an $8B valuation to expand into both an opensource alternative to closed frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, and a Western equivalent to Chinese AI firms like DeepSeek.

We were walking along Queens Blvd and there was a freshly dropped chinese food noodle dish on the sidewalk (no container, just a pile of noodles). I told the 13yo that it was "VERY low mein".

🀄 Large-scale illegal wildlife shops in Laos found scamming Chinese tourists
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/large-scale-illegal-wildlife-shops-in-laos-found-scamming-chinese-tourists/

Large-scale illegal wildlife shops in Laos found scamming Chinese tourists
LUANG PRABANG, Laos — “No coffee, no coffee,” repeated the security guard. His smile stood in stark contrast to his faded camouflage fatigues and the machine gun slung over his shoulder. Few cafés in the sleepy Laotian tourist town of Luang Prabang boast armed guards, but Kin Liao Coffee is not the average café. While […]

LacAIDes: Generative AI-Supported Creative Interactive Circuits Crafting to Enliven Traditional Lacquerware
Yaning Li, Yutong Chen, Yihan Hou, Chenyi Chen, Yihan Han, Jingxuan Han, Wenxi Dai, Youyou Li, Xinke Tang, Meng Li, Qi Dong, Hongwei Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08326

LacAIDes: Generative AI-Supported Creative Interactive Circuits Crafting to Enliven Traditional Lacquerware
Lacquerware, a representative craft of Chinese intangible cultural heritage, is renowned for its layered aesthetics and durability but faces declining engagement. While prior human-computer interaction research has explored embedding interactive circuits to transform lacquerware into responsive artifacts, most studies have focused on fabrication techniques rather than supporting makers in creatively designing such interactions at a low threshold. To address this gap, we present LacAIDes, a Gene…

VideoNorms: Benchmarking Cultural Awareness of Video Language Models
Nikhil Reddy Varimalla, Yunfei Xu, Arkadiy Saakyan, Meng Fan Wang, Smaranda Muresan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08543

VideoNorms: Benchmarking Cultural Awareness of Video Language Models
As Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) are deployed globally, they require understanding of and grounding in the relevant cultural background. To properly assess these models' cultural awareness, adequate benchmarks are needed. We introduce VideoNorms, a benchmark of over 1000 (video clip, norm) pairs from US and Chinese cultures annotated with socio-cultural norms grounded in speech act theory, norm adherence and violations labels, and verbal and non-verbal evidence. To build VideoNorms, w…

Parisians and BHV Marais staff protest Shein's 1,000-square-meter store, set to open November 1, as France tries to curb the company's presence in the country (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/business/shein-retail-store-paris-back…

Parisians Protest Shein’s First Physical Store
As the Chinese online fast-fashion retailer prepares to open a physical space in a venerable department store, France pushes to stem the company’s presence in the country.

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baidu: Chinese online encyclopedias (2011)
Four networks from Chinese online encyclopedias Baidu (百度百科, http://baike.baidu.com/) and Hudong (互动百科, http://www.hudong.com/

The Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned Dutch chipmaker Nexperia under the Goods Availability Act to safeguard chip supply for European industries (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/605e5456-9437-47ff-be6a-edc5c82810f2

https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e88
“Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built …

How Silicon Valley enabled China's digital police state
An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known. Firms including IBM, Dell, and Cisco sold billions in technology to Chinese police and government agencies, despite repeated warnings that such tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious sects and target minorities. Critically, American surveillance technologies allowed a b…

How culture and regulations are shaping AI companion platforms worldwide, with US platforms primarily targeting men and Chinese platforms mainly targeting women (Zilan Qian/ChinaTalk)
https://www.chinatalk.media/p/why-america-builds-ai-girlfriends

Why America Builds AI Girlfriends and China Makes AI Boyfriends
and what it all means

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Yes it is a funky little dial. I don't have enough characters to fully explain it here without starting a thread, so I cheated and shoved it all in the alt text. 🤷
#WristCheck (but not really, since it is a pocket watch).

Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers are trapped in a digital cage,
barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes
by the world’s largest digital surveillance apparatus.
Most of this technology came from companies in a country that has long claimed to support freedoms worldwide -- the United States.
⚠️ Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state,…

How Silicon Valley enabled China's digital police state
An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known. Firms including IBM, Dell, and Cisco sold billions in technology to Chinese police and government agencies, despite repeated warnings that such tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious sects and target minorities. Critically, American surveillance technologies allowed a b…

🫧 Rare deep-sea hydrothermal system discovered in western Pacific produces massive hydrogen emissions
#geology

Rare deep-sea hydrothermal system discovered in western Pacific produces massive hydrogen emissions
Hydrogen-producing hydrothermal systems in the deep ocean are rare but critical to understanding Earth's internal processes and the conditions that may have fostered life's origins. Now scientists from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) have discovered a massive hydrogen-rich hydrothermal system beneath the western Pacific seafloor, offering a new glimpse into deep-sea serpentinization—a process in which iron- and magnesium-rich rocks chemically react with …

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Sources: Tencent recruited prominent AI researcher Yao Shunyu from OpenAI; Chinese media says he got a CN¥100M, or ~$66M, pay package (Pei Li/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-12/tencent-hires-openai-…

From Detection to Mitigation: Addressing Gender Bias in Chinese Texts via Efficient Tuning and Voting-Based Rebalancing
Chengyan Wu, Yiqiang Cai, Yufei Cheng, Yun Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07889

From Detection to Mitigation: Addressing Gender Bias in Chinese Texts via Efficient Tuning and Voting-Based Rebalancing
This paper presents our team's solution to Shared Task 7 of NLPCC-2025, which focuses on sentence-level gender bias detection and mitigation in Chinese. The task aims to promote fairness and controllability in natural language generation by automatically detecting, classifying, and mitigating gender bias. To address this challenge, we adopt a fine-tuning approach based on large language models (LLMs), efficiently adapt to the bias detection task via Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA). In terms of data …

Malaysia reins in data center expansion amid power and water shortages, hindering Chinese companies that use the region as a backdoor to access US-made AI chips (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/malaysia-reins-d…

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/09/pakistan-mass-surveillance-and-censorship-machine-is-fueled-by-chinese-european-emirati-and-north-american-companies/

Pakistan: Mass surveillance and censorship machine is fueled by Chinese, European, Emirati and North American companies
Pakistan’s unlawful mass surveillance and censorship expansion is powered by a nexus of companies based in Germany, France, United Arab Emirates (UAE), China, Canada, and the United States, Amnesty International said today in a new report “Shadows of Control”. The year-long investigation was carried out in collaboration with Paper Trail Media, DER STANDARD, Follow the […]

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JD.com: sales of the iPhone 17 series in the first minute after pre-orders opened in China surpassed the first-day pre-order volume of 2024's iPhone 16 series (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

Strong appetite for new iPhone in China as pre-orders break record
The numbers underscore Apple’s brand loyalty in China despite growing competition from the likes of Huawei, analysts say.

baidu: Chinese online encyclopedias (2011)
Four networks from Chinese online encyclopedias Baidu (百度百科, http://baike.baidu.com/) and Hudong (互动百科, http://www.hudong.com/

Among the vast number of characters in the Chinese language
— around 100,000, by some estimates
— there are hundreds that no one alive knows how to pronounce.
They are written down, plain as day, in old books, but their sounds, even their meanings, have been lost.
Sitting in his office, wondering at how something seemingly immortalized in print could be forgotten, Dr. Mullaney went down a mental rabbit hole.
It would have been physically impossible to build a t…

A Professor’s Search for the MingKwai, a Lost Chinese Typewriter
A historian went down an 18-year rabbit hole in search of obsolete machines. But there was one he thought he’d never find.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/politics/williams-and-connolly-law-firm-hack-chinese-hackers-suspected
US law firm with major political clients hacked in spying spree linked to China

US law firm with major political clients hacked in spying spree linked to China
Suspected Chinese government-backed hackers have breached computer systems of US law firm Williams & Connolly, which has represented some of America’s most powerful politicians, as part of a larger spying campaign against multiple law firms, according to a letter the firm sent clients and a source familiar with the hack.

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Probing Social Identity Bias in Chinese LLMs with Gendered Pronouns and Social Groups
Geng Liu, Feng Li, Junjie Mu, Mengxiao Zhu, Francesco Pierri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06974

Probing Social Identity Bias in Chinese LLMs with Gendered Pronouns and Social Groups
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in user-facing applications, raising concerns about their potential to reflect and amplify social biases. We investigate social identity framing in Chinese LLMs using Mandarin-specific prompts across ten representative Chinese LLMs, evaluating responses to ingroup ("We") and outgroup ("They") framings, and extending the setting to 240 social groups salient in the Chinese context. To complement controlled experiments, we further analyze Chin…

Chinese chip equipment supplier E-Town sues Applied Materials in the Beijing IP Court over alleged trade secret theft; Applied Materials hired two E-Town staff (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-13/u…

After years of patient investment, China is on the cusp of a robotics revolution.

If embodied intelligence
— think AI-powered robots that can navigate the real world
— is the next frontier of AI, then China appears poised to dominate.
Though the United States still has distinct advantages in software, advanced AI chips and foundational research, China leads in robot hardware, deployment and policy support.

Last year, China installed nearly 300,000 robots in its fact…

The Chinese robots are coming
China is miles ahead in the race to dominate a technology that could define the 21st century.

Chinese open-source AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, and others gaining global traction spurs US policymakers and companies to respond (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chinas-l…

Sources: Chinese authorities urge local companies to avoid using less advanced chips, particularly Nvidia's H20, for government or national security work (Bloomberg)

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While China’s older tech pioneers tend to idolize Silicon Valley,
younger founders find their role models in people such as
DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng and
Unitree’s Wang Xingxing
— both of whom studied exclusively at Chinese universities and are known to predominantly hire domestic talent.

A December analysis from Citi GPS projected that the world would be populated by 648 million humanlike bots by 2050,
unlocking an enduring production advantage and immen…

The Chinese robots are coming
China is miles ahead in the race to dominate a technology that could define the 21st century.

China launches probes into alleged US discrimination against Chinese chip companies and suspected dumping of US analog chips used in devices like Wi-Fi routers (Ryan Woo/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-

INSEva: A Comprehensive Chinese Benchmark for Large Language Models in Insurance
Shisong Chen, Qian Zhu, Wenyan Yang, Chengyi Yang, Zhong Wang, Ping Wang, Xuan Lin, Bo Xu, Daqian Li, Chao Yuan, Licai Qi, Wanqing Xu, sun zhenxing, Xin Lu, Shiqiang Xiong, Chao Chen, Haixiang Hu, Yanghua Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04455

INSEva: A Comprehensive Chinese Benchmark for Large Language Models in Insurance
Insurance, as a critical component of the global financial system, demands high standards of accuracy and reliability in AI applications. While existing benchmarks evaluate AI capabilities across various domains, they often fail to capture the unique characteristics and requirements of the insurance domain. To address this gap, we present INSEva, a comprehensive Chinese benchmark specifically designed for evaluating AI systems' knowledge and capabilities in insurance. INSEva features a multi-di…

Lenovo reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $18.8B, vs. $17.4B est., and net profit surged 108% YoY to $505M, vs. $307.7M est., despite challenges from US tariffs (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-pc-maker-lenovo-q1-prof…

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https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025/09/suspected-chinese-operation-aims-recruit-former-feds-job-postings-research-shows/407970/
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Sources: the Trump administration cut 176 CISA jobs last week as part of laying off 4,000 US federal workers, and is likely to make further mass CISA layoffs (Cynthia B Brumfield/Metacurity)
https://www.metacurity.com/the-white-house-f…

The White House fired 176 CISA employees on Friday, with more layoffs feared
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters leaked 5m Qantas, 23m Vietnam Air customers' records, Spanish cops dismantle GXC Team, Dutch gov't warns of China's Nexperia security risks, Breach of crypto betting platform Shuffle exposes user data, FCC chair says sites have removed barred Chinese electronics, much more

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1) .China can live without what they get from us,
while we can't live without what we get from them, like rare earths.
2) President Xi can survive any political backlash from pain inflicted on the Chinese,
but Trump can't survive inflicting great pain on US consumers and businesses.
https://

Jonathan-FL #HumanRightsForEVERYONE (@amerliberal.bsky.social)
IMO: Trump is going to lose on this one, and look like the ass he truly is. Very unlike Trump, President Xi is very smart, and understands what cards he has & doesn't have, and on this one he has the cards. 1) A complete shut down of US-China trade would be VERY painful for everyone, but China ... [contains quote post or other embedded content]

President Trump threatens a "massive increase of Tariffs" on Chinese products, in response to export controls that China imposed on rare earth minerals (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/trump-china-tariffs-rare-earths.html

Trump threatens 'massive' tariff hike on China over rare earths dispute
Stock markets dropped on Trump's bellicose Truth Social post that said China is "becoming very hostile" in seeking tough export controls on rare earths.

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A profile of Singapore-based Megaspeed, which bought $2B of Nvidia chips and is under US probe for possibly helping Chinese companies evade export controls (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/technology/nvidia-chips-china-megaspeed.html

A Mystery C.E.O. and Billions in Sales: Is China Buying Banned Nvidia Chips?
An executive of a Singaporean firm called Megaspeed socialized with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. Now the company is being scrutinized by U.S. officials for its ties to China.

A look at the looming DJI drones ban in the US, as some say the ban will be disruptive; no federal agency has undertaken a mandated security risk assessment (Farah Stockman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/business/dji-chinese-drones-ban.html

DJI’s Chinese Drones Face U.S. Ban
Farmers, builders and police officers use drones made by DJI, a Chinese company. President Trump and his allies want to stop all imports.

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Leaked docs: Chinese network-monitoring provider Geedge Networks has sold Great Firewall-style censorship systems to at least four countries, including Pakistan (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/geedge-networks-mass-censorship-leak/

Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World
Geedge Networks, a company with ties to the founder of China’s mass censorship infrastructure, is selling its censorship and surveillance systems to at least four other countries in Asia and Africa.

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An index of Chinese chip stocks has surged 50% since the end of June, outperforming global peers, as some investors begin to balk at their lofty valuations (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-…

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China bans TechInsights from working with or receiving data from Chinese entities, citing national security concerns, after a report on Huawei's Ascend AI chips (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/china-blac

China blacklists major chip research firm TechInsights following report on Huawei
Beijing has banned semiconductor researcher TechInsights from working with or receiving data from entities in China.

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Ant Group unit Robbyant showcases its first LLM-powered humanoid robot, the R1, at a conference in Shanghai, joining an intensifying effort by Chinese companies (Lulu Yilun Chen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

FCC Chair Brendan Carr says major US online retailers have removed several million listings for prohibited Chinese electronics as part of the agency's crackdown (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainab…

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The UK Electoral Commission says it took three years and over £250K to recover from an August 2021 hack that exposed private data of 40M voters to Chinese spies (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80gl8yvj9go

Elections watchdog admits 'painful lessons learned' after Chinese hack
In the first interview about the hack, the commission's new boss admits that huge mistakes were made, but says the organisation is now secure.

Sources: top Chinese VCs are close to raising up to $1.1B in total USD-denominated funds in 2025, marking a tentative return of global capital to Chinese tech (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c753e570-78ef-4a6a-9cdd-bdb7efa5ad50

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Amnesty: Pakistan is spying on millions via phone tapping and a Chinese-built internet firewall, in one of the broadest surveillance programs outside China (Ariba Shahid/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Shenzhen-based humanoid startup X Square Robot raised ~$100M led by Alibaba, bringing total funding to ~$280M, and released a foundation model for embodied AI (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/08/alibaba-leads-100-mil…

Alibaba leads $100 million investment in Chinese humanoid robot startup
Capital is rushing into humanoids — X Square Robot has completed eight fundraising rounds in less than two years since the startup was founded.

The controversy involving Tokyo Electron over alleged TSMC IP theft comes at a low point for the company, after order cancellations and a lull in Chinese demand (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-07/t…