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Trump implies that a TikTok deal has been reached with China, saying a deal was reached "on a 'certain' company that young people" in the US wanted to save (Chris Eudaily/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/15/trump-tiktok-china.html

Bessent: TikTok deal 'framework' reached with China, Trump and Xi will finalize it Friday
The U.S. and China have a 'framework' deal for social media platform TikTok in place, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday.

China’s internet watchdog mandates 1-hour reporting for serious cybersecurity incidents
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3325596/chinas-internet-wat…

China mandates 1-hour reporting for serious cybersecurity incidents
Measures taking effect on November 1 come less than a week after Dior in Shanghai was fined for illegal transfer of customer data.

Clean energy and renewables are not "left" or "woke", they are the best economic choice for the future. While the US denies that, EU is struggling, China charges ahead.
https://www.nytimes.com/intera…

How China Went From Clean Energy Copycat to Global Innovator
A surge in high quality research and patent applications has cemented China’s dominance in the industry.

Just received a friend request on Facebook by someone named Peter Waldmeier.
https://www.facebook.com/peter.waldmeier.865
He seemed such a nice person, I think he is a model in a Scandinavian country.
When I asked him why he was sending me a friend request he go…

On stablecoins, JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon says, "We're going to be involved in both JPMorgan deposit coin and stablecoins to understand it, to be good at it" (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/15/jamie-dimon-jpmorgan-chase-stablecoins.htm…

Jamie Dimon says JPMorgan Chase will get involved in stablecoins as fintech threat looms
JPMorgan Chase is a juggernaut in the global payments industry, helping move nearly $10 trillion daily, so it makes sense that they would explore stablecoins.

CrowdStrike: Chinese hacking attacks on US targets were up 2x from 2024 to 330 incidents in 2025; US officials say China has shifted to "hacking-for-hire" (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/16/china-hackin…

China’s cyber sector amplifies Beijing’s hacking of U.S. targets
Chinese-government hacking attacks against US targets are more serious than ever before, current and former officials said in interviews.

IDC: the global smartphone market grew 1% YoY in Q2, despite economic uncertainty and weak demand in China; Samsung led with 58M shipments, up 7.9% YoY (Andrew Orr/AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/07/14/apple-gains-in-emer…

Apple gains in emerging markets while China demand slows
Apple posted a slight gain in global iPhone shipments in Q2, navigating falling demand in China with growth elsewhere.

In Beijing, Jensen Huang says Nvidia would "accelerate the recovery" of its China chip sales and he expects US export licences "to come through very shortly" (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e30a643c-c6ec-4e9d-abdc-ef0ab6e2579b…

Sources: Nvidia's China-only RTX 6000D receives lukewarm demand, with some seeing it as expensive given its performance lags the RTX 5090 (Reuters)
https://www.thestandard.com.hk/tech-and-st

Nvidia's new RTX6000D chip for China finds little favour with major firms, sources say
Nvidia's RTX6000D, its newest artificial intelligence chip tailored for the Chinese market, has seen only lukewarm demand with some major tech firms opting not to place orders, two people with knowledge of procurement discussions said.

China, which pledged $8.5B for young AI startups in April, is taking an industrial policy approach to help its AI companies close the gap with those in the US (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/technol

China Is Spending Billions to Become an A.I. Superpower
Beijing is taking an industrial policy approach to help its A.I. companies close the gap with those in the United States.