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A look at the US DOJ's December lawsuit alleging a smuggling ring illegally exported or tried to export at least $160M in advanced Nvidia AI chips to China (Eliot Chen/The Wire China)
https://www.thewirechina.com/2026/03/01/chasing-the-chip-smugg…

Chasing the Chip Smugglers - The Wire China
The exposure of a U.S.-based operation that smuggled Nvidia’s AI chips to China raises questions about the role of major companies and the authorities charged with enforcing export controls.

China has launched two satellites,
Shijian 29A and 29B,
as part of a technology demonstration
to test new space-based #target-#detection technologies
A Long March 7A carrier rocket took off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province at 6:40 am, December 31, lifting the two satellite…

China launches two experimental target detection satellites to orbit
A Long March 7A rocket lifted the two satellites for China's 92nd orbital launch of 2025, making it a record-breaking year for the nation.

Ex-Google engineer found guilty of stealing AI secrets for China
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/03/google-china-ai-espionage-theft

Ex-Google engineer found guilty of stealing AI secrets for China
Intelligence officials have long warned of increased efforts by Beijing and others to use AI against U.S. interests.

iPhone-Foldable: Diverse Hardware-Details aus China-Leak
Kameras, Akku, Knöpfe: Ein bekannter Weibo-Leaker, der in der Vergangenheit mehrfach richtig lag, hat sich zu Apples erstem Falt-Handy geäußert.
https://www.<…

The US has a carrier group in the South China Sea and another near the Philippines. Either could start a blockade of the Strait of Malacca, strangling China’s oil supply. So China may not “take” Taiwan today.
Tomorrow however…
#USpol #China

Großangelegter Online-Betrug: Erneut vier Personen in China hingerichtet
Wenige Tage nachdem in China elf Personen aus einer Mafiafamilie für den Betrieb riesiger Scam-Operationen hingerichtet wurden, folgten nun weitere Exekutionen.

AMD reports $390M in revenue from MI308 AI chip sales in China in Q4; CEO Lisa Su says orders were "from very early in 2025" but shipped in Q4 after US approval (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/

AMD rakes in $390m from AI chip sales to China but warns of uncertainty
Company sees $100m more revenue from China as Beijing weighs rules on Nvidia, other foreign chips

China criticizes decision to award a Grammy to the Dalai Lama (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/china-tibet-dalai-lama-grammy-award-17451da852e29011b0add6f5d6a91274
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p82#a260202p82

China begint de standaard te zetten: vanaf 2027 verbod op verborgen handgrepen in auto's i.v.m. meerdere dodelijke ongelukken.
Hoe snel volgt de EU? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/03/china-to-ban-hidden-car-door-handles-evs?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

https://theinitium.com/20260101-opinion-is-hk-governance-worse-than-china-hk-piece/?ref=hui-yuan-tong-xun-newsletter

香港正在成為政治學上的新範本——比「大陸化」更不堪的管治死局？
不同於傳統的西方自由民主，也與中國大陸那一套強調績效與維穩的威權體制有著本質的差異。

"Shrubs curb carbon emissions in China's largest desert, decades-long experiment shows"
#China #Plants #Environment

Shrubs curb carbon emissions in China's largest desert, decades-long experiment shows
An experiment in western China over the past four decades shows that it is possible to tame the expansion of desert lands with greenery, and, in the process, pull excess carbon dioxide out of the sky.

"China will use this as justification when they attack Taiwan later this year."
China has just denounced the US for breaking international law. Technically that puts the boot on the other foot, and it would now be hypocritical to point to Venezuela if and when.
Does that lower the probability of them attacking Taiwan? Or of pointing to Venezuela when the US criticizes them for it?
I think we all put too much stock in the value of sound arguments. Any argument wil…

Well, I guess we are now in the first day of WW-III.
With US military forces occupied with internally deporting people and the Army and Navy occupied with occupying Venezuela, not to mention the recent reports that in a war China would beat the US....
1. China will use this US weakness to take over Taiwain.
2. El Cheato will further extend US forces to try to take Greenland - which will split NATO and destroy any remaining EU sympathy for the US.
3. Russia will push h…

China: Bilder sollen elektromagnetische Drohnenkatapulte auf LKW zeigen
Im chinesischen Internet kursieren Bilder, die mobile Drohnenkatapulte zeigen sollen. Entsprechende Pläne wurden bereits vorgestellt.

RE: https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/115827718541923507
It's going to be China's century. Trump and Musk mean it'll be China's century by about 2030.

Trump hit Iran -- but he's really got China in his crosshairs (Steven W. Mosher/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/02/opinion/trump-hit-iran-but-hes-really-got-china-in-his-crosshairs/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p34#a260303p34

Beim @… gab es vor ein paar Tagen ein Interview zu Merz' Chinareise, in dem China-Experte Bartsch etwas über Chinas #Vertrauenswürdigkeit klarstellte, das ich in deutscher Regierungsarbeit vermisse: klare und ambitionierte

Unlike in the West, Chinese policymakers and the public appear to be much more optimistic about AI, likely due to a focus on real-world applications of AI (Vivian Wang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/world/asia/china-ai-enthusiasm.html

Where are China’s A.I. Doomers?
Chinese policymakers and the public have expressed high levels of optimism about A.I., even as many in the West worry about the technology’s effects on employment or humanity in general.

Center for Strategic and International Studies: China helped Russia triple Iskander missile production, skirting sanctions: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/center-for-strategic-and-international.html

So, I guess that USA would be fine if, say, Russia kidnaps Zelensky and his wife, right? Or if China kidnaps Lai Ching-te (Taiwan's president) and his wife, isn't it?
Is there anyone sane in the US government at all? Will the UN do anything against this new international laws violation by USA?

Western allies form 6G security coalition amid tech rivalry with China https://therecord.media/western-allies-form-6g-security-coalition

In 2023, China was Venezuela’s second largest trading partner, accounting for almost 10 percent of its total exports, half of which were petroleum coke.

China: LLMs müssen sich outen
Kann ein LLM menschlich wirken, muss es in China bald "vorläufige Maßnahmen" befolgen: Transparenz, Sicherheit und Sozialmus.
https://www.heise.de/news/China-LLMs-muess

I do have to wonder how many of these news stories wherein the subtext is that China is a hellhole are in fact entirely spurious and manufactured propaganda from [?????]. We know that China runs pro-China influence operations on the Internet (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party…

Brought home some #espresso beans. Pulled a shot on a Bambino Plus with default settings, then made a cappuccino on the same machine. Tomorrow I'll try with the Flair 58.
Thanks to @… for the lovely mug (it’s not blurry IRL).

"Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) ... is building North America’s first fully integrated ... rare earth processing facility..."
#REE #Rareearth 🧪⚒️

Why every AI company talks about AI safety, but none wants to put their money where their mouth is. Not even Anthropic.
Including comparisons with thalidomide (aka Contergan), asbestos, and tobacco/oil lobbying.
Also that the "but China!" excuse might not hold and that China is banning AI girlfriends, because the resulting addiction will make Chinese youth (and thus China itself) weak.
So: Can we talk again about reducing the addictiveness of social media platform…

Donald Trump signed into law this month a measure that 👉 prohibits anyone based in China and "other adversarial countries" from accessing the Pentagon’s cloud computing systems.
The ban, which is tucked inside the $900 billion defense policy law,
was enacted in response to a ProPublica investigation this year that exposed how Microsoft used China-based engineers to service the
Defense Department’s computer systems for nearly a decade
— a practice that left s…

Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work
The measure, which emerged in response to a ProPublica investigation, bars Microsoft engineers in China and other adversarial countries from servicing sensitive Pentagon cloud computing systems.

Ford and G.M. Face a Dilemma as China Excels in Electric Vehicles (Jack Ewing/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/business/ford-gm-ev-self-driving-cars-china.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QVA.dqjT.LyymfOvpW5SO&smid=bs-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p41#a260303p41

Een energiecrisis zoals in 2022 blijft waarschijnlijk uit, om deze vier redenen | de Volkskrant
https://www.volkskrant.nl/economie/een-energiecrisis-zoals-in-2022-blijft-waarschijnlijk-uit-om-deze-vier-redenen~b3210b908/
Als ik kijk naar de energietransitie blijf ik toch vinden dat China overall het best heel slim heeft aangepakt.
Door eerst snel in schonere kolencentrales te investeren kregen ze letterlijk meer energie om de energietransitie te versnellen. En nu vormen de overgebleven (moderne) kolencentrales een backup.
Wel vervuilend, maar veel minder nodig.
En kolen zijn lang houdbaar.

RE: https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/115827718541923507
It's going to be China's century. Trump and Musk mean it'll be China's century by about 2030.

I am mixed on this one...
On one hand I can see the risk of having Chinese people in China work on (which means "have access to", and often "have privileged access to") US DoD systems.
However, I don't see the other half of the issue - What do do about people who are not in China (perhaps in the US, even US citizens) who are, or have been induced, to use their access to promote the interests of a foreign power?
Given that under Cheato the US is dumbi…

Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work
The measure, which emerged in response to a ProPublica investigation, bars Microsoft engineers in China and other adversarial countries from servicing sensitive Pentagon cloud computing systems.

Long awaited: efficiency standards for electric vehicles. Good news for the energy transition.
Can't beat an e-bike, though ;)
https://carnewschina.com/2025/12/26/china-to-enforce…

China to enforce world’s first mandatory EV energy standard in 2026, capping two-tonne models at 15.1 kWh per 100 km
China will implement the world’s first mandatory electric vehicle energy consumption standard in January 2026.

Is there any legal justification for the US attack on Venezuela?
International law experts expect Washington to claim self-defence and face little serious pushback [from the UN]
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan

Random thought: Autokratie gewinnt. Ok, der ist nicht so random. Random thought 2: Das ist gut.
Wait, what?
In den Demokratien gewinnen gerade die Fossilindustrien mit ihrem Lobbyismus. In USA wird massiv EE zurückgerollt und Fossilismus gefördert. In D gibt es Reiche... - 'nuff said.
In China dagegen gewinnen glasklar die erneuerbaren Energien. Das Land setzt einfach mit aller Macht durch, was wirtschaftlich (und en passent ökologisch) sinnvoll ist.
Challenge m…

Mittwoch: Amazons langsamer Satellitennetzaufbau, Turbulenzen bei Paypal und HP
Verzögerungen bei Amazon Leo Chefwechsel bei Paypal & HP Umbau des Verfassungsschutzes Bund-Einstieg bei Netzbetreiber China gegen versenkte Türgriffe

Reached out to a thinktank that does good #China research while in #SEAsia for a meeting, and was surprised when they never responded.
Saw yesterday them post about a meeting with the #Chinese embassy, and now w…

North Korea fires ballistic missiles as South Korean president visits China (Cassandra Buchman/Straight Arrow News)
https://san.com/cc/north-korea-fires-ballistic-missiles-as-south-korean-president-visits-china/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p33#a260104p33

China's desire to lead in cutting-edge AI is bumping against its aim to control it; Zhipu warned IPO investors about the burden of complying with 6 AI rules (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/business/china-ai-regulations.html

Move Fast, but Obey the Rules: China’s Vision for Dominating A.I.
Beijing wants to lead the world in developing cutting-edge artificial intelligence, but it also wants companies to adhere to an increasingly complex set of rules.

"China adds 315 GW of solar in 2025"
#China #Energy #Renewables #SolarPower

China adds 315 GW of solar in 2025
China installed a record 315 GW of new solar capacity in 2025, lifting cumulative installed PV capacity to 1.2 TW and pushing non-fossil power sources past thermal generation for the first time.

END OF THE KREMLIN'S "SHADOW FLEET" – EU blocks Russia's tankers, China & India refuse oil!: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/end-of-the-kremlins-ampquotshadow.html

Jensen Huang says "we don't know" if China would accept Nvidia's H200 AI chips even if the US relaxed export controls, following a meeting with President Trump (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
China: LLMs müssen sich outen
https://www.heise.de/news/China-…

Chinese military procurement documents show the PLA's efforts to use AI to assist in drone piloting, cyberattacks, decision-making, and disinformation campaigns (Foreign Affairs)
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/chinas-ai-arsenal

China’s AI Arsenal
The PLA’s tech strategy is working.

"China commissions world’s largest 1 GW open-sea offshore solar project"
#China #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

China commissions world’s largest 1 GW open-sea offshore solar project
China has brought a 1 GW offshore solar power plant online off the coast of Dongying, Shandong province, combining PV with energy storage and aquaculture in what is now the world’s largest open-sea solar project in commercial operation.

"America looks for accommodation with Russia and China.
It aggressively challenges
middle-power former allies
—such as Canada and Denmark
—while seeking to dominate weak powers,
such as Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran.
That’s the reality."
https://bsky.app/profile/thebulw…

The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com)
"America looks for accommodation with Russia and China. It aggressively challenges middle-power former allies—such as Canada and Denmark—while seeking to dominate weak powers, such as Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran. That’s the reality." https://lnk.thebulwark.com/4qX2Q8m

The text of Trump's October deal with Xi Jinping is still MIA (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/03/trump-china-trade-agreement-00705299
http://www.memeorandum.com/260103/p86#a260103p86

China's Geely takes on BYD.
(To the headline writer: still pretending Tesla is in this global affordable EV game is a bit funny.)
https://insideevs.com/news/782861/geely-xingyuan-affordable-ev-tesla-byd-china/

Meet The Affordable EV Beating Tesla And BYD At Their Own Game
Geely’s Xingyuan EV has rocked China’s electric vehicle sales charts in a short period, outselling even the Tesla Model Y and BYD Seagull.

Now that El Cheato has put out a welcome mat to invite China to invade Taiwan, my guess is that today's computer memory shortage and price increases are but a thin shadow of what is to come.

Nvidia says its GB200 Blackwell AI servers boost performance 10x compared to H200 servers for MoE models like Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking and DeepSeek's R1 (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia

The Dalai Lama — has won his first Grammy.
His audiobook, Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, is a collection of thoughts
— on mindfulness, compassion, and mental and physical health
— with a soundtrack of Hindustani classical music
https://www.

Grammy award for Dalai Lama is ‘anti-China manipulation’, says Beijing
The 90-year-old spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists was recognised for his Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama

China denies helping Russia produce Oreshnik missiles: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/29/china-denies-helping-russia-produce.html

Vielleicht kauft China doch Nvidias H200-Chips
Zunächst untersagte Trump den Verkauf von KI-Chips, dann China den Import. Jetzt gibt es chinesische Genehmigungen, aber mit Auflagen. Bestellungen gibts keine.
https://www.

Unsealed documents detail a US operation that stopped the alleged smuggling of $160M worth of Nvidia H100 and H200 GPUs to China between Oct. 2024 and May 2025 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/31/160-million-export-controlled-nvid…

How $160 million worth of export-controlled Nvidia chips were allegedly smuggled into China
The scheme involved falsifying shipping documents to misclassify the GPUs and hide their true destinations, including China and other prohibited locations.

#Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday
🔸as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics,
🔸expiring U.S. tax breaks for buyers
🔸and stiff overseas competition
pushed sales down for a second year in a row.
🔥Tesla said that it delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025 -- down 9% from a year earlier.
Chinese rival

Tesla loses title of world's top EV maker to China rival amid customer revolt and stiff competition
Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics, expiring U.S. tax breaks to buyers and stiff overseas competition pushed sales down for a second year in a row. Tesla said that it delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025, down 9% from a year ago. Chinese rival BYD, which sold 2.26 million vehicles last year, is now the biggest EV maker. For the fourth quarter, sales totaled 418,227, falling short of th…

Why China is quietly buying Russian weapons, explained: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/30/why-china-is-quietly-buying.html

Scam-Zentren in Myanmar: Elf Personen aus Mafiafamilie in China hingerichtet
In Südostasien werden Hunderttausende gezwungen, Menschen online oder übers Telefon zu betrügen. Inzwischen geht China dagegen vor – auch mit Hinrichtungen.

47% of the world’s top 20th percentile AI researchers
finished their undergraduate studies in China,
-- well above the 18% share from the U.S.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/20…

Labour MP's Husband Arrested Over China Spying Allegations (Alex Wickham/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-04/uk-police-arrest-three-men-accused-of-helping-chinese-spies
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p45#a260304p45

Documents: Foxconn's subsidiaries and China's Luxshare plan expansions in Vietnam to boost gaming device production, reinforcing Vietnam's supply chain role (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

The Italian neurosurgeon
#Sergio #Canavero has been preparing for a surgery that might never happen.
His idea?
⚠️Swap a sick person’s head—or perhaps just the brain—onto a younger, healthier body.
Canavero caused a stir in 2017 when he announced that a team he advised in China had exchanged head…

Job titles of the future: Head-transplant surgeon
Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has a dream to extend life by swapping someone’s head (or at least their brain) onto a new body.

China Condemns 'Unacceptable' US, Israeli Strikes on Iran (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-01/china-condemns-unacceptable-us-israeli-strikes-on-iran
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p13#a260301p13

Sources: US Commerce Dept. has finished review of Nvidia's license to sell China H200s, but the State Dept. seeks tighter restrictions, delaying final approval (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d963c6c9-3618-4d83-8efe-eccf74cd637f

Venezuela’s mission to the U.N. has requested an emergency Security Council meeting
and has asked the Council to condemn the U.S. military strikes against the country.
Venezuela’s ambassador, Samuel Reinaldo Moncada Acosta, said in a letter to the Council’s president:
“The United States of America always uses lies to fabricate wars.
It is an international tyranny imposed with the propaganda of death:
the recent past confirms this.”
Russia and China, allie…

Venezuela Live Updates: Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Run' Country After Capture of Maduro
President Trump offered few details about how the United States would oversee Venezuela and for how long, but said its oil industry would “make a lot of money” under U.S. leadership. President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were being taken to New York to stand trial on drug and weapons charges.

Dating apps are pivoting to Asia as swipe-right fatigue hits the West; India, China, and Indonesia ranked among the top five markets by downloads in 2025 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6269bc1f-0380-4150-8bad-8ead98ba1b48

China's Wang Yi says attacks on Iran 'unacceptable', urges ceasefire and talks (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-urges-immediate-ceasefire-after-us-israel-strike-iran-2026-03-01/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p14#a260301p14

Trump unveils a $12B critical minerals stockpile, called Project Vault, to minimize reliance on China, with participation from 12 companies, including Google (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-02/tru…

China überholt USA als Deutschlands Top-Handelspartner
China holt sich den Spitzenplatz im Handel mit Deutschland zurück. Doch am Absatzmarkt USA kommen Exporteure nicht vorbei – trotz der neuen Zölle.
https://www.

Trump says 'very dangerous' for UK to get into business with China (Bo Erickson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-says-very-dangerous-uk-get-into-business-with-china-2026-01-30/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p142#a260129p142

Tech workers in Silicon Valley are increasingly experimenting with gray-market peptide drugs from China, legal for personal use, for improving focus and more (Jasmine Sun/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/bus…

‘Chinese Peptides’ Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World
The gray-market drugs flooding Silicon Valley reveal a community that believes it can move faster than the F.D.A.

An interview with Kai-Fu Lee on his startup 01.ai, which builds agentic AI tools for companies, why he thinks China will beat the US in consumer AI, and more (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5d71bb69-25e0-4425-8ac8-635b7a8abb68

Ant Group reports 30M MAUs for its AI health chatbot Ant Afu, which integrates appointments, test analysis, and insurance payments within Alipay's ecosystem (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-health-care-is-taking-off-…

AI health care is taking off in China, led by Jack Ma’s Ant Group
Ant’s health chatbot has become a top downloaded app in China as users seek personalized care they can’t get from the overburdened hospitals.

Xiaomi 17: Kompaktes Smartphone mit Leica-Kamera für Europa
Xiaomi hat das Xiaomi 17 für Europa angekündigt. Die Pro-Modelle mit Rückdisplay bleiben leider in China. Dafür gibt es neue Tablets und weitere Gadgets.

Taiwan hits a 21.06% weight in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, surpassing China's 20.93%, the first time since July 2007, boosted by AI-linked local companies (Abhishek Vishnoi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Donald Trump has been branded a "certified lunatic"
following his most strange warning yet to Canada
as tensions continue to escalate,
with some online claiming
the president's brain has been
'eaten away by dementia'
in fresh health concerns.

Donald Trump's brain 'completely eaten away by dementia' as he issues strange Canada warning
Donald Trump issued a striking warning to Canada, suggesting China could ban ice hockey if Canada pursues its strategic partnership with Beijing amid escalating trade tensions

Chinese government funding is backing traditional Chinese medicine providers to adopt AI for drug discovery, clinical diagnostics, acupuncture robots, and more (Nicole Fan/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/traditional-chinese-medicine-ai-china/
<…

Beijing enlists AI to bring traditional Chinese medicine into the future
With backing from the Chinese government, TCM practitioners are integrating AI tools to reach new consumers at home and abroad.

China Calls For Immediate Ceasefire After US, Israel Bomb Iran (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-28/china-calls-for-immediate-ceasefire-after-us-israel-bomb-iran
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p41#a260228p41

39C3: Am „Di.Day” weg von Tech-Monopolen aus den USA und China
Zusammen mit anderen Organisationen ruft der CCC zum „Digital Independence Day“ auf. An jedem 1. Sonntag eines Monats sollen Wechselpartys stattfinden.

Sources: China has given DeepSeek approval to buy Nvidia's H200 AI chips but imposes regulatory conditions, which are still being finalized (Fanny Potkin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-conditionally-…

Sources: China is requiring chipmakers to use at least 50% domestically made equipment for adding new capacity, in a rule that is not publicly documented (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-mandates-50-domestic-…

Dienstag: H200-Chips für China, Justiministerium mit Vorstoß zur IP-Speicherung
Nvidia will China beliefern Entwurf zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung Wettlauf um Quantencomputer Millionen-Vergleich in den USA Klingbeil mahnt Autoindustrie

Sources: Beijing-based Cambricon plans to more than triple its AI chip production to 500K units in 2026, including 300K of its advanced Siyuan 590 and 690 chips (Yuan Gao/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Shanghai-based MiniMax reports 2025 revenue up 159% YoY to $79M, above ~$71.4M est., and a $1.87B net loss, up from a ~$465.2M loss in 2024, after its IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-02/china-ai…

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
39C3: Am „Di.Day” weg von Tech-Monopolen aus den USA und China

Sources: ByteDance and Alibaba both plan to release flagship AI models around China's mid-February Lunar New Year holiday, including ByteDance's Doubao 2.0 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bytedance-alibaba-…

ByteDance, Alibaba to Launch New Models in Race for AI Supremacy in China
The battle for AI dominance in China is reaching new heights. Tech giants ByteDance and Alibaba Group are both poised to release their next flagship AI models around the Lunar New Year holiday in mid-February, in what could be the most consequential battle in the country’s tech sector. ByteDance ...

Sources: China approved its first batch of Nvidia H200 chips for import, covering several hundred thousand units, during Jensen Huang's visit to China this week (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-

Meta says Manus, initially based in Beijing and Wuhan, will cut Chinese investor ties after the deal and "will discontinue its services and operations in China" (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Meta says AI startup Manus to cut China ties after acquisition
US tech giant says Manus will maintain current operations as it is integrated into Meta platforms

Global Net: three Chinese firms ranked among the world's top 20 chipmaking equipment manufacturers in 2025, up from one in 2022, with Naura Tech rising to fifth (Fumie Yaku/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/

China edges up with 3 of world's top 20 chipmaking gear suppliers
Local production shift fueled by US curbs puts AMEC, SMEE on list alongside Naura

Sources: the US has granted an annual license to Samsung and SK Hynix to ship their chip manufacturing equipment to their facilities in China for 2026 (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/samsung…

Sources: Nvidia has approached TSMC to ramp up H200 chip production; Chinese companies have placed orders for 2M H200 chips for 2026, while Nvidia holds 700K (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-sounds…

Report: China-based Moonshot AI, maker of Kimi models, raised a $500M Series C at a $4.3B valuation led by IDG Capital, with Alibaba and Tencent participating (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti

China’s Moonshot AI raises US$500 million in latest funding round: report
The Kimi AI model developer is now valued at US$4.3 billion, with cash reserves worth US$1.4 billion.

As China grapples with a shrinking population and low birthrate, some women are finding romance with AI chatbots, leading Beijing to increase AI regulations (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/technol

A.I. Dating Apps Complicate China’s Efforts to Boost Birthrate
As China grapples with a shrinking population and historically low birthrate, people are finding romance with chatbots instead.

China faces a dilemma as it looks to balance productivity gains from AI with labor displacement risks due to automation, which could trigger an economic spiral (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-27/x…

TSMC says the US government has granted the company an annual license to import US chip manufacturing equipment to its facilities in Nanjing, China (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-grants-annual-approv…

Sources: China's top chipmakers, with strong government backing, aim to increase advanced chip production capacity fivefold to 100K wafers within two years (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techno…

China aims for 5-fold increase in advanced chip output to meet AI demand
Backed by Beijing, Huawei and SMIC lead efforts on 7-nm and 5-nm-like production tech

Chinese media: China executed 11 members of the Ming mafia family that ran online scam centres in Myanmar; five Bai family members are also sentenced to death (Koh Ewe/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gdrvy9gjo

China executes 11 members of Myanmar scam mafia
China executes 11 members of the Ming family that ran scam centres in Myanmar, state media report.

Documents: China's military is focused on harnessing AI to deploy swarms of drones, robot dogs, and other autonomous systems, learning from hawks and coyotes (Josh Chin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-ai-w