Beijing continues to believe that an industrial machine turning out “new productive forces” such as AI equipment, biotech machines, EVs, and solar panels will bring the domestic economy back to life.
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SPOTLIGHT: HOW CHINA DOMINATES THE GLOBAL TECH ECONOMY
As it has in other fields such as batteries and minerals, China has made itself an essential link in AI’s global supply chain.
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SPOTLIGHT ON CHINA’S ECONOMY: STRONG ABROAD, STILL WEAK AT HOME
With nations slapping tariffs on Chinese imports and domestic demand still weak, China’s manufacturers are exporting not just their products but also themselves around the world.
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USE OF CHINA’S CURRENCY SETS RECORD IN GLOBAL TRADE
In March, the average daily value of cross-border transactions conducted in China’s renminbi currency rose to a record, the equivalent of $135.7 billion, Chinese state media said.
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CHINA, RUSSIA STAND OPPOSED TO U.S.’S NEW PRESSURE CAMPAIGN ON CUBA
The U.S. unsealed an indictment last week that charged 94-year-old Raúl Castro, the former Cuban president, with murder as Washington intensified its pressure campaign against Havana over, in part, national security concerns that the island has been sharing intelligence with Russia and China.
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CHINA LEADS WEST IN AI VIDEO GENERATION
Western AI labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI lead the world in large language model AIs and coding apps, but ByteDance, Kuaishou, and other Chinese companies are turning out video-generating apps that outperform any made in the West in quality and usefulness, those in the industry told the Financial Times.
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DEEPSEEK DESIGNS NEW AI TO RUN ON CHINESE CHIPS
In a significant advance for China’s semiconductor industry, AI lab DeepSeek has designed its newest model to use inference chips made by Huawei, the country’s primary chip producer.
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CHINA’S ECONOMY BOGS DOWN IN APRIL
The domestic sector of China’s economy slowed in April, with several missing economists’ expected levels.
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SPOTLIGHT: CHINA’S ECONOMY STRENGTHENS
China’s exports shot up 14.1 percent in April in dollar terms, year on year, almost doubling the 8.5 percent growth that analysts in a Bloomberg poll had expected.
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SPOTLIGHT: CHINA’S FRAGILE ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE
China’s economic output increased 1.3 percent in this year’s first quarter from the final three months in 2025 and expanded at an annual rate of 5.3 percent, year on year.