In 2025, China nearly doubled its investment in its long-running Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that funds infrastructure projects in developing nations. The program’s annual budget shot from $122.6 billion in 2024 to $213.5 billion last year.
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CHINA IS WINNING THE GLOBAL AI RACE, MICROSOFT SAYS
Through the creation of low-priced open-source models subsidized lavishly by Beijing,
China is spreading its AI presence and technologies to more users faster than Western developers are, Microsoft president Brad Smith said in a Financial Times interview.
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CHINA REQUIRES 50-PERCENT DOMESTIC CONTENT IN AI HARDWARE
From now on, Chinese AI developers adding chips, data centers, or other related hardware must source at least half of those products from Chinese providers, according to a new rule from Beijing.
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CHINA’S EV EXPORTS WILL RISE BY 50 PERCENT THIS YEAR, ANALYSTS SAY
China will export 3.7 million electric vehicles this year, a better than 50-percent gain over 2025’s total, UBS analysts are forecasting. BYD, the country’s leading privately owned electric vehicle (EV) maker, will be the chief beneficiary, according to the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA).
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CHINA CONCERNED AS U.S. CHOKES OFF OIL SUPPLY
China, one of the world’s largest buyers of crude oil, watched with concern as the U.S. seized control of Venezuela’s oil industry because Beijing relies on cheap oil from Washington-sanctioned countries, which raised concerns that it could start getting choked in the market if the U.S. also attacks Iran.
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CHINESE GOVERNMENT MAKES IT OFFICIAL: BUY CHINESE-MADE AI CHIPS
For the first time, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has added domestic AI chipmakers, including majors Cambricon and Huawei, to its official list of approved suppliers for the country’s businesses and public agencies.
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IN AI, CHINA HAS THE POWER
China’s AI chipmakers are struggling to match the power of U.S.-made hardware. However, the West lacks the power of China’s electrical grid – a key factor in the AI race.
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DOT COM BUST 2.0
On 28 January 2025, The Trends Journal alerted subscribers about this little-known Chinese AI startup, DeepSeek, that sent a bolt across the AI-driven stock market’s bow when it announced that it trained a free AI assistant for $6 million instead of the $100-million-plus that Open AI and other Western tech companies had to spend on their products.
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TRUMP FLIPS, ALLOWS NVIDIA TO SELL CUTTING-EDGE AI CHIPS TO CHINA
Donald Trump said he will grant Nvidia Corp. permission to export its H200 chips to China.
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THE FINAL WINNER OF THE AI ARMS RACE
Right now, there’s much talk about who’s up and who’s down in the AI Arms Race.