Last month, growth in China’s retail sales and industrial production slowed from June, confronting Beijing with both facets of its economic malaise at the same time.
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LITHIUM PRICES JUMP AFTER CHINA CLOSES KEY MINE
The global price of lithium has rocketed up as much as 30 percent over the past two months as Chinese authorities made clear they would not renew the operating license of a key mine.
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CAR SALES IN CHINA INCREASED MORE SLOWLY IN JULY
Beijing’s efforts to rein in the bloody price war that has battered the country’s automakers in recent months showed some effect last month.
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AS FORECAST: CHINA HAVING TROUBLE RESPONDING TO CRYPTO INNOVATION
The Chinese regime’s penchant to control and surveil all mechanisms, in order to exert and maintain its political will, is facing greater challenges from crypto technology, now supercharged by the U.S. embrace of it.
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CHINA PROPOSES GLOBAL ORGANIZATION TO GUIDE AI
At its World Artificial Intelligence Conference in late July, China said it wanted to help create a worldwide organization to guide AI’s development, regulate it, and foster global cooperation in the AI revolution, officials said.
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BEIJING ALLEGES NVIDIA’S COMPUTER CHIPS ARE A SECURITY THREAT
China’s officials regulating artificial intelligence (AI) met with executives from Nvidia, the California-based maker of the world’s most powerful AI chips, and charged that its H20 chips designed for Chinese customers threaten the country’s national security.
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CHINA’S FACTORY ACTIVITY SLOWED AGAIN IN JULY
China’s manufacturing output contracted more than expected last month, according to the country’s official Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI).
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EUROPE BRACES FOR FLOOD OF CHINESE IMPORTS
Chinese exports once destined for the U.S. might well be rerouted to Europe, which has not put up stiff tariffs as the U.S. has done to discourage the shipments.
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TOP TREND 2022, SELF-SUFFICIENT ECONOMIES: CHINA’S AI FIRMS FORM TWO CARTELS TO PROMOTE SELF-SUFFICIENCY
China's AI companies have announced two new alliances designed to create a domestic technological ecosystem for AI development and deployment to cut the country’s dependence on foreign suppliers.
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CHINA’S INDUSTRIAL SECTOR SAGS AGAIN IN JUNE
In China, manufacturers’ profits declined again in June as the country’s deflation continued and consumer demand remained feeble, the U.S.-China trade agreement remained unsettled, and the global economy remained generally uncertain, the country’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported.