China does not ultimately need its own Groq; it needs its own ASML, TSMC, SK Hynix etc., the whole complex industrial ecosystem on which Western chip design startups can thrive. Interesting novel chip ...

After Santiago, I took a day trip to the Southern city of Concepción, Chile’s second largest city. Santiaguinos hate Santiago ...

In what analysts are calling “the most productive jailbreak in diplomatic history,” Anthropic’s Claude model reopened the Strait of Hormuz early Sunday morning. This shocking development came hours ...

“How powerful are international anti-Chinese forces? The international community, in order to to trick China, spent $2bn to organize a 28-day fake World Cup. But, China sees through the plot and its ...

Zilan Qian is a fellow at the Oxford China Policy Lab and an MSc student at the Oxford Internet Institute. What conditions made DeepSeek possible? Despite widespread debate, much of this discussion ...

The entire project of ChinaTalk, at the heart of it, is to help raise the quality of conversation and help inform policies that would most likely avert WWIII. I’m worried Trump would do a far worse ...

In terms of international expansion, Chinese firms are way ahead of the American competition. Chinese companies have worked out Autonomous Vehicle (AV) deployment deals with more than thirteen ...

Angela Shen is back at it, this time with a multi-part series on industrial robotics and AI. If you missed her first ChinaTalk feature on biotech, check it out here. The factors driving robot adoption ...

Yixuan is a freelance writer and a contributor to 欧洲新客 The Newcomers. She writes about Europe for Mandarin-speaking audiences, as well as labor rights and social movements in English. In early ...

AI, China, defense, national security, supply chains, the Protestant roots of Kim Il-sung’s Messiah complex, the lethality of hydrofluoric acid, and horseback archery in Kyrgyzstan.

Did you know that Navy officers took cash, prostitutes and more from a defense contractor who bilked the US government out perhaps hundreds of millions? Jordan Schneider: Let's take a step back. Who ...