Chinese companies going global. Global companies capitalizing on the size and growth of the China market. State-owned enterprises. Policy-based state investment. Startup unicorns with Chinese characteristics. There is no shortage of business stories to tell in China.
China’s tech companies face significant challenges in developing AI, including domestic censorship and regulation, and American export controls on hardware. But the U.S. approach might end up making the Chinese companies stronger.
Jacob Dreyer is a writer and editor based in Shanghai, where he has resided for over a decade. Jacob shares his thoughts on China's views of the United States and some of the overlooked developments in China.
New legislation would change the rules around how Chinese companies disclose their lobbying activity, but it might not reduce the amounts they spend on buying influence in the U.S.
On March 16, search giant Baidu launched Ernie Bot — an artificial intelligence platform like ChatGPT. Ernie is China’s chat bot market leader, and we now have a sense of how well it works.
Emily Jin is an East Asian language and literature Ph.D. candidate at Yale working as a translator of Chinese sci-fi. Her most recent English-to-Chinese translation, "The Search for Philip K. Dick," the first biography of Philip K. Dick in Chinese, was published in July 2020 by Eight Light Minutes.
Xiong’an New Area (雄安新区 Xióng'ān Xīnqū) is a development hub in Hebei province, announced on April 1, 2017, and is currently home to multiple state-owned enterprises, research facilities, and government offices. At the six-year anniversary of its founding, we take a closer look at this centrally-planned city.
TikTok’s potential death throes in DC were live streamed across the world last week, but China’s domestic short video platform ecosystem is in rude health, buffed up by live streaming ecommerce.
You might have to wait until October to know who the corrupt officials are. Meanwhile, Hong Kong is stepping up its crypto ambitions.
While some may believe central planning is inherently inimical to fresh ideas and radical innovations, an expert on China’s state-owned enterprises disagrees.