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Chinese tech leaders are divesting peripheral holdings—such as Alibaba’s gaming developer Lingxi Games and ByteDance’s Shanghai Moonton—to fund their AI ambitions.

The next stage of China-Russia economic cooperation is increasingly taking place on smartphones. Alongside energy, machinery, automobiles and other physical goods, a different form of economic relationship is expanding rapidly: Chinese companies are selling directly to Russian consumers through e-commerce marketplaces, while Chinese game publishers are monetizing Russian users through domestic digital distribution.

The U.S. government is forcing a rapid onshoring of robotics through a sweeping ban on foreign-made robots, even before an American supply chain exists, putting at risk the very robotics startups the policy is trying to cultivate. 

Jin Shanmu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, China, and also the cynosure of mathematicians from around the globe after he proved the famous Crouzeix’s conjecture with a little bit of help from ChatGPT. The math problem had troubled mathematicians for over two decades but was solved by Jin…

Models present LG Electronics OLED TVs, one of the many premium Korean products sold through Chinese e-commerce platform JD.com. Yonhap

Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com has set up a business entity in Korea to directly purchase Korean consumer goods for sale in China, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources said on Wednesday.

In the new book *How Africa Works* published this year, the author Joe Studwell describes Africa as “the last blue ocean”. Based on seven years of field investigation and literature research, he believes that Africa’s past economic backwardness and low level of industrialization are caused by excessively low and sparsely distributed population density, which leads…

A recent Congressional Research Service (CRS) report on Chinese e-commerce exports reveals a fundamental shift in U.S. trade policy with immediate consequences for retailers, consumers, and China’s global supply chains. The Trump Administration suspended de minimis treatment for People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Hong Kong products effective May 2, 2025, through Executive Order 14256,…

BRUSSELS, July 22 (Reuters) – Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com was hit with formal ‌notice of regulatory concerns over its $2.5 billion ‌bid for German electronics retailer Ceconomy on Wednesday in a move ​that could require hefty concessions.

Apple has removed a guide saying Mac users in Chinese mainland ‌can connect Alibaba’s Qwen artificial-intelligence service, the Global Times found on Sunday.