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How One Country Became the Unlikely Crossroads of the Global A.I. Boom

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Across a stretch of southern Malaysia once carpeted with palm-oil and pineapple plantations, signs of China’s global technology ambitions are taking shape. More than 15 cranes tower over 100 acres of excavated earth, where DayOne, a company with corporate roots in one of China’s biggest data center operators, is building a sprawling complex. A short drive away, at the edge of dense tropical forest, hundreds of workers are completing another facility expected to serve Chinese tech companies. Inside these data centers will be some of the world’s most advanced artificial…

A Powerful Mosquito-Hunting Laser Uses A.I. to Zap Winged Pests

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For anyone kept awake by the infernal whine of mosquitoes, artificial intelligence may be coming to the rescue — armed with a laser. A Chinese company has started marketing a $1,000 A.I.-enabled device that tracks mosquitoes in flight and burns their wings off. It uses technology found in self-driving cars to pinpoint its targets, while relying on A.I. to decide when it is safe to fire. During a recent demonstration at the offices of Photon Matrix, the company behind the device, it appeared remarkably effective. The white, nearly brick-size machine…

Beijing Queer film festival cancelled after harassment from authorities

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Beijing’s annual independent queer film festival has been cancelled after what is understood to have been a campaign of sustained harassment from authorities. Beijing Queer film festival, which was due to begin on Friday in China’s capital, is one of the country’s oldest independent film festivals. In a statement posted on Instagram late on Thursday, the organisers said: “We regret to inform you that the Love Queer Film Week … has been cancelled. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience and disappointment that the cancellation of this event may cause to…

How the Japanese Spy Drama ‘Vivant’ Became The Target of China’s Anger

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China’s recent pressure campaign against Japan has involved critical minerals, tourism, seafood and even pandas. Now Beijing is taking the dispute to the cultural sphere, targeting a Japanese television drama. The Chinese government has in recent days focused its ire on “Vivant,” one of Japan’s most popular shows, a cross between “24” and “Homeland” that tells the story of Japanese spies working to protect their country from threats overseas. Beijing says the show, which features a fictional Chinese intelligence agency called “Xinxi” as the antagonist, promotes negative views of China.…

China expels a record number from Communist party amid Xi’s intensified purges of top officials

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China expelled a record number of officials from the Chinese Communist party (CCP) as it concluded a major political gathering, which saw an unprecedented number of empty seats indicating the scale of the purges under Xi Jinping. A record 33 members were expelled at this week’s fifth plenum, a gathering of top officials that takes place roughly once a year. Just 279 of the full and alternate members of the CCP’s Central Committee attended this week’s gathering, compared with the 376 originally named as members in 2022. That means that…

China Confirms Expulsion of 33 Officials, as Xi’s Purge Deepens

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China’s ruling Communist Party announced on Thursday that it had formally expelled 33 senior political and military officials, including a prominent former diplomat and a military secretary of Xi Jinping, the country’s top leader. The announcement laid bare the depth of Mr. Xi’s anticorruption purges as he prepares to secure a fourth term in power next year. The party said the expulsions had been made earlier by the Politburo, a council of top officials. They were confirmed by the party’s Central Committee, which concluded a four-day meeting in Beijing on…

President Trump Was Briefed on a Chinese Spy Plot. He Took No Action.

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new video loaded: President Trump Was Briefed on a Chinese Spy Plot. He Took No Action. <img src="https://www.chinastrategy.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/president-trump-was-briefed-on-a-chinese-spy-plot-he-took-no-action.png" data-testid="betamax-poster" sizes="(width Our trade and international economics reporter, Ana Swanson, unravels how a tech executive in Singapore aided in steering banned Nvidia advanced A.I. chips to China and provided information to the Chinese government. When President Trump was briefed on this, and the knowledge that this executive was in close contact with the Nvidia chief executive, Jensen Huang, he did nothing about it. By Ana Swanson, Nour Idriss, Whitney Shefte, Pierre Kattar…

Nvidia CEO reportedly targeted by Chinese spy

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US intelligence agencies believe the Nvidia chief executive, Jensen Huang, has been targeted by a Chinese spy who had done business with him, according to a new report by the New York Times. Alice Huang or Huang Le, of no relation to the Nvidia CEO, is an executive at a Singapore-based datacenter company called Megaspeed. She had previously been suspected of smuggling Nvidia chips to China, prompting American officials to surveil and monitor her. Those officials have determined that she was acting as a Chinese intelligence asset, passing commercial information…

Volkswagen ‘Must Act Quickly’ After Largest Loss in Over a Decade

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Volkswagen said Thursday that it lost more than $6 billion in the latest quarter, the most since 2015, adding urgency to its plans to cut costs as its sales continue to sink in China. The struggling German carmaker, trapped in a dangerous cycle, warned that profit margins were too low to continue investing in the technologies that are crucial to its future. Deliveries in China fell more than 30 percent in the first nine months of the year. “We cannot afford to lose any time and must act quickly and…

Hello Kitty company cuts ties with Japanese spy show after China outcry

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The company behind the successful Hello Kitty franchise has apologised and ended its commercial tie-up with a Japanese TV drama after Chinese state media and netizens condemned the show’s “deliberate smears” against their country. Sanrio, a Japanese firm whose characters are popular around the world, said in a post on the Chinese social media site Weibo that it had decided to end its association with the Netflix TV drama Vivant after concluding that it “contained elements inconsistent with Sanrio’s core values”. In the second season of the popular spy thriller,…