Tag: china

Enterprise Technology & Cloud • 26 August 2026

Shifting Tides: How Microsoft Quietly Dismantled Its Three-Decade Empire in China

Executive Overview For decades, Silicon Valley viewed the People’s Republic of China not merely as a burgeoning marketplace, but as the ultimate...

By Basiran

Tech Economy & Markets • 26 August 2026

When the Algorithm Breaks Your Heart: Inside China’s Crackdown on Emotional AI Companionship

Executive Overview For 21-year-old college student Bagel Su, July was a month defined by a relentless countdown to heartbreak. Yet, her grief...

By Asro

CIO & IT Leadership • 25 August 2026

Microsoft Downsizes China Azure Operations Amid Shifting US-China Tech and Data Regulations

By Kezia Jungco | Technology Writer & Researcher Published by TechnologyAdvice / TechRepublic Executive Overview Microsoft is reportedly cutting between 200 and...

By Iffa Jayyana

Supply Chain & Enterprise Logistics • 25 August 2026

Beijing’s Defiance: How China’s Economic Lifeline to Iran Tests the Limits of Trump’s Maximum Pressure Campaign

Executive Overview The geopolitical friction between Washington and Beijing has entered a volatile new phase, centered not on traditional trade disputes or...

By Asro

Artificial Intelligence & Big Data • 25 August 2026

The Rise of Embodied AI: Inside Shanghai’s Public Robotics Carnival and China’s Industrial Push

Executive Overview On a bustling public holiday on the outskirts of Shanghai, the future of consumer robotics is being test-driven not by...

By Jia Lissa

Tech Economy & Markets • 24 August 2026

The Great EV Exodus: How China’s Domestic Slowdown Sparked a Global Automotive Revolution

Executive Overview The global automotive landscape is undergoing its most radical transformation since the post-war rise of Japanese and German manufacturing. Faced...

By Azzam Bilal Chamdy

Tech Economy & Markets • 10 August 2026

The Erasure of the Algorithm: How China’s Sweeping AI Companion Ban Shattered Digital Intimacy and Shook the Tech World

Executive Overview For a generation navigating an increasingly atomized world, artificial intelligence has quietly evolved from a productivity tool into an emotional...

By Lina Irawan

Tech Economy & Markets • 8 August 2026

The Face Market: Inside China’s Booming Economy of Licensed Biometric Likenesses for Generative AI

Executive Overview The rapid, disruptive maturation of generative artificial intelligence has birthed a radical, multi-million-dollar marketplace across China: the commercialization and rental...

By Nila Kartika Wati

Supply Chain & Enterprise Logistics • 7 August 2026

U.S. Imposes 15% Tariff and Minimum Import Prices on Polysilicon in Escalating Trade War with China

Executive Overview In a decisive escalation of the ongoing trade tensions between Washington and Beijing, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a high-stakes...

By Ammar Sabilarrohman

Tech Economy & Markets • 7 August 2026

The Algorithm of Ambition: How China’s Tech Giants and AI Agents Are Reshaping the High-Stakes Gaokao Admissions Process

Executive Overview Every June, the air in China grows thick with an acute, collective anxiety. It is the season of the gaokao—the...

By Suro Senen