Tag: china

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

CIO & IT Leadership • 7 August 2026

Microsoft Scaled Down Azure Operations in Mainland China: Hundreds of Jobs Cut Amid Escalating US-China Data Regulations

Executive Overview Microsoft is reportedly cutting between 200 and 400 cloud computing jobs within its Azure division across mainland China. This downsizing...

By Azzam Bilal Chamdy