Religious Freedom in China
China is home to some of the oldest continuous religious traditions in the world and, at the same time, to the largest population in…
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The Smuggling of Advanced Chips and Semiconductor Tools to China
Since October 2022 the United States has tried, by a series of increasingly detailed regulations, to stop the most capable computer chips and the…
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Spain Bets on China as Europe Hardens
On a September evening in Barcelona, a red-and-gold Chinese dragon wound its way through the crowds of La Mercè, the city’s great autumn festival,…
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How China Regulates AI
At six o’clock on the evening of 14 September 2026, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) put out a short notice of the kind…
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Elon Musk and China
Few relationships in modern global business are as complicated, consequential, and closely watched as Elon Musk’s relationship with China. Musk is usually associated with…
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is one of the most ambitious international economic projects of the twenty-first century. Announced by Chinese President Xi…
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The Limits of US–China AI Cooperation
A question that refuses to sit still Every few weeks, the same question returns in a slightly different form. The United States and China…
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Chip War and the World’s Chokepoints
The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, published by Scribner in 2022, is not a gadget book. It is a political…
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China’s Place in the AI Race
For most of the artificial-intelligence boom, the story seemed almost entirely American. OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, Microsoft and SpaceXAI dominated the headlines, the investment…
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China’s AI Chip Industry Grows Around US Curbs
Washington tried to place a technological ceiling over China’s AI ambitions. Instead, it may have helped create one of the most extraordinary engineering races…
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