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Friday 31 October 2025
Europe braces, Honda halts output in widening Nexperia crisis

A deepening dispute over Nexperia, the China-backed semiconductor maker based in the Netherlands, has triggered a fresh global supply...

Friday 31 October 2025
Shennan Circuits and China’s PCB sector gear up for the space economy

As China accelerates its ambitions in low-Earth-orbit (LEO) communications, the country's push for homegrown satellite technology is...

Friday 31 October 2025
Trump-Xi Busan deal pauses G2 trade war, but doubts linger
In April 2025, US President Donald Trump escalated the trade conflict with China by threatening tariffs as high as 145%, prompting a fierce response from Beijing, vowing to fight...
Friday 31 October 2025
Beijing’s orbit of influence expands with Pakistan’s latest satellite launch

China successfully launched its Kinetica-1 rocket this week, sending two Zhongke satellites and Pakistan's PRSC-HS1 remote-sensing satellite...

Friday 31 October 2025
Commentary: Trump–Xi talks cool tempers, not conflicts, in chips and rare earths

On 30 October 2025, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met in Busan, South Korea, in a summit that could redefine the global trade and technology...

Monday 27 October 2025
Taiwan turns China's export curbs into a test of industrial resilience

As Energy Taiwan and Net-Zero Taiwan 2025 open on October 29, Beijing has completed its second wave of export restrictions on lithium...

Wednesday 22 October 2025
Dutch Minister held call with Beijing in rising tensions over Nexperia asset freeze

In a rare late-night statement issued on October 21, China's Ministry of Commerce disclosed that Minister Wang Wentao held a phone call...

Wednesday 22 October 2025
China's DRAM awakening? CXMT plans Shanghai IPO, targets US$42B valuation

CXMT, China's leading DRAM maker, plans to launch an IPO in Shanghai as early as the first quarter of 2026, targeting a valuation of up...

Tuesday 21 October 2025
China challenges India's local-content incentives in EV and battery sectors at WTO
China has filed a formal complaint at the World Trade Organization (WTO) against India over a series of incentive programs that Beijing says unfairly favor domestic goods over imports...
Monday 20 October 2025
China's rare earth clampdown reopens fault lines in US trade relations
China's rare earth exports plunged in September 2025, reflecting deepening tensions between Beijing and Washington as the world's dominant supplier of strategic minerals tightens...
Friday 17 October 2025
Micron's alleged China exit signals accelerating G2 chip decoupling
Micron reportedly plans to stop supplying server chips to data centers in China, according to a Reuters report citing sources familiar with the decision. The move comes two...
Thursday 16 October 2025
Tsinghua University breaks imaging limits with Rafael chip, launching sub-angstrom era
The Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University (THU) in Beijing has developed the world's first "sub-angstrom snapshot spectral imaging chip" named Rafael. The research...
Thursday 16 October 2025
Dutch seizure of Nexperia raises stakes for Chinese tech assets abroad
In a dramatic escalation of the US-China tech war, the Dutch government has seized control of the Netherlands-based semiconductor manufacturer Nexperia, invoking a Cold War-era emergency...
Wednesday 15 October 2025
Beijing rallies support for Wingtech as subsidiary Nexperia faces dual sanctions from US and China
Chinese tech conglomerate Wingtech Technology and its Dutch subsidiary Nexperia have been caught in an escalating geopolitical storm, facing export restrictions from both the US and...
Tuesday 14 October 2025
China's Ministry of Commerce vows to 'fight to the end' as hawks rise before 4th plenum
Amid China's toughest-ever rare earth export controls, China's Ministry of Commerce on October 14, 2025, reiterated a firm stance against the US, stating that if Washington continues...