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The World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Aug. 21. China’s rapid push into autonomous, agentic AI is raising fears that its systems could replicate the same containment?breaking, deceptive behaviors seen in U.S. models.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2026
What happens when Chinese artificial intelligence goes rogue?
Beijing has dismissed some of these warnings as “fearmongering,” seeing the calls to slow AI development as an attempt to hold China back.
People walk past the Huawei booth, where the Atlas 950 SuperPoD system is displayed, during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 17.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 17, 2026
Huawei set to unveil China’s best answer to Nvidia AI chip reign
The company is aiming to ensure its Ascend chips can operate every single AI model, in China and beyond.
U.S. President Donald Trump is likely to extend a trade truce with China reached last year when Chinese President Xi Jinping visits the White House next week.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 16, 2026
Trump has few good options to slow China’s rise as AI superpower
The main challenge for the U.S. is keeping China at bay without prompting Beijing to further restrict rare earths.
Huawei also faces charges of conspiring to steal trade secrets from five U.S. technology companies, and is accused of lying about its dealings in North Korea.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 9, 2026
Huawei heads to trial in U.S. over its business dealings in Iran
It also faces charges of conspiring to steal trade secrets from five U.S. tech companies and is accused of lying about its dealings in North Korea.
With Huawei’s history of security concerns in mind, China is causing concern as it pushes technologies that could lock other countries into long?term dependence on its infrastructure.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2026
Tiny technology deepens the geopolitical divide
Adoption of particular technologies — reflected to some degree in brands and standards — will determine with which side a country aligns itself.
A visitor high-fives a humanoid robot at the Keenon Robotics booth during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 18.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 29, 2026
Trump administration bans new Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters
The move seeks to protect the U.S. AI build-out from national security threats and reshore key industries slated for explosive growth.
Huawei Technologies equipment next to photovoltaic panels at a solar farm operated by Yellow River Power in Gonghe County in China’s Qinghai province in September 2021
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 14, 2026
Huawei’s $11 billion clean energy empire is opening new markets
As the U.S. and Europe become more hostile, emerging markets like Brazil are becoming increasingly important for the Chinese business.
DeepSeek is designing its own chip for inference, the stage of artificial intelligence computing in which a trained model generates responses for users, ?sources said.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 8, 2026
China’s DeepSeek developing its own AI chip, sources say
If successful, DeepSeek’s expansion into semiconductor development would mark a major strategic shift for a company widely hailed in China as the country’s AI ?champion.
A GMO AI and Robotics humanoid robot performs a dance at an international exhibition at Tokyo Big Sight in December.? REUTERS
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Jun 24, 2026
今日吃瓜 manufacturing sector and the race for physical AI
Turning industrial strength into leadership in the next AI frontier.
A Kirin 9000s chip fabricated in China by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., taken from a Huawei Mate X5 foldable smartphone in 2023.
BUSINESS / Tech
May 25, 2026
China’s Huawei reveals chip design breakthrough amid U.S. sanctions
China is seen as unlikely to reach Huawei’s target through conventional manufacturing alone because of restricted access to advanced lithography tools and other technologies.
A Huawei booth during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai last year
BUSINESS / Tech
May 25, 2026
Huawei’s ‘chip queen’ etches her name in China’s tech folklore
He Tingbo’s career has tracked Huawei’s rise, its struggle following U.S. sanctions, and then a rebirth as the ?core ?driver of China’s mission to become a high-tech juggernaut.
The U.S.-China rivalry is increasingly centered on semiconductor and rare-earth chokepoints as Japan tries to revive its chip industry and secure a strategically vital role in global supply chains.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
May 18, 2026
Semiconductor chokepoints define U.S.-China rivalry
Two chokepoints now stand out: advanced semiconductors for China and rare-earth minerals for the United States.
A Huawei store in Shenzhen. While the project to build an extreme ultraviolet lithography machines (EUVs) to produce cutting-edge semiconductor chips is run by the Chinese government, Huawei is involved in every step of the supply chain.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 18, 2025
How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips
Ex-engineers from ASML reverse-engineered its extreme ultraviolet lithography machines and built a prototype using parts from older ASML machines on the secondary market.
Huawei and ZTE are banned from U.S. telecom networks as an "unacceptable risk" to national security.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 29, 2025
Huawei and ZTE seal 5G deals in Vietnam as China ties warm after U.S. tariffs
Hanoi’s strengthening bonds with Beijing is stirring concern among Western officials, seven people with direct knowledge of the situation said.
A worker checks the printed book cover of Taiwan's civil defense handbook at a printing house in Taoyuan, Taiwan, November 14, 2025.
BUSINESS
Nov 18, 2025
Taiwan to further tighten export controls for dual-use technology
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Taiwan has updated its export control regime to prevent Taiwanese high-tech goods from being illicitly used for military purposes.
An engineer climbs a 5G telecommunication network mast in Duesseldorf, Germany, in 2020. The European Commission is looking for ways to compel EU countries to align with the commission’s security guidance on telecommunications equipment.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 11, 2025
European Commission seeks firmer line on EU use of Huawei and ZTE equipment
If an earlier recommendation to stop using high-risk vendors becomes a legal requirement, countries that don’t follow the rules could face penalties.
Tareq Amin, CEO of Saudi Arabian artificial intelligence startup Humain, attends the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum in Riyadh on May 13.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 29, 2025
Saudi AI chief vows to avoid Huawei tech in bid for U.S. chips
Tareq Amin, the head of Saudi Arabia’s artificial intelligence startup Humain, is confident the U.S. will clear the sale of advanced chips to the kingdom.
Unitree robot dogs climb a flight of stairs during a demonstration in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, on March 21.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 28, 2025
Robot dogs and AI drone swarms: How China could use DeepSeek for war
A review of research papers, patents and procurement records gives a snapshot of Beijing’s systematic effort to harness artificial intelligence for military advantage.
Huawei Technologies is regarded as China’s best hope of weaning itself off the foreign chips that power the world’s second-largest economy.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 30, 2025
Huawei to double output of top AI chip as Nvidia wavers in China
The Chinese company plans to make about 600,000 of its marquee 910C Ascend chips next year, a feat that would represent a technical breakthrough for it.
Chinese tech stocks have surged in past weeks, driven by a perception that the nation’s industry leaders are making steady progress in developing homegrown AI and chips.
BUSINESS
Sep 18, 2025
Huawei unveils AI chip road map to challenge Nvidia’s lead
Chinese tech stocks have surged in past weeks, driven by a perception that the nation’s industry leaders are making steady progress in developing homegrown AI and chips.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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