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Shanghai’s Plan to Reboot the Tech Supply Chain Will Be Hard
Fiona Yu, a partner at the Chinese investment firm Northern Light Venture Capital, who also lives in Shanghai, says the…
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Smart #1 Debuts As Electric Crossover For Europe and China
Smart has debuted its first crossover, called the #1, for the Chinese and European markets. The #1 is powered by…
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China’s Gig Workers Are Challenging Their Algorithmic Bosses
“Even minor disruption in the form of these very small-scale collective actions can bring the station-level managers to the bargaining…
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The War in Ukraine Is Keeping Chinese Social Media Censors Busy
“Artillery fire lights up the sky and breaks my heart. I hope my compatriots in Ukraine are taking care of…
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China Is About to Regulate AI—and the World Is Watching
Wen Li, a Shanghai marketer in the hospitality industry, first suspected that an algorithm was messing with her when she…
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YouTube’s Olympics Highlights Are Riddled With Propaganda
Sports fans who tuned in to watch the Beijing Winter Olympics on YouTube are instead being served propaganda videos. An…
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China’s ‘People’s Courts’ Resolve Online Disputes at Tech Firms
Colin Rule, who set up eBay’s system, says the company experimented with a community court in India about a decade…
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US-China Trade Tensions Threaten Europe’s Biggest Tech Company
Plenty of places claim they are Europe’s answer to Silicon Valley: Stockholm boasts the most unicorns per capita, and London…
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A Year In, Biden’s China Policy Looks a Lot Like Trump’s
On December 10, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions, including a bar on American investments, on SenseTime, a Chinese artificial…
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The Year Everyone Remembered That Chips Matter
The most important technology of the year was not Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse, Jack Dorsey’s blockchain, or Elon Musk’s, err, dancing…
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