Technology
Chips, AI, telecoms, export controls, and Chinese tech firms as foreign wires and foreign business pages cover them.
- Chinese AI's Global Push Meets a Divided Market, Japan Times Writes
The Japan Times asks whether Chinese AI can build a durable global advantage, reporting that developing countries are not necessarily choosing sides and instead seek competitive prices, technology transfer, jobs and data sovereignty. Separately, The Diplomat writes that China's AI data centers are moving west while their tax revenue stays east.
- SK hynix's New York chip plans snag on US curbs in China, report says
US officials have held up approval for American chipmaking equipment SK hynix needs to expand production in China, complicating the Korean chipmaker's plans for new memory-chip plants in New York, The Korea Times reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
- Trump backs Nvidia's Huang as report of alleged Chinese spy plot draws White House scrutiny
Trump praised Jensen Huang as 'brilliant' and said his administration was examining a report that the Nvidia chief executive was the target of a Chinese spy plot, according to CNA and the Bangkok Post. The same weekend, Quad foreign ministers pledged supply-chain cooperation and warned against 'economic coercion' through export curbs, Japanese and Indian wires reported.
- Nvidia spy-plot report draws White House backing for Huang as Beijing denies it
A report that Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang was the target of a suspected Chinese intelligence operation has pulled the White House into the story, with President Donald Trump praising Huang and saying the United States is examining the claim, while Beijing and Nvidia both rejected it.