• 03/07/2025

China puts advanced WS-15 engines through J-20 stealth fighter paces

Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Footage circulating online shows jet fitted with long-awaited domestic engines in test in Chengdu. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3226562/china-puts-advanced-ws-15-engines-through-j-20-stealth-fighter-paces?utm_source=rss_feed

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China mounts cultural offensive to win ‘war of narratives’ against US. Will other countries be swayed?

Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Beijing aims to boost confidence in Chinese history and culture at home, while to the outside world it pushes respect for ‘diversity of civilisations’ and opposition to ‘ideological confrontation’. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3226039/china-mounts-cultural-offensive-win-war-narratives-against-us-will-other-countries-be-swayed?utm_source=rss_feed

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Beijing will keep up intimidation, but little chance of a full economic blockade, Taipei official says

Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Taiwan’s vice-foreign minister Roy Chun Lee says Beijing will pay ‘lip service’ to an economic siege, but the price of imposing one is too high. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3226556/beijing-will-keep-intimidation-little-chance-full-economic-blockade-taipei-official-says?utm_source=rss_feed

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Chinese cloud computing services provider UCloud flags risk of securing orders of Nvidia’s advanced chips amid high demand, tightened US curbs

Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Shanghai-based UCloud had placed orders for Nvidia’s A800 and H800 graphics processing units, which are both modified versions for export to China of the highly in-demand A100 and H100 products. https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3226536/chinese-cloud-computing-services-provider-ucloud-flags-risk-securing-orders-nvidias-advanced-chips?utm_source=rss_feed

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China can’t count on US giving any strategic ground soon: top Chinese academic Wang Jisi

Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Recent improvements are fragile and could easily be scuttled by another balloon saga, Wang says. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3226552/china-cant-count-us-giving-any-strategic-ground-soon-top-chinese-academic-wang-jisi?utm_source=rss_feed

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Tech war: China’s move to impose controls on gallium and germanium is a mixed blessing for country’s exporters

Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. China has a quasi-monopoly over extraction of raw gallium, but Chinese companies are more exposed when it comes to processing the rare metal. https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3226548/tech-war-chinas-move-impose-controls-gallium-and-germanium-mixed-blessing-countrys-exporters?utm_source=rss_feed

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Russian people ‘united as never before’, Putin tells SCO leaders in first international event since Wagner mutiny

Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. President Vladimir Putin thanks Shanghai Cooperation Organisation colleagues ‘for supporting the Russian leadership’, vows to resist provocation and ‘illegitimate sanctions’. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3226550/russian-people-united-never-putin-tells-sco-leaders-first-international-event-wagner-mutiny?utm_source=rss_feed

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China opens direct line with private business, who wonder when clarity and support are coming

Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Country’s top economic planner is taking all suggestions into consideration, leading to private hopes of stimulus measures before China’s upcoming Politburo meeting. https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3226535/china-opens-direct-line-private-business-who-wonder-when-clarity-and-support-are-coming?utm_source=rss_feed

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China’s gallium dominance threatened by dwindling supplies of critical chip-making metal, experts say

Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Chinese researchers say Beijing’s export curbs on semiconductor-related minerals could protect limited resources and national security. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3226545/chinas-gallium-dominance-threatened-dwindling-supplies-critical-chip-making-metal-experts-say?utm_source=rss_feed

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Top EU diplomat Josep Borrell to visit China, ‘meet Foreign Minister Qin Gang’

Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. China is focusing on EU ties to offset US pressure, but bloc’s ‘de-risking’ push and differences over Ukraine war remain major sticking points. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3226530/top-eu-diplomat-josep-borrell-visit-china-meet-foreign-minister-qin-gang?utm_source=rss_feed

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