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Its main areas of focus include evaluating trade risks, conducting research and providing policy recommendations. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Lucy Quaggin Lucy Quaggin China’s strategy of promoting open artificial intelligence (AI) models and leveraging manufacturing dominance is “mutually reinforcing”, forming a feedback loop that could challenge US dominance in AI, according to a new report by a US congressional advisory body. “It is the intersection of these two loops – one digital, one physical – that gives China’s open strategy its compounding force and poses the most serious long-term challenge to US AI leadership,” the United States-China Economic and... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/diplomacy/article/3347645/us-panel-credits-chinas-ai-edge-open-source-models-manufacturing-dominance?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/diplomacy/article/3347645/us-panel-credits-chinas-ai-edge-open-source-models-manufacturing-dominance?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:34:03 +0000 Xinmei Shen Xinmei Shen A key congressional advisory panel issued a warning on Monday about China’s rapidly advancing maritime capabilities and urged the Pentagon to maintain its undersea “superiority”, underscoring growing friction in US-China relations weeks ahead of a high-stakes summit next month. China has invested heavily in submarines, undersea cables and sea-floor mining, potentially undercutting the US lead in undersea warfare, commissioners and witnesses said at a hearing of the US-China Economic and Security... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3345194/us-advisory-panel-warns-china-gaining-undersea-warfare?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3345194/us-advisory-panel-warns-china-gaining-undersea-warfare?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:13:21 +0000 Kandy Wong Kandy Wong China is expected to solidify its position as a hi-tech manufacturing powerhouse over the next decade as it edges closer to “innovation and excellence” alongside the United States, Germany and Japan, according to new reports issued by Chinese institutions. The documents, published on Tuesday, stated that China had achieved its “strategic goal” of becoming the world’s fourth-most-advanced “manufacturing power” in 2024, adding that the sector would play a central role in “real” economic... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3338302/chinas-next-decade-cement-status-hi-tech-manufacturing-powerhouse-reports?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3338302/chinas-next-decade-cement-status-hi-tech-manufacturing-powerhouse-reports?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:15 +0000 SCMP Reporters SCMP Reporters This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Get faster notifications on the latest updates by downloading our app. Three Hong Kong judges who presided over former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s high-profile national security trial for more than 1½ years returned their verdict on Monday, finding him guilty on all charges. The 78-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily has spent most of the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3336418/jimmy-lai-trial-all-eyes-hong-kong-court-set-deliver-verdict?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3336418/jimmy-lai-trial-all-eyes-hong-kong-court-set-deliver-verdict?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Dec 2025 01:48:37 +0000 William Yiu William Yiu The Hong Kong government has hit back at accusations in a US congressional commission annual report that Beijing has failed to honour its international obligations to protect the city’s autonomy and human rights, saying its remarks are “fact-twisting”. The report, released on Wednesday, also cited the legal team of jailed former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying as saying that he “spent over 23 hours a day in his cell and was deprived of independent medical care”, which the government said was... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/3336162/fact-twisting-hong-kong-slams-us-report-alleging-erosion-human-rights-autonomy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/3336162/fact-twisting-hong-kong-slams-us-report-alleging-erosion-human-rights-autonomy?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:00:39 +0000 Holly Chik Holly Chik The People’s Liberation Army is testing what could be the world’s first portable quantum radio device in its border patrol troops, according to the official Science and Technology Daily. The PLA’s Information Support Force said its miniaturised prototype of quantum communication, weighing 3kg (6.6lbs), had successfully received radio signals from tens of kilometres away. The team was able to read lines of decoded information, the newspaper reported last Thursday. “This successful experiment will... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3335791/code-talker-2025-pla-frontline-troops-are-testing-portable-quantum-radio-devices?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3335791/code-talker-2025-pla-frontline-troops-are-testing-portable-quantum-radio-devices?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:00:09 +0000 Khushboo Razdan Khushboo Razdan China turned a brief but intense India-Pakistan conflict in May into a live testing ground for its advanced weaponry and intelligence systems, and then aggressively marketed those results to undercut Western arms sales, a US congressional panel said in its annual report on Tuesday. “Beijing opportunistically leveraged the conflict to test and advertise the sophistication of its weapons,” a new report from the bipartisan US-China Economic and Security Review Commission stated bluntly. It... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3333321/china-leveraged-india-pakistan-conflict-trial-and-tout-its-military-strengths-says-us-panel?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3333321/china-leveraged-india-pakistan-conflict-trial-and-tout-its-military-strengths-says-us-panel?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:26:11 +0000 Bochen Han Bochen Han A leading advisory panel on China policy urged the US Congress on Tuesday to establish a “consolidated economic statecraft entity” to handle technological and other national security challenges posed by China’s “systematic and persistent evasion” of American export controls and sanctions. “This recommendation addresses the critical gap between export controls and sanctions as written and their actual enforcement, recognising that China and Russia continue to successfully circumvent existing... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/diplomacy/article/3333177/us-panel-urges-economic-statecraft-body-tackle-chinas-growing-tech-challenge?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/diplomacy/article/3333177/us-panel-urges-economic-statecraft-body-tackle-chinas-growing-tech-challenge?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:01:06 +0000 Kandy Wong Kandy Wong Beijing has not achieved all of its “Made in China 2025” (MIC2025) goals – particularly in aviation and integrated circuits – but has still made “significant gains” and cemented its status as a global manufacturing powerhouse, according to a new US government report. The assessment, released by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, evaluated China's progress on the 10-year strategy, which was launched in 2015 to achieve self-reliance, innovation and technological prowess across... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3333119/made-china-2025-cements-manufacturing-dominance-despite-missed-goals-us-review-finds?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3333119/made-china-2025-cements-manufacturing-dominance-despite-missed-goals-us-review-finds?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 18 Nov 2025 02:00:31 +0000