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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks at the USA House at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 21. Photo: AP
United States

Opinion | Chilling effect of US outbound investment rules will extend beyond China

Outbound investment rules introduced last year are expanding and hardening into law, chilling US investment across Asia’s tech ecosystems.

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Fintech

HKMA launches quantum readiness and cybersecurity projects for banks in AI era

Science

China’s first-of-kind ABF crystal creates most energised solid-state laser beam

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US-China relations

Opinion | China has Trump 2.0 to thank for emerging stronger in tech and trade

As intense US-China competition becomes the new normal, pressure has strengthened China’s capacity to adapt rather than deter it from its long-term ambitions.

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President Xi Jinping attends a high-level reception to ring in the Lunar New Year at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on January 27, 2025. Photo: Xinhua
Science

Editorial | China is no longer a follower in the race for quantum supremacy

A Chinese team recreated one of Einstein’s famous thought experiments, the results of which could help improve technologies like quantum computing.

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Wilczek’s Multiverse | Prize for Physics that proves big things can be quantum too

This year’s winners were honoured for their work with an electrical circuit that could open up a path for further computing breakthroughs.

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Technology

Opinion | How AI, quantum and space technologies will define the Asian century

Together, they form an engine that will determine which nations shape the century ahead and which struggle to keep pace.

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Science

Quantum chip gives China’s AI data centres ‘1,000-fold’ speed boost: researchers

Emerging tech that uses light to boost computer power is already being used in aerospace, biomedicine and finance.

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Science

‘Historic’: Chinese team makes world’s first 2D industrial chip for military use

The chips continue to function even when exposed to high levels of gamma radiation and could have a range of strategic and military uses.

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US-China relations

China must more actively seek global lead in quantum race: think tank

Beijing could also diversify its technological partnerships overseas and exchange expertise, says influential mainland research house.

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China is regarded as leading in quantum communication and aspects of quantum computing, while the US is seen as dominating the overall quantum computing ecosystem. Photo: Reuters
Technology

How quantum computing puts Asia’s financial systems at risk

Uneven security safeguards leave the region vulnerable to quantum disruptions that could destabilise trust in digital finance, experts warn.

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Quantum computing has the potential to break public-key cryptography or security systems of digital tokens such as bitcoin. Photo: Shutterstock
US-China relations

As I see it | As Nobel laureates show, the US can’t take tech lead over China for granted

It’s hard to tell who will ultimately win the tech race but this year’s Nobel economics prize gives us some clues.

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China Future Tech briefing

Semiconductors | Chinese quantum computer cracks billion-year problems in seconds

Superfast and powerful, quantum computers could help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges, as well as transforming finance, drug discovery and other fields.

China economy

Opinion | How China can position its K visa for success in race for global tech talent

Beijing must assuage local concerns while ensuring transparent selection, institutional support and the equitable integration of foreigners.

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China’s K visa, launched on October 1, marks a significant shift in its global talent strategy. Photo: Shutterstock
United States

Opinion | Will the US republic survive stress test of Trump’s presidency?

America is facing a rare array of pressures including expanding executive powers, strategic dependencies, legitimacy deficits and fiscal rigidity.

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Protesters gather near the Broadview Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, to demand that the National Guard leave Chicago, on October 9. Photo: AFP
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Open Questions | Top mathematician on China’s talent gap, role of pure science

Tsinghua University’s Shing-Tung Yau on how China can stop being a follower in science, an opportunity for Hong Kong and chaos in Trump’s US.

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United States

Quantum leap: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for groundbreaking discovery

The UK-US-French trio of John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis were honoured for their discoveries in quantum mechanics.

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China technology

Opinion | Techno-nationalism is now the critical battlefront in geopolitics

The assumption that technology is a neutral force driving shared progress is giving way to a reality of competition and contest.

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The United States has imposed restrictions on advanced chip exports and equipment, while China has tightened its control of critical minerals, including gallium and germanium that are crucial in chipmaking. Photo: Shutterstock
Science

In a first, Chinese team captures rare quantum friction effect in folded graphene

Team at Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics made unexpected finding while folding ultra-thin sheets of graphene.

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Science

New Dawn: Pan Jianwei reveals high-orbit quantum satellite for global network

China’s ‘father of quantum’ tells German conference that project has laid groundwork to potentially redefine international basic unit of time.

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Science

China can’t buy Nvidia’s RTX 4090. Now its optical chip is twice as fast

‘Optical computing … can meet AI’s ever-growing computational demands and unleash a wave of new applications’: Professor Xie Peng.

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Chinese researchers say they have developed the world’s first highly parallel optical computing integrated chip, named “Meteor-1”. Photo: Handout
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Chinese scientists catch cosmic rays meddling in quantum computer operation

Study finds direct link between correlated errors in multiple qubits and the activity of subatomic particles and gamma rays.

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The findings could be significant for the scaling of quantum processors and the design of fault-tolerant quantum computing systems, research team says. Photo: Shutterstock
Semiconductors

A quantum leap: Chinese institute begins photonic chip production

Photonic chips are a critical hardware component for quantum computing and high-speed optical communications.

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Science

US still king of critical tech, but China quickly closing gaps: report

Contrary to other global trackers, university’s tech race scorecard puts US in front in critical fields with China gaining from ‘research achievements, human capital’.

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US-China relations

Opinion | US-China rivalry morphing into a multifront war with no easy way out

It’s not just trade, tech, student visas and academic collaboration – the military stakes are rising too in this contest of endurance.

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US-China tech war

China’s 2030 metrology action plan targets chip, quantum wins in race with US

Plan aims to tackle several ‘pain points’ or shortcomings in China’s metrological capabilities, official Science and Technology Daily says.

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Metrology research will be carried out in fields including artificial intelligence, miniaturised sensing technology and robotics, according to the action plan. Photo: EPA-EFE
US-China relations

Senior US Democrat slams ‘horrible’ reversal of AI rule as helping China

Trump administration’s move to rescind Biden-era prohibitions said to enable Saudi Arabia, UAE to make advanced chips ‘available’ to Beijing.

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United States

Opinion | Trump’s attack on science risks dismantling a century of innovation

Restrictive visa policies, rhetoric targeting academic institutions and proposed budget cuts to scientific agencies mark the start of US retreat.

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