In an exclusive interview, ambassador Wu Ken says both Berlin and Brussels had greater understanding of China as more in Europe reflect on the ’risks brought by de-risking’.

Booming solar, wind farms in Gobi can upend the AI race between China and the US, industrial expert says.

The Finnish telecoms equipment giant will sell its majority stake in TD Tech to a group that includes state-owned entities, pending final government approval.

Executives from chip design software firms commented at Semicon China last week about China’s leading position in electric cars.

The EU on Tuesday agreed on rules that govern how Big Tech and other companies use European consumer and corporate data, with safeguards against non-EU governments gaining illegal access.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will lead a business delegation to China this week against a backdrop of worsening relations between Beijing and Berlin and growing calls to reduce reliance on the world’s No 2 economy.

The Russian energy giant blamed Western sanctions over the Ukraine war, amid suspicions that Moscow is looking for an excuse to throttle fuel supplies to Europe.

The supplies from the Portovaya compressor station will be slashed from 7am Moscow time on Wednesday, the company said. The German government said there was no justification for the announcement.

The turbine, which is used on the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline linking Russia to Germany, is in Canada for repairs and was initially held back as part of sanctions imposed on Russia.

Midea CFO Jeremy Choy, a former Hong Kong banker, says Midea is a technology company that competes in smart homes, robotics and industrial automation.

On allegations of human rights abuses in Xinjiang, CEO Joe Kaeser says ‘we should neither tolerate all of this in our companies nor accept it without consequences’.

Google, Microsoft, Siemens, Sony and Adidas are among the 83 global brands named by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in its report.