Siemens

A year after near total blackout, China builds world’s largest smart transformer

27 Dec 2025 - 4:00PMvideocam

Chinese mega dam stops using Western industrial chips over security concerns

14 Aug 2025 - 11:00AM

Tech war: China approves Synopsys’ acquisition of Ansys after US lifts EDA ban

The State Administration for Market Regulation gives the green light to the US$35 billion deal under certain conditions.

14 Jul 2025 - 6:30PM

Synopsys is a major supplier of electronic design automation software to China’s semiconductor industry. Photo: Shutterstock

Artificial intelligence

Global AI conference in Shanghai to showcase China’s prowess, vision

High-level meeting on AI governance to be held in tandem with the three-day World Artificial Intelligence Conference, starting on July 26.

10 Jul 2025 - 8:00PM

Chip design software firms climb as US lifts curbs on China exports

The export resumption means Synopsys and Cadence will only lose one month of revenue in the current quarter.

4 Jul 2025 - 9:54AM

US-China trade war

China, US ease export curbs but Trump’s Vietnam deal risks blowback: analysts

Progress after London talks signals a thaw, but analysts say Washington’s crackdown on transshipments could reignite tensions.

4 Jul 2025 - 6:48AM

Vietnam has agreed a trade deal with the United States, which will lower US tariffs on the country’s goods to 20 per cent. Photo: AFP

US-China tech war

Tech war: US lifts export control of chip design software to China

Siemens, Synopsys and Cadence – three of the world’s largest EDA software developers – are set to resume sales to China.

3 Jul 2025 - 5:45PM

Alibaba

Alibaba Cloud to bring AI capabilities to global data centres this year

The company operates more than two dozen data centres worldwide, including two in the US and one in London.

24 Jun 2025 - 5:00PMvideocam

US-China relations

Opinion | US-China trade war goes nuclear with Trump’s chip software ban

Sweeping ban, albeit hard to enforce, threatens to kneecap China’s semiconductor ambitions and endanger its national security.

4 Jun 2025 - 8:30PMvideocam

US chip design software firm Synopsys halts China sales, services

Synopsys, along with Cadence and Siemens’s Mentor Graphics, controls more than 70 per cent of China’s electronic-design-automation market.

31 May 2025 - 11:07AMvideocam

Sassine Ghazi, CEO of semiconductor design software firm Synopsys. Photo: Reuters

European Union

Opinion | Brussels should listen to Europe’s CEOs who want closer China ties

Amid a hail of US tariffs, a strong showing of CEOs from Europe and UK at China Development Forum reflects a desire to stay invested in China.

30 Mar 2025 - 4:30PMvideocam

Diplomacy

Opinion | In world of sound bites, leaders need a forum to engage with candour

We must reassess our levels of engagement in a world dominated by sound bites and social media. There is transformative power in genuine dialogue.

7 Feb 2025 - 9:30AMvideocam

Electric & new energy vehicles

‘Milestone’ for China’s gas turbine technology as it closes gap with the West

First domestically built 300MW heavy-duty gas turbine passes ignition test in Shanghai.

9 Oct 2024 - 11:21PM

The heavy-duty gas turbine developed by China United Heavy-Duty Gas Turbine Technology has an operating temperature of around 1,400 degrees Celsius and a capacity of 300MW. Photo: CCTV

In China, Germany’s Olaf Scholz seeks ‘open and fair’ competition, cooperation

Scholz’s trip comes as the European Union is undertaking an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), and as criticism grows in the United States about Chinese overcapacity.

15 Apr 2024 - 6:59PMvideocam

On his China visit, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visits the Covestro Innovation Centre, where advancements in plastics and recycled materials are pursued. Photo: dpa

Exclusive | China-Germany ties are resilient despite EU push to ‘de-risk’: Beijing envoy

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’.

26 Mar 2024 - 8:44PMvideocam

China creates electric power in its western deserts equal to half that in US

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

20 Feb 2024 - 11:00PMvideocam

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Huawei

Nokia set to exit joint venture with Huawei amid US-China tensions

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.

22 Jan 2024 - 2:20PM

The Nokia headquarters in Espoo, Finland. Photo: Reuters

Top chip design tool makers see growth ahead in China’s car market

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

3 Jul 2023 - 8:00AMvideocam

Cybersecurity

EU countries, lawmakers reach data rule deal targeting Big Tech

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.

28 Jun 2023 - 1:34PM

Opinion | A German anti-China policy? Don’t hold your breath

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock may be taking a hard line on China, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz will have the final say. Scholz is aware that the economic reality simply does not allow him to meet Baerbock and her party’s demands on China.

21 Apr 2023 - 4:19AMvideocam

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang attend a joint press conference at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on April 14. Photo: Reuters

Explainer | What is the state of trade relations between China and Germany?

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.

4 Nov 2022 - 5:56AMvideocam

Germany has grown increasingly reliant on the Chinese market, but calls are growing from within the European country to diversify. Photo: Reuters

Ukraine war

More gas cuts? Gazprom says return of Nord Stream turbine is ‘impossible’

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.

4 Aug 2022 - 8:21AM

Russia

Gazprom to cut Nord Stream gas deliveries 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.

26 Jul 2022 - 8:24AM

Canada

Kyiv ‘disappointed’ after Canada exempts Russian gas turbine from sanctions

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.

11 Jul 2022 - 8:15AMvideocam

Pipes at the landfall facilities of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline in Lubmin, Germany. Photo: Reuters

Renewable Hydropower

Video | China’s first hydropower station

7 Jul 2022 - 9:00AM

China’s first hydropower station still operating 110 years later

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Greater Bay Area

Meet the new CFO who says appliance maker Midea is really a Xiaomi rival

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

4 Nov 2021 - 10:23AMvideocam