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last updated:
9 September, 2024
Illustration: Craig Stephens
US-China relations

Opinion | US-China science pact renewal a ray of hope amid techno-nationalism

The pact sustains targeted collaboration, but it also risks reinforcing emerging scientific blocs, potentially reshaping the global research landscape.

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US-China relations

US restrictions on outbound investments to China scrapped from spending bill

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US-China relations

For US to edge China in tech, add visa options to lure quantum workers: official

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Google

Google announces quantum computing chip breakthrough

Willow processor completes statistical tasks that are beyond the reach of the world’s fastest supercomputers.

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Google Quantum AI’s Hartmut Neven, left, and Anthony Megrant at Google’s Quantum AI lab in Santa Barbara, California. Photo: Reuters
Artificial intelligence

Hong Kong’s AI efforts link China, rest of the world amid geopolitical tensions

Chief technology officer at Hong Kong Productivity Council says city remains an important launching pad for international AI firms.

Science

Chinese supercomputer tops global computing efficiency list

Tianhe Exa-node Prototype tops big data category, as Graph500 deems energy-aware big data computing necessary for future industry.

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US presidential election 2024

Howard Lutnick named US commerce chief, will ‘lead’ on tariffs and trade

Wall Street CEO co-chairs Donald Trump’s transition team and was previously said to be in the running for treasury secretary.

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Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, speaks at a rally for Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York on October 27, 2024. Photo: AFP
US-China relations

US to ban outbound investments in China’s chips, AI for national security

From January 2, engagement involving ‘defined set of technologies and products’ is prohibited to guard against fuelling PLA’s modernisation.

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Science

China’s quantum computing leap risks stumbling into a talent-innovation void

China has a critical need for top hi-tech talent, but must overcome internal risks that hinder inspiration and ingenuity, leading academic says.

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US-China relations

Wary of China, US ranks Japan ‘first’ among Aukus partners: envoy

‘Very close’ talks under way as Washington seeks Tokyo’s cyber-related and other technological support amid deeper Indo-Pacific engagement.

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US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell (centre) attends a trilateral meeting with his counterparts from Japan and South Korea in Seoul on Wednesday. Photo: EPA-EFE
China’s Communist Party

Xi Jinping pushes hi-tech message during visit to once-poor Hefei

Hi-tech development cannot be begged for, president is quoted as saying during trip to Anhui capital, now an innovation powerhouse.

President Xi Jinping’s renewed call for hi-tech innovation comes as China doubles down on a strategic shift towards “new quality productive forces”. Photo: Xinhua
Science

China is quietly extracting itself from a US helium ‘stranglehold’

Years of research and development are helping China become less reliant on overseas sources of the valuable noble gas.

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Science

Chinese scientists hack encryption in quantum computer experiment: paper

Breakthrough poses a ‘real and substantial threat’ to password-protection mechanism employed across critical sectors, team says.

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Semiconductors

China boosts quantum computer production with self-developed chips

Origin Quantum, a research firm added to the US trade blacklist this year, is expanding its superconducting quantum computer production.

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China is upgrading its first production line of superconducting quantum computers. Photo: Shutterstock
Science

China’s ‘father of quantum’ says global secure communications just 3 years away

Physicist Pan Jianwei outlines timetable for quantum-based ultra-secure networks that will have coverage across the world.

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Quantum physicist Pan Jianwei expects China to complete its quantum satellite constellation and integrate it with networks on Earth by 2027. Photo: Soho/ 星空军事
US-China relations

China quickly outpacing US in preparing for next war, Congress hears

Pentagon’s red tape and its slowness to embrace new technologies leave allies like Britain, Australia, Japan and South Korea in the lurch.

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US-China relations

US study finds China’s tech innovation ‘much stronger’ than understood

Performing best in nuclear power, EVs and batteries, mainland companies will ‘likely equal or surpass Western firms within a decade or so’.

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China education

Chinese universities alter course to meet country’s need for hi-tech workforce

President Xi Jinping leads the call for more trained-up professionals in AI, circuitry, quantum tech, cybersecurity and other hi-tech areas.

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China seeks to expand its hi-tech workforce, in both worker numbers and expertise, as part of a drive to be self-reliant in technology and underpin an innovation-driven economy. Photo: Xinhua
China’s Communist Party

China’s hi-tech scientists have their moment in the Beidaihe sun

Dozens of researchers in high-priority fields such as AI and quantum physics invited to annual gathering on the Bohai Sea.

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China-EU relations

EU firms resist plan to screen private investment into China

The investments strengthen the German economy, secure jobs and promote prosperity, German industry group says in submission.

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Science

Chinese scientists’ quantum computing pipeline could change drug design

Researchers say quantum computing could ‘revolutionise’ pharmaceuticals as they reveal new drug design approach.

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Chinese researchers have been working to use quantum computing to improve methods of drug design for the pharmaceutical industry. Photo: Shutterstock
Science

How a Chinese team used quantum tech to follow electrons on the superconductor trail

Scientists built a device to simulate movement of the subatomic particles – a task that defies even the best supercomputers.

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The fermionic Hubbard model simulator completed a task well beyond the capacity of classical computers. Illustration: Handout
China's economic recovery

Humanoid robots, 6G on the horizon as China seeks to hop tech hurdles

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Friday laid out a plan to make breakthroughs in emerging industries while preserving traditional manufacturing as a foundation.

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Hong Kong economy

Opinion | To meet new challenges, Hong Kong must focus on versatile soft skills

Scramble to keep up with emerging tech must not be at the price of the soft skills vital to the city’s connector role.

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US-China relations

Opinion | US warnings against China’s tech dominance smack of thief crying ‘thief’

Washington’s accusations are clearly driven more by its fear of the US losing its tech hegemony than by China overtaking it.

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US-China relations

US-Japan-South Korea training fellowship opens amid tense tech race with China

AI, quantum technology, biosecurity and space are on the agenda for selected mid-level officials from the three countries.

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Kurt Campbell, the US deputy secretary of state, speaks at the Trilateral Technology Leaders Training Programme at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies on Monday. Photo: Bochen Han
Science

Chinese scientists harness power of ‘entanglement’ to fuel quantum engine

Breakthrough study is the first experimental realisation of a quantum engine with ‘entangled characteristics’, researchers said.

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Greater Bay Area

Hong Kong a rising contributor to Greater Bay Area’s research in strategic areas

The city has contributed to the GBA’s academic research and development in fields of strategic importance such as biomedicine, artificial intelligence and quantum computing.

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