Category: China

China Battery Tech Reflects Research Boom and Big Spending

Stressing science education, China is outpacing other countries in research fields like battery chemistry, crucial to its lead in electric vehicles.
Chinese Woman Loses Legal Challenge for Right to Freeze Her Eggs

Despite a declining birthrate that has alarmed the nation’s leaders, regulations in China prevent unmarried women from freezing their eggs.
Takeaways From Our Investigation Into Banned A.I. Chips in China

The Times found an active trade in Nvidia chips in China despite U.S. national security restrictions, as well as unreported incidents of how the technology had been used to further defense research.
With Smugglers and Front Companies, China Is Skirting American A.I. Bans

The U.S. is trying to stop China from getting Nvidia microchips to advance its military. The private sector is fighting back.
In Xi’s China, Politics Eventually Catches Up With Everyone

The author Peter Hessler posed a question with an elusive answer: How could Chinese society open up so profoundly while its politics stagnated or even regressed?
In Xi’s China, Politics Eventually Catches Up With Everyone

The author Peter Hessler posed a question with an elusive answer: How could Chinese society open up so profoundly while its politics stagnated or even regressed?
China Wants to Start a National Internet ID System

The government said the proposal would protect online privacy. Critics said it could further concentrate government control over the internet.
Traveling to China? Here’s What to Know.

China has been rolling out new visa-free programs and promising to make travel easier for foreigners. But challenges remain.
Chinese E.V. Makers Are Upending Thailand’s Auto Market

China’s electric vehicle companies are making inroads in Thailand, a key industry hub, as Europe and the United States wield tariffs to keep them out.
Japan Built Thailand’s Car Industry. Now China Is Gunning for It.

After dominating sales in Thailand for decades, Mazda, Nissan and other Japanese companies are losing their grip on a market long viewed as a regional hub.
As Trump Looms, Blinken Aims to Reassure Allies on U.S. Commitment to Asia

Asian officials will press Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken about the former president and about Kamala Harris as he visits the region.
China Rules Solar Energy, but Its Industry at Home Is in Trouble

The solar sector shows how China conducts industrial policy: It chooses industries to dominate, floods them with loans and lets companies fight it out.