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Why Chinese Tech Keeps Surprising the West

Why Chinese Tech Keeps Surprising the West
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Catherine Thorbecke

DeepSeek Is No Chat(Xi)PT. For Now

DeepSeek Is No Chat(Xi)PT. For Now
28.01.2025 2

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Catherine Thorbecke

DeepSeek and Masa Son Have Lessons for Stargate

DeepSeek and Masa Son Have Lessons for Stargate
27.01.2025 8

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Trump’s Bigger China Cyber Threat Isn’t TikTok

Trump’s Bigger China Cyber Threat Isn’t TikTok

If a conflict between the US and China were to emerge, potentially over Taiwan, Americans would have a far more serious threat to their everyday lives...

22.01.2025 4

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For TikTok Refugees, RedNote Spring Is Too Sweet to Last

For TikTok Refugees, RedNote Spring Is Too Sweet to Last

I wrote about Chinese app Xiaohongshu, known as RedNote in the US, months ago because it offered a window into the trends driving Gen Z culture in...

18.01.2025 10

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Elon Musk Won’t Save TikTok

The idea of Elon Musk as a potential buyer for TikTok may seem like the craziest development yet in the saga of the US government’s determination to...

16.01.2025 7

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Catherine Thorbecke

Indonesia’s Showdown With Apple Is Far From Over

Indonesia isn’t taking a step back from its hardball approach to Apple Inc. The showdown has turned into quite a spectacle, but it’s unlikely the...

11.01.2025 20

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US-China Tech Breakup Is a Race to the Bottom

A messy, ongoing tech breakup between the US and China is forcing a rethink about what the industry might look like for consumers in a decoupled...

09.01.2025 8

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Asia’s 2025 Tech Race: TikTok, Trade Wars and AI Hype

Asian tech will be in the firing line again in the new year. The most successful international app from China is now barreling toward an...

31.12.2024 6

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Waymo’s Japan Road Trip Should Drift Outside Tokyo

Anyone who has driven through the narrow, zig-zagging streets of Shibuya when they’re packed with pedestrians and double-loaded mamachari would...

27.12.2024 4

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AI Robots Are Coming, and They’ll Be Made in Asia

Over the past year, I’ve noticed an overwhelming theme emerge when Asian tech leaders look at what comes next for artificial intelligence. There...

20.12.2024 10

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The Chip Industry Needs Way More Women

At a massive semiconductor trade show in Tokyo last week, I watched robots shoot hoops and play table tennis and witnessed an impressive lineup of...

17.12.2024 7

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From TikTok to Nvidia, the Tech War Is Getting Uglier

ByteDance Ltd.’s options for TikTok in the US are looking increasingly desolate, as the tech war between Washington and Beijing boils over. The...

11.12.2024 10

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Chinese Technology Is Getting More Persuasive

Do you think engaging with an emerging tech tool can change your firmly held beliefs? Or sway you toward a decision you wouldn’t have otherwise...

06.12.2024 20

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A Flawed Ultimatum to Big Tech Is Better Than Nothing

Australia’s social media ban for teens will not keep young people safe online. It may prevent some 15-year-olds from entering a burning building,...

02.12.2024 20

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Masayoshi Son Is Trying to Make Up for Past AI Mistakes

SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son is OK with being wildly misunderstood, especially in the West. As he once noted, even Jesus was...

15.11.2024 3

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Trump Will Strengthen China's Tech Self-Reliance

The US presidential election may be over, but the battle with China for high-tech supremacy is just heating up. And if past is prologue, President-...

14.11.2024 20

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Catherine Thorbecke

Tim Cook’s China Selfies Can Only Do So Much

If there was a tech Cold War brewing between Washington and Beijing, you wouldn’t know it from Apple Inc. head Tim Cook’s visit to China this week,...

25.10.2024 10

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Samsung Is in Crisis Mode. That’s a Good Thing

Hopefully your year is going better than Samsung Electronics Co.’s. South Korea’s largest conglomerate has endured a humbling 2024. It has spent...

08.10.2024 1

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ChatGPT Is Now an Uncanny Cultural Chameleon

Nearly two years since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, I had my first true “wow” moment from the artificial intelligence frenzy. Granted, I’ve been...

03.10.2024 4

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China Hasn’t Destroyed the Tech Sector. It’s Sharpened It

To most Western observers, it would appear that China has driven its technology industry off a cliff. The number of startups fell by 50,000 between...

01.10.2024 3

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China’s Social Media Is Spurring Real-World Violence

Nationalism, propaganda and hate speech on social media have been widely linked to a shocking act of real-world violence that threatens to...

26.09.2024 2

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China’s Silence on US TikTok Ban Speaks Volumes

Beijing has been rather quiet as TikTok, the first globally successful app born from its domestic tech sector, fights for its life in the US. The...

25.09.2024 3

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AI Regulation Won’t Make the US Lose to China

Earlier this month, OpenAI released its most-advanced models yet, saying they had the ability to “reason” and solve complex math and coding...

19.09.2024 2

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Social Media Age Limits Are Too Little Too Late

Australia’s government wants to ban children up to age 16 from social media, and is spending millions of dollars to figure out how. I’m willing to...

16.09.2024 2

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Chinese Get Nosebleed Seats in Apple-Huawei Show

If there is one thing that the late Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs is remembered for, it’s that he knew how to put on a show. Long before Apple...

11.09.2024 4

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South Korea Is Facing Deepfake Porn Crisis

South Korea has been rocked by a wave of sexually explicit deepfake images being created and shared online, indiscriminately targeting women and...

08.09.2024 1

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To Hold Big Tech Accountable, Focus on the Harms

In July, a popular TikTok creator in Malaysia reported to local police that she was being tormented on the platform by users threatening to rape...

04.09.2024 3

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Wukong Makes Equal Rights for Women a Taboo Topic

Some gamers who received a copy of Black Myth: Wukong were given guidelines for what to talk about as they streamed it. Discussing its stunning...

29.08.2024 10

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Can China’s Tech Giants Do Without Consumers?

Earnings reports from Chinese tech companies last week should be a wake-up call for Beijing. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and JD.com Inc. pulled out...

18.08.2024 2

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China’s AI Video Rush Is a Wake-Up Call for the World

Chinese tech companies are racing ahead with artificial intelligence tools that can turn text into short videos. The public release of a handful of...

15.08.2024 7

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The AI Betrayal of the Artists Who Define Japan

Japan’s artists have given the nation an outsize influence around the globe, with manga, anime and other cultural exports producing some of the...

08.08.2024 2

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Catherine Thorbecke

Beijing Should Scrap Its Digital ID Push

Would you change your online habits if you knew everything you search, post and browse could be centrally monitored by the police? China, which...

06.08.2024 5

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Japan’s Chip Startup Is Right to Shoot for the Moon

Could a little league baseball team win the World Series in five years? Japan’s state-backed chip startup Rapidus has a similarly long-shot...

30.07.2024 3

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Catherine Thorbecke

What's Wrong About ‘Chat XiPT’ Is Bigger Than China

Beijing’s rigorous push for chatbots with core socialist values is the latest roadblock in its effort to catch up to the US in a race for...

23.07.2024 2

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Catherine Thorbecke

Japan Should Go Big or Go Home on Startups

After languishing for three decades, Japan is on the cusp of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to revitalize its economy through tech innovation and...

18.07.2024 1

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