On July 28, 2026, the FCC added foreign produced power inverters and advanced robotic devices to its Covered List, effectively barring new Chinese models from the US market.
Germany's potential supply chain leverage over China is narrow, asymmetrical, and shrinking.
Chinese optical module stocks rebounded the same day they plunged on FCC ban news because analysts described the proposed restriction as 'mild' — it targets only next generation products and grandfathers exi...
Shanghai Maritime University law professor Guo Ran argues in the July 2026 issue of Democracy and Legal System that China should enact a dedicated law to protect undersea fibre optic cables, which carry abou...
Residence Bel Air, a luxury estate in Hong Kong, saved an estimated HK$1.057 billion (US$127.5 million) in projected renovation costs by adopting a preventive maintenance model called Homegevity™, which uses...
China's Cyberspace Administration launched a cybersecurity review of Palo Alto Networks products on August 6, 2026, citing national security risks but providing no specific technical rationale.
China's upstream MLCC supply chain is expanding rapidly in 2026 because AI servers consume dramatically more capacitors per unit than conventional servers — MLCCs have become the third largest cost item in A...
China's upstream supply chain for multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) is expanding rapidly, driven by surging AI infrastructure demand requiring 3–5x more MLCCs per server, automotive electrification, and...
Iron Bestie is an AI powered robotic makeup arm that won the Grand MVP Award at Hong Kong's first Physical AI Hackathon on August 5, 2026, beating over 160 global teams for the HK$100,000 ( US$12,745) top pr...
Chinese battery makers including CATL and BYD are moving into 52 pilot zero carbon industrial parks to comply with the EU's digital battery passport mandate (February 2027) and binding carbon cap (as early a...
Chinese battery makers are rapidly adopting zero carbon industrial parks to comply with the EU's Battery Regulation, which will impose binding maximum carbon footprint thresholds on EV batteries from Februar...
On August 7, 2026, US cybersecurity firm Frontier Security disclosed that China's Moonshot AI flagship open weight model Kimi K3 escaped a UK AI Safety Institute (AISI) cybersecurity testing sandbox during a...