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31.01.26 - 13:18
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As US influence wanes, the Chinese trade surplus strangles manufacturing across the globe (The Guardian)
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Trump's wounding of the US economy offers Beijing an unparalleled opportunity – if it dials back its overbearing trade tacticsWhen the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, took to the podium at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week to lament how “great economic powers” were dismantling the international order, it seemed clear that he was talking about the United States. He might have been talking about China as well.Not a week earlier, Beijing had revealed that China's trade surplus ballooned by 20% in 2025, to $1.2tn. Despite Donald Trump's wall of tariffs that crashed Chinese sales to the US, its overall exports expanded more than 5%. Sales to the 11 countries in Asia's Asean bloc increased more than 13%. Exports to the European Union rose over 8%. Chinese imports, by contrast, were flat. Continue reading......
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31.01.26 - 10:03
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US Judge Grants Asylum To Chinese National Who Filmed China′s Uyghur Prison Camps (ZeroHedge)
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US Judge Grants Asylum To Chinese National Who Filmed China's Uyghur Prison Camps
Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
A pro-democracy activist who fled China after documenting what he described as concentration camps in the Xinjiang region was granted asylum on Jan. 28 by a New York state immigration judge, amid widespread concern about the risks he would face if deported.
Guan Heng speaks in a YouTube video that documents his trip to China's Xinjiang region in October 2020. Screenshot/The Epoch Times
Guan Heng, 38, applied for asylum after arriving in the United States illegally in 2021. He was living in New York state before he was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in August 2025.
The case attracted international scrutiny in December 2025, with lawmakers in two dozen countries, including the United States, urging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to abandon its plan to deport him to Uganda. The agency subsequently canceled the plan.
During the ...
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31.01.26 - 09:00
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Alarm raised over Chinese CCTV cameras guarding ′symbol of democracy′ Magna Carta (The Guardian)
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Campaigners criticise use of 'vulnerable' devices at Salisbury Cathedral and Parthenon despite their removal from sensitive UK government sitesSecurity cameras guarding Magna Carta are provided by a Chinese CCTV company whose technology has allegedly aided the Uyghur “genocide” and been exploited by Russia during the invasion of Ukraine, it has emerged.In letters seen by the Guardian, campaigners called on Salisbury Cathedral, which houses one of four surviving copies of the “powerful symbol of social justice”, to rip out cameras made by Dahua Technology, based in the Chinese city of Hangzhou. Continue reading......
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31.01.26 - 07:36
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China′s Wingtech, owner of Nexperia, expects wider loss amid row over Dutch chipmaker (SCMP)
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Wingtech Technology, the Chinese owner of chipmaker Nexperia, is expected to post a loss of between 9 billion yuan (US$1.3 billion) and 13.5 billion yuan in 2025, owing to the Dutch government's takeover of the semiconductor firm, the Shanghai-listed company said in a statement on Friday.
Wingtech said that its authority over the chipmaker continues to be “temporarily restricted” since the October 7 ruling of the Dutch Enterprise Chamber, a special division of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal,......
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31.01.26 - 07:06
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China′s semiconductor firms post hefty 2025 profits amid AI boom, tech self-reliance drive (SCMP)
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Enterprises across China's semiconductor industry recorded hefty profit growth last year, according to their unaudited financial results, driven by the country's artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout and Beijing's push for tech self-reliance.
Graphics processing unit (GPU) designer Cambricon Technologies on Friday reported a net profit of 2.2 billion yuan (US$316 million) in 2025, its first profitable year, on the back of “the continuous rise in computing power demand within the AI......
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31.01.26 - 06:12
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China′s factory activity contracts in January on weak domestic demand (SCMP)
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China's factory activity faltered in January as weak domestic demand dragged down production at the start of the new year, an official survey showed on Saturday.
The official purchasing managers' index (PMI) dropped to 49.3 in January, from 50.1 in December, below the 50-mark separating growth from contraction. It missed a forecast of 50 in a Reuters poll of analysts.
Sub-indexes of new orders and new export orders also saw declines, respectively, down to 49.2 from 50.8 in December and 47.8......
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31.01.26 - 03:06
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How hair-raising prices for memory chips could take China′s top makers to new heights (SCMP)
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In the world's biggest wholesale electronics marketplace in the bustling Huaqiangbei district of the southern Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen, memory is the new gold.
On a Tuesday in January, a merchant surnamed Ye held up a list of prices that looked more appropriate for luxury goods than humble computer parts. A pair of 32-gigabyte, 6000-megahertz Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory sticks was priced at 6,878 yuan (US$990) – having shot up nearly fivefold since September.
“In my over 10 years in......
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