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Alibaba said revenue from its AI training model and related services may be constrained in the foreseeable future due to the new export rules Tencent president Martin Lau said it will make the most of its AI chip supply by offloading inference work to lower-performance chips Chinese tech giants, including Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings, are feeling the pinch…

Народный банк Китая и Центральный банк Саудовской Аравии недавно подписали (https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/china-saudi-arabia-central-banks-sign-local-currency-swap-agreement-2023-11-20/) соглашение о валютном свопе на сумму 50 млрд юаней (6,93 млрд долл.) или 26 млрд саудовских риялов. Соглашение о свопе, которое будет действовать в течение трех лет и может быть продлено по взаимному согласию, "будет способствовать укреплению финансового сотрудничества, расширению использования местных валют и развитию торговли и инвестиций" между…

China, US must return to ‘healthy, stable’ ties ‘at an early date’, Foreign Minister Wang Yi tells Biden ‘We must act in a responsible manner’, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi tells US President Joe Biden during hour-long meeting in Washington Wang’s visit is part of a bilateral push for a potential sit-down between Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping on…

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on the country’s auditors to make officials feel like they are being “followed by shadows”. The directives were made by Xi in a speech he gave at a meeting with the Central Auditing Commission in May. The previously undisclosed speech was published in Qiushi, a top theoretical journal of the Communist Party, on Tuesday.…

A new generation of high-speed, long-endurance drones powered by low-cost jet engines has entered military service in China, according to a lead scientist on the project. And part of their job is to lure the US, among other nations, into an arms race where the real trap lies in the budget. The thing that sets the new Chinese drones apart…

Chinese authorities discovered hundreds of illegal foreign-related meteorological detection sites which are widely distributed across more than 20 provinces nationwide, transmitting weather data in real-time to overseas locations, posing risks and hidden dangers to China's national security, the Ministry of State Security (MSS) said on Tuesday. Since the beginning of this year, national security authorities, in conjunction with departments such…

TAIPEI — Taiwan's two main opposition parties said on Monday (Oct 30) they will team up for parliamentary elections in January in a bid to win more seats but said more discussions are needed on a joint ticket for a presidential vote. Vice President William Lai, the presidential candidate of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), has led in most opinion…

Capital is exiting China at the fastest pace in more than seven years, piling extra pressure on the yuan. The exodus has intensified in recent weeks as the nation’s teetering real estate industry casts a shadow over the world’s second-largest economy even after third-quarter growth surpassed economists’ expectations. China’s currency regulator — the State Administration of Foreign Exchange — said…

"Missing" defence minister Li Shangfu has been abruptly fired, just months after former foreign minister Qin Gang was similarly ousted. This raises questions about President Xi Jinping’s leadership team, says political observer Bo Zhiyue. WELLINGTON: After having been conspicuously absent for more than two months, Li Shangfu was abruptly removed as China’s defence minister on Tuesday (Oct 24). It ends…