Congress passes $900B defense bill targeting China with new investment restrictions, military technology bans, and 4% pay raise for troops nationwide.

Rather than a war destroying the manufacturing capabilities of competitors, China’s milestone will reflect the drive by the country’s Communist leadership to dominate the leading edge of global industry. But it’s also a consequence of a policy regime that leaves limited space for other nations to compete in low-skilled manufacturing.

Chinese authorities are using artificial intelligence to turbocharge surveillance and censorship, with the technology predicting public demonstrations and monitoring prison inmates, according to a new report.

Chinese firms have committed some $80 billion in clean technology investments overseas over the past year as they sought new markets to absorb a supply glut, according to a report by Australian research group Climate Energy Finance (CEF).

Alibaba and ByteDance are among the tech groups training their latest large language models in data centres across South-east Asia, the report said, citing two people with direct knowledge of the matter. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. Copyright 2025 Thomson Reuters.

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China used to be trying to catch the West, specifically the US; then it caught up; now the West is trying to catch up to China but likely can't.