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Steelmakers from South Korea, India, Japan and China were among the biggest laggards in the shift to renewables, with some still depending entirely on fossil fuels for production
But the world’s second-largest economy still needs to navigate major challenges to meet its overall climate goals — the biggest being a booming demand for power
Trump's tariff threats are rattling China's industrial complex, which sells goods worth more than $400 billion annually to the US
The Donald Trump government has reportedly put a "long" list of "tough" requests before Vietnamese officials as part of tariff talks...
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China Threatens Legal Action Against Anyone Who Shuns Its Chips21 May 2025
Beijing says it will invoke its anti-sanctions law against any individual or organisation that adheres to a recent US warning about Huawei's Ascend chips...
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Beijing Says Latest US Chip Warning Puts Trade Truce at Risk20 May 2025
A war of words on artificial intelligence chips is the latest complication in the frail trade truce reached at between negotiators from China and the US...
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Trump ‘Doesn’t Want’ Apple to Tie-Up With Alibaba AI in China19 May 2025
The White House is reportedly concerned that the tie-up would help a Chinese firm improve its AI abilities and also make Apple more vulnerable to Beijing's censorship and data-sharing laws...
A Ford executive said this week that China’s approval process for rare earth exports was still much slower than what the industry needed...
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China’s BYD Cuts Back on EV Production, Factory Expansions25 Jun 2025
The world's biggest EV-maker is grappling with rising inventory even after offering deep price cuts in China's cut-throat auto market...
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‘National Emergency’: China’s Antimony Blockade Hits Battery Firms18 Jun 2025
China's global exports of antimony are now just a third of the levels seen this time last year...
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Tesla’s China-Made EV Sales Slump For Eighth Consecutive Month04 Jun 2025
Tesla's EV sales also continued to plummet across much of Europe last month, as its aging model lineup and CEO Elon Musk's political activities deterred buyers...
Huawei faces a trial in the US in May 2026 after a judge found sufficient allegations that it engaged in racketeering, stole trade secrets from six firms and committed bank fraud...
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DeepSeek Sharing User Data With China Military, Intelligence: US23 Jun 2025
A senior US official has said that DeepSeek has willingly provided and will likely continue to provide support to China's military and intelligence operations...
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S Korea to Discuss Concern Over Curbs on Chipmakers in China23 Jun 2025
US officials – concerned about the trade deal with China – are considering revoking authorizations granted in recent years to chipmakers Samsung, SK Hynix and TSMC, making it difficult to get US goods and tech for their plants in China...
Officials pledged on Thursday to help the photovoltaic industry, as top solar manufacturers have suffered losses amid huge overcapacity and a long price war...
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How China’s New Auto Giants Raced Ahead of The World04 Jul 2025
LONG READ: After copying foreign cars, China’s carmakers scrutinized their engineering and devised faster paths to product launches. Now their production leads the world....
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India Renewable Power Output Jumps, Coal Use Falls in First Half02 Jul 2025
The jump in wind and solar additions comes after a prolonged slowdown that led India to miss its 2022 renewable energy target...
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