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China has the potential to become the world’s largest market for autonomous vehicles, with total sales predicted to hit $230 billion by 2030
Chinese shipments to Russia jumped 47% in 2023 from a year earlier, and soared 64% compared with 2021, before the Russia-Ukraine war, China's customs data showed
Consumer prices fell for a third month in December while factory-gate prices extended a more-than-year-long decline, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed
Our position on cryptocurrencies "remains unchanged" irrespective of who does what, India's central bank chief said in response to the US regulator's green light for crypto ETFs
OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere heads met tech chiefs from Tsinghua University and other Chinese institutions in a rare example of Sino-US cooperation
A Chinese space launch company has fired the most powerful rocket developed by the country's private sector from a ship in the Yellow Sea
The US Securities and Exchange Commission's decision to approve Bitcoin ETFs is a landmark move for the crypto sector
China's fast-growing electric vehicle market is set to be the key battleground for the chip makers
The chipmaking giant and Apple supplier still beat market predictions with its $20.1bn figure for the final three months of last year
Police say they arrested the CEO of an Indian AI ethics and audit startup after they found the body of her son in her luggage
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With a market cap of$240 billion, chipmaker ASML is Europe’s most valuable tech company. Its market-leading position comes from its monopoly in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) machines which allow chipmakers to make smaller, faster and smarter semiconductors
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PaymentsCan China Take Place of SWIFT System? Analysts Say ‘No’There is no global payment system that is strong enough to act as an alternative to SWIFT and enable Russia to evade sanctions
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MarketsChina Becomes World’s Second-Biggest Bitcoin Mining HubThe Bitcoin mining ban in China last year had collapsed its crypto markets. Despite that, the country has reemerged as a major bitcoin mining hub, according to research by the UK's University of Cambridge.
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Market InsightsHere’s How China Can Win the Tech War With USAThe Chinese government is doubling down on incentives for innovation, which it believes to be the cornerstone of its future growth and international position.
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Fintech InsightsAsia Becomes the Epicentre of Global NFTsAsia is the frontrunner in the NFTs craze with Central and Southeast Asia accounting for 35% of the $22 billion in global trade
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