Chinese market analysts believe DeepSeek's launch is a 'watershed' moment that shows Beijing can hold its ground amid an intense tech war with rival US

American billionaires and tech giants are falling over each other to get their bids in for TikTok

In 2022, while lithium prices were soaring to life-time highs, CATL intervened in the market by opening a huge lithium hub in China. Prices have since slumped 86%

Trump’s vow of support had prompted TikTok to restore its services in the US, after it stopped working for its American users late on Saturday

Beijing and Washington are painting a picture of bonhomie between the world's superpowers ahead of Trump's inauguration, but Chinese businesses remain cautious of a potential trade war

TikTok is receiving surprising support from unlikely quarters, but it remains unclear whether the app will remain online in the United States come Sunday

TikTok’s moves follow a frosty hearing in the US Supreme Court last week, which has cemented expectations that it will face a ban starting Sunday

China’s RedNote — also known as Xiaohongshu — and Lemon8 have become the top two most downloaded apps in the US this week

The short video app is facing a January 19 deadline for a ban in the US, unless its Chinese owner ByteDance divests its US operations

Chinese state media says the development could lead to “overwhelmingly unfavourable consequences” for Taiwan and global chip supply chains

The app and its Chinese parent have maintained that selling off US operations was not possible as it would be a complicated process that would also be prohibited by Beijing

This is the second time BYD has overtaken Tesla as the world’s biggest seller of electric vehicles in a quarter