It may be years before we get the Franz Ferdinand hack, but one cyberattack has the potential to set off a global war the likes of which we’ve never seen.
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The Biden administration is moving to put semiconductors, artificial intelligence and next-generation networks at the heart of US strategy towards Asia.
For US politicians, China’s potential to dominate cutting-edge technologies poses one of the biggest geopolitical threats of the next few decades. President Xi Jinping is similarly worried the US will block China’s rise.
Alibaba and Ant co-founder Jack Ma has resurfaced after months out of public view, quashing intense speculation about the plight of the billionaire grappling with escalating scrutiny over his Internet empire.
The mid-level bureaucrats left China’s richest man waiting as they prepared for a meeting that would send shockwaves across the financial world.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for setting up independent and controllable supply chains to ensure industrial and national security, just as the US moves to cut China off from key exports.
Just as the US government starts looking to rein in, or even break up, big technology companies in the belief they have too much power, China is going in the opposite direction.
China is cementing its status as the world’s dominant trading nation, confounding warnings that a once-in-a-century pandemic combined with simmering tensions with the US would derail that status.
Donald Trump, Covid-19 and an increasingly truculent Xi Jinping means there is no such thing as certainty in the world of business and politics. Everyone needs insurance.
Just a few days ago, the TikTok deal looked like a win for China. Now its state-run media are denouncing it as “an American trap” and a “dirty and underhanded trick”.