This fuzziness is not new of course. The securitisation of global economic networks stretches back decades with the United States wielding tools including dollar weaponisation and trade sanctions, as well as using capital for geopolitical gains. China’s past economic coercion of Australia and Vietnam is simply a borrowed play by a different team. Unsurprisingly, as … Read more
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) start-up Xpeng said its partnership with Nvidia has not been affected by tighter US trade sanctions, but it will keep its options open with local suppliers. “We’re very happy with our collaboration with Nvidia and other silicon partners,” Brian Gu Hong-di, vice-chairman and president of Xpeng Motors, said during a press … Read more
A leading Chinese memory chip maker may have achieved another technological breakthrough amid tight US trade restrictions, according to third-party analysis of a company paper delivered to an international conference. ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China’s top dynamic random access memory (DRAM) developer, this week presented a paper to the 69th annual IEEE International Electron Devices … Read more
