China builds its most advanced fusion reactor BEST by 2027, aiming to achieve commercial fusion power by 2030 through state planning and industrial investment.

By Laurie Chen and Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, March 19 (Reuters) - Fan Xinquan, a retired electronics worker in Beijing, has recently started raising a "lobster," hoping that the AI agent he has been training can help organise his specialised industry knowledge better than chatbots like DeepSeek.

Highlights: Huawei launches Atlas 350, focused on AI inference, not training Claims up to 2.8× performance boost over Nvidia’s H20 chip Powered by Ascend 950PR, part of China’s push for AI independence New Focus: AI Inference Over Training Huawei’s Atlas 350 reflects a clear strategic shift toward AI inference,

BEIJING, March 5 (Reuters) - China declared on Thursday that it was now the world leader in research and development for artificial intelligence as well as other key fields such as quantum technology, and vowed to accelerate efforts to achieve greater tech ...

China announced a 7 percent increase in military spending and a five-year plan to try to reduce its military and industry’s reliance on Western technology.

Thu, January 1, 2026 at 5:24 PM UTC China tech stocks spent much of 2024 and early 2025 under regulatory anxiety, trade tensions, and economic slowdown fears. Yet the Invesco China Technology ETF (NYSEARCA:CQQQ) has attracted investor attention despite ...

Experts say vessels are ready to become digital assets, but standards and cross-border rules remain the real bottleneck

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Lingling Wei: Are we ready? Hello and welcome to the What's News Sunday Podcast. I'm Lingling Wei, your host today. I'm the chief China ...

China is preparing to launch its first-ever asteroid deflection test mission, targeting the near-Earth asteroid 2016 WP8. The mission, set for December 2027, will utilize a kinetic impactor to alter the asteroid’s course,

For attendees at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this image was on full display. Inside WEF’s Congress Center, wealthy nations circled and lunged. U.S. President Donald Trump’s Greenland theatrics made him the loudest,

President Xi Jinping’s government is shrewdly using this moment of crisis to reimagine large-scale protein production for the first time in 12,000 years.

Four of the world's five biggest science and technology clusters are located in East Asia－one in Japan, two in China and one in South Korea. The fifth biggest one is in the US, said an early release from the 2022 edition of WIPO's Global Innovation Index.