Stan Shih was chief executive and chairman of the personal computer maker Acer. (AFP pic) TAIPEI: Acer co-founder Stan Shih will represent Taiwan at a regional summit in China next week, the island democracy said Wednesday. Shih, 81, was picked to represent Taiwanese president Lai Ching-te at the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in…
ⓘ Nvidia, edited Nvidia’s rumored RTX 5080 24 GB may no longer launch in China as originally planned Nvidia has reportedly abandoned the planned January 2027 Chinese launch of its GeForce RTX 5080 24 GB, according to a new supply-chain leak. Prohibitively expensive 3 GB GDDR7 memory modules are allegedly responsible, prompting Nvidia to continue…
Japanese companies stung by fallout from the prolonged Japan-China diplomatic rift are finding ways around declining supplies of rare earths and metals and diminished spending by Chinese tourists. It’s been a year since Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks about Japan responding to a Taiwan contingency angered Beijing. The Chinese government responded by tightening export restrictions…
At the White House in Washington, D.C., on September 29, U.S. President Donald Trump (right) holds a business roundtable with Jensen Huang, CEO of U.S. company NVIDIA. AP-Yonhap News [Financial News] The claim that China used a spy to smuggle large quantities of AI accelerators made by U.S. company NVIDIA has cast a shadow over relations…
Jensen Huang told Nvidia’s staff on 8 November that he had been unfaithful to his wife, in a memo Nvidia published. He admitted to Nvidia’s board that the relationship was with Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, who US intelligence officials have concluded was working for the Chinese government, the San Francisco Standard reports…
Wilson takes 12th ranked title at snooker’s International Championship Professional snooker player Kyren Wilson defeated John Higgins 10-8 in the finals of the International Championship held in Nanjing, China, on Nov. 7. This was Wilson’s 12th ranking title. Although Higgins led 5-4 prior to the interval break, Wilson made a century break or more in…
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Vice President of China Han Zheng as he walks to his motorcade after arriving at Beijing Capital International Airport on May 13, 2026 in Beijing, China, with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Elon Musk, who were among tech executives to travel with the president to China, in the background….
Nvidia and its chief executive, Jensen Huang, have been sued in a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing them of misleading shareholders by concealing Huang’s alleged ties to Alice Huang, suspected of working for Chinese intelligence, adding to growing scrutiny over the chipmaker’s business and national security exposure. The complaint, filed on November 9 in a federal…
China’s Historic Honey Trap: Still Used in Modern Warfare? The honey trap is one of the pivotal stratagems in Chinese military strategy. Among the ancient Chinese military treatise “Thirty-Six Stratagems,” the 31st is the honey trap. The most famous honey trap in history revolves around Xi Shi. In 494 BC, King Goujian of the state…
Beijing. China’s trade surplus ballooned to more than $1 trillion in the 10 months through October, official data showed on Tuesday, reaching the milestone even earlier than 2025’s record-breaking sum. The figures come ahead of talks between President Xi Jinping and US counterpart Donald Trump at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in China next…