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Coding the future... in Chinese?

A Chinese vocational school in Tianjin is showcasing a vision for the future: a factory automation model powered by Huawei’s Ascend chips and programmed in Chinese characters. Forget Python, Java, or C — this system skips the Latin alphabet altogether. Nor is Nvidia involved. The China-centric demonstration was part of a state-organized tour around the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

INTERVIEW WITH DR. GYAL LO: TIBETAN CHILDREN ARE BECOMING “STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN HOMES”

In 2021, Tibet Action Institute (TAI) published a groundbreaking report exposing the extensive use of colonial boarding schools to indoctrinate and forcibly assimilate Tibetan children into Han Chinese culture and society. (See CDT’s two-part interview with TAI’s Lhadon Tethong on this topic.) This May, TAI issued a follow-up report that looked more closely at the conditions and treatment of

Memory as Destiny: China and East Asia 80 Years After World War II

Eighty years after the guns fell silent in the Pacific theater of World War II, the region it reshaped continues to remember – and forget – in strikingly different ways. In China, the memory has never faded. A major military parade is scheduled for September 3, marking the victory over Japan with full state ceremony. Today’s youth, born generations after the war, know its details intimately

China's Xi says the world faces "peace or war"

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Wednesday that the world was facing a choice of “peace or war” and “dialogues or confrontation” as the country hosts its largest military parade commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.The speech came as U.S. President Donald Trump in a post on Truth Social urged the Chinese leader to recognize U.S. contributions to helping secure China’s

China’s military parade unveils newest weapons as Xi welcomes leaders challenging Western order

Presiding over a military parade in Tiananmen Square to commemorate the end of World War II, leader Xi Jinping said China’s rise is “unstoppable.” Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un flanked Xi at the start as the trio stood together publicly for the first time— a defiant challenge to the US-led world order.Commenting on the parade, President Donald Trump accused China, Russia

US Ally Shadows Russian and Chinese Ships Near Coast

Japan deployed naval and aerial assets to monitor Russian and Chinese warships that sailed close to its waters in recent days, as they appeared to be returning home following a joint patrol in the West Pacific.Security coordination between Russia and China has sharply increased in recent years as the quasi-allies step up what many analysts believe is a challenge to U.S. military primacy in the

Trump Issues New Warning to China During Its Military Parade

U.S. President Donald Trump accused China, Russia and North Korea of conspiring against America as Chinese leader Xi Jinping welcomed his counterparts of the two nations at a lavish military parade in Beijing. Xi greeted Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Beijing during an important show of unity and defiance toward what they see as a world illegitimately

Xi has staged more military parades than any Chinese leader since Mao

Today is the third time Chinese leader Xi Jinping has presided over a military parade on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square – equaling the combined total of his three immediate predecessors. Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao each oversaw just one Tiananmen parade, traditionally held on the decennial anniversaries of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.Xi continued that custom but

Shut windows and empty offices: China’s massive military parade is closed to the public

Beijing is gearing up for the “Victory Day” military parade, but the public isn’t allowed to go. On Wednesday, China’s Communist Party will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two in the Pacific. President Xi Jinpinghas invited Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to attend as part of Beijing’s showcase of global power.In addition to more than 20 world

Building the Pipeline: Why China Exports AI Infrastructure, Not Semiconductors

Compute, not data, is the new oil. As the world races to develop ever-larger artificial intelligence (AI) models, mastering the technology to design and manufacture advanced, small-node chips has become a key to winning the global technological race. As a testament to this dynamic, the United States government has introduced a range of restrictive measures, ranging from simple tariffs to strict