Starship Enterprise? Not quite. What you see is a room in which the sensors and cameras of self-driving cars are adjusted. “Apollo” is the software platform of Beijing-based AI company Baidu. It aspires to become the Android of autonomous driving. However, there is plenty of international competition, for example from Google.
The U.S. is showing reassurance for now regarding Chinese military assistance to Russia. Officials in Washington purposefully leaked to the Reuters news agency on Tuesday that U.S. services have not registered any concrete support for the alleged ally. Accordingly, the expressions of loyalty are playing out mainly on a verbal level. This statement comes in […]
While Shanghai announced its increasingly successful suppression of infection chains on Sunday, Beijing heads toward further measures. For the time being, until Wednesday, sit-down restaurants in the capital will be closed during the May holidays. Food will be available only via home delivery. Stores may only be entered with a valid PCR test, a rapid […]
A building collapsed in the central Chinese city of Changsha, the capital of Hunan, on Friday. According to international agency reports, it contained apartments, a hotel and a cinema. Xinhua news agency, on the other hand, spoke of a “self-constructed residential building.” According to the CCTV television station, residents made “structural changes” that damaged stability. […]
Ukraine invokes a 2013 agreement under which China promised to help it in the event of an attack or nuclear threat. That eventuality has now materialized, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told Chinese state media on Saturday. “At present, Ukraine is looking into the possibility of obtaining security guarantees from permanent members of the UN […]
“If you want to get rich, build a road first.” (要想富先修路). This is an actual Chinese proverb. The country’s economic planners have amply taken this saying to heart. Over the past decade, they have built an average of around ten thousand kilometers of freeways per year. The impact on the infrastructure speaks for itself.But demand […]
The German government has retroactively barred an acquisition that had already been closed: Beijing-based Aeonmed Medical was not allowed to buy Heyer Medical. “This acquisition is prohibited for reasons of public order and safety,” a spokesman for the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) told China.Table. The reason: Heyer Medical manufactures respiratory […]
Shanghai continues to struggle under curfews, while Beijing begins to slip into a lockdown. The situation is so tense that the Communist Party’s highest asset is at risk: the general acceptance of its policies among the population. So it is baffling that public health policymakers are not grasping at every straw to alleviate the situation. […]
The government apparently wants to help the economy by lowering energy prices with cheap coal. Production is expected to increase by seven percent this year, writes AP news agency citing media reports. That is 300 million tons more than last year. This is the second consecutive major increase since 2020. The construction of new coal-fired […]
Residents and workers in Beijing’s Chaoyang district have to undergo three Covid tests this week. The swab samples are due on Monday (4/25), Wednesday (4/27) and Friday (4/29). “Several outbreaks of the pandemic in Chaoyang County are considered indicative of hidden transmissions,” reads the authorities’ statement.On Saturday, the city of Beijing reported 22 new infections. […]