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China was once expected to overtake the US, but its economy is now weighed down by debt, demographics and political control.
From a tycoon’s proposed water deal to Boeing’s orders in China, here are highlights from the SCMP’s overseas correspondents ...
China has begun construction on the world’s largest hydropower dam, known as the Motuo Hydropower Station, on the eastern ...
China warned on Wednesday against the risk of power supply disruptions as people struggled to keep cool in record heat baking ...
China’s solar industry is undergoing a dramatic downturn marked by mass layoffs, bankruptcies, and calls for government-led ...
Experts fear risk to key military facility from Beijing-linked billionaire’s company as Indo-Pacific threat levels rise ...
China is taking steps to build a network to sell computing power and curb the unwieldy growth of data centres after thousands ...
In the deserts of China, the world’s first operational thorium reactor has come online—powered by declassified U.S. research. Long considered a safer, cleaner alternative to uranium, thorium could ...
China has invested $2.1 billion in China Fusion Energy Co. to lead the world in fusion energy innovation, and the U.S. needs ...
In one domain, AI, the US has far outpaced any other nation – though China looks to be closing the gap. In the other, energy, ...
A US company and its partners are vying for 43 critical shipping ports, including the two on the Panama Canal — but Beijing ...
Q2 2025 Management View CEO Young-Joon Kim stated that Magnachip "continued in Q2 to execute on our strategic pivot to become a pure-play power semiconductor company," and reported consolidated ...