Decided in retaliation for a last Donald Trump decree targeting Beijing, new Chinese customs duties must apply from Monday on a whole range of American agricultural products. Since his return to the White House in January, the President of the United States has announced a series of customs duties with regard to his main business … Read more
The actions of the Chinese car manufacturer byd, specializing in electricity, jumped Tuesday after the announcement by the company of the deployment of an advanced autonomous driving system on almost all of its cars, including those of entry range. The manufacturer has also indicated that he would integrate the artificial intelligence models (AI) of the … Read more
US restrictions on high-tech fleas have unwittingly propelled the success of the Deepseek chatbot, which worries the United States about its ability to counter China in the race for artificial intelligence (AI). Designed by a Hangzhou start -up (East of China), this conversational robot has amazed the players in the sector by its ability to … Read more
The development of Deepseek, the Chinese Chatgpt rival, with limited resources compared to the American giants of the generative artificial intelligence (IA), shaken Silicon Valley, aroused both admiration, accusations of cheating , tumbles to Wall Street and warnings ranging from Davos to the White House. This weekend, Deepseek R1 has become the most downloaded free … Read more
China announced on Friday that its population had declined for the third consecutive year in 2024, confirming a downward trend after more than six decades of growth, in a context of rapid population aging. The Asian giant ceded its place as the most populous country in the world to India in 2023. It actively seeks … Read more
Chinese companies came by the dozen to the CES technology show, despite the threat of new customs duties made by Donald Trump, which concerns them without causing them to panic. The automobile manufacturer XPeng and its flying vehicle or the media equipment giant TCL and its talking television made a big splash this week in … Read more
Panamanian President José Raul Mulino has refuted any “interference” China in the Panama Canal and rejected any discussion on changes with the United States, after the threat of American President-elect Donald Trump to regain control of this passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. “There is no possibility for this president (Mulino, editor’s note) to … Read more
The Pentagon on Wednesday released its annual report on China’s military capabilities, which aims to document the level of combat readiness of the Chinese military. According to this report, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) continues its decades-long modernization, but these efforts are hampered by cases of corruption, which have led to the ouster of senior … Read more
Competition is intensifying in the production of solar panels in France. While two gigafactories are due to come into service at the end of 2026 or the beginning of 2027 – those of Holosolis, in Moselle, and Carbon, in Bouches-du-Rhône –, the Chinese DAS Solar could well undermine their politeness. This industrialist announced, on November … Read more
We will have to wait a few more years before we see a man walk on the Moon again. NASA announced Thursday, December 5, to once again postpone the long-awaited return of its astronauts to the star, from 2026 to « mi-2027 » due in particular to technical problems encountered on the vessel carrying the … Read more