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Weekly Dose of China Tech [10.26.2026]
Dear Reader,
This week, we examine the rapid reshaping of China’s AI ecosystem amid mounting geopolitical friction. As foreign bans and export restrictions target proprietary tech, China’s domestic players are accelerating full-stack hardw...
China's Young AI Power Brokers
Editor’s Note
On October 19, Chinese business outlet LatePost published a feature, China AI’s Young Power Brokers, on how a generation of high-profile AI researchers is gaining influence inside their companies. The companies include AI...
Apple's Biggest iPhone Bet Runs Through China
This October, Apple Executive Chairman Tim Cook made his third trip to China in 2026, and for the first time, he was visiting China not as the CEO.
Yet the trip looked familiar: he met officials and influencers, and visited local software...
Weekly Dose of China Tech [10.19.2026]
Hi friends,
Hope things have been going well on your end.
Something worth watching in China’s AI race is how much of the battle happens outside the models themselves. We spend a lot of time comparing benchmark scores, but there is another...
DeepSeek Is Trying to Make Nvidia Less Essential
DeepSeek is exploring another way to challenge Nvidia: making competing hardware easier to use, even without matching its chip performance.
On September 30, DeepSeek open-sourced programming infrastructure for Huawei’s Ascend platform, inc...
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Decoding China’s tech frontier—AI, robotics, EVs, and more. Based in Hangzhou, China, we’re a small reporting team from a decade old Chinese tech media 差评 (Chaping).
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Impulsive, reckless, and another side of views for Chinese technology. Used to work in Guan Cha and Global Times but my opinions are my own. Now I write tech stories in HangZhou! UwU Feel free to contact me by email: [email protected]
I write about China’s tech industry — especially AI, semiconductors, and consumer electronics. Based in Hangzhou and Beijing, previously contributing to Caixin, China business journal and PingWest. I look for hidden gems.
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