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Money and ‘a lot of noise’: how the US’ critical-minerals industry is vying with China’s State-backed funding is driving American efforts to build domestic supply, but industry trends and price gaps are still seen as hurdles to reducing reliance on China Patriot Critical Minerals

From spectacle to scale: why China’s robotics firms face a ‘critical juncture’ China’s robots have won global attention with a string of viral stunts. But firms now face growing pressure to generate real-world returns At China’s annual World Robot Conference (WRC) that kicked off

Shanghai Port sees Christmas shipment delays as twin typhoons create up to 10-day backlog The extreme weather arrives during a prolonged pre-Christmas peak shipping season for the port More than a week after the most powerful typhoon to hit China so far this year made landfall, t

Record graduate influx lifts China’s youth jobless rate to 17.9% in July An estimated 12.7 million university graduates have entered the job market this summer China’s youth jobless rate climbed to 17.9 per cent in July, as a record wave of university graduates enters an already

Chinese robotaxi firms see eased regulatory bottleneck in Europe as deployment picks up Europe embraces self-driving technology, opening up further opportunities for Chinese companies to expand overseas fleet, says Pony AI CEO “Compared to last year, there is a clear increase in