The Latest Breaking News from China

On this week's Plugged-In Podcast: China's war on Tesla's EV door handle design heats up. Plus: Is Ford about to team up with Xiaomi, BYD or Geely?

The study focuses on how gold formed and moved within the Sawayaerdun gold deposit in northwest China, a large orogenic system shaped by long periods of burial, deformation and heating. Before any visible gold veins existed, the host sedimentary rocks already contained microscopic pyrite formed during early burial. This earliest…

Tensions in the Arctic are putting new pressure on Svalbard, a Norwegian-administered archipelago long seen as an example of international cooperation, as climate change transforms the region and rivalry between major powers intensifies.

Japan said goodbye to its last two giant pandas on January 27, as twins Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei were returned from their host country to China. Their departure has left Japan without any pandas for the first time since 1972, when Tokyo and Beijing normalised diplomatic ties.

The compact pulse-power driver could enable high-power microwave attacks that are harder to detect and attribute than conventional anti-satellite weapons, potentially putting China ahead of the United States and Russia in the space-weapons race.

The US has accused China of secretly conducting nuclear tests, urging Beijing to join arms control talks as the New START treaty expires. While Russia and the US acknowledge the need for urgent negotiations, China rejects the claims and refuses to participate, citing its smaller arsenal. This raises fears of…

Today's biggest EV news: BYD's sales slump, a U.S. Senate hearing on autonomous cars and Canada's revised EV policy.

The increased demand is said to be partly brought by demand for agentic AI, which need CPUs to execute their tasks.

Do you think the white frozen sheets over Antarctica may hold a secret? This White, frozen, and solid Antarctica, although it looks quiet but beneath those endless plains of ice something enormous is going on. Scientists have revealed an entire hidden volcanic landscape buried under the continent. A China-led international…