Chinese household registration system usually restricts citizens’ access to public services beyond their locality
Owning an electric car, driving an electric motorbike taxi, riding scooters – we speak to people in Oslo, Kigali and Shanghai about their everyday routines The race to electrification has emerged as a key theme of this year’s UN climate summit: increasing the use of electricity – particularly from clean sources – has the potential to improve daily life for people around the world. The summit’s co-hosts are now trying to get countries to promise to increase their electricity use to 35% of all...
Concern over a potential tax on Chinese government bonds is spilling over to major policy banks, pushing up their borrowing costs.
Microsoft services including Outlook, Teams and Copilot suffered a worldwide outage on Thursday, disrupting access for tens of thousands of users across 74 countries and territories. The company blamed elevated infrastructure loads and said it was working to restore services, but recovery remained limited hours later.
Pro-democracy activist Nathan Law and journalist Danny Vincent on the sentencing of the iconic Hong Kong campaigner Joshua Wong to another 10 years in prison. Send your comments and questions to tif.questions@theguardian.com He has been leading protests since he was 14. Joshua Wong has been on the cover of Time magazine, the focus of a Netflix documentary and an icon for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement. Wong has been leading the fight against a Chinese squeeze on freedoms in Hong Kong for...
Huang’s resignation has sent shockwaves through the AI industry, after revelations of extramarital affairs, including one involving a suspected Chinese spy Full report: Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO Analysis: Jensen Huang built an AI kingdom. Now he’s gone, will Nvidia’s ramparts be breached? Jensen Huang is expected to testify before the US Congress in the next fortnight, after the Nvidia CEO stepped down from the multi-trillion dollar company on Thursday, plunging the chipmaker into cr...
A doubling of the Chinese currency’s share of global payments from the current 6%-7% is not impossible, according to the head of yuan internationalization at HSBC Holdings Plc.
A November rebound in beaten-down Chinese internet stocks is facing a reckoning in collateral damage from the scandal at Nvidia Corp.
Saudi-led coalition intercepts Houthi drones heading for Riyadh as the rebel group claims attacks on energy facilities.
Chris McGuire, a senior fellow for China and emerging technologies at the Council on Foreign Relations and former Biden administration technology and national security official, says the key question is not whether export controls can work, but whether they are being enforced. McGuire speaks with Romaine Bostick and Jess Menton on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)
US lawmakers now want to question Huang over whether one of his alleged relationships was with a Chinese spy.
Decision disappoints experts hoping for world’s biggest emitter to take global lead on climate crisis China has ruled out hosting the Cop33 UN climate summit in 2028 after months of deliberations, leaving the field open for other Asian countries to hold it, the Guardian understands. The decision will disappoint many countries and climate experts, who had hoped the world’s biggest emitter would take the lead on the global stage, as the US under Donald Trump has vacated all forms of internation...
Lauren Cassidy, Founder & Chief Investment Officer, at Founders 100 ETF says the Nvidia board should leave the door for Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to return dependent on the results of the investigation because he has been an 'incredible executive.' Huang was ousted from his post after reports of three affairs, including one with a woman suspected of spying for China. Longtime Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress is taking the job of interim CEO, Nvidia said on Thursday, and Huang will no longe...
Senior White House officials are discussing whether Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick should be pushed out in the wake of the spy scandal surrounding Nvidia's now former CEO Jensen Huang, two people familiar with the situation told Reuters on Thursday. In June, Reuters reported that the Trump administration had held off from adding China’s AI startup DeepSeek, memory chipmaker CXMT and more than 100 other companies flagged as national security risks to a trade blacklist. FRANCE 24's Wass...
CEO was viewed as ‘irreplaceable’, but recklessness of affair with a woman regarded by US officials as a Chinese spy made him a political liability Half the tech world made up its mind before the facts could be assessed properly. Jensen Huang was “irreplaceable”, said the chorus at the start of this week. Nvidia would melt without the co-founder’s brilliance, apparently. The chipmaker’s board had to find a way to save its genius for the sake of corporate America and the entire AI universe. It...
Elsewhere in the podcast, Ford Rojas explores why China might have wanted to target Huang in an alleged honey trap.
This sex scandal should be a warning to Britain: we are just as vulnerable to spies and seduction
The resignation of Nvidia founder Jensen Huang has thrown one of the world's most iconic technology companies into a leadership crisis, whose ripple effects extend far beyond Silicon Valley. Nvidia occupies a unique position in a booming AI industruy marked by intensifying competition between the United States and China. Its leadership upheaval raises immediate questions about corporate succession. But it is also fueling a broader debate about economic resilience, national security and the po...
The Nvidia boss’s departure could deepen the technological rift between Washington and Beijing
Jensen Huang resigned as chief executive of AI giant Nvidia on Thursday, November 12, after revelations he had two extramarital affairs, including one with a woman accused of spying for China. FRANCE 24's correspondent in Washington Fraser Jackson and FRANCE 24's International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herbert have more.
Jensen Huang, who built Nvidia into the world’s dominant AI chipmaker, is stepping down as CEO after a second affair came to light. DW examines how losing its figurehead will affect the firm and the US-China AI race.
Outgoing Nvidia chief credited with easing US-China chip ties but personal scandal unlikely to upend next week's talks.
Chinese woman accused of affair with Nvidia’s former chief executive and spying for China was investigated by city-state over chip shipments by her company
Jensen Huang’s $140 billion stake in Nvidia is largely held by trusts co-owned with his wife, Lori, creating added uncertainty for his financial future.
US equity futures decline as investors grapple with a leadership crisis at Nvidia that threatens a wider fallout across the global AI supply chain and trade relations between the US and China. Wei Li of BlackRock joins "Bloomberg Brief" to discuss the market impact of the Nvidia turmoil. Bloomberg's Jennifer Zabasajja speaks to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who argues that multilateral institutions must reform to reflect merging economies, at COP31. (Source: Bloomberg)
Oliver Farry is pleased to welcome Bernard Benhamou, Secretary General of France's Institute of Digital Sovereignty. Benhamou examines the intersection of traditional espionage, geopolitical rivalry and the extraordinary concentration of power within the global AI industry. Discussing allegations surrounding Nvidia's leadership, he describes the chipmaker as "the banker of the global AI system," a striking characterization that captures the company's importance not merely as a semiconductor m...
The British car maker, owned by Indian giant Tata, has accused the Chinese brand of producing a lookalike version of its best-selling model with the launch of its Ti7 SUV (pictured).
Battery maker CATL aims to have 2,000 swapping stations in China by the end of 2027 and to bring the tech to Europe Every day, Wang Bing drives his big electric lorry to send around five tonnes of goods between the cities of Haikou and Dongfang on Hainan, a tropical island in southern China. A round trip covers about 500 kilometres (310 miles). But refuelling is not something Wang worries about. “When my battery runs low, I just drive my truck into a battery-swapping station to get a fully ch...
Nvidia shares have plummeted in recent days since Huang admitted to the first affair, which was with an alleged Chinese spy.
Shadow defence minister David Reed attacked the slow pace of rearming the UK's military and intelligence apparatus.
Xi Jinping said that reunification was inevitable, but stopped short of mentioning military force. Taiwan though swiftly rejected Beijing's demands as tensions continue over the island's future.
The BBC's China correspondent Laura Bicker explains the timeline of events and what's next for Nvidia as its board considers whether to oust the CEO.
CEO says ‘democratic approach’ has helped brand outperform tough market, with big rises in China and US Burberry has returned to profit as its back-to-basics strategy drove strong sales of the British brand’s coats, jackets and handbags over the summer. Joshua Schulman, the chief executive, said the luxury brand had outperformed a “challenging luxury market” to achieve sales growth of 6%, helped by strong online and wholesale sales particularly in China and the US. “Our strategy is working,”...
Chinese president says the tide of history 'cannot be stopped' as Taiwan rejects 'one country, two systems'.
Technology-stock-driven rally came to a sudden halt as traders confronted a leadership crisis at Nvidia Corp. that risks reverberating across the global artificial intelligence supply chain. Nvidia dropped 7% in premarket trading, with the firm’s board discussing Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang’s future after reports of multiple extramarital affairs, including one with a woman suspected of spying for China. Nasdaq 100 contracts fell 0.9%, threatening to trim the index’s best weekly gain...
UK luxury brand Burberry has beaten forecasts for second-quarter sales and first-half profit, saying its more affordable products had won over younger shoppers in the US and China.
Le Monde columnist Sylvie Kauffmann tries to get inside the minds of the American, Russian and Chinese presidents ahead of a potential meeting of the three world leaders in Shenzhen, China, next week.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair must be the costliest fling in human history – and a preview of what awaits when the tech bubble bursts One thing we all know about the tech billionaires is they are super-smart. We know this largely because they never stop telling us. The “ cognitive elite ”, to use their favoured phrase, are entitled to shape our future without our say-so. When Elon Musk goes hiring, he wants “super-high-IQ small-government revolutionaries”. Long before they got private jets...
Scientists say the frogs evolved as the Himalayas rose and the Asian monsoon took shape.
Kerry decries president for ceding clean-energy dominance to China and says climate crisis still a key issue for voters Donald Trump is the “biggest loser we’ve seen in a long time” for scrapping action on the climate crisis and ceding the clean energy race to China, former US secretary of state John Kerry has said. Kerry, speaking at the Cop31 climate summit in Turkey, criticized Trump for withdrawing the US from the international climate process and axing measures that reduced planet-heatin...
Beijing accuses US of fabricating ‘espionage narratives’ as chip company’s board considers future of chief executive Jensen Huang
The wider rims and tyres designed to be installed on the back axle of its £26,000 Great Tang family car to provide better traction for the rear-wheel-drive electric SUV were instead fitted to the front.
Nvidia CEO is under investigation for an affair with a woman whom US intelligence believes to be a Chinese spy.
The report alleging Beijing uses hundreds of European outposts to monitor and police diaspora communities lands as EU trade officials meet a Chinese counterpart.
China on Thursday accused the United States of “fabricating spy narratives” to justify a technology “blockade”, stepping up its pushback against reports that the woman Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an affair with was a Chinese intelligence asset.
Nvidia founder Jensen Huang is under investigation. What long-term impact could it have on AI and China?
Nvidia’s co-founder and only CEO to date has never appointed a successor. Read more: WSJ: Nvidia could oust CEO Jensen Huang after report of second affair
Eli Lilly has become the first company to have a GLP-1 weight-loss pill approved in China, gaining a leg up on Danish rival Novo Nordisk in the world's second-largest pharmaceutical market.
Xi Jinping, President of China, has called for the peaceful ‘reunification’ of Taiwan with China.
In today’s newsletter: US intelligence reportedly believes the former tech executive was recruited by Beijing, raising questions about the security of the AI industry and Trump’s close ties to Nvidia chief Jensen Huang Good morning. Espionage is supposed to be a secretive business, and spies are supposed to be virtually invisible. That hasn’t been the case for Alice Huang, the mysterious Shanghai executive who formed a romantic relationship with Jensen Huang, the founder of Nvidia, one of Ame...
While the US's Israel policy is no longer a source of division within the Democratic Party, several disagreements are expected over the country's relations with China, analyzes Le Monde columnist Gilles Paris.
Global technology editor Dan Milmo on the scandal rocking the world of AI: US intelligence believes the lover of Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, is a Chinese spy Nvidia is one of the biggest companies in the world. Its chief executive, Jensen Huang, is worth around $150bn (£112bn). But the AI giant’s stock is sliding – and Huang’s position is under question – after it emerged on Sunday that he had been having an affair with a woman US intelligence services believe is a Chinese spy. Gl...
Nvidia's board is reportedly preparing to oust Jensen Huang amid reports of an affair with a suspected Chinese spy. The shake-up would leave the world's leading AI chip supplier without the co-founder who built it.
‘There’s no question that Congress is going to push for a complete ban on the sale of advanced semiconductors into China,’ says a former U.S. ambassador to Beijing
The man, charged with spying for China, said he was "unprofessional" to send "gossiping" texts to a friend.
A British man who was charged with spying for China has broken his silence after the case was thrown out of court. Chris Cash, a former parliamentary researcher, denied accusations of providing information prejudicial to the interests of the state in breach of the Official Secrets Act. Speaking to the BBC, he has claimed to be a "convenient fall guy" for UK police, who wanted to put espionage threats by foreign states "on the map". He had been charged alongside Christopher Berry, 33, with the...
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The AIIB has a grievance redress mechanism for people affected by projects it finances. But those seeking to file a complaint face significant hurdles. Critics say reforms and greater transparency are needed.
Lithium Americas Corp.’s Nevada mine was supposed to be the US solution to curbing dependence on China for a critical mineral for batteries. Instead, the company is getting hammered by the Trump administration’s tariffs.
Chris Cash, who along with his former friend Chris Berry was accused of passing state secrets to China, has alleged he became a ‘fall guy’
Today marks Singles’ Day, an annual celebration which has grown from an informal student event into one of the biggest shopping occasions in the world. Observed on November 11th, Singles’ Day is often described as the opposite of Valentine’s Day, celebrating people who are single rather than couples. The event is believed to have originated […]
Aridge, a spin-off of the Chinese EV-maker XPeng, is set to launch the first two-seater flying car in China next summer.
Intensifying competition in the world's largest auto market forced Nissan to cut its annual sales forecast for a second time in months.
The alleged Chinese spy with whom Nvidia boss Jensen Huang admitted to having an affair was previously in a relationship with a financier who had been accused of insider trading in China.
Manufacturer says ‘shift to new energy vehicles is happening faster than expected’ and market is harsh Business live – latest updates The Japanese carmaker Nissan has said it has been caught out by accelerating sales of electric and hybrid cars in China amid a brutal price war in the world’s biggest automotive market. The manufacturer slashed its sales forecasts for China and said it would cut back on petrol car manufacturing while increasing production of battery electric vehicles and plug-i...
James McAsh, who is Green leader of Southwark Borough Council, has bragged this morning about flying to China for a conference about inclusive cities. He said: “It was a great honour to be invited to the UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme) World Cities Day conference in Fuzhou, China. Cllr Eloise Waldon-Day and I spoke…
"It’s no longer science fiction or just a single demo aircraft," Michael Du, vice president and chief financial officer of Chinese company XPeng, told Euronews Next.
Chris Cash said he believes his case was pursued as a warning to others
Alfa by Lilja Sigurծardóttir; The Lost Spectacular by Zoé Duhaime; Look What the Cat Dragged In by Jason Rekulak; China +100: Stories from a Century After the Outbreak edited by Xueting C Ni; Everything Happens So Much by Andrew H Murray Alfa by Lilja Sigurծardóttir, translated by Larissa Kyzer (Orenda, £10.99) The first speculative fiction by the Icelandic crime writer is set 26 years from now, with European countries united under the benevolent “omniocratic” rule of the titular artificial i...
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