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Union Minister Praises China’s DeepSeek AI, Makes An India Comparison

January 30, 2025 admin

IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has praised Chinese startup DeepSeek for shaking up the sector with its low-cost AI assistant, likening its frugal approach to his government’s efforts to build a localised AI model. India announced a $1.25 billion AI investment in March, dubbed IndiaAI mission, which includes funding for AI startups and developing its own…

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A Record Number Of US Firms Are Leaving China

January 29, 2025 admin

At a time when the newly elected U.S. President, Donald Trump, is making a pitch to reshore manufacturing to America, its companies operating out of China are having second thoughts about what was considered a miracle economy. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, Trump made a simple pitch that if companies…

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Opinion: As India-China Grow Close, Who's Driving The 'Narrative'?

January 28, 2025 admin

India’s Foreign Secretary, Vikram Misri, was recently in China on a two-day trip to discuss the future course of bilateral relations between the two countries, following an initiative by both nations to normalise ties after a military standoff spanning nearly four years. A Host Of Measures Relations between the two nations were fraught after Beijing…

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Trump Vows Tariffs On Nations That “Harm” US

January 28, 2025 admin

Washington: The United States will impose tariffs on the countries that “harm” America, President Donald Trump has said, as he named China, India and Brazil as high-tariff countries. “We’re going to put tariffs on outside countries and outside people that really mean harm to us. Well, they mean us harm, but they basically want to…

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US Big Tech Faces Heat As China’s DeepSeek Questions Billion-Dollar Spending

January 27, 2025 admin

San Francisco: Chinese startup DeepSeek’s cheaper AI is sharpening investor scrutiny of the billions U.S. tech giants are pouring to develop the technology and analysts say it will dominate this week’s much-awaited results from industry bellwethers. DeepSeek has claimed it took just two months and cost under $6 million to build an AI model using…

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India, China Decide To Resume Direct Flights, Kailash Mansarovar Yatra

January 27, 2025 admin

New Delhi: India and China held a two-day foreign secretary-level talks in which it was decided to resume Kailash-Mansarovar yatra in the summer. The relevant mechanism will discuss the modalities for doing so as per existing agreements, the foreign ministry said in a statement. There was also an in-principle agreement for resumption of direct flights…

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What Is De Minimis? A trade Perk Trump May End Amid Tension With China

January 23, 2025 admin

Washington DC: President Donald Trump is considering changing a key U.S. trade benefit to other nations, the “de minimis” exemption on import tariffs, as he accuses China of unfair trade practices and blames it for a crisis over the deadly drug fentanyl. His predecessor Joe Biden, in one of his last acts as president on…

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China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ Sets New Record, Sustains Plasma For 1,000 Seconds

January 23, 2025 admin

China has conducted another major nuclear fusion experiment in its pursuit of creating a novel source of energy. The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) fusion energy reactor, dubbed China’s ‘artificial sun’ sustained plasma for a whopping 1,000 seconds, breaking the 403-second record it set in 2023, according to a report in Live Science, citing Chinese…

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China To US After TikTok Ban

January 20, 2025 admin

Beijing, China: China on Monday urged the United States to listen to “rational voices” over the social media platform TikTok, as a law banning the wildly popular app on national security grounds came into effect. “We hope that the US side will seriously listen to rational voices and provide an open, fair, just, and non-discriminatory…

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Why People In China Pay Rs 290 A Day To Pretend To Work

January 19, 2025 admin

Amid a worsening unemployment crisis, China has seen the rise of an unusual trend where companies offer “pretend to work” services to help jobless individuals hide their situation from family and friends. For a daily fee of around 30 yuan (Rs 290), these services provide office space, lunch, and even fake workstations, complete with computers…

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