South China Morning Post - Global Economy

As US-China tech tensions rise ahead of an expected leadership summit next month, analysts argue Washington’s latest restrictions are unlikely to cause a major disruption in China’s AI exports. But they caution that some of the measures – such as limiting access to “open-weight” models – represent a “genuine wild card” that could reshape the global landscape. Hong Kong-based ana...

Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard said that life is understood backwards and lived forward. We look at history to guide us, but the only way to truly know the future is to live our lives. If our perception of reality is subjective, then what we experience is based on beliefs or judgments that can be detached from reality. As financial markets become increasingly bubbly, Finan...

Tariffs of up to 100 per cent that Washington has announced on imported drones would result in a “lose-lose outcome” for the United States and China, analysts said, as the technology is increasingly taking centre stage in the countries’ tech and trade rivalry. The new levies will further complicate manufacturers’ efforts to shift production to third countries or regions, where s...

While Chinese investors chased Unitree Robotics amid the frenzy for robotics stocks, the market this week also focused on the implications of July’s US inflation rate, the gold price trend and the interim results of CK Hutchison Holdings, one of the flagship companies owned by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing’s family. Unitree’s retail subscription rate of 0.0181% Millions of r...

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