China has field-tested an intelligent robotic mining vehicle at a depth of 2,000 meters (6,561 feet) in the western Pacific Ocean. The trial was conducted in a sensitive zone of the western Pacific, specifically beyond the US-established “second island chain”, and about 1,000 km (621 miles) east of Guam.

In this conversation, the FT’s John Thornhill and MIT Technology Review’s Caiwei Chen consider the battle between Silicon Valley and Beijing for technological supremacy.

The coming-together of China’s enormous manufacturing capacity and its ravenous appetite for copious, cheap, domestically produced electricity deserves to be seen in a similar world-changing light. They have made China a new type of superpower: one which deploys clean electricity on a planetary scale.

The wave of technological empowerment is also sweeping China's vast countryside, playing a critical role in the country's push for rural revitalization, further narrowing the urban-rural gap and bringing common prosperity to rural residents.

China’s new national drive to embrace artificial intelligence is also giving the authorities new ways to monitor and control its citizens.

The world has been paying close attention to the global contest for supremacy in artificial intelligence. But the separate race for quantum technology could have an even more profound impact on the geopolitical balance of power.

As drones get more prolific on the battlefield, technology is being developed to counter it. Now, China is touting a new laser weapon system for this purpose.

New York fiber laser expert Ji Wang is convicted of economic espionage for stealing U.S. military secrets to benefit China.

The forthcoming Fourth Plenum of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will not be an ordinary policy meeting. Scheduled for October 20–23 in Beijing, it will formally initiate the drafting process for China’s 15th Five-Year ...

SoftBank Group Corp announced on Monday the sale of chip designer Arm to Nvidia Corp for as much as $40 billion in a deal set to reshape the semiconductor landscape.