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CNA
18 hours ago
- Entertainment
- CNA
One Love Asia Festival Singapore 2025 will have A-Mei, 5566, Angela Zhang and more
The popular Mandopop music festival, One Love Asia Festival, returns for its fourth round in Singapore this September. Featuring performances by highly acclaimed acts such as Taiwanese singers A-Mei and Angela Zhang, One Love Asia Festival Singapore 2025 will delight music fans on Sep 13 and 14 at Bayfront Event Space. Here are all the artistes performing at the two-day event: Sep 13: A-Mei Kasiwa Chih Siou Saya Chang Steelo.Z Firdhaus Kelly Yu Yoga Lin Sep 14: Angela Zhang Simply Live featuring Jordin Young Lexie Liu Hu Yanbin MC Cheung Tinfu 5566 Tickets for One Love Asia Festival Singapore 2025 will go on sale on this website at 11am on Monday (Jun 23), priced at S$198 for a one-day ticket and S$338 for a two-day ticket. In a statement, Adrian Leong, CEO of event organiser IMC Group Asia said: "Our vision has always been for One Love Asia Festival to become a flagship Mandopop event throughout Asia – an intersection where both artistes and fans coalesce to create an impactful shared experience. "I believe the power of this shared human experience is what drives continued and boundless change in the live music industry."
South China Morning Post
02-06-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
US tech curbs ‘incentivise' China, Trump-Xi talks may ‘happen soon': SCMP daily highlights
Catch up on some of SCMP's biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing A senior member of US President Donald Trump's economic team said on Sunday that Trump may speak with China's President Xi Jinping 'very soon', adding that any such call could help break the impasse in trade talks between the world's two biggest economies. US law professor Angela Zhang says regulating AI is 'like buying insurance' and precautions must be taken, especially by pioneers in the field. Adding aerial refuelling to pilot training is seen as a significant step for China's air force. Photo: Xinhua China's air force has introduced aerial refuelling to its pilot training programme as the People's Liberation Army tries to step up combat readiness and long-range capabilities.
South China Morning Post
01-06-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
How US tech curbs pushed China to innovate, and where a ‘super AI' could emerge
Angela Zhang is a law professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Zhang is an expert on technology regulation and antitrust in China, and her research focus has recently been on artificial intelligence oversight. This interview first appeared in SCMP Plus . For other interviews in the Open Questions series, click here Advertisement How will the new US-China tariff war affect the Chinese technology sector and competition between the two countries on artificial intelligence ? Tariffs can affect the Chinese tech sector in two main ways. First, there are the direct effects. Higher tariffs make it harder for Chinese tech products to compete in the US market. If the tariffs stay relatively modest – like the levels we saw before 'Liberation Day' – Chinese suppliers might absorb some of the extra costs. Prices would go up a bit, but their products might still be competitive. But if the tariffs go up dramatically – say, to the 145 per cent that President [Donald] Trump proposed before China and the US reached an agreement in Geneva – then Chinese products would probably lose their price advantage and be effectively shut out of the US market. Second, there are indirect effects. As Chinese companies face more trade barriers from the US, they'll need to work even harder on cutting costs and scaling up. A good example is what we saw in response to the chip embargo – many Chinese tech firms started open-sourcing their AI models. That's a more cost-effective and collaborative way to keep developing advanced technologies when resources are tight. I expect we'll see similar strategies in other areas like electric vehicles, batteries and renewable energy. These firms are going to keep pushing hard to make their products even more competitive. Advertisement At the same time, they're not going to sit still. I think we'll see Chinese companies look more aggressively to other markets – Asia, Latin America, Africa. And we'll likely see more efforts to deepen trade with Europe, including offering technology transfers in exchange for market access. Of course, there's a lot of uncertainty ahead. But one thing is clear: Chinese firms are going to face serious challenges in the coming years under the Trump administration.
Forbes
27-05-2025
- Business
- Forbes
The AI Arms Race: Why China May Be Playing For Second Place
Tencent's hunyuan model and OpenAI's ChatGPT In the high-stakes arena of artificial intelligence, where tech giants vie for dominance, a fascinating new narrative is emerging. Observers at Google's recent I/O Developer Conference couldn't help but notice the striking presence of Chinese-developed AI models prominently featured alongside American tech stalwarts. As LLMs (large language models) become critical yardsticks of technological prowess, China's rapid ascent is reshaping global AI dynamics. At Google's annual showcase, the Chatbot Arena leaderboard—an influential crowdsourced benchmark hosted by LMSYS on Hugging Face—highlighted remarkable advances by Chinese AI models. Names such as DeepSeek, Tencent's Hunyuan TurboS, Alibaba's Qwen, and Zhipu's GLM-4 weren't just entries—they were top contenders, especially in critical tasks like coding and complex dialogues. This shift suggests that while U.S. companies like OpenAI and Google maintain overall leadership, China's AI ambitions are gaining undeniable momentum. TOPSHOT - Google CEO Sundar Pichai addresses the crowd during Google's annual I/O developers ... More conference in Mountain View, California on May 20, 2025. (Photo by Camille Cohen / AFP) (Photo by CAMILLE COHEN/AFP via Getty Images) Yet, intriguingly, China might not be racing to win outright. Angela Zhang, a USC law professor and author of "High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy" argues a contrarian view in a recent essay in the Financial Times. According to Zhang, Beijing may have strategically decided that being a close second in AI serves its broader economic and geopolitical interests better than direct supremacy. This counterintuitive stance arises partly from recent aggressive U.S. measures restricting advanced semiconductor exports to China. By blocking sales of critical chips like Nvidia's H20—optimized for AI inference tasks—Washington aims to maintain a technological edge. However, these policies inadvertently push China towards accelerating its domestic semiconductor capabilities. Chinese firms like Huawei and Cambricon have swiftly moved into the vacuum, with Huawei's Ascend 910c chip already delivering about 60% of Nvidia's H100 inference performance. Moreover, U.S. chip export controls have broader global implications, extending restrictions to critical markets like India, Malaysia, and Singapore. Faced with these challenges, emerging economies may increasingly turn to China, indirectly spurring demand for Chinese technology. In a significant policy shift, the Trump administration recently rescinded the Biden-era AI Diffusion Rule, which categorized countries into tiers for AI chip exports. Instead, the administration has issued new guidance stating that the use of Huawei's Ascend AI chips—specifically models 910B, 910C, and 910D—anywhere in the world violates U.S. export controls. This move effectively imposes a global ban on these chips, citing concerns that they incorporate U.S. technology and thus fall under U.S. regulatory jurisdiction. The Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security emphasized that companies worldwide must avoid using these chips or risk facing penalties, including potential legal action. This unprecedented extraterritorial enforcement has drawn sharp criticism from China, which warns of legal consequences for entities complying with the U.S. directive, arguing that it infringes upon international trade norms and China's development interests. In response, China's AI leaders have redoubled efforts in semiconductor self-sufficiency. Huawei, for instance, spearheads a coalition aiming for China to achieve 70% semiconductor autonomy by 2028. The recent unveiling of Huawei's CloudMatrix 384 AI supernode—a system reportedly surpassing Nvidia's market-leading NVL72—signifies a crucial breakthrough, addressing a critical bottleneck in China's AI computing infrastructure. Tencent's strategy further illustrates this strategic shift. During its May AI summit, Tencent introduced advanced models such as TurboS for high-quality dialogue and coding, T1-Vision for image reasoning, and Hunyuan Voice for sophisticated speech interactions. Additionally, Tencent has embraced open-source approaches, making its Hunyuan 3D model widely available and downloaded over 1.6 million times, underscoring China's commitment to fostering global developer communities. Google's former CEO Eric Schmidt recently named directly, in addition to DeepSeek, China's most noteworthy models are Alibaba's Qwen, as well as Tencent's Hunyuan. their level has been quite close to Open AI's o1, which is a remarkable achievement. Angela Zhang suggests this positioning is intentional. Rather than risking further escalations in U.S.-China tensions, Beijing appears content to cultivate robust domestic and international ecosystems around its technology. This stance aligns well with China's traditional emphasis on strategic autonomy and incremental innovation. Open-source dynamics reinforce this calculated approach. With lower technical barriers in AI inference—a rapidly expanding market segment expected to dominate 70% of AI compute demand by 2026, according to Barclays—China's AI industry could benefit significantly from widespread adoption of its domestically developed solutions. Open-source releases from Chinese firms like DeepSeek and Baichuan also bolster global developer engagement, potentially offsetting U.S. containment efforts by creating diverse, globalized ecosystems reliant on Chinese technology. Still, it's crucial to note the challenges ahead. While Chinese models excel technically, global adoption remains limited, mostly confined to domestic markets. Issues like interface design, user familiarity, and developer support still give U.S.-based models a distinct advantage internationally. Moreover, despite impressive hardware strides, China continues to trail the U.S. in software sophistication and ecosystem integration. Yet, the trajectory is clear. China's foundational models are rapidly closing technical gaps. With strategic governmental support and substantial investment in semiconductor self-sufficiency, China appears poised not just to endure U.S. sanctions but to thrive within their constraints. Zhang's insight reframes the AI race less as a zero-sum game and more as a multipolar competition, where nations seek strategic rather than absolute dominance. For China, being second might be more beneficial, reducing geopolitical friction while securing substantial economic benefits through technology self-reliance and international partnerships. Ultimately, the AI landscape is shifting rapidly. Leadership in this field will increasingly hinge on adaptability, global collaboration, and strategic foresight rather than merely raw computing power. For now, China's measured pursuit of second place might be exactly the kind of innovative thinking the tech world needs—less about outright dominance and more about sustainable and strategic competitiveness.
South China Morning Post
05-02-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
China's antitrust probe into Google seen as warning shot to the US
Published: 10:40pm, 5 Feb 2025 China's antitrust investigation into Google , which does not offer most of its consumer-facing services including search and email in the country, seems to make little sense on the surface, but analysts said the move could be seen as a warning shot to the US and a threat to the Android operating system. The inquiry into Google was unveiled on Tuesday in tandem with China's fresh tariffs on US imports and new export controls of certain minerals, as well as the addition of two US companies to China's unreliable entity list . The move against Google showed that 'Beijing has effectively fired a warning shot to Washington, signalling its readiness to retaliate,' said Angela Zhang, a law professor at the University of Southern California and author of Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation. US President Donald Trump, left, sits with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a bilateral meeting in Florida in 2017. Photo: AFP/Getty Images/TNS While the one-line statement from China's market regulator contained no details about the investigation, state media has suggested it was related to Android – Google's open-source operating system.
