A New Arms Race in Supercomputing
The fastest supercomputer with a theoretical peak performance of 124.5 petaflops, Sunway TaihuLight, is not only a Chinese supercomputer, it runs on microprocessors developed entirely in China.
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Duterte Trust Rating and South China Sea Talk
A nationwide survey showed President Rodrigo Duterte gaining a historic high of 91 percent in public trust in his first week in office. The rating easily broke the former record which was held by Benigno Aquino III in 2010.
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Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of China
Shenzhen is now dubbed China’s Silicon Valley. Based on the City Competitiveness Bluebook of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the city surpassed Hong Kong to become China’s most competitive city in 2014.
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Green is Gold
A report released on May 26, 2016 by the United Nations Environmental Programme shows that China will get forest cover on almost one quarter of the country by 2020 if the country succeeds in its mission towards building an “eco-civilization.”
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Midea Moves Aggressively into Robotics
On May 17, Germany’s Kuka received a friendly buyout proposal from Midea, a white goods appliances company based in Guangdong with annual sales of EUR 19 billion. Midea proposed to pay EUR 115 per share to buy the 86.5 percent of Kuka that it does not own.
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China’s Economic Policy: Short Term Pain for Long Term Gain
A front page interview with an anonymous “person with authority” in the People’s Daily on China’s economic situation shows clearly what senior leaders think about the current economic issues facing China.
