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The White House has taken one of the most significant steps yet in its quest to cut China’s tech sector off from American support. President Joe Biden yesterday issued an executive order signaling a ...

The order authorizes the US Treasury to limit or prohibit US investment in three areas of Chinese development: semiconductors, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing. The restrictions ...

The new limits, aimed at preventing American help to Beijing as it modernizes its military, escalate a conflict between the world’s two largest economies.

Group tours accounted for 30% of the Chinese leisure travel market to Australia before the pandemic, as travel operators welcome move
Airlines are preparing to cater for an increase in Chinese tourists to Australia after China’s government announced group tours to the country could resume, as the relationship between Beijing and Canberra continues to thaw.
China’s culture and tourism ministry named Australia, as well as countries including Japan, South Korea, Britain and the US, in an updated list of destinations that Chinese tourism agencies can run group tours to for the first time since outbound travel was halted due to the pandemic.

Australian lawyer and China bounty target Kevin Yam still believes it is important to pursue diplomacy with Beijing
An Australian citizen who the Hong Kong authorities have vowed to “pursue for life” has risked further ire from Beijing by calling on the Australian government to consider future sanctions against Chinese officials.
Kevin Yam, one of eight overseas-based pro-democracy advocates accused of “encouraging sanctions … to destroy Hong Kong”, said the city’s descent into increasingly repressive rule had been “gut-wrenching”.

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Alibaba, TikTok-owner Bytedance, and other Chinese tech giants have reportedly rushed to order Nvidia chips as US-China trade tensions mount.

New measures from the US Treasury will target several key sectors including semiconductors, quantum computing and artificial intelligence
Joe Biden has moved to restrict US investment in Chinese technology, signing an executive order which including semiconductors, quantum computing and artificial intelligence (AI).
It is the latest in a series of measures taken by the US to restrict China’s access to the most advanced technology and comes as the president has embarked on a multi-state tour of the south-west to tout his plans to revive American manufacturing after decades of decline.

British carmaker also gearing up for sales of new Eletre electric SUV under Chinese owner Geely’s expansion plans
The British carmaker Lotus produced a record number of sports cars in the first half of 2023, as it gears up for a huge push behind sales of a new electric SUV under its Chinese owners’ expansion plans.
Lotus, which marked its 75th anniversary this year, produced 2,200 vehicles in the first six months of the year at its factory in a former second world war bomber factory at Hethel in Norfolk.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jesalyn Harper, the only full-time code enforcement officer for the small, agricultural city of Reedley in California's Central Valley, was responding to a complaint about vehicles parked in the loading dock of a cold-storage warehouse when she noticed a foul smell and saw a garden hose snaking into the old building.

The order – to be implemented next year – restricts investments in semiconductors and microelectronics, quantum tech and AI
Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order that will narrowly prohibit certain US investments in sensitive technology in China and require government notification of funding in other tech sectors.
The long-awaited order authorises the US treasury secretary to prohibit or restrict certain US investments in Chinese entities in three sectors: semiconductors and microelectronics, quantum information technologies and certain artificial intelligence systems.

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Wednesday issued an executive order aimed at restricting certain American investments in sensitive high-tech areas in China -- a move Beijing blasted as being "anti-globalization.