Tag: Xi Jinping

China’s USD crypto rival looms

Posted on   |  by Graeme Philipson
China is set to launch a digital version of its currency, backed by its central bank. The new blockchain based central bank digital currency (CBDC) has the potential to...

Taking a tech lead from China

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The vocal ‘anti-China’ forces in Australia that the federal government is now attempting to counter – somewhat awkwardly – continue to view the technology world through a very US...

Beijing’s Catch-22 for Aust unis

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The independence of Australian and other western universities with fully-fledged sister universities, joint ventures, campuses and research institutes in China is under attack from Beijing after Xi Jinping’s regime...

Emperor Xi and the tech giants

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It is already last month’s news that Chinese leader Xi Jinping emerged triumphant from the 19th Communist Party Congress as the effective one-man ruler – some would say dictator...

Xi tightens grip in China tech

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The quinquennial Chinese Communist Party Congress, its 19th since winning the country’s civil war in 1949 begins this Wednesday. It will be the coronation of its leader for the...

An upgrade to the Great Firewall?

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
China has continued to step up efforts to censor the internet and all things digital with promises to block the virtual private networks that enable users to jump over...

President Xi comes to Davos

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
The timing of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s debut appearance at the annual global gabfest that is the annual World Economic Forum in the once barely-known Swiss ski resort of...

Xi plots China’s innovation future

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has stepped up his rhetoric on the country’s digital and innovation future, setting out a clear timetable for the world’s most populous nation to seize...

Turnbull in China: It’s all upside

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
The Innovation stream for government’s ambitious Australia Week in China program running this week may not have been the most popular on the massive eight-city caravan that has seen...