China's space programs, investments, and cooperative endeavours with third parties have accelerated so much in the past 10 years that a new report from the Commercial Space Federation indicates it's poised to become the leading country in aerospace technology.

China Unicom has built a massive data centre powered by domestically developed artificial intelligence chips from Alibaba and other companies, state broadcaster CCTV said, as Beijing seeks to wean itself off foreign technologies.

One of the great hopes for more powerful electric vehicle batteries is getting closer to hitting the world’s roads – at least according to Chinese investors.

The technology firm Oracle could be part of a group of companies that help enable TikTok to continue operating in the U.S. if a framework deal is finalized with China, sources told CBS News. President Trump is expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday.

Plus, MAGA world whines over Trump’s Big Tech dinner, Europe spurns the president’s tariff threats and more — all in this week’s Tuesday Tech Drop.

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known.

The Mexico-China Chamber of Commerce and Technology (MEXCHAM) has warned of the potentially negative consequences of introducing high tariffs on Chinese imports for the development and growth of strategic industrial sectors and the supply chains that make products sold from Mexico competitive.

Earlier this year, US government restrictions on selling artificial intelligence chips to China prevented Nvidia from selling its H20 chip within China, forcing the company to take a $4.5 billion write-off for unsold chip inventory in the fiscal first quarter.

U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.