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A Renault electric powertrain unit, the kind that uses a wound-rotor motor with no rare-earth magnets
Hardware·

Renault ditched rare-earth magnets in its EVs in 2012. China's export squeeze made that look smart

A Renault explainer on rare-earth-free EV motors hit Hacker News. Here's how electric cars run without the magnets China controls, and who's shipping them.

Close-up of a semiconductor wafer, the kind Taiwan's foundries produce for AI servers
Policy·

Taiwan weighs making AI chip exports to all of China a crime, not just to Huawei

Taiwan is considering US-aligned export controls that would treat unauthorized AI chip shipments to any Chinese customer as a crime. It's under discussion, not law yet.

DeepSeek social card with the company's wordmark on a navy background
AI·

DeepSeek locked in the 75% V4-Pro cut. The API now undercuts every Western frontier model.

On May 23 DeepSeek told customers the V4-Pro discount becomes its standard price after May 31. Output drops from $3.48 to $0.87 per million tokens.

Illustration accompanying ChinaTalk's investigation into grey-market Claude API proxy networks
AI·

Chinese proxy networks sell Claude API access at 90% off. They harvest every prompt that passes through.

A ChinaTalk investigation reveals how 'transfer stations' resell Anthropic API access using stolen credentials, model substitution, and prompt harvesting.

Electronic certification testing equipment in a lab
Policy·

FCC just voted to bar Chinese labs from certifying US electronics. 75% of devices are tested there now.

Brendan Carr's FCC advanced the 'Bad Labs' rule on April 30 in a 3-0 vote, kicking off a 60-90 day comment period. The rule covers 126 labs in China and Hong Kong.

Aikido Security illustration of the GPT-Proxy backdoor.
Security·

Malicious npm and PyPI packages turn dev servers into Chinese LLM proxies

Aikido found a stage-2 Go binary inside two health-check-themed packages that runs an OpenAI-compatible router routing Claude, GPT, and Gemini traffic through Chinese aggregators.