Silicon Valley companies are stepping up their security vetting of staff and potential recruits as U.S. officials express heightened concerns about the threat of Chinese espionage. Tech giants like Google and high-profile startups like OpenAI have stepped up their screening of personnel, according to several people who work directly with the groups. The move comes … Read more
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has gotten its first look at China’s Chang’e 6 spacecraft on the far side of the moon. The Change 6 The lander is flanked by two craters that are similar in size and sits on the edge of a much subtler crater about 50 meters wide, reports Mark Robinson, the … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply log in to the Renewable energy myFT Digest – delivered straight to your inbox. The largest US renewable energy developer has warned President Joe Biden against imposing more trade tariffs on Chinese clean energy technologies as it risks slowing the green transition. Rebecca Kujawa, CEO of NextEra Energy Resources, … Read more
18:14 June 14, 2024, updated 18:44 June 14, 2024 Aircraft manufactured by Boeing and Airbus made components of titanium that were sold with false documentation. The Federal Aviation Administration unveiled the problem after Boeing had reported it to the agency when it was informed by parts supplier Spirit Aerosystems. Spirit is the same company that … Read more
A European experiment aboard China’s Chang’e 6 mission has recorded previously undetected charged particles on the moon’s surface. A catalog of these will allow astronomers to better investigate the chemical composition of the moon’s regolith. These particles, which are essentially gases generated by sunlight, were detected at the landing site of the Chang’e-6 spacecraft in … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply log in to the EU trade myFT Digest – delivered straight to your inbox. The EU must become less “passive” in defending its economic interests against the threat of countries like China that have “unfair advantages”, former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has said. The economic bloc should be … Read more
German automakers such as BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen could be hit hard by retaliatory tariffs because they all have huge production plants in China. ADVERTISEMENT Germany could try to stop the European Union from imposing higher tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), which will reportedly come into effect on July 4, or at least weaken … Read more
Lawmakers on Thursday questioned Microsoft President Brad Smith about the Windows giant’s businesses trading in China — and the supercorp’s repeated security lapses — at a time when Beijing-backed spies are accused of breaking in in Microsoft-hosted email accounts of US government officials. A hearing was held in the U.S. House of Representatives in response … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply log in to the Cars myFT Digest – delivered straight to your inbox. Stellantis will shift production of some Chinese-branded electric vehicles to Europe, in the latest sign of how global carmakers will change their regional strategy following Brussels’ announcement this week of planned additional tariffs on Chinese-made electric … Read more
HELSINKI – China’s experimental reusable spaceplane has used a smaller spacecraft to test close-range operations and possibly even image the object. China launched its spaceplane for the third time via a Long March 2F rocket on December 14, 2023. The spacecraft launched an object into orbit, first cataloged by the US Space Force space domain … Read more