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Nio is planning to list its shares in Singapore. This would be the Chinese electric carmaker's third listing location, following its IPO in New York and a secondary listing in Hong Kong.Costfoto | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesChinese electric carmaker Nio said Friday that it's planning a secondary share listing in Singapore.Nio, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, also carried out a secondary listing in Hong Kong in March. Singapore would be the third exchange that Nio's shares are trading on.The move comes…

Another EV win for BorgWarner which will provide “a leading Chinese OEM” with a dual inverter unit for the automaker’s A/A+ hybrid vehicle model planned for launch in Q2 2023. The product combines two inverters, a DC/DC converter, and a boost module into a single unit which drives two electric motors, powers the 12 volt electrical system and supports the boosted system architecture of the propulsion system. The unit will deliver cost and…

Hovering in the sky above Ukraine are hundreds of small drones from U.S. startups, searching for survivors in war-pummeled cities and Russian hide-outs in the scarred landscape.Those startups, including Seattle-based BRINC Drones Inc. and Silicon Valley’s Skydio Inc., are rushing to fill a gap in Ukraine after government officials called out products supplied by Chinese company SZ DJI Technology Co., the world’s largest commercial drone maker, as a security risk for Ukraine’s military and civilians. Ukrainian…

Flight trackers got an interesting surprise late Friday night when six People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) Y-20 cargo planes appeared heading west in Turkish airspace towards Serbia.Open-source aircraft tracker Evergreen Intel told The War Zone fellow tracker @ameliairheart first spotted the flights just north of Istanbul, Turkey. “This was my cue to bring up both Flightradar24 and my ADSBexchange selective database that includes Y-20A/U known hex codes,” Evergreen Intel told The War Zone. “Sure enough, the…

Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth safely on Saturday after spending a record six months aboard China's new space station, doubling the previous stay of the country's longest single flight in space.The Shenzhou-13 capsule carrying astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu touched down successfully at 9:56 am local time in the Dongfeng landing site in Gobi Desert, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.The medical team confirmed that the crew members are in…

Jeff Bezos has asked in a post on Twitter if Elon Musk's $44 billion cash deal to buy Twitter gives China "a bit of leverage over the town square". The purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk has generated a debate about whether the deal is good for the social media network. In many countries, Twitter has been at the centre of intense discussions over free speech and the spread of misinformation. The social media platform is also wrestling with issues related to content moderation. Twitter is blocked in China, where Musk, the…

A federal indictment unsealed Monday accuses a Chinese telecommunications company of stealing technology from Illinois-based Motorola Solutions, in another case highlighting longstanding fears about China pilfering vital US business secrets to bolster its own economy.The Chicago filing charges Hytera Communications, with conspiracy to commit theft of trade secrets, alleging it recruited several Motorola employees as part of the scheme. They are accused of accessing Motorola's internal database, then described and even…

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On a stage reserved for the biggest players in the global telecoms industry, three Chinese firms took their place alongside three Western companies -- and pushed the message that they wanted to "work together". But the state-owned companies — China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom — have been barred from doing business in the United States, severely hampering their global ambitions. The US authorities cited security and risks of meddling by the Chinese state — similar reasons lay behind Huawei's exclusion from the…

Jeff Bezos has asked in a post on Twitter if Elon Musk's $44 billion cash deal to buy Twitter gives China "a bit of leverage over the town square". The purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk has generated a debate about whether the deal is good for the social media network. In many countries, Twitter has been at the centre of intense discussions over free speech and the spread of misinformation. The social media platform is also wrestling with issues related to content moderation. Twitter is blocked in China, where Musk, the…