News on China's scientific and technological development.

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Russia and India are participants in the Wassenaar Arrangement.

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In practice the West bans the export of a lot of technologies to Russia and India as well.
The current bans are not like the COCOM bans. They do them in an ad-hoc fashion. There is no standing commitee. Not yet anyway.

 

[tphuang]

Key Companies & Their T1100 Carbon Fiber Milestones​

• Shandong Yongcheng New Materials Co., Ltd.: Held the technical appraisal meeting for its "T1100 Grade Ultra - High - Strength Carbon Fiber Industrial Preparation Technology" on July 27, 2025.
• Weihai Guangwei Composites Co., Ltd.: Completed the development of wet - spun T1100 carbon fiber and passed application verification in 2024; developed dry - jet wet - spun T1100 products that won project assessments in 2025.
• Sinofibers Technology Co., Ltd.: Its self - developed ZT9H series (equivalent to T1100) has passed aerospace verification (specific time not specified); its kiloton - scale production line supports T800 - T1100 production.
• Zhongfu Shenying Carbon Fiber Co., Ltd.: Has achieved a full - spectrum breakthrough covering T700 to T1100 grades (specific T1100 achievement time not specified).
• Changsheng (Langfang) Technology Co., Ltd.: On September 29, 2024, the "Industrial - scale Preparation Technology of Ultra - High - Strength Polyacrylonitrile Carbon Fiber ZA70 (T1100 - grade)" jointly developed by Changsheng Technology and Shenzhen University passed the scientific and technological achievement evaluation organized by the Chinese Composite Materials Society. In September 2025, it achieved the goal of stable mass production of T1100 - grade carbon fiber on the domestic - made kiloton - scale production line.

Yes, there are quite a few companies that have T1100 products, but getting them into stable production like we have seen with CSST (changsheng) is a different story. In fact, it almost seems like they just bypassed the T1000 product line and going straight for T800G to T1100.

China's chemical/mechanical engineering is evolving fast.

 

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Very interesting! Since monazite (main mineral source of some rare earth elements) also contains significant uranium and thorium (hence radioactive waste), CNNC had developed tech and infra to extract U and Th from waste product of rare earth production from monazite. Two birds one stone!

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The interaction between China's atomic bomb project and rare earth R&D has directly ensured the breakthrough of nuclear fuel and other related scientific research tasks, meanwhile, it has significantly forced to achieve preeminence in rare earth separation. The impact is profound yet rarely investigated.

Interesting history on the interaction between fissile material and rare earth extraction/refining tech

 

[tphuang]

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China's deep sea submersible completing mission in the Arctic Ocean with help from its icebreaking mothership.

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Very interesting! Since monazite (main mineral source of some rare earth elements) also contains significant uranium and thorium (hence radioactive waste), CNNC had developed tech and infra to extract U and Th from waste product of rare earth production from monazite. Two birds one stone!

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Interesting history on the interaction between fissile material and rare earth extraction/refining tech

this is great stuff.

 

[Wrought]

More and more reports of this nature are trickling out.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

 The first Trump administration tried to limit sales of Huawei’s telecom equipment in America and other nations due to cybersecurity concerns. The administration later imposed export controls on Huawei in an attempt to kill it for doing business with Iran.
 The U.S. government’s rationale for its actions against Huawei is a legacy of an earlier era when America had enough power to impose crippling sanctions without harming its own companies’ competitiveness.
 Because of U.S. actions, Huawei developed its own operating system (OS), built its own chips, and bought equipment from other nations.
 Despite U.S. actions against Huawei, it remains the world’s largest telecom equipment manufacturer, with a 34 percent global market share in 2024, up 2 percentage points from 2018.
 Meanwhile, Huawei succeeded in boosting its global market share in telecom equipment and expanding into new markets, such as smart automotive solutions. Indeed, Huawei asserts that it has built an ecosystem entirely independent from U.S. technologies.
 While export controls made Huawei a more robust competitor, they also hurt U.S. technology companies—reducing their sales to Huawei by $33 billion between 2021 and 2024—and they triggered retaliation from the Chinese government.
 It’s time for the U.S. government to rethink the use of export controls on China, recognizing that this is a new era when the effect is just as likely to backfire and hurt American companies and jobs.

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More and more reports of this nature are trickling out.

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Who do you think are ultimately behind these? Not the name on the publication but the actual backers of these pieces. Silicon Valley? Wall Street? Military Industrial Complex? Corporate America in general?

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

Who do you think are ultimately behind these? Not the name on the publication but the actual backers of these pieces. Silicon Valley? Wall Street? Military Industrial Complex? Corporate America in general?

A mysterious individual named Hensen Juang.

 

[Phead128]

Who do you think are ultimately behind these? Not the name on the publication but the actual backers of these pieces. Silicon Valley? Wall Street? Military Industrial Complex? Corporate America in general?

A mysterious individual named Hensen Juang.

NYT has reported that Nvidia, Intel and Qualcomm has lobbied and donated significantly to think-tankers and researchers to alter their anti-China export control stances as it hurts US innovation, sales, and market access to China.

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So to answer your question, the US semiconductor industry is probably behind it.

 

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Dreame is like so ridiculous of a company. It's so crazy how many stuff they try. And I'm sure a whole bunch of them won't work out, but this is just funny. Using ceramic ring to do the job of a smart watch.

 

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