China

Deepseek Banned

Following on from Tik Tok, Deepseek is the latest Chinese tech software to be banned by the Australian Government. It was billed as better than Chat GPT, cheaper to make, and it led to a halving of the share price of the US giant NVIDIA company. Many were touting the open source of the LLG …

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Panda Diplomacy

The first part of Premier Li’s historic Australian visit was to Adelaide to announce a new set of Pandas for Adelaide Zoo.  This was a good start, you don’t get Pandas if China is unhappy with you.  But there were other challenges in what has been a rocky few years for the Australia China relationship. …

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Post-COVID strategies for Australian retail transformation

Under the recent cost of living crisis, Australian retailers face the challenges of physical retail store transformation. Professor Sun Sheng Han conducted the in-depth research on the new strategies of interaction between physical store and consumers after the COVID, which could be adopted by the Australian business. The Wire’s Yumeng Gu firstly asked the Professor …

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Monkeying with genetics

Dolly the sheep was first cloned more than thirty years ago and since then, mice, rabbits, cows and even other monkeys have been cloned using a technique called “somatic cell nuclear transfer”. The process is notoriously difficult, with only 1 to 3 per cent of clones resulting in live births. Now, Chinese scientists have unveiled …

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