key technologies • Table.Briefings

March 29th, 2026

AI model: Seedance 2.0 aims to improve safety with watermarking

ByteDance plans to equip its video-generation model Seedance 2.0 with enhanced watermarking and intellectual property safeguards before its global launch.

By Fabian Peltsch

Feature | standardization

March 18th, 2026

Standardization: How industrial standards become a geopolitical weapon

Technical standard-setting is becoming a geopolitical tool. Experts are calling on Brussels to take China's strategy more seriously. An incident in Oslo has shown just how vulnerable Europe is.

By Rebecca Ricker

News | Semiconductors

March 16th, 2026

Technology leap: Hua Hong reportedly develops 7-nanometer chip process

China’s second-largest chipmaker is said to be working on an advanced 7-nanometer technology for AI chips – a step that would bring China closer to technological independence from Western suppliers.

By Fabian Peltsch

Feature | 15th Five-Year Plan

March 12th, 2026

Five-Year Plan: China launches its next tech leap

The National People’s Congress has adopted China’s economic blueprint through 2030. Industrial upgrading and technological self-reliance remain core goals. Internationally, the plan is widely read as a further escalation of the technological race.

By Jörn Petring and Leonardo Pape