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In November 2024 Su Di, founder of Garage Cafe, a startup incubator based in Beijing’s Zhongguancun Science Park, had something to share with his followers on Douyin, China’s TikTok.
“Here I have one of two hundred Nvidia H200 graphics cards — currently the most expensive chips on the market — that have just arrived,” he announced, gesturing at a board of Nvidia chips.
In a video posted to Douyin, Su Di, founder of startup incubator Garage Cafe, shows hi
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China’s fraught relationship with Japan and its many maritime disputes with the Philippines are uniting the two archipelago nations against a common adversary. Tokyo and Manila also fear the geopolitical consequences of a successful Chinese attack on Taiwan, which would shatter the “first island chain”.
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