Frank Hossack

Engineers near Shanghai have lowered a data centre onto the seabed and wired it into an offshore wind farm, working from a simple premise; AI needs far more computing power than land, water and electricity can readily supply. 工程师们在上海附近的海域，把一座数据中心沉入海底，并接入了附近的海上风电场，思路其实很简单；AI所需的算力，远超土地、水和电力所能轻易供给的规模。 China has...

This day, 17 August, in 1982, the governments of China and the United States issued the “August 17 Communiqué” on the issue of US arms sales to Taiwan, in which the US government reiterated that it has no intention...

This day, 16 August, in 1971, China and Iran established diplomatic relations, sharing the ideological themes of anti-imperialism and third-world solidarity, and as natural allies seeking to counterbalance the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War. 这一天，即1971年8月16日，中国和伊朗建立了外交关系，共享反帝国主义和第三世界团结的意识形态主题，并作为冷战期间寻求平衡苏联和美国的天然盟友。

This day, 15 August, in 1945, Emperor Hirohito of Japan announced the surrender of Imperial Japan to the Allies. After 8 years of bloody struggle, the Chinese people finally ushered in the final victory in their War of Resistance...

Go at dusk if you can. The Daliao River empties west into the Bohai Sea right here, which means the sunset actually falls into the water instead of behind some hill or skyline. Sounds like a small thing. It...

Fuxin is not a city that tries to flatter you. Coal built it, coal thinned it out, and the cost of that long dependence is still visible in the streets. In official language, it was China’s first national resource-exhausted...

Cities where the old names still matter; Liaoyang is one of them. Baita District, Guangyou Temple, the White Pagoda, the Taizi River, and the Han-Wei mural tombs all sit close enough together that you can get a real first...

This day, 14 August, in 1961, Kwame Nkrumah, President and Head of Government of the Republic of Ghana, was invited to pay an official visit to China. The Chinese government attached great importance to his visit and gave him...