China’s technology landscape is undergoing a quiet revolution as ByteDance and Alibaba Cloud emerge as fierce rivals in the race to control the country’s AI computing and cloud infrastructure. Once focused on entertainment and e-commerce, both tech giants are transforming into full-fledged infrastructure
China’s artificial intelligence (AI) cloud industry is rapidly transforming into a global export engine, with exports reaching $12 billion in 2025, driven largely by demand from Southeast Asia’s emerging digital economies. Once primarily focused on domestic industrial AI services, Chinese cloud firms such
China’s digital expansion strategy has entered a new stage one defined by artificial intelligence (AI)–driven cloud infrastructure. As nations around the world modernize their economies, China is exporting not just hardware and logistics under the Belt and Road Initiative but also data centers,
