Published: 3:02pm, 10 Sep 2025Updated: 3:54pm, 10 Sep 2025
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1. Harvard’s top mathematician Liu Jun leaves US for China
Liu Jun, one of the world’s leading statisticians and a long-time professor at Harvard, has returned to China full-time, accepting a prestigious chair at Tsinghua University last month.
2. China’s ‘silent sanction’ on US semiconductors creates a weapons generation gap
In addition to the spectacle of last week’s military parade in Tiananmen Square, with its rows of never-before-seen weapons and equipment, was a less visible but highly consequential shift.
3. In a first, US-China team turns plastic waste into petrol in 1 step
Scientists in the US and China say they have developed a one-step method to safely turn toxic mixed plastic waste into petrol, with more than 95 per cent efficiency at room temperature.