Harvard University has lost its top position in a university ranking index for the first time since 2014, with Chinese institutions dominating the top 10. China now accounts for nine of the top 10 and 17 of the top 20 universities listed.
Olympic table tennis champions Sun Yingsha (25) and Wang Manyu (29) graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and will pursue master's degrees in sports studies at Tsinghua University, sparking questions about their academic timeline and rigour amid intense training schedules.
YCIS Hong Kong's Class of 2026 has received over 900 offers from top global universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Stanford. The school emphasizes personalized support, global awareness, and compassionate action, with initiatives like 'Seeds for Tomorrow' providing real-world research experience.
A leading Chinese university has bestowed a prestigious honorary academic title upon a Russian banker, who is under US sanctions. This award follows a partnership agreement between the university and the banker's institution focused on innovative development.
Research published in China's Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica suggests Chinese language may offer a slight intrinsic advantage over English for AI in aerodynamic tasks. An AI agent developed by Tsinghua University was trained to reduce aircraft wing drag by modifying shapes, learning through trial and error.
Tsinghua University's Wu Yongping discusses signals from the Xi-Trump summit, emphasizing China's determination for peaceful reunification with Taiwan and outlining firm responses to US actions supporting Taiwan independence.
Physicists simulated "false vacuum decay," a theoretical scenario where a tiny cosmic bubble could expand and erase everything in its path. The experiment showed how a metastable "false vacuum" could tunnel into a lower-energy "true vacuum" via quantum effects, triggering destructive vacuum bubbles. The research does not suggest the universe is imminent collapse.
Trump frames US-China relationship as historically consequential, citing US founding fathers' admiration for Confucian values and the US-funded establishment of Xi's alma mater, Tsinghua University, in 1911.
China accounted for 44% of contributions to the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) in Rio de Janeiro, with top universities Tsinghua, Shanghai Jiao Tong, Zhejiang, and Peking leading globally. Combined with Hong Kong (7.7%) and considering Chinese diaspora researchers, China's influence in AI research is notably prominent, surpassing the US's 32% contribution.
Beijing is on stronger footing over Taiwan compared with Donald Trump’s first presidential term, according to a leading mainland analyst. Wu Yongping, dean of the Institute for Taiwan Studies at Tsinghua University, said the issue would “definitely” be discussed when Trump meets his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping later this week. He said in an interview that Beijing would welcome any statements opposing independence but he believed the space for independence was narrowing in any case. The two...
China-Russia ties can withstand any potential containment efforts despite Washington’s long-standing hopes of driving a wedge between the two, a senior Chinese policy adviser has said, citing deep-seated US-Russia “contradictions” within what he called a “great triangle” of relations. Wu Dahui, deputy director of the Russian Research Institute at Tsinghua University, said while China and Russia were not formally allies, their relationship was “better than an alliance” and took the form of...
Economist Bai Chongen argues that China's status as a middle-income country with a massive population and strong commercialization capabilities distinguishes it from Japan's economic trajectory.
Beijing's top official on Hong Kong affairs has called on Tsinghua University alumni to help the city better serve national development through patriotism, pragmatism and their global networks. Liaison office director Zhou Ji outlined three expectations for graduates at the Tsinghua Alumni Association of Hong Kong's 70th Anniversary Summit, while Chief Executive John Lee expressed hope more alumni would assist Hong Kong become an international education hub.
Bai Chongen is a prominent Chinese economist and government adviser. He is the dean of Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management and serves concurrently as vice-chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. From 2015 to 2018, he was a member of the Chinese central bank’s monetary policy committee. This interview took place during the “two sessions” – the annual meetings of China’s top legislature and advisory body – which Bai was attending as a member of the...
The European Union must develop an independent strategy to balance its economic ties with China against its security alliance with the United States, avoiding total subordination to either power.
