Zhou Wei, a 42-year-old software entrepreneur from Shenzhen, stood at the head of a queue snaking outside a retail bank...
On a Wednesday morning in May 2026, a paper landed in the journal Nature that said more about China’s technological ambitions than almost any policy document...
Grab Holdings (NASDAQ: GRAB) delivered its strongest-ever first quarter on May 5, 2026 — yet the stock still trades near a 52-week low. That disconnect, analysts...
The global economy is currently navigating its most severe energy supply disruption since the 1970s. As the US-Iran war escalates into a protracted war of economic...
Executive Summary: For four decades, the unceasing flow of rural labor to coastal megacities was the undisputed engine of China’s economic miracle. Today, that engine is...
Six weeks after Trump threatened to sever all trade with Spain, Pedro Sánchez landed in Beijing and signed 19 deals with Xi Jinping. This isn’t diplomacy....
Beijing is weaponizing export controls on rare earths, tungsten, and antimony like never before. But the Iran war and Strait of Hormuz crisis are slowing China’s...
China’s export controls on rare earths, tungsten, and silver are tightening fast in 2026 — but the Iran war and Hormuz chaos are already denting Beijing’s...
On April 9, a European rocket will lift a Chinese-European spacecraft into orbit from the jungle coast of French Guiana. In a world tearing itself apart...
There is a particular kind of policy failure that announces itself quietly—not with a crisis, but with a statistic that arrives too late to matter. For...