The boardroom was tense. Executives at a major German automotive supplier faced an impossible choice: continue sourcing rare earth elements from China—the world’s dominant supplier—or risk...
BYD’s auditorium at Shenzhen headquarters that crystallizes the strategic pivot of the world’s largest electric vehicle maker: 1.3 million. This is BYD’s target for overseas sales in...
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Just weeks into 2026, China’s economic data release has sent shockwaves through global financial markets and policy circles. Despite an escalating tariff war and predictions of...
Shanghai’s 2035 plan to become a global financial hub leverages AI, RMB internationalization, and national backing—but faces geopolitical, demographic, and institutional challenges. How China’s commercial capital...
As Western infrastructure promises stall, Beijing’s flagship initiative delivers its strongest year yet—fueling a dramatic global realignment On a sweltering afternoon in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, construction...
In a sleek laboratory at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, researchers huddle around the Jiuzhang photonic quantum computer, a machine that...
On a gray January morning in Shenzhen, the production lines at BYD’s sprawling electric vehicle plant hum with algorithmic precision—robotic arms fitting battery cells, workers in...
Beijing’s strategic pivot to Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America pays dividends as Chinese exporters outmaneuver US trade barriers On a humid January morning at Shenzhen’s...