The author Zhang Weijie (张纬杰) is a Chinese manufacturing professional who has spent years working abroad—across the Middle East, Latin America, and Southeast Asia—witnessing firsthand what happens when Chinese industry goes global.
A glimpse into china's robotics advantage
It’s secret is its cities, not central planning
For 140 years, part of the Yongle Encyclopedia sat unread in a Paris attic — a researcher’s keen eye and an entrepreneur’s deep pockets brought it back to China.
The game seems to be everywhere, all at once.
Lu Dadao of the Chinese Academy of Sciences warns that oversized, underused HSR infrastructure has ignored basic economic logic, weakened public finances, and derailed regional planning.
From Huawei's Ascend to a wave of GPU startups — thirteen companies racing to replace Nvidia
“It’s really tough doing anything in China right now,” my friend told me. He’s a serial entrepreneur in Shanghai with a locked-in grin. We were waiting for our food in a Taiwanese restaurant in a lovingly-renovated toy factory in Shanghai. China was my home for 20 years, before…
We will put the booster back into service for another flight as soon as possible."
Chinese accounts for just 1.3% of global web content. Beijing is now treating data as strategic infrastructure, with a 2028 plan to build national AI datasets.
Nearly all the world’s counterfeits come from China. Pinkerton is on the case.
Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals
Car companies figured this out decades ago. You build one solid platform, then you stretch it, armor it, or strip it down depending on who is buying. A pickup and an SUV can share more bones than you would think. AutoFlight just applied the same logic to flying machines, and…
Seventeen Chinese elements control the world.
America’s greatest rival is single-handedly averting a global energy crisis. No one knows how the country is doing it—or why.
Everyone is worried about Chinese models, but the frontier labs will be fine; we need to enable open U.S. alternatives.
Lu Yaxiang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics, has spent a decade making sodium-ion batteries commercially viable. In April, he received China’s Youth May Fourth Medal, the country’s top honour for outstanding achievers under 35, for developing…
Defence scientists say the technology could threaten low Earth orbit satellite networks such as Starlink at an extremely low cost.
It has been nine years since a Chinese HPC supercomputer was at the top of the High Performance Linp ...
Every robot and drone runs on actuators — and China makes 90% of them. Inside the American startups racing to win back the motors the U.S. forgot how to build.
Two Open-Weight Models. Eight Chip Families. One Frontier Co-Engineered for Non-Nvidia Silicon. The Stack Was the Moat. Now It Has a Fork.
Elevated homes have been part of Chinese culture since earliest days, showcasing how intercultural interaction fuelled technology development.
Widely referred to as the queen of textiles in the ancient world, silk helped to transform ancient China in myriad ways.
The design taps into a growing demand for low-pressure public spaces, as digital life reshapes how people interact.
China's low rights model is no longer a domestic labor issue but a systemic challenge to global labor standards, supply chain governance and fair market competition.
Built for millions but left mostly empty, Ordos in Inner Mongolia is now a testbed where companies run fleets of robotrucks on its wide, quiet roads.
Chinese diets are dictated by a culture of eating ingredients just hours after slaughtering or harvesting.
notes on shenzhen, shanghai, and more
Note: involution - that's a new one.
28 fabs later
Unpacking the bear thesis on power semis and TSMC’s footnote in the story
Contrary to somewhat popular belief, Chinese characters aren't just little pictures. In fact, most of them aren't pictures at all.
Fang Fang’s newly translated novel uncovers the brutal, buried history of land reform in China.
Gotion wanted to expand its battery production in Michigan, but local backlash, political tensions, and fears over its Chinese ties have stalled its U.S. expansion plans.
For millions of Chinese EV owners, early promises of affordability, convenience, and cutting-edge tech are now tested by aging batteries, replacement costs, and warranties.
Noah Smith, author of the economics Substack Noahpinion, often refers to a common trajectory in Chinese manufacturing as the “China Cycle”:
China has big plans for semiconductor industry and they include self reliance.
But capital controls mean getting money out of the country is no easy task
Frustrated by high return rates and dwindling profits, small merchants are questioning the long-term viability of discount-driven shopping festivals. Some are even opting out and returning to more traditional business models.
More than 800 items, including apparel and footwear, had fibers from the contested region, despite U.S. bans over forced labor concerns.
China’s economy has reached a dead end. Getting out will mean more trade friction with the United States.
A trip to the Beijing Auto Show reveals just how advanced China's EVs are. So what are the so-called "foreign" automakers doing about it?
Datacenter GPUs and some consumer cards now exceed performance limits
Beijing will be thrilled by this nerfed silicon
COVID, guns, anti-Asian violence, and diplomatic relations have complicated the ambitions of the some three hundred thousand college students who come to the U.S. each year.
The suspect’s identification by intelligence agencies raises big questions for one of Australia’s neighbours and about China’s attempts to wield influence in the Pacific.
At the height of the Great Famine in 1960, a group of students exiled to the countryside launched a magazine that dared to tell the truth. Their convictions, and the love they bore for one another, were put to the test.
Chinese livestream agencies promise influencers fame and money, but end up trapping them in multi-year contracts.
The fragrance industry in China is on the upswing as younger consumers embrace scents for self-expression and comfort.
A stage adaptation of the film featured an all-Western cast, was performed in Chinese and raised questions about translation, both linguistic and cultural.