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The Engine Room of a New Empire: How Hong Kong Financed China’s Motoring Revolution Three years ago, during the Chinese New Year, I stood in a remarkably quiet Hong Kong. The city was only just emerging from the long shadow of pandemic isolation. The streets were subdued, the entrepreneurial hum was muted, and the eerie … Read more
If you want to understand the shifting tectonic plates of the global economy, you could read the latest policy white papers out of Washington, or you could simply look at the photograph of Friedrich Merz in Hangzhou. There stood the German Chancellor—a politician whose brand is practically forged from stern Atlanticist rigour and conservative economic … Read more
Currently, artificial intelligence is reshaping the global industrial landscape at an unprecedented pace, and the “AI+” initiative has been elevated to a national strategy. As a core engine of technological innovation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Shenzhen is leveraging its vitality of openness and inclusiveness, in-depth application, and full-domain empowerment to accelerate the … Read more
Building cross-border partnerships and sourcing strategies to connect global resource suppliers with China’s fast-growing automotive, new energy, and semiconductor industries. March 26, 2025 The Battle for Tech Supremacy in China’s Heartland In a Hangzhou lab last year, engineers at AI startup DeepSeek unveiled a language model that stunned global observers: It rivaled GPT-4’s capabilities but … Read more
Why Australia’s free market is becoming the ultimate laboratory for Chinese manufacturing. If you want to see the future of the global car market, do not look to the protected fiefdoms of Europe or the tariff-walled fortresses of North America. Look, instead, to the bottom of the world. In 2025, a quiet but seismic shift … Read more
How the Robot Belt is fitting Silicon Valley For decades, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was a festival of pixels. We marveled at televisions that grew wider and phones that grew smarter. But walking the halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center this week, the static hum of screens has been replaced by the rhythmic … Read more
Daily briefing on China’s tech sector: Beijing launches security probe into Meta’s Manus deal, Denza unveils “robot” SUV, DeepSeek hits 22M users, and industrial robotics output breaks global records.
Technology & Society Vol. 1 | The Robot Belt Review For years, AI has been a ghost in the digital machine. Now, it demands a physical form. The forging of that form is happening along a formidable industrial arc in Southeast China: The Robot Belt. By The Tech Review Team If the defining image of … Read more
Building cross-border partnerships and sourcing strategies to connect global resource suppliers with China’s fast-growing automotive, new energy, and semiconductor industries. January 5, 2026 Meta’s lucrative acquisition of Manus has once again put the city of Wuhan in the global spotlight. Manus is an AI startup founded in Wuhan three years ago, amidst the final days … Read more