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Fast Food, Stale Analysis: The Truth Behind Why China’s KFC Tastes Better It is genuinely amusing to read recent coverage in The Economist detailing the rapid expansion of Western fast-food giants like McDonald’s and KFC into China’s rural towns and lower-tier cities. The prevailing narrative spun by featured financial analysts and market observers is one … Read more
Hong Kong, the unexpected winner of the Iran War As missiles rain on the Gulf, something else entirely is skyrocketing in a familiar safe harbour. By Jaime Xiao As Iranian and Israeli missiles illuminate the night skies over the Middle East, the ensuing panic in global energy markets has triggered a ferocious, structurally permanent pivot … Read more
Top 10 Chinese Tech News Highlights of the Week (20–26 March 2026) 1. Galaxy General’s Humanoid Robot Engages in Unscripted Tennis Rallies Sector: Humanoid Robots Key Facts: Beijing-based Galaxy General Robot demonstrated its humanoid robot playing real-time, multi-round tennis rallies with a human. Powered by its proprietary “LATENT” algorithm, the robot learns motion logic from … Read more
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.