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October 2026

Hand-painted illustration of the Beilun container terminal at Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, China, seen from a wooded hillside on a hazy morning, with rows of red gantry cranes along the quay, a container ship berthing, a patchwork of stacked containers and misty islands beyond, and two small walkers on a hill path in the foreground

Economy

Why China Makes Everything and Britain Doesn’t

Walk through any British high street or hospital store room and the same pattern repeats.

Hand-painted illustration of a Chinese satellite tracking station in pale morning haze, with large white parabolic dishes on conical pedestals among highland scrub and distant soft mountains, and a small red-and-gold visitor pavilion near the compound gate

Science & Tech

China Built Its Own Compass

On 31 July 2020 China declared its third-generation BeiDou Navigation Satellite System open for global service.

Hand-painted illustration of Qianmen Street in Beijing in pale morning haze, with ornate red-and-gold shopfronts and blank signboards lining the broad pedestrian street and its tram rails, strings of red lanterns overhead, a vintage tram, the painted five-bay archway and the grey Zhengyangmen arrow tower at the far end, and small figures strolling

Economy

How China Built Its Own Brands

In 2014 Huawei became the first Chinese company to appear in Interbrand’s annual list of the world’s 100 best global brands, at 94th place. Twelve years later the picture looks very different.

Hand-painted illustration of Lee Byung-chul's birthplace in Uiryeong, South Korea, a traditional tiled-roof hanok compound with a sandy courtyard, a round brick well and persimmon trees heavy with red fruit, set against a wooded hillside in pale autumn morning haze, with a few small visitors

Economy

How Samsung Built the Chaebol Model

Samsung began in 1938 as a small trading shop in Daegu selling dried fish, fruit and noodles.

Hand-painted illustration of Jiangnan Shipyard on Changxing Island in Shanghai in pale morning haze, with tall red gantry cranes straddling dry docks, unfinished ship hulls and container ships at the fitting-out quays on the broad Yangtze, and small workers on the quayside

Economy

China’s Shipyards and the Race to Catch Them

In the first half of 2026, more than four-fifths of the merchant-ship tonnage ordered anywhere in the world went to Chinese yards.

Hand-painted illustration of the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in Guizhou in pale morning haze, its turquoise twin-legged towers and steel truss deck slung on cables high above a deep green karst gorge and the Beipan River, with a small village and red-roofed houses on the slopes below

Places

The Bridge Over the Earth’s Crack

On 28 September 2025 a four-lane expressway bridge opened across the Huajiang Grand Canyon in Guizhou, in China’s mountainous south-west, with its road deck 625 metres above the Beipan River.

Economy

Spain Bets on China as Europe Hardens

On a September evening in Barcelona, a red-and-gold Chinese dragon wound its way through the crowds of La Mercè, the city’s great autumn festival, while acrobats from Shanghai tossed glowing paper lanterns into the air and caught them without ever letting the candles inside tip over.

Hand-painted illustration of a Tang-dynasty palace gate complex in pale morning haze, with red pillars, upturned tiled roofs, gilded brackets and small distant figures on a wide ceremonial avenue

History

The Rebellion That Broke Tang

In December 755 a frontier commander named An Lushan turned his army south from Fanyang, near modern Beijing, and marched on the Tang empire’s eastern capital at Luoyang. Within weeks he held the city.

History

Luoyang, the Capital That Kept Returning

In the year 547 a minor official named Yang Xuanzhi rode into Luoyang on government business and barely recognised it.

Culture

Big Trouble in Little China at Forty

On Wednesday 2 July 1986, 20th Century Fox opened a strange and expensive film in 1,053 American cinemas and watched it sink.

History

Why the ‘Yellow Peril’ Took Hold

On 26 September 1895 Kaiser Wilhelm II wrote from his hunting lodge at Rominten to his cousin, Tsar Nicholas II.

History

Secret War in Shanghai

In July 1940 a young woman calling herself Princess Sumaire stepped off a boat from India and took a suite at the Cathay Hotel on the Bund.