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September 2026

Painted illustration of a stainless-steel methane rocket on a Gobi desert launch pad before dawn, venting vapour beside its tower

Science & Tech

China’s Private Rockets Bet on Methane and Reuse

China’s private launch sector opened with a 2014 State Council investment note, took its first orbital flight in July 2019 with i-Space, won the global methane-to-orbit race with LandSpace’s Zhuque-2 in July 2023, and is now closing in on booster recovery while state-backed constellations drive demand.

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Science & Tech

China Already Owns the Scale of Science

Beijing did not sneak up the league tables. It industrialised science: patents, STEM degrees, papers and now PPP research spend. The West is still arguing about whether the scoreboard is fair. Scale is settled.

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Science & Tech

Huawei’s UnifiedBus Bet on Giant Clusters

Huawei is not pretending the United States has restored its access to the most advanced chipmaking tools. It is trying to change the unit of competition.

Painted illustration of a Hefei quantum lab with a gold-plated superconducting dilution refrigerator beside an optical table for a photonic quantum machine

Science & Tech

China’s Two-Track Race for Quantum Computers

Chinese quantum research has become one of the country’s most disciplined scientific construction projects.

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Science & Tech

CXMT Has Reached the Flagship Tier

Chinese smartphone makers are putting domestically made memory into machines that used to reserve that slot for imports alone.

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Science & Tech

Zhongguo Surprises

For decades, Western commentary has repeatedly predicted that China was approaching the limits of what it could achieve technologically.

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Science & Tech

China’s Push for Its Own Lithography

For more than a decade, one company has occupied perhaps the most strategically important position in the global semiconductor industry.

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Science & Tech

China’s Using AI to Reinvent Chip Design

China’s semiconductor strategy is entering a new phase.

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Science & Tech

China’s First Glass Chip Packaging

Glass seems an unlikely material for a computer chip. It is best known for windows, bottles and screens, and ordinary glass barely conducts electricity.

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Science & Tech

China’s Place in the AI Race

For most of the artificial-intelligence boom, the story seemed almost entirely American. OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, Microsoft and SpaceXAI dominated the headlines, the investment flows and the global imagination.

Painted still life of an AI chip package made of several chiplets and memory stacks on an engineer's workbench

Science & Tech

China’s AI Chip Industry Grows Around US Curbs

Washington tried to place a technological ceiling over China’s AI ambitions. Instead, it may have helped create one of the most extraordinary engineering races of the modern semiconductor era.