Economy
What Lords of the Rim Got Right
The West thought China’s advantage was cheap labour. That now looks like one of the great economic misreadings of the past half century. Cheap labour certainly mattered.
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People
Howqua Explains China Better Than You Might Think
There is a habit in the West of treating China’s manufacturing dominance as a historical accident.
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History
The Macartney Mission and Qianlong’s Refusal
In 1793, Britain sent one of the most ambitious diplomatic missions in its history to China.
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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.
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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.
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