Rare earths; Abundant pets..
Science & Technology
Chinese graphics processors are 10x faster than Nvidia’s hottest hardware.
DeepSeek integrations YTD: 8 automakers, 9 financial firms, 3 state-owned telecoms, Honor, Alibaba, Huawei, Tencent, Baidu and even NetEase’s game, Justice Mobile.
Dying Li+ batteries injected with LiSO2CF3 retain 96% of charge after 18 years. Current batteries retain just 70% after 3 years.
72-qubit superconducting quantum computer, Origin Wukong, received its 20 millionth remote visit. Visitors have come from 139 countries.
China’s intelligent computing power rose 74% YoY to 726 EFLOPS (hundred billion billion FLOPS). A $20 billion market and indigenous supply chain.
Trade & Finance
Census finds 100 million manufacturing employees, 24% of all secondary and tertiary workers in China.
Chinese companies don’t know where to put their cash, sparking a record rise in dividend payouts.
Apple chooses Alibaba to provide AI in China, as declining local iPhone sales and stiff competition from Huawei bite.
America’s 666 EU lobbyists and 1,086 support staff cost €150 million annually. There are 8 Chinese organizations in Brussels with 19 staff costing €3 million.
The Asia Direct Cable (ADC) is fully operational. China Telecom/Unicom built the 10,000km, 160 Tbps Asia-Pacific cable connecting China, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
Society
Hua Bin, the Jewish stranglehold on the West: “The West Is a Demeritocracy,” and “US Reeks of Fear.”
Guidelines for Self-Discipline and Monitoring: 2025 Annual Reports must disclose emissions and climate risk mitigation.
‘Loyal young graduates focused on aerospace engineering, international cooperation and asteroid detection’ sought for potential asteroid interception mission.
“A major difficulty in establishing the rule of law in China.. is that deep down, most of us still believe people stand taller than laws, and the person stands taller than the office s/he occupies”.
The number of pets surpassed the number of children under four in 2024. China is home to 73.4 million infants and toddlers and 120 million urban pets.
Governance
ABOVE: More robots lower production costs, which lowers inflation.
Capital, technology intensive aerospace sector gets the Beijing bearhug:
Create market demand through state support
Build domestic industry with the aid of foreign companies
Strengthen innovation system to develop indigenous technology
Crowd out foreign companies by offering better cost/benefit
Push into global markets.
First National Large-scale Forest Fire Rescue Training Facility launched and put into use at the National Southwest Emergency Rescue Centre.
China’s sovereign wealth funds are 2nd and 3rd globally with $2.4 trillion in combined assets. Hong Kong rounds out the top 10 with $500 billion.
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“Our generation of Chinese has far greater endurance and mobilisation capacity than Americans. Moreover, our central government’s strong ability to control is an advantage Trump envies but cannot replicate”.
Geopolitics
Above: Hong Kong Rioters Receiving Instructions at US Embassy Hong Kong
FM Wang Yi: “China is willing to synergize Belt and Road cooperation with the EU’s Global Gateway, to empower each other and empower the entire world”. Timing is everything.
Beyond Power Transitions: The Lessons of East Asian History and the Future of U.S.-China Relations. David Kang, Xinru Ma. East Asia was stable for a remarkably long time despite massive power differences because of common understandings about countries’ relative status.
Of 1,572 Olympic swimmers, all 32 most tested are Chinese. Silver medalist Tang Qianting had 38 tests. Medalists Leon Marchand (France) and Summer McIntosh (Canada), had 16 each.
“The ‘China threat’ is a convenient tool for US parties to attack their opponents. US media now claim that closing USAID would ‘hand a win to Beijing,’ allow China to fill the US ‘power vacuum,’ and serve as a ‘great gift’ to China, among other things”.
Defense
ABOVE: World’s Largest Drone Warship
US pauses work on $141 billion Sentinel ICBM program. 81% over budget and 4 years late. Meanwhile, China’s HGVs and FOBs can bypass all known defenses..
Above: Thirty-two percent of F-35 Lightning fighters’ electronics are made in China because, as one admiral testified, “China’s the only place that makes those parts, Congressman”.
