Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shares in leading Chinese battery maker CATL rose 12.6 per cent as trading began on Tuesday and retail investors followed up with strong demand for the biggest listing of the year to date globally. The … Read more
Mission patches are a decades-old tradition in spaceflight. They can range from the figurative to the abstract, prompting valuable insights or feeding confusion. Some are just plain weird. Ars published a story a few months ago on spaceflight patches from NASA, SpaceX, Russia, and the NRO, the US government’s spy satellite agency, which is responsible for … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a world full of Chinese-made products, one remains rare: the commercial jet. This absence of China’s passenger jets, built by state-backed manufacturer Comac, from international markets is not likely to change anytime soon. Last … Read more
China’s state broadcaster has re-released footage from last year of a cutting-edge robotic production line for its advanced PL-15E air-to-air missiles, hours after Pakistan claimed that it used the Chinese-made weapon to shoot down five Indian fighter jets. CCTV first broadcast the footage in July last year. Its re-release on Thursday was interpreted on Chinese … Read more
For quite a while, I have been amazed by China’s innovations in fintech from Ant to WeBank. My first visit to a Chinese bank in the 1990s, they were using Abacuses to calculate transactions; now they use rocket science in the form of AI. A lot of this was covered in depth in the deep … Read more