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Global Business. Chinese brands are sweeping the world. Good
China’s new brand ambassadors. A new cohort of consumer firms is taking on sleepy western incumbents. From fast food to video games, new marques ar... (2025)
Delivery drones and flying cars. China’s “low-altitude economy” is taking off
Airborne packages and people will soon be whizzing through China cities. The authorities have found a new industry they want Chinese firms to domi... (2025)
Xi Jinping tries to press China’s advantage in South America
New polling suggests locals are warming to China | The Americas (2025)
Tech hotspots. A new Silicon Valley. Behind DeepSeek lies a dazzling Chinese university
It models itself on Stanford, and is in the tech hotspot of Hangzhou | China (2025)
Stockmarkets. The potential listing of Shein is a test of London’s allure
It would also intensify scrutiny of the fast-fashion giant | Britain (2024)
Chinese green technologies are pouring into Latin America
Climate, and geopolitics, the great green rivalry. Chinese clean technology is blooming and at America. Uncle Sam is worried. That is prompting anx... (2024)
Asian integration: What Asia’s economic revolution means for the world
Investing in the neighborhood. Asia’s economies are coming closer together. That will benefit them, and the world. Links between the region’s count... (2023)
Economic integration: How Asia is reinventing its economic model
A new Era of Asian commerce. How the continent at the heart of globalization is reinventing itself. The continent’s future will involve less Weste... (2023)
Green supply chains; Asia’s battery battlefield.
A battery supply chain that excludes China looks impossible. The outcome will be determined in Asia, where most battery supply chains are based. Th... (2023)
Trade and Geopolitics; enter the investment police. America’s plan to vet investments into China
Citing national security, America’s government considers tighter rules on outbound capital | Business Placing limits on America’s globetrotting ... (2023)
Europe can’t decide how to unplug from China
We calculate the continent’s exposure to China | International How should Europe handle China? The continent is trying to decide. After decades ... (2023)
Africa’s debts. Africa faces a mounting debt crisis
Rising rates are hurting some of its brightest economic stars. Some of the continent’s brightest economic stars are in serious trouble (2023)
Why China fears Starlink. China in space
And why it wants to build its own satellite constellation in low-Earth orbit | China (2023)
China and the West take a step to ease Africa’s debt crisis
A deal for Ghana is the first test case for a new approach. IMF, World Bank, the Paris Club, China and lending in Africa (2023)
Why Chinese carmakers are eyeing Thailand
South-East Asia offers an appealing route to foreign expansion | Business (2023)
China’s startup boom. A new breed of unicorn. How to make it big in Xi Jinping’s China
The government is favoring firms at the heart of a tech transformation. We crunch the numbers on the country’s most valuable startups | Business (2023)
How to fix the IMF International Monetary Fund | The Economist
The fund must get tough on obstructive creditors, but save them a seat at the table | Leaders (2023)
Charlie Munger says BYD is so far ahead of Tesla in China 'it's almost ridiculous'
Charlie Munger said Wednesday that Tesla pales in comparison to BYD in China, calling the Chinese electric vehicle maker his favorite stock ever. (2023)
A new prosthetic hand | The Economist
It is cheaper and better than anything now available | Science & technology (2021)
China Bans School Curriculum-Tutoring Firms From Going Public
China unveiled a sweeping overhaul of its $100 billion education tech sector. China said companies that offer tutoring on the school curriculum ... (2021)
Behind the painstaking process of creating Chinese computer fonts | MIT Technology Review
More than 40 years ago, designers drew and edited thousands of characters by hand to make it possible to type and print in Chinese. (2021)
Here’s what China wants from its next space station | MIT Technology Review
The project is all about prestige and international clout—and maybe even a neat science experiment or two. (2021)
The future of electric cars isn’t Tesla. It’s golf carts. - Rest of World
Millions of people in China are buying off-brand electric cars, which are cheap, tiny, barely regulated, and extremely useful. (2021)
Arms control - The world is facing an upsurge of nuclear proliferation | Leaders | The Economist
To stop it, the nuclear powers need to act (2021)
Technology and geopolitics - The struggle over chips enters a new phase | Leaders | The Economist
The age of their manufacture in China could be beginning. Samsung in South Korea. TSMC in Taiwan... (2021)
China’s E-Learning Leaders Add $3.2 Billion As Coronavirus Fears Drive Students Online
With the opening of schools pushed back and extracurricular activities suspended to contain the spread of the virus, tens of millions of students h... (2020)
Red capitalism - Why Chinese firms still flock to American stock exchanges
Washington is increasingly hostile to Chinese firms. Not Wall Street (2020)
World's 10 coolest neighborhoods in 2020, according to Time Out
According to Time Out, these are the world's 10 coolest neighbors for 2020 -- from Wedding in Berlin to Yarraville, Melbourne (2020)
Hard work and black swans - Economists are turning to culture to explain wealth and poverty
As a result, the ideas of the earliest economists are being revised and improved (2020)
Red carpet - Hollywood’s Chinese conundrums
China’s box office is poised to become the world’s biggest. What does that mean for Hollywood—and America’s soft power? (2020)
China’s MASSIVE Desert Project Is About To Change The World with Solar and Wind
China’s MASSIVE Desert Project Is About To Change The World. Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code UNDECIDED at the link below and ge... (2024)
Why The World Is Rushing Back To The Moon
During the Cold War, competition between the the United States and the former USSR was fierce, as the two countries rallied for the chance to make ... (2024)
How Ocean Shipping Works (And Why It's Broken)
Sign up for the Nebula/CuriosityStream bundle deal at http://CuriosityStream.com/WendoverWatch an exclusive behind the scenes video showing how we ... (2021)
TED - How AI can save our humanity | Kai-Fu Lee
TED Published on Aug 27, 2018 AI is massively transforming our world, but there's one thing it cannot do: love. In a visionary talk, computer sci... (2019)
Y Combinator - VIPKID Cindy Mi and Qi Lu Share Advice for Entrepreneurs Building Global Companies
Y Combinator Published on Jan 16, 2019 Cindy Mi is the founder and CEO of VIPKID. VIPKID is a 1-on-1 teaching platform where children in China le... (2019)
Rise of the Super App: Mobile-First Product Ideas from China | a16z
a16z Published on Jan 13, 2018 Apps like WeChat and Alipay in China show us what's possible when an entire country leapfrogs over the PC era di... (2018)
Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware (Full Documentary) | Future Cities | WIRED
Published on Jul 5, 2016 Future Cities, a full-length documentary strand from WIRED Video, takes us inside the bustling Chinese city of Shenzhen. ... (2017)
China Steams Ahead in Gaming; MetaHuman Creator and the Uncanny Valley - 16 Minutes News by a16z
Listen to this episode from 16 Minutes News by a16z on Spotify. We have two brief segments — taking up less than 16 Minutes! — in this week’s episo... (2021)
a16z Podcast: Lessons Learned from Chinese Education Startups – Andreessen Horowitz
When people talk about trends in education technology, they often focus on how to disrupt higher education in the U.S., whether it's about breaking... (2019)
National Sword - 99% Invisible
Where does your recycling go? In most places in the U.S., you throw it in a bin, and then it gets carted off to be sorted and cleaned at a Material... (2019)
a16z Podcast: Adjusting to Trade… and Innovation – Andreessen Horowitz
Beyond the overly simplistic framing of trade as “good” or “bad” — by politicians, by Econ 101 — why is the topic of trade (or rather, economies an... (2017)
Getting China and India Right
This book is the first strategic guide for multi-national corporations (MNCs)who are contemplating expanding into both China and India. Gupta and W... (2024)