China has more than 150 humanoid robot companies. It shipped roughly 90 per cent of the world’s humanoid robots in 2025. Its two largest makers, Unitree and AgiBot, are preparing initial public offerings that would value them at a combined 13 billion dollars. Morgan Stanley doubled its delivery forecast for the Chinese market this year […]
The Western debate about China’s industrial rise keeps circling the same question: how much of it is subsidised? The European Commission’s anti-subsidy investigations into Chinese electric vehicles, solar panels, and wind turbines have produced tariff schedules that treat government funding as the primary explanation for Chinese competitiveness. The US Treasury and Commerce departments have imposed […]
Two years after a Beijing engineer started building dexterous hands inspired by a Japanese cartoon, his company holds 80% of the global market and is doubling its valuation in months. Robotic hands are not, conventionally, the part of a humanoid robot that investors get excited about. The legs walk, the arms lift, and the head, […]
The European Union treats data as a privacy right. The United States treats it as a corporate asset. China treats it as a factor of production, a national economic resource on par with land, labour, capital, and technology. That distinction, which sounds like an abstraction, is producing a data governance framework that is structurally different […]
In January and February 2026, Volkswagen reclaimed the top position in China’s passenger vehicle market with a 13.9 per cent share, narrowly ahead of Geely at 13.8 per cent. Toyota’s joint ventures held 7.8 per cent. BYD, which dominated 2024 and much of 2025 as the world’s largest EV maker, slipped to fourth at 7.1 […]
A quality assurance supervisor identified only as Zhou joined a technology company in Hangzhou in November 2022. His job was to work with AI large language models, optimising their outputs and filtering sensitive content. He earned 25,000 yuan per month, roughly $3,640. In 2024, the company decided that its AI systems had improved to the […]
In January 2026, a new AI-generated micro-drama went live on a Chinese streaming platform every 90 seconds. By March, approximately 50,000 AI-native titles had been added to Douyin in a single month. The production cost was roughly one-tenth of a live-action shoot. The usable rate of AI-generated footage had climbed above 90 per cent. And […]
The NDRC’s Office of the Working Mechanism for Foreign Investment Security Review issued a formal cancellation order on Monday, four months after the deal was announced. Manus co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao have been barred from leaving China since March. China’s National Development and Reform Commission has formally ordered Meta to unwind its $2 […]
China’s Ministry of Commerce issued a formal condemnation on Saturday after the European Union included approximately 27 Chinese and Hong Kong entities in its 20th sanctions package against Russia, the largest round of listings in two years. Beijing said the move “runs counter to the spirit of the consensus reached between Chinese and EU leaders, […]
