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China's Engineering Miracle Is The Most Expensive In World History
At what cost? $167 billion.
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China's Week, July 19
New 5G fighter joins the fleet. Mind-controlled bees. Organ regeneration switch. 77,000 STEM PhD grads this year. 18% of homes mortgaged, and much, much…
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The Great Leap Reconsidered. Part Four.
What the CIA found.
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Mightier Dragon: The J-20 Grows Up
It's the infrastructure, stupid. And the missiles. And the radar. And the engine. And the drones...China's fifth generation fighter-bomber gets an…
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China's Week, July 10.
600km/h maglev, ASML killer, Battery prices fall 40%, BRICS $1 trillion trade, 470,000 tons of REEs found, Short dramas' $8 billion, Building J-20s in 8…
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China's Dollar Killer
The Fed has neither e-dollars nor stablecoins. The PBOC has both. Can America's privatized Stablecoins beat China's central bank Stablecoins?
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The Great Leap Reconsidered. Part Three.
"I lived through the Cultural revolution, then did field work in China in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. This is what I saw and heard”. Dongping Han.
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June 2025

China's Week, June 29
Fusion in a suitcase? The fastest, most efficient IC ever. A billion 5G connections. Silicon photonic chip. The shou-fang cycle. Artillery-launched…
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China's AI Edge: A Supply Chain and 5 Million AI Professionals. Today.
Imagine our high schools offering electives in AI applications for finance, healthcare, or autonomous vehicles. Theirs do.
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The Great Leap Reconsidered. Part Two.
In which Mao gets fired
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China's Week: June 20
Orbiting satellite refueled, rare earth fertilizer works(?!), liver cancer knockout, China train, planes are unloading in Tehran. No connection to war…
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The Great Leap Reconsidered, Part One
"Otherwise, the Chinese nation will disappoint the world".
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