China Teaches Its Robots to Walk
On 19 August 2026 Unitree Robotics began trading on the STAR Market of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the first company built around humanoid robots…
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Industrial Policy
Why China Makes Everything and Britain Doesn’t
Walk through any British high street or hospital store room and the same pattern repeats. The phone, the kettle, the solar panel on the…
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How Samsung Built the Chaebol Model
Samsung began in 1938 as a small trading shop in Daegu selling dried fish, fruit and noodles. It is now one of the world’s…
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China’s Shipyards and the Race to Catch Them
In the first half of 2026, more than four-fifths of the merchant-ship tonnage ordered anywhere in the world went to Chinese yards. By deadweight…
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