Robert Hart and the Chinese Maritime Customs
The ledger at Ningbo in 1854 was a bad ledger. Robert Hart, who had come out to China the year before at nineteen with…
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The Numbers Behind China’s EV Battery Dominance
In 2025 the world’s electric vehicles took on more than 1,000 gigawatt-hours of new battery capacity in a single year for the first time.…
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