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China's Pharma Industry Is Booming — Here's Why | China Decode

I think at the time when Trump and she met in May, I think I was saying that I thought China was now the senior partner in this relationship and uh you know that was somewhat controversial at the time. Some people contacted me to say that that was not the case. I think that's even more the case now than uh at that time.

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The China Robot Boom Is Here | China Decode

It seems like everyday Taiwanese people don't have the same uh sense of uh battle preparedness and and bellacosity when it comes to uh mainland China as the Ukrainians do towards uh Russia. Maybe I'm misreading this. Uh, but I when I go to Taiwan, I I and even mainland China, I don't sense, you know, this degree of urgency that, you know, one would have sensed in the in the years leading up to the Russia Ukraine crisis.

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Why Microsoft Is Quietly Abandoning China | China Decode

I remember Bill Gates famously saying that more than 90% of personal computers in China were running Microsoft software. But what he didn't say was that that was almost all pirated.

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China's Plan to Win Over the World with Free AI | China Decode

China's overall plan is to use technology, to use finance building infrastructure for countries in the developing world and then through these services that China gives to the developing world, China wants to bind these countries to it politically and use their agency to counterbalance the west.

Throughline

The architect of modern China

To make that vision real, he had to change China's relationship to the world and introduce capitalism to a society steeped in tradition and communist ideals.

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China Tests Ballistic Missile, Europe's AC Addiction, & China's AI Coding Challenger | China Decode

It's saying don't mess with us. We are a growing and increasingly assertive military power

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China’s AI Has Apple PANICKING, DeepSeek's Billions, and the Californication of Food | China Decode

Allowing one of America's most impressive tech companies to buy Chinese chips made by uh this CXMT company which is a very proficient maker of uh memory chips and does so at a pretty low price uh will be a huge leg up to China and therefore it will be countering America's broad strategy of trying to keep Chinese tech contained trying to keep its advance contained.

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Hong Kong's AI Crackdown, Lululemon’s Marketing Backlash, and World Cup Fever | China Decode

Hong Kong has always been a special case. It's designated as a special economic zone with China. It's got a high degree of autonomy, um, etc., etc., but now the US is treating Hong Kong pretty much as just another part of China.

The Business of Tech

China’s AI and robot revolution

China may not be the leader in AI development yet, but it certainly is a leader in the adoption of AI.

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Apple Doubles Down on China as Trump Blinks | China Decode

China has captured America's most famous company. It's an extraordinary realization that Apple is worth about 3.7 trillion US dollars on the stock market, but it isn't really the company's shareholders that actually call the shots, at least not in China. In China, it's the Chinese government that calls the shots.