China Kills Carbon Fiber Price; 6-Hour Fresh Peach Delivery in Space—China's Week, May 12.
EVs must detect, rescue disabled drivers; China, Russia are sole nuclear superpowers; Childhood myopia eye drops; 1M tons/year Green Hydrogen; first naval hypersonic anti-ship missile deploys.
Science & Technology
Six-module, 198-ton addition to Tiangong space station as ISS era ends.
Tianzhou-10 Cargo Mission delivered 6 tons of supplies to Tiangong space station: a space treadmill, apples, tomatoes, grapes, peaches, steak, chicken wings.
Nobel biochemist Hartmut Michel joins Jilin U. Prof. Michel is also a foreign member of the Royal Society and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Huawei builds its brand on a regulation that doesn’t yet exist: 2027’s “Minimum Risk Maneuver”. Have a heart attack at 120 km/h, and the car drives itself to the nearest service area and parks.
Economics & Industry
First 48K Large-Tow Carbon Fiber Facility in Ordos. 100% local equipment/supply chain. 30,000-tons/year in 2027. Low cost, high-volume production of the industrial ‘skeleton’ of wind blades, EVs, rail, marine, and manufacturing.
First mass-produced T1200-grade carbon fiber, 1/10 human hair thickness, 10x stronger than steel, 1/4 density. Hundred-ton industrial scale breaks Japan-dominated high-end monopoly for aerospace and defense.
China State Shipbuilding delivers 10,800-vehicle carrier. It features 14 decks, a 19‑knot service speed. Its LNG/dual‑fuel system meets Tier III emissions standards.
China produces half of the world’s tea with brands starting to expand overseas.
Iran conflict boosts electric two-wheeler exports to Southeast Asia.
China and Russia are the world’s sole nuclear superpowers.
Society and Environment
SOEs keep the largest food reserves in human history as The US-Israeli war on Iran triggers global food crisis.
China-EU Carbon Alliance creates a global alliance on carbon pricing launched in Florence.
Prescription eye drops to slow childhood myopia? One of China’s most closely watched pediatric healthcare trials.
China installed 3X more wind power capacity last year as the rest of the world combined—while turbine exports also jumped.
60%+ renewable capacity, infrastructure scaling rapidly. Green H2 capacity exceeded 1 million tonnes, double 2024. 22 million EV charging units, up 47%.
The Middle East crisis is expanding China’s agrochemical influence.
Governance
Communist Youth League has 78 Million Members after adding 9.1 million in 2025.
98,000 Self‑Media Accounts penalized for Misleading, Unverified Content and disrupting the online information environment.
Diplomacy & Geopolitics
Ambassador Freeman on Trump-Xi meeting.
Indiana U professor locked out of lab for criticizing prosecution of Chinese scientists accused of smuggling biological materials into the US.
Defense
Y-20B’s WS-20 turbofan engines can haul 66 tons further and cheaper than the Y-20. The largest military transport in production includes the YY-20 tanker and KJ-3000 AWACS.
China’s first naval hypersonic anti-ship missile, the YJ-20, enters mass production. One hit from the Mach 6—10, 1,000–2,000 km range, 1000 lb. payload can sink an aircraft carrier.
China Arms Robot Dogs With Missiles. The PF-070 combines precision-guided anti-armor missiles with a low-profile, acoustically quiet, terrain-agile chassis. Four compact missile launchers, arranged in twin-pack configuration, are derived from man-portable systems already in the Chinese inventory. Electro-optical targeting, thermal imaging, a laser rangefinder, and an effective engagement range of 2-4 k.. The system retains a human operator in the loop for weapons release. Price on request.
Wow! Chinese mass-production of T1200-grade carbon fiber, and breaking Japan's monopoly esp. for aerospace and defence is a massive game changer. And as they scale up, and export must should hugely benefit other countries, including the Global South. Outstanding achievement.
Carbon fiber deserves more than a bullet point here. When 48K large-tow production hits 30,000 tons/year on a fully domestic supply chain, the downstream effects compound: cheaper carbon fiber feeds cheaper wind blades, cheaper wind feeds cheaper electricity, cheaper electricity feeds cheaper manufacturing of everything else on this list, including more carbon fiber. Several of these items are inputs to each other, not parallel achievements. That self-reinforcing loop is harder to replicate than any single technology in it.