China's Week, Nov. 19
Robot debates. Revolutions in jet engines, computer chips, MRI. Delivery drivers become healthcare heroes.
Science & Technology
Adaptive cycle engine (ACE), above, tests complete: 40% more thrust from takeoff to 3,000 mph, cuts fuel use 30%. No US engine comes close.
A 3D-printed miniature turbojet completed its first flight test. The 160-kg-thrust-class engine powered a drone for 30-minutes at 6,000 m. and Mach 0.75.
China’s mass-produced photonic chips 1000x faster, 90% cooler than electronic chips. Rewrites the future of AI data centers and supercomputing completely.
An embryo with originally three pronuclei resulted in a healthy baby after one pronucleus was microsurgically removed.
China is the first manufacturer of portable magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the brain and neck.
China’s first robot debate showcases surprising language and logic skills.
Economy & Finance
“US AI must go open source to beat China: “PhD students at Berkeley and Stanford in AI say they’ve read twice as many interesting AI ideas from Chinese companies
than American companies”.
Government, infrastructure, transportation, energy, logistics and state-linked enterprises are China’s largest AI buyers. They operate dense physical systems under strict safety, reliability and locality requirements.
How delivery drivers became healthcare heroes. From dumplings to diagnoses.
China + Hong Kong control over 20% of global shipping fleet.
Should housing be gauged as a financial asset to be traded or as a use value to enable meaningful living?
China’s rich are biggest spenders on art for the second straight year.
Investments in strategic sectors have driven massive gains in efficiency. Household goods are less expensive–an economic failure in Western business.
How China turned manufacturing into mastery and why the next decade belongs to those who learn from it.
China filed more patents than the US, Japan and South Korea combined: 1.8M applications in 2025.
EV sales cross the 50% threshold for the first time: 51.6% of new car sales for a record 1.7 million units.
Global automakers export millions of cars from China. Consumers ask: Why am I paying a premium for a Western badge on what is essentially a Chinese car?
Chinese investment in Africa is bringing more investment opportunities and enabling African industrialization to begin.
491,000 Japan-bound tickets cancelled as China warns people to avoid travel there.
Younger respondents are more likely to welcome Chinese leadership. US, China are tied at 40% with 18- to 24-year-olds. Indonesia, with 62%, is just behind Egypt.
Society & Environment
Above: After-school activities at a Hangzhou elementary school: LLM application, military model making, augmented reality (AR) coding, Visual algorithm programming and Creative Robotics.
China’s carbon emissions trading market hit 800 million tonnes YTD, with a trading value of $6.6 billion.
The Dibao, China’s means-tested welfare safety net, is the largest cash transfer program in the world in terms of the number of beneficiaries.
Beijing’s average life expectancy hits 84 years.
Shanghai’s 12345 Hotline Handles 12m Calls a Year. Most complaints are resolved. There’s room for improvement, but everyone’s heard.
Primary, secondary schools integrating off-campus labs, science and technology infrastructure, workshops, training bases in real world settings.
The Electrostate Model Is Changing China’s Future…and the World’s. It’s the basic building block of how households, industries and the tech revolution evolve.
What Makes China’s Legal Exam the Toughest in the Nation?
Security & Defense
Military scientists simulated a dirty bomb attack to test how advanced airborne systems could suppress and neutralize radioactive fallout before it spreads.
China: NSA stole $13 billion in bitcoin, blames the NSA’s Equation Group, a hacking entity previously linked to American cyber-espionage activities.
To understand Washington’s real intentions toward China, look at the encirclement of China’s periphery, the sustained attacks on its critical overland energy and trade links, the calculated incapacitation of Russia as a potential energy supplier, and the establishment of proxy forces (Philippines, Japan, Taiwan, S. Korea) prepared to wage war. A maritime oil blockade—or wider general blockade—is being prepared in real-time.
Investing
The recent move by Yangtze Memory (YMTC) to fully domestic equipment is huge boon for AMEC, with its ultra high aspect ratio dielectric etcher, and Piotech, whose thin film deposition product is critical for more NAND layers. Both saw huge revenue growth. (TP Huang)
AMEC (Shanghai ticker: 688012.SS) benefits because its ultra-precise etching machine—designed to carve super-narrow, deep trenches in chip materials—is now in high demand.
Piotech (Shanghai ticker: 688072.SS) its thin-film deposition tech is essential for stacking more layers in NAND memory chips, making them smaller and more powerful.
The only way to really diversify your portfolio is to invest in China.