China's Week, Sept. 9
You have to admit: it's getting better all the time. A week's good news from China.
Science & Technology
Transparent coating to turn ordinary windows into solar power generators.
China’s ‘silent sanction’ on US semiconductors creates a weapons generation gap. Export controls on gallium nitride and critical minerals retards development.
Engineers cut train aerodynamic drag by 22% on 248 mph high-speed train.
China Is Running the World's Most Powerful Floating Wind Turbine
Quantum Computer ‘Breaks Reality’: Zuchongzhi 3.0 Runs 1 Quadrillion Times ...
Economy & Finance
August exports to US down 33% to EU up 10.4%, JP up & SK, Canada flat YoY. ASEAN up 22.5%, Africa up 25.9%, ROW up 13.3% .
Chinese engineers spent ten years digging 700m. underground for a huge neutrino
facility which began operations last week.
Environment & Society
China’s factory workers go gig: China's overlooked, rapidly increasing, poorly-insured day laborers in export-oriented manufacturing.
China's national-scale genomics study established new rare disease diagnosis framework. With an overall diagnostic rate of 29.58%, UPWARDS represents China's first and largest genome-based rare disease program.
SCO Tianjin Summit highlights: vast potential for highlights sustainable devt., global new renewable energy capacity, with China contributing over 370 million kilowatts. Within the SCO framework, green and sustainable ...
Diplomacy & Geopolitics
How geopolitics shaped the attendance of China's parade.
China's Quest to Engineer the Future:
Iran, China expand cooperation on energy projects: smart grids, gas switchgear equipment, energy storage systems..
Einar Tangen Explains Why China Backs Pakistan Despite Terror Concerns | India Today.
Potential enemies have no way of intercepting these missiles (above), so it's only fair to let them know how their billion-dollar ships will be destroyed. (A thread)
Pentagon plan prioritizes homeland over China threat – a major departure from the first Trump administration which emphasized deterring Beijing.
YJ-19, China's first hypersonic cruise missile, is based on breathtaking science. The YJ-19 is believed to use the alternative – an engine powerful enough for sustained propulsion, which is likely to be a scramjet that takes in air ...
China unveils new hypersonic cruise missile. The CJ-1000 is a successor to the DF-100 cruise missile and is reported to be China's first scramjet-powered hypersonic cruise missile. The system ...
From nuclear triad to hypersonics: What China unveiled in largest military parade ever. Unlike boost-glide hypersonic systems, cruise missiles such as the CJ-1000 are expected to use sustained scramjet propulsion, enabling extended ...
China's tenth Type 055 cruiser starts sea trials to reinforce carrier protection in the Pacific.