Explore China’s ambitious push for molten salt reactors (MSRs) and thorium nuclear power. Could this be the safe, efficient, and waste-reducing game changer for global energy? Discover the promise and challenges.
China controls 90% of global rare earth elements—critical for EVs, wind turbines, and advanced weapons. Explore how Beijing uses pricing strategies, export controls, and domestic subsidies to turn mineral dominance into geopolitical leverage. Learn why the West struggles to break its dependency.
The US private capital-led approach is hamstrung by political fragmentation and short-termism, while Beijing’s state-driven model builds for strategic ambition, creating a gap that Washington seems powerless to close.
China faces an unprecedented demographic crisis as its population ages and workforce shrinks. With fertility rates in cities like Shanghai plummeting to 0.5 and the elderly comprising 15% of the population by 2025, the economic foundations of its miracle growth are eroding. Explore how soaring dependency ratios, urban pressures, and a collapsing birth rate threaten China’s ambition to become a high-income economy.
The ancient dream of bottling a star inched closer to reality in a Hangzhou laboratory. In January 2025, China’s Experimental…