China is on a mission to steer the world in expertise. The nation desires to construct probably the most superior synthetic intelligence develop innovative laptop chips, design the following era of robots, and promote the world’s greatest electrical vehicles.
On this new season of the FT’s Tech Tonic podcast, longtime China reporter James Kynge finds out what’s behind China’s unimaginable emergence as a world expertise chief, and asks if China is on track to overhaul the US within the world tech race.
Throughout the sequence, Kynge travels to Shenzhen in southern China – a hub for manufacturing and Chinese language tech innovation. He additionally follows Chinese language electrical automobile maker BYD to Germany, and witnesses the impression of Chinese language expertise dominance in Nigeria.
Will China be the following expertise superpower? What impression might the tech warfare with the US have on Chinese language tech ambitions? And what’s going to it imply for the remainder of the world?
Hearken to the complete sequence beneath or subscribe and hear on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts or wherever you hearken to podcasts.
China’s race to tech supremacy – hearken to the sequence
Half 1 – Shenzhen velocity:
Half 2 – Driving into Europe:
Half 3 – Embracing Africa:
Half 4 – Robotic era:
Half 5 – Chatbots and chips:
Half 6 – New frontiers:
James Kynge is the FT’s Europe-China correspondent. He writes about China’s interactions — geopolitical, technological, financial and in different fields — with European international locations. A former bureau chief in Beijing, he has additionally had postings in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, the Central Asia republics and Mongolia. A winner of quite a few awards for journalism, his 2009 e book “China Shakes the World” was translated into 19 languages.
