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China

China’s Automotive Industry Has Become A Laboratory For Economic Power

China’s electric vehicle boom is not simply a story about cars, batteries or autonomous driving. Beneath the rapid rise of Chinese automakers lies a broader strategy that fuses research, manufacturing, artificial intelligence, finance and state policy into a single innovation ecosystem. The result is an industrial model designed to turn technological breakthroughs into national economic power at unprecedented scale.

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Germany’s Political Firewall Against AfD Is Beginning to Crack

Germany’s AfD is no longer merely a protest party on the political fringe. Its rise reflects a deeper fracture inside the German postwar order itself: weakening economic confidence, migration backlash, institutional distrust and a…

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