"China’s research advances across areas such as batteries, renewables and alternative fuels are edging the country closer to Xi’s aims of self-sufficiency by cutting a reliance on imported fossil fuels and tech across scores of heavy industries."

“The focus has built deep advanced manufacturing ecosystems around scaling and integration into the real economy, rather than ‘blue sky’ science.”
Lizzie Lee

"China’s centralised political system and the Communist party’s command over the economy are giving it “the upper hand” over liberal democracies when it comes to new technologies that require long-term investments."
Dan Wang

"Whereas the biggest focus of US innovation has become potential moonshot technologies such as #AI for Beijing R&D largely focuses on addressing shortcomings in the real economy."

It's always the same in these sustainability affairs, the local effort that makes the real difference never shows up in the international media. Sometimes it does, but not often.

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Here's my blog post about Microsoft's moonshot!!

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And my blog post about Google's more complex greenwashing tactics!

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And my data collection!
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