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Moving to IaaS: Big Changes Required

Develop a well-thought-out approach to the migration and make sure your management and operations teams understand the potential opportunities and challenges. Read more »

The day I tasted climate change

Every one of us will have a moment when global warming gets personal. Read more »

Science vs. the state: a family saga at the Caltech of China

Three generations of personal and political history show the tensions between the Communist Party’s need for knowledge and its need for ideological control. Read more »

China vs. the US: Who wins and who loses

An interview with Yasheng Huang, MIT professor and expert on entrepreneurship in China. Read more »

The man turning China into a quantum superpower

Jian-Wei Pan, China’s “father of quantum”, is masterminding its drive for global leadership in technologies that could change entire industries. Read more »

China launched more rockets into orbit in 2018 than any other country

And in the next few years it plans to launch the world’s biggest space telescope, the world’s heaviest rocket, and a space station to rival the ISS. Read more »

China’s tech giants want to go global. Just one thing might stand in their way.

Multibillion-dollar companies like Alibaba and Tencent have thrived thanks to a government that provided incentives but otherwise let them grow. Can they count on that in the future? Read more »

How Google took on China—and lost

It used to be that while Google wanted China, China really needed Google. Not any more. Read more »

How China got a head start in fintech, and why the West won’t catch up

Payment apps like Alipay and WeChat transformed daily life in China. The West won’t see a similar payments revolution—and that might even be a good thing. Read more »

Inside Shenzhen’s race to outdo Silicon Valley

Shenzhen flooded the world with cheap gadgets. Can it now become what Silicon Valley never did—a global hub of innovation, entrepreneurship, and manufacturing? Read more »