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Apple believed to have an excellent plan to deploy its AI in China. He is going as good as everything else in China

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Souring records are precisely that, bittersweet. In Apple they know well: in the first quarter of 2025 124.3 billion dollars entered, but that colossal figure is fogged by a worrying fact: In China things are going wrong. The company is no longer what it was there, and has lost 9% market share in a year. In Cupertino, yes, they had a plan to relive sales: offer Apple Intelligence, and also do it with a category Chinese partner. Specifically, with Alibaba, which seemed the ideal option for its influence on the Chinese market and also for having a chatbot Especially advanced as Qwen2,5-Max. The plan was not bad, especially considering the worrying situation that Apple lives with its disastrous deployment of AI functions. Apple Intelligence is still far behind its competitors, and Siri’s scandalous non -zacing has revealed Internal rivalries, indecision and leadership problems In the company. But with Alibaba everything seemed good. The actions of the Chinese company rose like the foam after the rumors and everything seemed to go stern. It is not like that, and the deployment of Apple Intelligence in China with its new partner is delaying because of Chinese regulators. Apple and Alibaba have collaborated in the development of various AI products to be able to implement them, and have asked the authorities to regulate this sector to approve. But the administration of the cyberspace of China (CAC), main responsible for giving that blessing, has not done so. These requests are currently blocked According to sources close to the process cited in FTand reason is not technical, but political. The uncertainty about the situation between China and the United States and that commercial war that they maintain – and that affects the entire world – is causing that blockade, according to these sources. The situation for Apple is complicated On the one hand, he tries to deal with a US president whoUaiere forcing What Apple manufactures the iPhone that sells in that country locally. The idea is so expensive for Apple that will continue Going to account sEguir man by manufacturing them in India To avoid Chinese tariffs. On the other, it has been left behind for sale of iPhone in China, where Xiaomi, HuaweiOppo and alive have already advanced it. All of them have the government’s support and are tightening too In the supply of AI functions, but Apple Intelligence is still not a competitive proposal. Precisely the CAC approval process includes those AI tests. The AI ​​models developers themselves in China cannot market them or publish them unless they receive the approval of the government, which wants AI models “Very socialist“These restrictions should have favored Apple, especially after the alliance with Alibaba, but the tensions with the US after the absurd rise in tariffs -now in pause– They have made the situation unusual. The situation is so complex that Apple faces double suspicions. First, the final approval of the agreement between Apple and Alibaba to implement those functions of AI in the iPhone in China must be validated by the Chinese State Council. And second, the Bureau of Industry and Security of the US Department of Commerce has shown according to FT its reservations with that agreement, although they do not have legal means to prevent it. The situation is complicated, and that blockade of validation only becomes more. And meanwhile, Apple and Huawei grows. From the beginning of 2023 until now, Apple’s share in mobiles in China was 70%, and is now 47%. Huawei’s? It was 13% and is now 35%. Image | Maccy In Xataka | The iPhone has been making many years in China. Apple wants to change that and China wants to avoid it at all costs

There is so much demand for fish in China that has opted for drastic measures: two "aircraft carrier" as a hatchery

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We already said it in 2022: China is hungry for fish. So much, that they have been accused of cleaning half -world folders. FAO says that almost a third of tons produced by world fishing They are related to China And hundreds of Chinese fishing have already been seen sweeping the waters of Peru. Beyond fishermen, Chinese shipyards are building huge ships focused on fish breeding on the high seas, endowed with the latest technology and hope: to help satisfy that Fish appetite. And they are so big that one of them has been nicknamed “fish breeding aircraft carrier.” Wan quing ding. This is the first protagonist. Thrown with success on May 27 (something of what North Korea could take note), the wan qu ling ding is the next great step of the aquaculture industry In China. As we read in China DailyThe Jiangmen Hangtong Shipbuilding Co. shipyard will deliver the ship to Zhuhai Ocean Development Group Co. in August and it will then be when it is mole 155.8 meters long and 44 meters wide can start producing. Beyond its dimensions, what attracts attention are Breeding pools. It has 12 independent compartments and has a capacity of 80,000 m³. This is equivalent to 32 Olympic swimming pools and this floating fish farm is expected to produce between 3,000 and 5,000 metric tons of fish every year. It is what a land fish farm of 3.33 million m² would do. In Xataka We are drugping the salmon with cocaine and anxiolytics. And that is causing them to behave strangely Intelligent aquaculture. The goal is for the ship to focus on the raven of species of high value in the Chinese market, such as the Golden Palometahe Seriola or the mereand it will be support for both internal and Tourism. To its dimensions and breeding capacity is added a water exchange system with the maritime zone in which it is located, something that helps increase the Fish quality. Each of the compartments has a system of sensors and automatisms that control everything. It has automatic food systems, but also something very curious. The swimming pools are semi -submersed in seawater and, if they detect Abrupt temperature changes in water o Contamination, those ‘swimming pools’ rise to reduce water resistance and that the ship can quickly move to safer waters. Almost total autonomy. Beyond their breeding capabilities, what attracts attention is autonomy. According to those responsible, electrical propulsion allows something they have called “autonomous maritime nomadism.” It has 2,000 nautical miles of autonomy and systems for autonomously navigateavoiding natural disasters such as typhons. You can also select the best waters of the breeding at all times and have equipped the wan qu ling ding with a Wind Generation System of 20 kW that can cover the entire electricity consumption of aquaculture systems. In this video we can see the Automatic and Water Filter system of a similar ship, the Guoxin-1: Your Hai No. 1. Almost in parallel, the Huangpu Wenchong shipyard of Guangzhou has built what they say is the first ship in the world dedicated exclusively to salmon breeding. His Hai No. 1 is a huge 250 -meter length ship and specializes in the salmon breeding. As in the wan qu ling ding, it has sensors and automatisms to quickly relocate in safer waters to Avoid pollution And, after a first test in April, it is expected to start working in June. Salmon independence. Its production capacity is imposing: up to 8,000 tons per year, with the ability to deliver Fresh salmon already processed in some national markets in 24 hours thanks to the built -in plant. And, even if it may not seem like it, this is the Hai No. 1 is of vital importance in Chinese geopolitics. The reason? As we read in SCMPit is estimated that more than 80% of salmon by Chinese consumers depends on imports. In 2024 they imported 100,000 tons and is expected to exceed 200,000 tons for 2030. Therefore, with large ships AquaculttersChina seeks to independent its fish supply and stabilize that chain in an international panorama that, as tariffs are demonstrating us, commercial relations can be truncated at any time. In Xataka A "stable macro" Floating: the ship that transports more than 75,000 sheep through the oceans And it is something that has become a national strategy, since the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China public In 2023 a series of guidelines to promote marine aquaculture. Images | SALMAR In Xataka | China and Russia have allied with a clear purpose: the exploitation of the kril while the rest of the world arches the eyebrow (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news There is so many demand for fish in China that has opted for drastic measures: two “aircraft carrier” as a hatchery It was originally posted in Xataka by Alejandro Alcolea .

China is moving whole buildings at the same time to build underneath. Because? Because it can

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In China The buildings are. Literally. No matter how heavy and large that they are or if it is delicate brick and wood constructions raised a century ago. When it is necessary, the country’s engineers manage so that their houses are “lifted” and begin to “walk” slowly through the streets. It sounds crazy, but it is a technique that They have been polishing and allows them something key: respect their assets without stopping the development of parkings or commercial areas. The last example has left Shanghai, who has managed to walk A group of buildings which occupies 4,030 m2 and around 7,500 metric tons. Open step to the building. Chinese media, like People Daily, China Daily either Xinhuathey have been publishing these days a video and photos at least curious: in them it can be seen how a group of buildings, almost an apple, moves in block throughout several meters, just like in a huge game of tetris. Moveing ​​buildings is nothing new. In Spain it is also done. But the usual thing is that the architects are responsible for listing, disassembling and re -assembling the facades, do not displace entire buildings as if they were on a tape. Click on the image to go to Tweet. A figure: 7,500 tons. The block in question is formed by old Shikumen buildings Raised in Shanghai a century ago and their data give an idea of ​​the enormous logistics and technical challenge that involves moving them in a piece: According to the Chinese pressthe complex, known as “Huayanli” and which is composed of three brick and wood structures, measures 4,030 m2 and weighs 7,500 tons. The construction is found in Zhangyuan, in the Jing´an district, Shanghai. What have they moved for? To build under the ground. Chinese authorities decided to relocate that mole to facilitate the works of an underground three -story complex Zhangyuanan ambitious project, of just over 53,000 m2, which will include commercial and cultural areas, a parking lot with a hundred parking spaces and connections with several lines of the Shanghai meter. It is not the first time that China moves large buildings from one point to another. In 2024 We already told you which was displacing Shikumen housing raised in the early twentieth century in Jing´an. One of those blocks came to “travel” the a whopping 230 m, much more than other similar operations carried out before in the country, such as the temple of the Jade Buddha of Shanghai, which, which 30.6 m movedor the Hankau Yiyong Fire Association building, which 90 m slide On rails. But … why move them? That is the million dollar question. If the objective is to look for new locations or temporarily comply with the buildings while the operators work in the area, as is the case of the houses of Jing´an, why move them from a piece? Why don’t they disassemble stone by stone? Logistic, preservation and separate time issues, there is a fundamental element: Huayanli is built with brick and wood, in the line of the Shijumen buildingsan architectural style that emerged around the 1860s, closely associated with Shanghai and combines Western and Chinese elements. The idea of ​​engineers is to “lift it” without causing damage, move it and then return it to its original location, an operation that It is ready to complete. The key: 430 small robots. At this point the question is obvious … How have Chinese engineers manage to move a block of 7,500 tons houses? The key are 432 small robots. The company responsible for the work resorted to drilling devices that can be handled at a distance and move through narrow spaces, which facilitates work in the foundations. To avoid scares with collision points or structural problems, the team also handled Construction Information Modeling (BIM) and scan of points clouds, which allowed him to work based on 3D planes. I walk slowly, walk safe. Another of their resources was to use robots designed for the movement of land and endowed with folding mechanical arms that allow them to work in very small spaces, less than 1.2 m wide, also distinguishing clay or different obstacles. When it comes to displacing the constructions, the experts designed different routes. The task, of course, is not suitable for impatient: since May 19 Huayanli has mode 10 m per day. Image | Xinhua In Xataka | In China there are scratching size ships sailing thousands of kilometers from the sea. All thanks to your cranes

Spacex has always been 10 years ahead of the competition. The problem is that in China that law no longer applies

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The Falcon 9 rocket has turned 15 this week. In December they will do 10 years of their first landing. Eight ago that was first reused. More than 400 reusations later, Spacex still has no competition. But the competition will not arrive staggered, it will arrive suddenly and will do so from China. The Boyante China Space Industry He is living an authentic effervescence in the development of reusable rockets. Operations? Even none, but far from being projects on paper, there are already several companies that have successfully completed vertical take -off and landing tests with prototypes that mix technologies inspired by Falcon 9 with more modern ones, anticipating the entry into Starship service. These advances, which remind the first days of the Grasshopper and Starhopper Spacex prototypes, are not only aimed at deploying mega-constellations of Chinese satellites, but also to compete in the global release market. Assembly of astrophysic Daniel Marín (Eureka) with Chinese VTVL prototypes Space Epoch: This relatively young company (founded in 2019), hit the table on May 28, 2025. Its VTVL Yuanxingzhe 1 (YXZ-1) prototype, 4.2 meters in diameter and made of stainless steel, made a leap of 2.5 kilometers high, threatening controlled in the sea. According to Eureka, it was The first Chinese VTVL prototype to make controlled amelizer: He had no landing train and was designed to perch and sink slowly, a strategy that Space Epoch plans for recovery From the first stage of its orbital rocket Yuanxingzhe 1. Once operational, this rocket intends to place more than 10 tons in low orbit. The prototype is propelled by a longyun Ly-70 engine of methane and liquid oxygen. Landspace: One of the most advanced private, Landspace is developing the Zhuque-3a two -stage rocket of methane and liquid oxygen built in stainless steel, with a height of 76.6 meters, comparable to Falcon 9. Its VTVL prototype performed An impressive 10 -kilometer altitude In September 2024 (Eureka mentioned a second jump of the ZQ-3 VTVL-1 at this point on September 11, while other sources point to the end of August for a similar milestone). This flight included the first realer in flight of an engine during the descent in China, landing successfully. Landspace aspires to a first orbital launch of Zhuque-3 in 2025, with recovery of the first stage by 2026. ISPACE: Another private pioneer, Ispace, is working on its reusable Hyperbola-3 rocket. To do this, his Hyperbola-2y (SQX-2Y) test vehicle completed several VTVL jumps at the end of 2023: one of 178 meters in November and another of 343 meters in Decemberboth with successful landings. These trials were crucial to validate the technology of their Metallox engines and guidance systems. ISPACE plans the first flight of Hyperbola-3 by 2025 and the recovery of its first stage in 2026. Deep Blue Aerospace: This Nanjing-based company develops the Nebula-1 (Xingyun-1), a fluid oxygen rocket and oxygen. Already in May 2022, its demonstrator VTVL completed a 1 kilometer jump with successful landing. In September 2024, a major prototype tried a jump with greater altitude (between 5 and 10 km), But he suffered a hard landing due to a problem with thrust controlalthough the company considered that many objectives of the essay were met. Deep Blue Aerospace also has the Nebula-2 in its plans, a Heavy Class-class launcher 9. Sast (Shanghai Academy of SpaceFlight Technology): This state entity, part of CASC (China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation), is leading government effort in reusable rockets. Its VTVL prototype, sometimes called Longxing 1 and associated with the future CZ-12A or CZ-12R (a reusable version of the CZ-12), has also made remarkable jumps. On June 23, 2024, this prototype, propelled by three longyun Ly-70 engines (the same as Space Epoch), reached 12 kilometers of altitude on a test flight from Jiuquan. Subsequently, on January 19, 2025, a second prototype tried an even more ambitious leap of 75 kilometers from Haiyang, but was lost during the flight. Galactic Energy: Known for its CERES-1 rocket, Galactic Energy is developing pallas-1, a fluid oxygen rocket and oxygen with a first reusable stage. Although he has not yet made a VTVL jump with a full rocket prototype, In August 2023 he carried out a vertical landing test using a reaction motor proof vehicle (nicknamed “Firebird”) to validate control algorithms. They expect the first orbital launch of Pallas-1 (in disposable mode) between the late 2025 and early 2026. Linkspace: It was the first Chinese private company to focus on reusable rockets. Already in August 2019, its RLV-T5 prototype made a 300-meter leap with successful landing, a pioneering milestone for Chinese startups. Although its subsequent progress has been slower compared to its competitors, its initial role was fundamental. Space Pioneer: This company is developing the Tianlong-3, a Falcon 9 class launcher designed from the beginning for reuse. Although he has not yet performed a VTVL test, the company has advanced in the construction and proof of the Tianhuo-12 engines and the first stage of the rocket. Its first orbital launch is expected between 2024 and 2025 (without attempted recovery on the first flight), closely followed by VTVL landing tests. Vertical landings ‘Made in China’ The list does not end there, which draws a trend: China not only wants to match Spacex’s reuse capacity, but is cultivating a robust ecosystem to compete directly with Elon Musk’s company. The objectives: reduce launch costs, increase cadence for the deployment of new mega-constellations (Like Guowang, the Chinese answer to Starlink) and, ultimately, cut distances with the company that is launching 80% of the total mass that is put into orbit. So, although Spacex remains the indisputable reference in the reuse of orbital rockets, the question is no longer whether it will have a serious rival in China, but which of this growing legion of contenders, in addition to the CASC itself, will be the first to consistently replicate the feat of landing and reuse orbital rockets as something routine. The race is in full swing, and landing platforms on land and sea … Read more

Huawei is getting unstoppable. Everything he is doing seeks to beat Nvidia in both in China and beyond

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Huawei is determined to gradually absorb the market share that keeps Nvidia in China. Until just a few months ago this last company monopolized Something more than 90% of the Chinese market of the chips for artificial intelligence (AI), but after the entry into force of the last US sanctions package its leadership is all likely to be compromised. Even so, Nvidia has a very important asset that is helping her defend her presence in the Chinese market: CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture). Most of the AI ​​projects that are currently being developed are implemented on CUDA. This technology brings together the compiler and development tools used by programmers to develop their software for NVIDIA GPUs, and replace it with another option in the projects that are already underway it is a problem. Huawei has Cann (Compute Architecture for Neural Networks), which is its alternative to CUDA, but for the moment CUDA dominates the Chinese market. These are the two great buzas of Huawei to beat Nvidia Huawei wants to snatch the leadership in performance in AI applications from NVIDIA. His most ambitious proposal right now is the chip Ascend 910dwho seeks to overcome the performance of the GPU NVIDIA H100. However, this Chinese company has also recently presented its chip Ascend 920a solution that is clearly destined to occupy in the Chinese market the gaps that it will leave The H20 GPU of Nvidia. This proposal will enter large -scale production during the second half of 2025 using 6 NM integration technology that have presumably developed elbow with Huawei elbow and SMIC. It is evident that to grow in the market is essential have good hardwarebut it is also crucial to position itself strongly in training the great language models, in Inference processesor, better yet, in both contexts. “Training is important, but it only happens a few times. Huawei focuses mainly on inference, which will ultimately give us access to more customers.” This declaration of Georgios Zacharopoulos, a senior researcher of AI who works on the acceleration of inference in the Huawei laboratory in Zurich (Switzerland) clearly reflects The effort that this company has made for years to dominate inference: “Training is important, but only a few times. Huawei focuses mainly on inference, which will ultimately give us access to more customers.” Inference is broadly the computational process carried out by language models with the purpose of Generate the answers which correspond to the requests they receive. In any case, the information we have reflects that the GPU Ascend 910D will allow Huawei to compete with the chips for the most advanced NVIDIA both in inference and in training. The US response to the steps that Huawei is not taking long to arrive. And is that the Department of Commerce has approved a resolution whereby no country on the planet can buy the GPUs for the Ascend de Huawei. According to this American institution, this Chinese company has produced these chips using US technologies illegally, so its export outside the country borders governed by Xi Jinping violates the export controls of the Department of Commerce. In practice to the US it will cost a lot to control the commercial flow of the GPUs for Huawei outside China, especially when these semiconductors They go to allies of the latter country. Its strategy to exert pressure on countries interested in getting the Huawei chips is to announce fines, the possibility of revoking export rights, and even establishing criminal consequences. In Xataka | In a low voice, China has begun to remove some tariffs from US products. Your concern: the chips In Xataka | China’s domain of rare earths has nothing to do with geography: it is born from 39 university programs

China is merging three technologies into a single competitive weapon. In the West we continue to see them as something separate

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In 2007, Steve Jobs announced that he was going to present “three revolutionary devices”: A music player with touch screen. A mobile phone. An Internet browser. Then he revealed that there were not three separate products, but one: the iPhone. China is doing Something similar to its industrial revolution. Why is it important. While Europe and the United States deal with 5G, AI and renewable energies as independent sectors that compete for resources and attention, China has merged them into a general purpose technology capable of promoting productivity in all industries at the same time. The context. The strategy “Made in China 2025“It focused on ten specific priority sectors: from new materials to transport equipment. Ten years later, China is world leader in several fields (high -speed trains, energy infrastructure …), but continues to depend on foreign technology in more sophisticated areas such as aerospace or high performance medical devices. In figures. China has reduced its Technological Import Dependency Americans and European: 351 Product categories in 2000 A 177 in 2022. In parallel, the United States and the European Union now depend on China for 953 categories of products, three times more than at the beginning of the century. What has happened. The approach evolved towards What Xi Jinping calls “new productive forces”concept that put in the center of decisions since 2023. He Third Plenary of the Communist Party in 2024 He stressed the need to integrate AI, new materials and quantum technology. The key: the deployment of advanced technologies generates domestic demand for them, creating a cycle that further enhances industrial competitiveness. Advances in communications, operating systems, clean technologies and biotechnologies improve productivity, safety and quality in other sectors. A virtuous circle. Yes, but. This bet directed by the State is face and risky. The allocation of resources can become less efficient and has obvious side effects. Although economic reforms have improved the standard of living of the middle classes, the model focused on industry and technology has damaged the mood of the consumer and its disposition to spending. The threat. China does not want to rebalance its economy towards consumption and accepts negative – national and international consequences – while pursuing its manufacturing objectives. This includes internal socioeconomic conflicts, commercial surpluses and geopolitical competence by technology. You will have to address these effects at some point, but at the moment its formula works: integrate technologies that others treat separately to create a systemic competitive advantage. In Xataka | China monopolizes rare earths. An enemy has come out of home: the smuggers Outstanding image | Josh withrs, Zbynek Burival and Solen Feyissa in Unspash

China has emerged a new problem with its rare earths: smuggling

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China is deploying police, customs agents and even spies to stop the smuggling of its increasingly precious Rare earthcritical minerals on which it maintains an official embargo. Why is it important. The Asian giant The world production of these materials is obsessively controllingessential for the car, technological and military industry. Its new anti -policy campaign aggravates even more the shortage that US and European companies are already suffering, who are not finding short -term alternatives. The context. China cut legal exports of seven types of rare earths –and magnets manufactured with them– last April 4. The measure is part of a pressure strategy for the United States to reduce tariffs on Chinese products and allow the sale of sensitive military technology to China. Yes, but. Smuggling had historically been an escape valve. Chinese organized crime unions came to traffic half of the country’s annual production before 2010. Multinationals such as Boeing, Volkswagen and Toyota depended on supply chains where legal and illegal production was mixed, according to a report from The New York Times. Between bambalins. Senior customs, trade, police and intelligence services met on May 9 to Plan the offensive. Three days later, representatives of eleven national ministries and seven provinces issued a joint statement: the control of strategic mineral exports is “related to national security.” In detail. The new license system demands thorough documentation. Complete traceability. Chinese companies have to certify not only who buys the material, but how it will be used at each subsequent stage of production, including photographs of final products. This information, in addition to avoiding smuggling, can also become a detailed map of the use of rare earths abroad for the Chinese government. And that would facilitate future attacks directed against specific companies and countries: they will know who will produce what. The facts. Traditional smuggling routes have been complicated: With the scarcity getting worse outside China and prices shooting, the potential benefits for smugglers willing to assume the risk are enormous. But new security measures make the game more and more dangerous. Outstanding image | Lio voo In Xataka | China has executed three master moves to break the technological dependence of the West. The sanctions were his best gift

China has turned the technological geopolitics around with three plays. Western supremacy is being blurred

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China has been working with a very clear technological roadmap for years. Priority has not been to compete on equal terms with the West, but to reduce its exposure to other decisions. The strategy is not born with Trump’s sanctions or with Vetos to Huawei. He came from before, but that promoted it. And it continues its course. Why is it important. Who dominates the subjects imposes the rhythm, who manufactures chips has industrial autonomy and who trains AI models with billions of users can export technology. China is already at the three levels. In detail: → Raw materials China reinforces its position in the first link: access to strategic resources. It controls about 90% of rare earth processing, essential to manufacture all types of technology. The Ministry of Commerce has limited exports from Galio and Germaniowhich impacts key sectors such as solar panels, electric vehicles or radars. The European and the American industry They are not managing to find substitutes in the short term. And China, in addition to maintaining a national reserve for internal use, is regulating its exploitation with geopolitical criteria. → Semiconductors. After the western vetoes, the State assured mass resources to its national industry. Huawei, blocked by the United States, presented A 7 Nm chip manufactured by SMICwithout access to lithography EUV. It is not toe technology … but enough, at least for the moment. There are already patents to continue miniaturizing. The State Semiconductor Fund created a year ago Broken 50 billion dollars, and although total self -sufficiency is still far, the system is already working without access to the outside. → Ia. The great Chinese technology develop their own foundational models. Each has a different sector orientation, but everyone lives under the umbrella of the new national regulatory framework, which requires algorithms registration and validation. The result: more and more Chinese startups dedicated to AI (with brutal results such as Deepseek), and prioritization for direct application in public services, industry and education. What has happened. The sanctions borntoEron as a brake on Chinese development, but they have ended up being an accelerator. China reinforced its R&D centers, reorganized its patent system and gave state coverage to the most exposed technological. And the Ministry of Science and Technology prioritized concrete sectors defining specific objectives for AI, supercomputing and automation. In perspective. As we have told in numerous articles, China does not seek to replicate the western model, but to design their own aspiring to be self -sufficient and at the same time global provider. At least where the legislation allows you to sell. Huawei post-saunciones is a perfect example. Large Chinese technology do not compete for market share in the United States or Europe, but to influence Africa, Central Asia and Latin America, where their systems are already penetrating (ZTE, Huawei, Beidou…). And access to your solutions will be accompanied by your conditions. That includes software, infrastructure, etc. Between the lines. The strategy follows a sequential logic: Ensure resources. Guarantee industrial capacity. Consolidate leadership in innovation. Each phase depends on the previous one and each advance has political coverage. And now what. The next step will be to consolidate the model: AI with national identity, own standards and gradual international expansion. All with government support. In Xataka | Freeman Zhou in Unspash Outstanding image | China has proposed to be independent in all technologies. And for augmented reality it has “five dragons”

A technology 20 years ago took Ukraine to the Russian bombers. Moscow’s response comes from China: a laser cannon

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With the passing of the days, more data about The covert operation which carried out Ukraine in the heart of the air bases of Moscow. Recall: a swarm of more than 100 drones hidden in trucks managed to destroy an important part of the Russian fleet of Strategic bombers. Now the technology that made Spiderweb, and what is Russia’s response to contain Ukrainian drones: a laser weapon … from China has been revealed. Cheap drones and free software. As I counted The medium 404behind the flight of the army of drones was not a sophisticated and secret technology. On the contrary, the devices were driven By Ardupilotopen source software created two decades ago by unmanned aviation enthusiasts. The use of this software, a free system originally designed for civil tasks such as agriculture, rescue or mapping, allowed Ukraine to coordinate that swarm of drones with autonomous navigation functions, air stabilization, waiting modes and contingencies for signal loss, even in a hostile environment saturated with interference and without GPS. Born of leisure … for war. Ardupilot He was born in 2007 of the personal project From Chris Andersonformer editor of the Wired media, who with Lego and Arduino pieces He built a drone browsing system that would later evolve in an open overall source community. What began as a homemade and collaborative experiment ended up being the operational core of a great impact military offensive. As He counted the mediumthe astonishment of its creators in the face of the war use of its software was notable: they never imagined that a tool designed for civil use would end up helping to destroy Russian strategic fighters. Although The website De Ardupilot promotes its use “for the peaceful benefit of all”, its open character makes it impossible to restrict. Irony resides that, while large corporations develop closed and expensive armamentUkraine has managed to use free access tools to execute attacks that remodeled the balance of power. Internet. What happened also leaves another teaching. The technological war between Ukraine and Russia is also a Communities Warforums and repositories. The software that allowed the attack developed collectively over years by programmers and fans distributed worldwide, many of which never imagined that their work would be used in combat. Neither Ardupilot nor its creators can prevent it, and although its code of conduct explicitly facilitates militarization, there is no restrictive license: knowledge is already in the hands of Who wants to use it. In the context of the current conflict, this means a silent revolution: it is not only the armies that free wars, but also free software developers. Ardupilot The Made in China answer. Before the gigantic industry Of low -cost drones that is hitting its troops, Russia has revealed an unprecedented development: a Chinese laser system To tear down drones, they report several Telegram proruse channels. Although it has not yet been officially confirmed, Images and videos disseminated They show a military vehicle shooting a laser beam capable of drilling metal plates and setting fire to drones in full flight. The appearance of the system coincides with the characteristics of the SHEN NUNG 3000 OR THE 5000 MODELan anti -gluvated weapon presented by China and that would also have been delivered to Iran. Analysts of the International Institute for Strategic Studies They point out thatalthough with some modifications, the system used by Russian forces has been derived directly of Chinese design. In fact, Russian military have confirmed that it is already In the hands of units as The Spetsnaz of the nomadic unit, and have even celebrated its effectiveness as an advance against previous technologies considered ineffective or excessively expensive. SHEN NUNG China, Iran and Russia. The entrance of this technology expands the analysis. The growing cooperation Technological between Beijing, Moscow and Tehran is reflected in the circulation of systems Like Shen Nungdeveloped by the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics. Although its operational use is still limited and its real abilities have not been tested in high -intensity scenarios, its mere presence on the battlefield indicates a qualitative change: the powers that seek to challenge the western order are sharing advanced capabilities, many of them before reserved for a handful of countries. Plus: The appearance of this system in Russian territory coincides with recent information that indicates that they will also go I would be using itconfirming that it is available in the market and has already been exported. From Ukraine to the Middle East. The use of laser weapons is not exclusive to the Moscow-Pekín-Teherán axis, of course. Israel has also recently deployed Your Iron Beam system (known as Magen or in Hebrew) to intercept Hezbollah dronesa weapon that combines response speed, precision and low cost per shot. The Israeli system, developed by Rafael and the Air Force, is still in the final test phase, but has already been used in combat. United States, meanwhile, has deployed experimental units of laser weapons in advanced positions and ships, although the advances have been slower than expected due to technical challenges such as the sensitivity of the components, thermal limits and reduced efficacy in adverse environmental conditions. Promise and fragility. Be that as it may, and although these weapons represent a significant advance in the anti -aircraft defense, They are still vulnerable: They have a limited scope, their performance depends on the weather, and require specialized maintenance. Even so, in an environment where drone swarms are increasingly frequent and difficult to intercept with traditional systems, lasers offer a solution attractive. Their low cost per shoot and their ability to operate without physical ammunition make them an emerging alternative, especially for countries that seek to overcome technological asymmetries. Between codes and science fiction. The irruption of a Chinese laser system In the Russian-Ukrainian Front marks a turning point in the use of directed energy weapons and in the global geostrategic dynamics. What until recently seemed a matter of fantastic literature is now a real instrument of combat and deterrence. In parallel, Ukraine has been able … Read more

Without the rare earths of China, lasers will end in Europe. Germany has found a way to do without them

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The applications of Rare earths They are potentially unlimited. To this peculiar group of chemical elements belong some metals as elusive and with names as suggestive as neodymium, promised, gadolinium, ititrium or scandio, among others. Some of them They are relatively scarceand, in addition, they are not usually found purely in nature, but what makes them so special are their physicochemical properties. Its characteristics are beyond the reach of the other elements of the periodic table, which has caused that during the last decades they are consolidated as A very valuable resource In numerous industries, especially in electronics and renewable energies. They are involved, for example, in the manufacture of hybrid and electric cars engines, batteries, semiconductors, catalysts, optical fiber, LCD panels, and even in wind turbines. Europe wants to stop being in the hands of China once and for all China dominates the rare earth industry with an indisputable forcefulness. According to him US Geological Service For many years it has produced more than 90% of this valuable resource. In 2022 its market share was reduced to 70%, but did not do so because of a decrease in production; This fall had its origin in the increase in rare earth production quota experienced Australia, Vietnam and Myanmar, among other countries. In addition, the country led by Xi Jinping also dominates the processing industry to which it is necessary to submit rare earth so that they can be used. So much so that according to Xincaifu Its quota if we expressly stick to the global processing industry ascends 90%. And with a 70% production of the global market and a 90% control of the Chinese rare earth processing industry has this absolutely controlled market. The Chinese government is using its control of rare earths to defend their strategic interests in full confrontation with the US The government of this Asian country is using its control of these chemical elements to defend their strategic interests In full confrontation with the US, Europe and its allies. In this context, the old continent needs to bet on its independence and the consolidation of its own supply chain. And it is in it. In fact, Germany has just made a very important contribution in a scenario of fundamental use of rare earths: the manufacture of lasers. These devices are used to produce medical equipment, in scientific research, in the manufacture of consumer electronics, and even in the tuning of Quantum computersamong many other industries. Rare earths are used to dopar the crystals That, very broadly, they are responsible for amplifying the light before emitting it with a fixed wavelength. The problem is that if these chemical elements are not available the production of high quality lasers is not viable. Well, it really wasn’t until now. And it is that the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, which is located in Karlsruhe (Germany), has found a way to manufacture the crystals involved in the production of lasers without using rare earths. In fact, we can see some of these crystals in the cover photography of this article. During its manufacturing process it is essential to minimize impurities and preserve the polarization properties of the crystals, but, apparently, the researchers of the Fraunhofer Institute have given in the Diana. Your plan now goes through developing production processes that guarantee the supply of these crystals that Europe requires. Image | FRANHOFER INSTITUTE OF OPTRONICS More information | Interesting Engineering In Xataka | We already know what is the best natural factory of the precious rare earths: a cosmic kilonova

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