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In China they are preparing their children for the future. The next course will begin to give a subject of AI

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Students are about to learn artificial intelligence. Not by themselves (which also), but as part of the educational program. Beijing has declared the implementation of an initiative that will be dedicated to the children of primary, secondary and baccalaureate will form in this area. Eight hours a year. According to the official statement“From the autumn semester of 2025, all the primary and secondary schools of Beijing will provide general education in artificial intelligence, with a minimum of eight annual teaching hours. The courses may be independent or integrate into subjects such as information technology, sciences and practical activities. Innovative teaching approaches will be adopted, including the use of artificial intelligence assistants and project -based learning assistants interactive “. They seem few, but it may be just the beginning. The truth is that eight hours dedicated to AI seem few in a whole course, but it is a minimum that of course can grow. Moreover, in that statement it is indicated that “a mechanism of collaboration between universities, companies and secondary schools will be established to form exceptional talent students in artificial intelligence.” And training for teachers. Of course, teachers will be needed to teach these classes, and therefore in Beijing “teachers from different disciplines such as computer science, mathematics and technology will be trained to teach education in AI.” Impulse for education. The Deepseek phenomenon seems to have given wings to the initiatives aimed at winning the AI ​​career. Schools may launch these courses as an additional subject or as part of other subjects related to technology. AI everywhere. As they point out In Bloombergthis initiative is part of that effort of the Chinese government to ensure that AI infiltrates in various levels. Last week, for example, the Government Congress support The application of large language models and the development of a new generation of manufacturing equipment with integrated. Estonia has already taken a similar step. Other countries have already announced initiatives in this regard. Estonia He became In the first country in the world to integrate the Chatgpt.edu service in its national education system. As of September 1, 2025, 20,000 high school students and 3,000 teachers will have free access to these tools. It will be interesting to see if other countries end up making similar movements. Of course, this is an interesting long -term commitment. Image | David Wooo In Xataka | China has declared the war on private school: why he predicted the prolific “tutorials”

Manus is the new sensation of China after Deepseek. Is generating as many expectations as doubts

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Last week voices began to hear in the AI ​​segment. We theoretically had a new Deepseek phenomenon. It was Manusa theoretical AI agent who raised especially striking options. However, in social networks there have been doubts and suspicions about the real capacity of this model. The unknown about its real value is there. Manus is not an AI agent. Those responsible on its official website is “a general agent who connects ideas with actions: not only thinks, delivers results.” It is actually more a “deep research” mode – like the ‘Deep Research’ of OpenAi – about the data that we give. Thus, Manus is theoretically capable of creating you a detailed 7 -day travel plan by Japanhelp you perform a deep analysis of the Value of Tesla’s actionscreate for you a presentation for a class on the conservation law of the momentFor example. Expectations in style. One of the product managers in Hugging Face He described it as “the most impressive tool I have ever tried.” His Official Discord server He has attracted almost 170,000 users since his creation a week ago. The expectation is remarkable, but as they explain In TechCrunchthere are doubts about their true capacity. Manus is based on Claude and Qwen. There are users who They have already indicated that manus seems not to have been created from zero, and apparently it is Totally based in varied models such as Claude 3.7 and Qwen (Alibaba). One of his co -founders, Yichao “Peak” Yi, confirmed that are in effect based on other products and they are a layer that relies on these models. In the presentation video Yichao stressed that In some benchmarks Manus was superior to Deep Research already OperatorOpenai products. It is? Errors and inconsistencies. Some experts such as Alexander Doria, co -founder of the startup of the Pleias, have indicated that manus makes mistakes and infinite loops When using it. Others point out how Make mistakes With questions with clear answers and Do not cite sources consistently. Beta by invitation. For now it is not possible to access manus options, and it is only possible to use it if any other user invites you. In TechCrunch they have managed to have access, and the tests performed, explained the editor who tested it, “have not been especially positive.” None of the agerentic tasks that he tested – seek table in a restaurant, take out plane tickets – worked. In The Register they have also had access and Nothing have been impressed with the results. “They tried to create a Mario clone that turned out to be quite terribleFor example. Other users who have tried or They praise it or They believe that despite its lights and shadows is a special promising product. At the moment this is not a Deepseek. The truth is that the rapid popularity of Manus contrasts with that of Deepseek, which was available from the first moment as an Open Source development that anyone could download and use. The company may want to take advantage of that expectation generated by betas with invitation access and prefer to avoid greater infrastructure expenses. In Xataka | China has a plan to achieve scientific supremacy in full struggle with the US to lead in AI

The US is leaving a huge vacuum in its tariff replication. And China is taking care of filling it

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The measures that Donald Trump is taking are causing diverse consequences. The 25% tariffs for imports from Mexico and Canada that has just activated are a way to boost industry and employment in that country. Meanwhile, China is trying to take advantage of the moment to export more than ever, but there are many important elements in this commercial war. China is watering the world of exports. The Asian giant has been promoting trade agreements with countries around the world for years. The country’s ministry of trade shows it in its List of free trade agreementswhich includes countries such as Australia, South Korea, Switzerland or Chile. China already trades with almost everyone. There are agreements in negotiation with Norway, Israel or Panama, but new agreements with Colombia or Canada are also being investigated, precisely one of the great affected by the recent Trump tariffs. A well -known analyst, Balaji, He shared a graph in which the evolution of these agreements was appreciated from 2000 to 2024, when China has reached many more countries with its exports. But China needs to export. The problem is that China produces much more than it consumes, and that exports much more than matters. It occurs with steel, with cars or solar panels, and as indicated In CNN That drives her to increase her exports to revive her economy. And when it exports, it makes it benefiting that thanks to this overproduction it can compete in prices, throwing from the market to local businesses that cannot compete in that field. And consume much more. As we said, the imbalance between what is consumed and what is produced in China is remarkable. According to the World Bankin the world consumption represents 75% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), but in China it only reaches 53-54%. That is due to various factors, as indicated In Carnegie Endowmentbut promoting that domestic consumption is really complicated, which makes exports even more critical. Care to import too much. If the countries that trade with China import too many merchandise and Chinese products, they are in danger of deindustrialized, as in fact it has happened in recent years in the West. We have delegated the production of technology to China, for example, and Trump’s measures are precisely aimed at recovering land in that market. The problem It also affects emerging economiesthat are flooded with Chinese products and without the ability to export their own. Example: the electric car. Byd has managed to become the Great protagonist of the electric cars segment in 2024, and has done so thanks to that strategy. Their cars are usually more assertible and that has managed to attract a large number of buyers. Compete with the Chinese electric car has become very difficult, so Europe Tariff appealed months ago To try to balance things. USA bet on the US. Trump’s measures are punishing imports And they are trying to get companies to manufacture there so that the country does not depend on those foreign products and materials. Recent ads Like those of TSMC either Apple They precisely try to avoid tariffs but force these companies to make strategic decisions that would probably not take. China’s exports to the US import, but not so much. The majority of China’s exports focus on other regions, and not so much on the US. In 2022 those regions They added About three billion dollars, compared to 637,000 million dedicated to the US. The business with that country is remarkable, yes (22% of the total), but not critical for Chinese exports that can be affected by tariffs. Canada (probably) will become more friend from China. The “punishment” tariff will affect trade between the US and countries such as Canada, but precisely this country has been increasing its trade quotas with China for years. Beijing has already shown his intention to reinforce those commercial ties with Canadaand Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, made clear the situation. When referring to Trump, he highlighted how what he is doing is something “very dumb. Two friends fighting is exactly what our opponents worldwide want to see.” Mexico also reacts. Claudia Sheinbaum, president in Mexico, also made it clear that “It is Mexico’s defense time“Faced with tariffs imposed by Trump. The president will reveal her plans soon, but she may also end up approaching the Chinese government as part of that response to Trump’s measures. Being a friend of China has its. That provision of China to reach commercial agreements with more and more countries is not exempt from problems, and in fact we have seen it with the example of European tariffs to the Chinese electric car. And meanwhile, collapse of the bags. Trump’s tariff policies have caused in recent days a collapse of the bags, and the great technological ones in the United States They have suffered especially that blow. Yesterday they managed to contain the losses a bit, but the falls have been significant in both traditional markets and in cryptodives. Image | Cage Skidmore | Paul Kagame In Xataka | ‘The Nvidia Way’: This book is the perfect tool to understand how Jensen Huang has taken Nvidia to the top of success

It will build a repair center in the heart of China

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As of April 1 ASML will not be able to sell To its Chinese clients its measurement and inspection equipment of integrated circuits. Dutch administration has tightened its controls export to China, aligning with The sanctions approved by the US At the beginning of last December. In practice, these prohibitions force the largest manufacturer of the planet’s lithography equipment to request licenses from the Netherlands government to export a good part of its machines. However, this is not all. At the end of last February several US officials They met with their Dutch and Japanese counterparts With a firm purpose: negotiate what steps can take to drastically limit the participation of ASML and Japanese Tokyo Electron engineers in the maintenance of semiconductor production equipment that are being used by their Chinese customers. China is already the largest Asml market The sanctions that the US governments and the Netherlands are approving are degrading the ASML business in China. It is inevitable if we are in mind that this European company cannot sell its most advanced lithography equipment to its Chinese clients. And neither can some maintenance and after -sales services services provide. The most surprising thing is that despite the current situation the Chinese market is increasingly important for ASML. Despite the current situation, the Chinese market is increasingly important for Asml In 2022 the sales of this company in China amounted to 2.9 billion euros, which represented 13.8% of its annual sales. At that time Taiwan was a more important market for Asml than China. In fact, in 2023 the clients of the island bought lithography equipment for a total value of 8,100 million euros, while its Chinese clients disbursed 7.3 billion euros. And, curiously, in 2024 China was consolidated as the largest market for ASML with total sales of 10.2 billion euros. To understand where this figure comes from, we need to keep in mind something important. As we have seen, ASML cannot sell its most advanced equipment to its Chinese clients, such as the machines of extreme ultraviolet lithography (UVE) or deep ultraviolet (UVP), but at the moment you can deliver the solutions that allow producing chips with mature integration technologies. These are the semiconductors that are mostly used in cars, appliances or electronic devices, among other products, and usually occur in nodes of 28 nm or less advanced. Anyway all these machines need maintenance. And ASML is determined to guarantee it to its Chinese clients beyond the very likely reluctance that US governments and the Netherlands can put. According to SCMP This company will build a repair and reuse of lithography equipment in the heart of China. In Beijing. This decision comes at a time when The tension between the US and China is maximumso, in reality, it is a very clear statement of intentions: ASML will protect your business in China at all costs. We will see what the government’s response led by Donald Trump will be. Image | ASML More information | SCMP In Xataka | Japan wants to recover leadership as a manufacturer of lithography equipment. And he has a plan to end the Asml monopoly

China urgently needs an alternative to Cuda de Nvidia

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Chinese companies that are dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI) They already have at their disposal a wide range of GPUs designed and manufactured in China. Huawei is the best positioned company thanks to its Chips Ascend 910 family, but in the country led by Xi Jinping There are many other specialized companies in the tuning of hardware for which they also have great potential. Metax, Biren Technology, Moore ThreadsINNOSILICON, ZHAOXIN, ILUVATAR COREX, DEGLINAI OR VAST AI TECH ARE SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT. “China is dedicating mass resources to the implementation of emerging companies specialized in the development of GPU. Do not underestimate them.” This warning was probably not ignored. He was aimed at the US government and came from someone who knows well what he says: Jensen Huang. The general director of Nvidia He pronounced these words Last year, during the celebration of Computex, and it is evident that its intention was to prevent US administration about the consequences that They would have the sanctions that seek to stop the technological development of China. Hardware is no longer the problem; It is CUDA Li Guojie, a computer scientist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences that is considered an authority in China, has confirmed What we have just seen: GPUs for the most advanced Chinese, such as Huawei Ascend 910 chips that I mentioned above lines are comparable to current NVIDIA solutions in terms of calculation capacity. However, the authentic strength of the company led by Jensen Huang is not its hardware; is its ecosystem CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture). “Deepseek has had an impact on the CUDA ecosystem, but has not completely overcome it because barriers persist” 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, who aspires to an important portion From this market in China, it has Cann (Compute Architecture for Neural Networks), which is its alternative to CUDA, but for the moment CUDA dominates the market. The most surprising thing is that not only Chinese companies need to part with this software; The entire AI industry wants to end Cuda. This is at least what Pat Gelsinger saidthe former director general of Intel. In December 2023, this executive wet and explained what was the official position of his company in the context of the AI ​​sector. “The whole industry is determined to eliminate market CUDA (…) We see it as a shallow and small pit (…)”, Gelsiter defended in the framework of the event “Ai EveryWhere” held in New York. According to Li Guojie“China must develop an alternative system to achieve self -sufficiency in AI (…) Deepseek has had an impact on the CUDA ecosystem, but it has not completely overcome it because barriers persist. In the long term we need to establish a set of software tool systems for controllable that exceed Cuda“. This is undoubtedly one of the great challenges that China faces in this area. Perhaps Cann manages to break down gradually and manages to finally impose himself, but while he persists to some extent the development of AI in China will continue to depend on the US. Image | Moore Threads More information | SCMP In Xataka | We can forget an AI without hallucinations for now. The general director of Nvidia explains why

Sooner or later China will be the world chips leader

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At the moment nothing indicates that Donald Trump’s arrival at the White House will relax the tension held by the US and China. The strategy of the new US government on many fronts is very different from the one defended by the administration of Joe Biden (The Ukraine War is one of them), but in what It refers to China a priori nothing changes. And does not do so because the nation led by Xi Jinping is the only one that has the ability to play world supremacy to the USA. In fact, the government led by Joe Biden openly recognized the document that collects its National Security Strategy October 2022 that China has the necessary capacity and resources to dispute the US Its world leadership position. A good part of the sanctions deployed by the US government and its allies seeks to slow down the development of the Chinese semiconductor industry due to the deep impact that it has on its scientific, economic and military capacity. But China bids increasingly. China leads chips research with overwhelming roundness Currently the biggest challenge facing the China semiconductor industry is the set -up equipment of extreme ultraviolet lithography (UVE) similar to those produced by the Dutch company ASML. The US and Netherlands sanctions prevent this company from selling them to their Chinese customers, and these equipment are necessary to produce on a large scale and with a competitive cost integrated avant -garde circuits. In 2023 the Chinese government approved a 41,000 million dollar game for lithography equipment manufacturers In this situation, the only way China can follow is to dedicate a lot of resources to research with the purpose of matching, or even exceeding the level of development they have achieved in the field of Taiwan semiconductors, USA, South Korea or Japan. And is doing it. At the beginning of September 2023 the Chinese government approved a departure of no less than 41,000 million dollars Destined precisely to the companies that produce the equipment involved in the manufacture of integrated circuits. The achievements are already arriving, and are notable. SMIC and HUAWEI have opted, at least for now, for refining their lithographic processes and optimizing UVP lithography machines (deep ultraviolet) manufactured by ASML that they already have in their possession. Other companies, however, have chosen to develop their integration technologies relying on the new teams that Naura Technology, Amec (Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. China) or Piotech Inc. have taken to point. This is the path that You are following Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC), the largest memory chips manufacturer in China. However, China’s authentic strength is its ability to develop avant -garde research. He Emerging Technological Observatory (ETO), which is an international organization specialized in the analysis of the adoption of emerging technologies globally, points out that Between 2018 and 2023 475,000 articles were published dedicated to the design and manufacture of chips throughout the planet. 34% was produced by Chinese institutions, while Europe is formed with 18% of those articles and the US with an even more modest 15%. In addition, again according to Eto, Chinese articles are among the most mentioned, which supports their quality. This trend draws a future on the horizon in which China’s weight in the semiconductor industry will be increasing. Image | ASML More information | Eto In Xataka | China needs to develop a new type of immune chips to US sanctions. And their scientists have just achieved it

A Pakistani astronaut at the Chinese space station is not only unusual. It is China occupying US power vacuum

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In the coming years, the Chinese Space Station Tiangong You will receive your first crew of another nation, Pakistan. Although it will be a short -term mission, it represents a cycle change: China opening to other countries, while the United States closes. The agreement. China and Pakistan They signed a cooperation agreement on Friday To train Pakistani astronauts and perform the first international missions to the Chinese Space Station Tiangong. China and Pakistan will dedicate a year from May to select Pakistani astronauts, who will be trained in China before joining their counterparts in the neighboring country in the Orbital Laboratory for short -term missions. Chinese-Pakistan ties. Pakistan was one of the first countries to recognize the People’s Republic of China in 1950. The two nations have continued to strengthen ties since then, both economically as in the military and technological: according to the CIA, China even helped develop Pakistan’s nuclear program in the 80s. In recent years, Pakistan has sought to improve his spatial capabilities by resorting to the help of his neighbors. In May, it was one of the countries that placed experiments aboard the Chang’e-6 lunar probe, which ended up turning China into The first country to recover successfully Soil samples of the hidden face of the moon. Which symbolizes tiangong. China decided to develop its own space station after the United States prohibited Any direct collaboration between NASA and the Chinese Space Agency (CNSA), preventing its participation in the International Space Station. After trying two prototypes (Tiangong-1 between 2011 and 2018 and Tiangong-2 between 2016 and 2019), China launched the first module of its permanent space station in 2021. The Tiangong Space Station has three modules and is uninterruptedly inhabited Since 2022, with astronaut rotation missions, first, every three months, and then, every six. The twilight of the ISS. With 16 pressurized modules (the oldest, 26 years old), the International Space Station has long been the maximum exponent of cooperation between countries. But Structural fatigue begins to be a problem and maintenance investments have been increasing. The official plan (Elon Musk has his own) is to keep the ISS operational until 2030 and then tow it to a safe place where to let it disintegrate by entering the atmosphere. Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, wants to have its own space station, and NASA trusts that the ISS is replaced by a commercial stations plethora. The future of the low orbit. There are few companies that are developing commercial space stations to offer space tourism services, experiments in microgravity and, ultimately, cover the hole that the ISS will leave from 2030: Axiom Space, Blue Origin, Voyager Space and Airbus… But neither does it lack ambition to China in the extensions planned for its space station, Tiangong, which in the coming years will double the number of modules to six And it will begin to accommodate, as we have seen, astronauts from other countries. Another next milestone will be the launch Xuntian Space Telescopescheduled for 2026. It will share the same orbit as the station (400 km altitude) and may be coupled to it for maintenance and improvement tasks. China occupies power vacuum. When NASA definitely abandons the low terrestrial orbit (or delegate it to its commercial partners), China will be there to occupy the void, opening to other countries to accommodate its astronauts, taking advantage of a abandonment of functions in international cooperation. It will not be the first time that China occupies a space that the United States leaves free. It has occurred on the Moon, ignored by NASA for a long time from the Apollo missions, occasion that the Chinese space agency took the opportunity to achieve symbolic milestones such as alunizar on the hidden satellite face and bring the first soil samples. Cycle change. With NASA receiving instructions to conquer Mars after Elon Musk convinced Donald Trump that the moon is a distraction, the NASA Artemis missions They are questioned. Now China has an opportunity. Not only to establish the “De facto International Space Station” in the low terrestrial orbit, but also a series of milestones that NASA had marked in its calendar of symbolic victories. The First woman who steps on the moon It could be China, if Artemis ends up falling apart. And then the first lunar orbital station? And then the First manned lunar base? If there is a cycle change, China will take advantage of it. Images | Shujianyang, China Ministry of Foreign Affairs In Xataka | 400,000 meters above the earth, China is undertaking a crucial mission in its space station: fortify it In Xataka | It is not that Elon Musk has managed to introduce its influence on NASA. Is that he has entered sweeping

China has discovered a source of energy so massive that potentially lasts 60,000 years. The bad news: is Torio

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China sits on a virtually unlimited energy reserve. Only the Bayan Obo mine, in the Interior Mongolia region, could contain about 1 million tons of Torio, sufficient to meet the country’s energy needs for 60,000 years. In interior Mongolia. While the world, with China at the head, looks for alternatives to fossil fuels to complement the intermittent supply of renewables, the answer could be resting under our feet. More specifically, under the ground of Interior Mongolia, the Autonomous Region of China that limits the north with Mongolia. According to South China Morning Posta newly declassified 2020 study has revealed that Bayan Obo’s site could contain enough Torio to supply all the energy needs of China for millennia. Virtually unlimited. Only five years of mining waste in the largest field of rare earths in Interior Mongolia contain both Torio and the demand for US homes for the next thousand years, according to the study of China Geological Review magazine that CMP quotes. If it is exploited to the fullest, Bayan Obo’s mining complex could produce 1 million tons of thorium. We would be talking about enough production to supply China for 60,000 years, the article suggests. Context. The thorium is a radioactive element that is estimated between three and four times more abundant than uranium in the earth’s crust. Until recently, the official figures placed the Chinese reserves around 100,000-300,000 tons, in themselves of the largest in the world. With a potential of 1 million tons, Bayan Obo would go from being the largest rare land mine on a virtually unlimited Torio source. Some geologists described the finding as a change of play that would give China the worldwide control of the production of the material. Not so fast. In most cases, the thorium is obtained as a byproduct in rare earth processing (specifically, monacite) or uranium mining and phosphates. China is already the main producer of rare earths, and therefore manages large amounts of minerals containing Torio. Why don’t you exploit it commercially on a large scale? Because the thorium is a radioactive residue of delicate management. Its extraction, either by acid or alkaline digestion of Monacita, or as a recovery of mining tails, complicates waste management with the use of alkaline acids or metals that generate toxic and radioactive wastewater. Perspectives These challenges are not insurmountable, but require a regulatory framework and an important investment for the thorium to be competitive in front of Uranium in the Obtaining safe nuclear energy. And especially in front of renewable sources, which have been cheaper thanks to the exponential growth of the Chinese supply chain. However, the thorium can end up being key to reducing fossil fuel dependence (after all, renewables need batteries to offer continuous supply), and China already has Torio reactor testslike the TMSR-LF1 of 2 MW and its future scaled 10 MW version that could be ready in 2030. If the results are positive, China could end up making the jump to the first 100 MW Torio nuclear power plants. Image | Google In Xataka | The reactors of molten salts and Torio are the nuclear response to solve our energy future (and silence criticism) In Xataka | The moment of the thorium: what if we do not have to wait for the merger to have much more safer nuclear energy?

How China has advanced the US on its presidential plane

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Every time the president of China, one of the main economic and military powers of the world, travels abroad in a State visita safety operational complex is activated. From transport to personal protection, everything is designed to minimize any risk and ensure that the diplomatic agenda runs without any setback. In the most complex trips, China displays a Boeing 747 fleet. According to simple flyingwhile an airplane is reserved for Xi Jinping, another transports its accompaniment personnel and a third is responsible for the load, including the presidential limousine. A logistics scheme reminiscent of the United States uses in this type of displacement. China and the United States choose Boeing Boeing is going through difficult timesbut that does not prevent him from manufactured some of the most emblematic aircraft in the world. A clear example is the Boeing 747in service since 1970 and still considered a reference in aviation. Both the United States and China have chosen it for the transport of its leaders, being a key piece on international trips. President Donald Trump has two Boeing 747-200b (VC-25), in service since the 1990s. These aircraft have been deeply modified to function as true control centers in the air, with private suites, offices, meetings and advanced communication and defense systems to guarantee VVIP level security. Xi Jinping travels in a Boeing 747-8, a more modern version than used by the president of the United States. This aircraft was delivered In December 2014but it was not until 2016 when it received its VVIP configuration, with specific modifications for presidential transport. Of course, the information about this point is extremely scarce. What is known is that, although the logo of China Airits use is reserved exclusively for Xi Jinping and acts as its air operations center. As we indicated above, the Chinese government also asks the state airline to have commercial aircraft for official functions when necessary. China uses a Boeing 747-8 for the transport of personnel and a Boeing 747-400 load for logistics support. In the latter the Hongqi N701Xi Jinping’s armored limousine, considered the Chinese version of the American “The Beast”, which in the case of the US moves into a C-17 Globemaster IIIa military load plane built by Boeing. Although there is no confirmed replacement plan, China could replace its presidential plane of the American Boeing with an alternative of its own manufacturing. The country has already developed with SUCCESS THE COMAC C919a narrow fuselage plane, and works on the C929a wide fuselage model that could become a viable candidate. The United States has been trying to replace its Boeing 747-200B presidential by Boeing 747-8, but the process has been full of delays. In this context, the Boom Supersonic CEO, Blake Scholl, has suggested that The White House leaves 747 and bet on a special version of the Overtureits supersonic development plane. Images | Hugo Luc | United States Air Force | Asuspine In Xataka | That a plane ends upside down in flames with 80 passengers inside is not good news. What happened later yes

Good news for China, not so much for the western technology industry

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The Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC) has established a measure that will affect cobalt exports. No more cobalt? The market regulation and control authority of strategic mineral substances (Arecoms) has announced that cobalt exports will be detained for at least four months. According to He explained Its president, Patrick Luabya, the decision seeks to control the supply of cobalt in an international market that is facing an overproduction of metal. The importance of cobalt. There is a common metal that both electric vehicles and mobile devices and other technologies share: cobalt. In this century, I know has promoted its demand. However, the production of cobalt in the RDC, which represents around 70% of the world supply, has fallen together with the lithium. This has caused other cobalt producers, such as Russia and Australia, to win more prominence. The reason for the oversupply has been the increase in production by From the Chinese company CMOCsince he has doubled his extraction in two large mines in the country. This situation has had an impact on supply and demand, causing a price drop. In fact, according to Fastmarkets data, cobalt reference prices They have dropped out of 10 dollars per pounda level that had not been seen in more than 20 years. The current impact on the global market. Despite this fall, the markets have entered into tension with the measure taken by RDC. But they have been able to breathe calm because the suspension of exports have not meant an immediate change in the price of cobalt. However, market experts consider that, in the short term, this action could generate a market stiffnesssince cobalt stocks will accumulate in the RDC instead of going to Chinese deposits, as is often the case. China. Although the suspension of exports has not yet affected prices, this can benefit the Asian country. Chinese companies, which They already control A significant part of the offer and cobalt production may be strengthened from this crisis. In fact, China It has access to other cobalt sources Like Australia, Russia and Indonesia. Particularly the latter has great cobalt reservations and has experienced significant growth in its production. In addition, the Congo decision has reinforced China’s domain, while the West faces greater difficulties in ensuring essential materials for technological and energy sectors. In this way, the Asian country has taken a dominance position in front “The war of tariffs” against Donald Trump. It should be added that the latter You will need many materials That has China. The western technology industry. The measure has directly affected the technological sector of Europe and the United States, since they depend on the cobalt to make batteries of electric vehicles and electronic devices. However, the Democratic Republic of the Congo seeks to redefine its role in the global market And he has asked Europe and the United States for help through an agreement. In this approach, the African country has established an agreement by which they offer strategic minerals in exchange for support for the stability and development of the country. This proposition starts from the RDC is facing internal tensions. In particular, the east of the Congo is being the scene of armed conflictssome with alleged relationship with Rwandawhich has intensified the violence in rubber and bukavu, both border cities with Rwanda are known for their mines rich in different elements. With this proposal, the RDC expects to attract Western investment and reduce its dependence on China in the mining sector. It remains to be seen if the United States and Europe will accept the agreement, which would allow them to ensure more stable access to these strategic resources. Copper. It should be noted that the cobalt is mainly extracted as an byproduct of copper in the Congo. The suspension of cobalt exports It will not affect Production or copper exports, another key mineral that Congo also produces in large quantities. This means that, although the export of cobalt is limited, copper exports will follow its normal course, without important changes. The suspension of exports will continue for three more months and will be revalued. During this period we will have to be attentive to future actions of the West and as China will redraw the energy map. Image | The International Institute for Environment and Development (IED) Xataka | The cobalt is what triggers the price of batteries. Japan has just found a much cheaper alternative

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