Economy, Trade & Industry

A New Kind of Power Across continents, a quiet transformation is changing how energy is produced and who builds it. In the Mojave Desert, sunlight reflects off solar mirrors that power entire cities. Along China’s coast, hydrogen electrolyzers turn water into clean fuel. Beneath the plains of Texas, carbon captured from factories is stored deep underground. These scenes belong to a new industrial revolution that measures progress not by extraction but by restoration. Clean te

The Race Above At dawn, the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center glows against the Gobi Desert as a Long March rocket prepares to rise. Across the Pacific, engineers at Cape Canaveral track a SpaceX booster set to land itself minutes after launch. The two scenes unfold under the same sky but reveal a new kind of rivalry. The United States and China are not just racing to reach space; they are competing to own the future built around it. What was once a contest of ideology has beco

How EVs Are Rewriting the Future of Work At a factory in Ningde, workers in clean suits monitor robotic arms as they slot lithium cells into modules the size of suitcases. Thousands of kilometers away in Michigan, engineers run computer simulations to predict how those same cells will age under cycles of heat and charging. The hum of machines, the glow of screens, and the silence between test results capture the rhythm of the electric-vehicle revolution. The global shift to e

How ESG Is Shaping Power in China and the U.S On trading screens across New York and Shanghai, carbon metrics now sit beside cash flow. That simple shift has created a new kind of analyst: people who can tell whether an emissions figure is real, comparable, and worth trusting. For students entering finance, sustainability is no longer a slogan. It is a technical language that determines value, risk, and reputation all at once. The Data Problem The credibility of ESG finance d

How Post-Pandemic Supply Chains Are Rewriting Global Careers When the pandemic brought global trade to a halt, ports turned into vast parking lots of cargo. Containers sat in silence, ships drifted for weeks, and supermarket shelves emptied thousands of miles away. The disruption revealed how fragile the world’s logistics networks had become. Supply chains, once invisible to most people, suddenly defined daily life. For a new generation, that failure became a lesson in how in

How Young Creators Navigate the Counterfeit Economy In an age when trends move faster than ideas can settle, design travels farther than its makers. A pattern drawn in a dorm room in Beijing might appear on a storefront in Milan before its creator even graduates, stripped of credit but not of value. For young designers, visibility is both opportunity and exposure. Every sketch enters a global marketplace where inspiration and imitation often move side by side. The Machinery o

Capital as a Gatekeeper of Innovation Ideas may travel faster than ever, but the money that fuels them no longer does. Over the past decade, the flow of venture capital, the lifeblood of startups, has begun to fragment. Governments that once welcomed foreign investors now police their origins, and companies that once pitched freely across continents must learn where their investors are allowed to look. For the generation of founders and researchers now coming of age, innovati

The New Face of a Trade War In a warehouse on the edge of Los Angeles, a young entrepreneur checks her latest shipment of kitchenware from Shenzhen. The boxes are smaller than expected, and the costs are higher. Each container now carries a new tariff, and her supplier has added another surcharge to offset its own losses. For many small business owners, this is how global policy reaches them: not through political statements but through balance sheets that suddenly do not add