Love don't cost a thing, but wedding sure do.

I would say every single person I go to, and I'm like, so how much over budget are you right now?

And I've never heard someone say they were under budget.

Matrimony's rising price tag.

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I think China's space strategy is not primarily about space. It's all about planet Earth,

and particularly how to dominate the global order on Earth, of course, by enlisting space to gain advantage.

And as you've just said, you know, when you look at what China and, of course, the US is doing in space, there's a military domain and there's a commercial domain and then there's this sort of fuzzy

hybrid domain dual use, I suppose, that could be military, could be commercial. And the more you

look at all of the space furniture up there, the more you scratch your head and think, well,

could that be military, could that be commercial? You know, there's a lot of intraoperability.

Welcome to China Decode. I'm Alas Han. And I'm James King. In today's episode of China Decode,

we're discussing China's huge strides in the space race, the looming $2 trillion generational wealth transfer,

and regulating dim sum automation.

That's all coming up, but first let's do a quick check-in with how the markets are starting

the week.

On Monday, Chinese stock markets were closed in observance of the Labor Day holiday.

The Shanghai composite ended the month of April up 5.66%, and the Shenzhen component surged

over 12% thanks to strong PMI data and notable gains in several tech stocks.

China's manufacturing PMI for April was 50.3, slightly above forecast, suggesting expansion in the manufacturing

sector. Shares of Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone and EV maker, closed 6.8% higher in the Hong Kong

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