Coming soon: China, the new tech superpower
Behind the Money
Topher Forhecz
4.4 • 350 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
In a new season of Tech Tonic, longtime FT China reporter Jame Kynge travels around the world to see how China is pushing towards tech supremacy. Will China be able to get an edge in crucial technological areas? What does China’s attempt to leapfrog the west look like on the ground? A 6-part series looking at China’s tech industry.
Presented by James Kynge. Edwin Lane is the senior producer. The producer is Josh Gabert-Doyon. Executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Sound design by Breen Turner and Samantha Giovinco, with original music from Metaphor Music. The FT’s head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.
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| 0:00.0 | In a new series of Techtonic from the Financial Times, we go to the front lines of China's rise as a tech superpower. |
| 0:10.0 | From the factories of Shenzhen, China's Silicon Valley, to Nigeria where Chinese phones dominate. |
| 0:19.0 | And Germany, where Chinese electric vehicles may overtake the big carmakers. |
| 0:28.5 | In a 50-meter, |
| 0:30.5 | I was supposed to be. In the Western countries I do mind business, you do yours. But in China I do my business and I do your business too. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm James King, a long-time China reporter at the FT. |
| 0:45.4 | Join me as I travel the world to find out if China is leapfrogging the West to |
| 0:51.4 | global technological supremacy. |
| 0:54.0 | It's pulled apart that narrative, that innovation depends on certain types of freedoms. |
| 1:00.0 | Subscribe to Tectonic, wherever you get your podcasts. |
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