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🗓️ 11 May 2024

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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.
0:09.8	From the factories of Shenzhen, China's Silicon Valley, to Nigeria, where Chinese phones dominate.
0:18.6	Saovi, Opel, before.
0:22.6	Everything is here. And Germany, where Chinese phones dominate. Saobi, Opal, before, everything is here. And Germany, where Chinese electric vehicles
0:25.6	may overtake the big car makers.
0:28.6	In the 150 meters,
0:30.6	in the Western countries,
0:34.6	I do my business, you do yours.
0:36.6	But in China, I do my business, you do yours. But in China, I do my business and I do
0:40.0	your business too. I'm James King, a long-time China reporter at the FT. Join me as I travel the
0:47.6	world to find out if China is leapfrogging the West to global technological supremacy. It's pulled apart that narrative, that innovation depends on certain types of freedoms.
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