Xiaomi the way: a Chinese tech giant gets bigger
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The Economist
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🗓️ 25 July 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The smartphone giant is now making strong inroads in the electric-vehicle market. But can its boss’s belovedness at home translate to success abroad? Britain and Argentina are putting past differences behind them as the South Atlantic becomes a strategic hotspot. And how women’s sports, already sharply on the rise, can get bigger still.
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| 1:05.6 | With Britain and Argentina, there's a little bit of that, don't mention the war vibe. |
| 1:13.4 | The Falkland Islands are still a touchy subject. |
| 1:17.7 | But as the region becomes more important to the likes of Russia and China, |
| 1:20.5 | the two sides have plenty of reason to cooperate. |
| 1:27.1 | And as the final of the European Women's Championship approaches this weekend, |
| 1:29.7 | we take a look at women's sports more broadly. |
| 1:31.5 | They're on a tear, |
| 1:35.1 | and they'll do better still by not copying the men's games when it comes to growth and governance. |
| 1:42.2 | But first... The Chinese company, Shalmi, is the world's third largest smartphone maker after Apple and Samsung. |
| 1:59.0 | Don Weinland is the economist's China, business, and finance editor. Its founder, |
| 2:04.0 | Lejeun, is really no stranger to success. So 10 years ago, he was already setting Guinness World |
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