Data Insight
China Doubles Down on Mining: Q2 2026 Update
Mining dominated announced Chinese outbound investment in Q2 2026, driven by new acquisitions and the expansion of previously acquired operations.
Research
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Fighting Hubris in AI Strategy: A Layer-by-Layer Dissection of AI Tech Stack Competition
Policy attention has fixated on chips, the cloud, and models. But crafting a durable AI strategy will require a broader approach reconciling industrial capacity, geopolitical realities, and rapid evolution of the technology.
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Can India Finally Realize Its Manufacturing Ambitions?
Trade deals with the EU and potentially the US, alongside other countries’ rising barriers to Chinese goods, offer India an opportunity to capture global export share, even as its manufacturing ecosystem remains less competitive.
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How Chinese Cars Took Over Thailand
In just a few years, Chinese OEMs have gone from zero to almost 30% market share, and a whopping 90% of EV sales. The question now is how much more market share Chinese OEMs can gain in the country.
Journal article
China’s Moment of Weakness: Economic Decay and America’s Strategic Opening
The strategic challenge from China today is an entirely different threat from the one the United States and its allies faced only four years ago. Crucially, this change represents an urgent but potentially definitive opportunity for the US.
Flash note
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Take on Xi? Europe Counts Costs of China Shock
European and G7 leaders came together over the past week to discuss China, among other topics. In the run-up to the European Council meeting in Brussels on June 18-19, it looked like the EU might be on the verge of a major shift in its approach to Beijing.…
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Resource Nationalism and Inflation
As China and other countries engage in new forms of resource nationalism—attempting to control key industrial inputs at home—the results are strained global supply chains and new constraints on China’s growth.
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From Pledges to Plants? Rightsizing China’s Global Clean Tech Investment
Chinese overseas clean tech investment is growing but not as large as some headlines suggest, according to new data on FDI by Chinese companies abroad across the EV, solar PV, and wind turbine value chains.
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The EU Eyes Tougher Trade Measures Against China
There has been a flurry of reports in recent weeks about the EU considering tougher trade measures against China. We thought it would be helpful to update you on what we know about this discussion, ahead of an “orientation debate” among EU commissioners…
Report
Chinese Investment in Europe Rises to Seven-Year High: Chinese FDI in Europe 2025 Update
Building on a long-standing collaboration between Rhodium Group and MERICS, this report summarizes China’s investment footprint in the EU-27 and the UK in 2025, analyzing policy developments and the shifting patterns in China’s FDI.
