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China’s Tech Obsession Is Weighing Down Its Economy

A decade of cutting-edge investment hasn’t translated into growth. October 10, 2025, 3:00 PM Comment icon View Comments ( )

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Every day brings new headlines about Chinese tech. Maybe it’s an electric vehicle with longer-range batteries , an updated artificial intelligence model , or a humanoid robot —but the message is the same every time: China is a tech juggernaut. Some credit China’s economic model . Others believe it’s the engineer-trained leaders and hard-edged entrepreneurs who know how to work the system or the sustained transfer of tacit knowledge from the United States and others. But

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