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What Chinese startups are building, launching, and shipping — curated for European founders, operators, and investors.
DeepSeek Is Cheap, Powerful — and Increasingly Hard for Europe to Touch
European companies want DeepSeek’s economics, but privacy and sovereignty concerns are pushing them away from the consumer app and toward controlled enterprise deployments.
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Europe’s Solar Build-Out Still Runs on Chinese Panels
Europe’s solar market is still growing, but new trade data underlines an uncomfortable fact: the continent’s energy transition remains overwhelmingly dependent on Chinese panel manufacturing.
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Brussels' China Industrial Policy Is Ambitious, Implementation Is a Mess
The EU has launched its most aggressive China-decoupling industrial policy in a generation, targeting batteries, EVs, solar, and critical minerals. Beijing has already pushed back hard. But the real problem for European operators isn't Brussels — it's the seventeen member states that aren't ready to follow through.
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