Decoding the Dragon
Jayant MundhraBy Jayant Mundhra
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#50: Why does China hold only 12% of Africa's $1.2tn debt?
I have believed for a while now that the single most repeated story about China in Africa is also the single most wrong one. The "debt-trap" story. You know the one. China lends fragile African states billions they cannot repay, then seizes...
#49: Why did tree-planting dry out 74% of China's land?
Here is a number that has quietly reorganised how I think about the entire idea of "greening" a desert.
Between 2001 and 2020, China planted so many trees that it changed where water sits across the country. And the direction of that chang...
#48: Why does China make 97% of the world's battery anodes?
Here is a number that should bother anyone who cares about India's energy future. China makes roughly 97% of the world's battery anode material.1 Not 60%. Not 80%. Ninety-seven.
I have been reading about critical minerals for a while now,...
#47: Why did China just order 60 GWh of lithium-free batteries?
In April this year, CATL, the world's largest battery maker, signed a three-year deal to supply 60 GWh of sodium-ion batteries to a single Chinese storage integrator called HyperStrong.1 That is the largest sodium-ion order ever placed anyw...
#46: Why does China supply 96% of India's penicillin base?
Here is a fact that should bother anyone who calls India the "pharmacy of the world". On 29 January 2026, the Indian government quietly did something it has not done for a strategic input in years: it set a legal floor price below which you...
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