China as a System @leonliao
Leon LiaoA new framework on how China’s rise is reshaping global competition across industry, technology, energy, capital flows, and geopolitics. Grounded in local insight and shaped by a global perspective. Publishing 5-10 in-depth structural essays weekly
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Global Supply Chain Began to Reorder After Chinese Automakers Reached the Top
The changes in the Global Auto Supply Chain Top 100 are, first of all, the supply-chain reflection of a reshuffling in automaker brand power. In 2025, Chinese auto brands became the world’s largest brand bloc for the first time. After tha...
Inside Cambricon’s AI workload Test
Cambricon is moving from a domestic AI-chip narrative into a fundamentals test of revenue, delivery, customer structure, and platform closure
The most important thing about Cambricon is that it is taking an independent third-party route ba...
Why Morocco Became China’s New Gateway to Europe’s Car Supply Chain
A small North African market is becoming a contested platform for EV materials, auto parts and origin-rule politics.
Morocco is where Chinese industrial capacity, European demand, North African industrial ambition and the next generation o...
Inside ByteDance’s AI Revenue Machine
Doubao’s massive usage, Volcano Engine’s MaaS scale, and Seedance’s enterprise demand are pushing China’s AI race from model attention toward commercialization tests
ByteDance does not lack AI usage. The harder part is turning users, token...
The Organizational Party: The Real Source of China’s State Capacity
The CPC’s deepest institutional advantage is its ability to organize China from within: linking people, resources, discipline, information, promotion, and tasks into a durable system of state capacity.
This essay is part of State Governa...
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China as a System offers a new framework for understanding China, industrial power, state capacity, tech diffusion, capital flows, and global order. Former managing director at a global investment bank and a leading Chinese economic institute
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