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From Scooters to High Speed Rail, China is Electrifying

Plugs and Cars

Just as today we can look at a nighttime satellite image and see the black void that is recalcitrant, unelectrified North Korea, once that was China. The week I was in Shanghai, the Electric Vehicle Test Drive Center opened to the public in Shanghai Automobile City, a far suburb still reachable by subway. But it is an anomaly.

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Aurus Senat limo that Putin gifted to Kim uses South Korean parts, data shows

Baua Electric

The two leaders took turns driving the armoured limousine during Putin’s pomp-filled visit, his first in nearly a quarter of a century to North Korea, in a demonstration of the two nuclear powers’ increasingly close ties.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

Cars That Think

There’s very, very little regulation on the automobile because the power of the United States was as an industrial behemoth, and the idea is like, “We don’t want to stop that.” So I think that Russia, North Korea, Iran, they’re the geopolitical peasants, so to speak. The same story was with the car.

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