From the Editor

China’s tech revolution is accelerating, leaving the West scrambling to catch up. With 2026 around the corner, Chatham House experts assess the year’s potential flashpoints. Could a ‘climate dashboard’ tackle public apathy about the climate crisis? All this and more in the winter issue of ‘The World Today’.

The World Today

Published 15 December 2025 — 1 minute READ

Welcome to the winter issue of The World Today

From robotics and renewables, to pharmaceuticals and electric vehicles, China now makes technology products as well as anyone, but considerably cheaper. And that is posing challenges to Europe and the United States that neither is rising to, writes James Kynge. Yet as Beijing bids to reinforce its tech advantage in its next Five-Year Plan, writes Yu Jie, is it at risk of leaving behind its young unemployed? 

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