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Sep 08 2025 
Here Comes China
A few interesting selections from Godfree Roberts’ Newsletter: Here Comes China
Flight test begins of world’s first megawatt-level ‘windmill’ airship, the S1500, with 1MW energy generation, equivalent to a traditional 328-foot (100-meter) wind turbine.
DeepSeek becomes China’s AI model of choice overnight. HarmonyOS update of its AI assistant, Xiaoyi, is bringing deep integration of Deepseek-R1 to all… Continue reading
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Jeff J Brown and Godfree Roberts interview
Note: I find problems in embedding the video (some technical hitch not on our side) but it is available on Jeff’s substack here
Transcript:
Jeff J Brown (Host): Good morning, everybody. This is Jeff J Brown China Rising Radio Sinoland on the D-Day beaches of Normandy. And my show’s most popular guest, Godfree Roberts, is on today.… Continue reading
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Mar 05 2023 
Here Comes China!
From the packed full of data Here Comes China newsletter by Godfree Roberts with commenting by myself.
The Chinese proposed peace plan for Russia and Ukraine was received by many commentators saying that China’s interest is to let commerce continue. That is true, but it is not complete. China wants to be the country that keeps… Continue reading
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Jan 14 2023 
Pax Sinica in the Middle East?
by Godfree Roberts from the Here Comes China newsletter.
Hope for Palestine and Iran?
In 2022, the China-GCC Summit was one thing, and China’s strategic partnership with Iran another, but both Saudi Arabia and Iran applying simultaneously to multipolar institutions – BRICS and the SCO? Plus the idea of a BRICS Coin as a commodity-weighted neutral reserve… Continue reading
