The shift east

Blacklisted by Washington, Chinese tech firms have worked their way around U.S. curbs and are now ditching American chips for their own

“WE want to be one of the largest mainstream brands in the UK,” says Bono Ge, BYD’s UK country manager. No messing: this Bono wants to be bigger than U2. Build Your Dreams is the standard bearer for t

UK importer Innovation Automotive is trying to grow fledgling brand SKYWELL sounds like a James Bond blockbuster, but is the minnow of the Chinese EV pack. Skyworth Auto emerged from a Nanjing bus com

THE UK’s number one Chinese car company is a brand born 101 years ago in the verdant English countryside: MG Motor. No, we haven’t lost our minds: Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation snapped up t

In the late 1990s, a young Stella Li landed in Rotterdam from China with $30,000, a container load of lithium-ion batteries and an order from head office: “sell them to survive”. She clinched a deal w

CHINA reportedly produced more than 31 million cars last year alone – almost double the amount cranked out across the whole of Europe. Indeed, many big European brands have capacity in China, either b