A look at the Chinese gaming company: its history, how it became a serious competitor on the global scene, and what the future has in store.
Tencent has long dominated video games in China, and now leads the global gaming industry in terms of revenues. Any challenger hoping to knock it off its number one spot would need unprecedented growth, an incredibly dedicated fanbase, and a heap of perseverance.
Chinese video game developer miHoYo might just have all three.
Founded in 2011 by a trio of graduates from Shanghai Jiaotong University, miHoYo has spent the last decade creating its ‘HoYoverse’ brand of games that appea
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A weekly curated reading list on China from David Barboza, Pulitzer Prize-winning former Shanghai correspondent for The New York Times.
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Washington’s $370 billion Inflation Reduction Act was seen as a generational opportunity for miners in the U.S. as well as mineral rich trading partners. But almost two years later, the North American mining industry is in crisis and no closer to chipping away at China's dominance. What went wrong?
The academic explains why we need to look beyond the actions of the Chinese government to understand how and why China is shaping countries in the region.
A podcast about how the two nations, once friends, are now foes.
Hear why things are so complicated now. Host Jane Perlez, former New York Times Beijing bureau chief, talks with diplomats, spies, cultural superstars like Yo Yo Ma, and more to understand why the dangers are so high, and why relations went awry.