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How drones, tariffs and rare earths could test US-China detente

Shut out of the SpaceX IPO, Chinese investors get creative to catch a ride

US trade court to Trump administration: speed up tariff refunds

Driven by AI demand, China on track to pass US as top nuclear energy producer

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SpaceX IPO: views from the ground

SpaceX signage displayed in Hawthorne, California. Photo: AFP

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 with a first-stage booster flying for a record 35th time launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 on Monday. Photo: SpaceX/TNS

Proxy stocks and supply chain speculation are among options after being locked out of what could be largest listing ever.


China launches space computing hub as SpaceX gears up for historic IPO

The establishment of the institute marks a major step in the China-US AI rivalry, which is increasingly extending beyond Earth. Photo: Shutterstock

A banner from China’s private rocket company LandSpace, which is one of the backers of the Beijing Space Intelligent Computing Research Institute. Photo: Reuters

New institute highlights Beijing’s bid to leapfrog energy bottlenecks and underscores how tech race with US is moving off-planet.


Concerns mount in China’s space sector that Musk’s Starship will be a failure

The Starship and Super Heavy Booster create sound waves on lift-off for the 12th test flight from the SpaceX launch complex in Texas on Friday. Photo: Reuters

Is the world’s most powerful rocket hitting a wall similar to the engineering limitations experienced decades ago by the Soviet N1?


China merges lunar programmes as race to moon with US heats up after latest SpaceX launch

Pictures of the moon’s surface taken by the Chang’e-6 probe in 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE

The country releases further details about how it is ‘combining experiences and expertise’ from its crewed and uncrewed lunar missions.


Before Elon Musk’s SpaceX, these were the world’s 5 largest IPOs

The New York Stock Exchange decorated for the first day of trading for Alibaba on September 19, 2014. Photo: Shutterstock

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket above the sky in Pasadena, California on April 6. Photo: Getty Images via AFP

Chairman of Agricultural Bank of China Xiang Junbo (left) and chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Ronald Arculli at the Agricultural Bank of China’s listing ceremony in Central on July 16, 2010. Photo: K. Y. Cheng

Ahead of SpaceX’s public listing on Friday, set to break records, here are some previous block-buster fundraisers.


As Elon Musk’s SpaceX prepares to go public on June 12, the SCMP is covering the impact of the American commercial space giant’s move and reporting on the reaction from China.


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