James Kynge

If you're going to put a whole load of restrictions on us, then we can hit you back by restricting our supply chain exports to the US and other countries.

And I just wonder how

This plays into the summit between Trump and Xi Jinping, which is supposed to, I believe, take place in early May.

I don't think we've got final confirmation of that yet, but maybe there's an element of this, particularly with the rules that I just cited, the ones that have just come out last week.

that China is just trying to build leverage in trade negotiations between it and the United States ahead of the Trump visit so that there aren't any nasty surprises from Washington.

I don't know.

That's purely speculation on my behalf, but I've seen this movie a few times before, and China does tend to do things like that.

Yeah, I must say I am a bit of a sucker for humanoid robots.

I did go around a couple of exhibition halls looking at the latest humanoids.

But this humanoid robot that ran the half marathon in Beijing is kind of next level, actually, because not only did the robot beat all the human competitors in the race, it was a hybrid race.

So there were robots and humans, very fast humans, I mean, proper athletes.

not only did it win the race by a very wide margin, but it also broke the world record for the men's half marathon by an equally wide margin.

It ran the half marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, living up to its name.

The robot is called Lightning.

And so that

breaks the human world record for the half marathon, which is held by Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo.

And that record is 57 minutes, 20 seconds.

So basically, the humanoid was seven minutes faster than the world record holder.

So

The other thing is that these humanoids, most of them ran autonomously, so they weren't being controlled by somebody with a gadget.