James Kynge

I must say it was very comfortable.

And I was also in a car that jumps on the road when it sees an obstacle.

So it's going along.

And here in the UK, we have lots of potholes.

If it sees a pothole, it'll just jump them.

And this happened when I was in the car.

You hardly felt it.

It was pretty amazing.

Wow.

So yeah, so China is absolutely charging ahead.

I've got plenty of other examples of Chinese innovations, but you must be seeing similar things.

right and you know building up the domestic use of drones for logistics but also for consumer you know purchases and whatnot has that been a theme at all in in your travels james yeah i mean drones are uh off the charts in china there are all types of different drones being made um many of them with a military purpose um and i think we can see that uh both in ukraine and in iran um

But I'm just wondering whether China is entering a kind of innovative golden age, a bit like America was in the run-up to World War I. At that time, the U.S.

had already invented the airplane, the light bulb, the telephone, the record player.

air conditioning, automatic transmission, the machine gun, ballpoint pen, all of these things.

A lot of people in the UK would say, hang on a sec, we got the patent for that lot.

But anyway, there was a UK-US nexus going on behind all of those innovations and many more.

And I just think that China is now at this moment.

I think that where we are right now will be regarded as a golden age.

Some of the innovations are fairly kind of, well,