Faisal Islam: UK will not be able to resist China's tech dominance

Chinese lithium-ion electric batteries now cost per kWh about a seventh of what they cost a decade ago. DeepSeek is doing in AI exactly what China has done elsewhere. While the impact of this was most visible in electric vehicles (EVs), where China is now the world's biggest exporter, having cornered the supply chains and the science for battery technology, it stretches well beyond. Even in auto the Chinese manufacturers are now pushing the concept of "electric intelligent vehicles", in which conventional carmakers cannot compete, especially on software development. China's consumer electronics companies are shifting into car manufacturing, with "dark factories" operated 24/7 by armies of AI-powered robots, now also increasingly made in China.