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China’s innovation system is strong in output, but weaker institutional scores show why trust still has to be earned.

China’s R&D rise shows why its manufacturing story is shifting from low-cost scale to deeper scientific capability.

Public R&D support is not one model: some countries rely more on direct project funding, while others route support through tax incentives. 

Tech-job spillovers appear around cloud and AI operators, while landlord-style colocation sites show no clear local IT effect. 

Data centers lift local employment, but the clearest early gain is concentrated in construction. 

Coal shipment changes were uneven, but the sharpest declines came from China and India, complicating the idea of a broad coal rebound.

Solar and wind absorbed much of the shock, weakening the claim that the Hormuz crisis produced a simple coal comeback.