ents to secure raw lithium in Latin America and Africa in hopes of controlling one-third of the world’s supply. Now, the U.S. is trying to develop its own domestic supply to reduce its reliance on China. Photo illustration: Jamie LeventhalThis original video series explores the rivalry between the two superpowers’ competing efforts to develop the technologies that are reshaping our world.The U.S. invented solar panels in the 1950s.
Photo illustration: Amogh Alva VazChina plans to launch thousands of broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit to bring hundreds of millions online and sell connections across the globe. But doing so will pit it against SpaceX’s Starlink. WSJ explores how China can compete in this crowded stretch of space. Illustration: MacKenzie Coffman, Preston Jessee for the Wall Street JournalChina has some of the fastest – and busiest – trains in the world.