China’s development of ballpoint pen tips was a national news story in 2017. Source: Xinhua In the age of the Internet and open source, technology moves swiftly around the world. In the consumer ...

China made robotics a focal point of its recent "Made in China 2025" plan and has set national goals of producing 100,000 industrial robots a year and having 150 robots in operation for every 10,000 ...

Despite making almost 40 billion ballpoint pens a year, until recently China was struggling to manufacture one component domestically. WSJ explains what made it so difficult. Illustration ...

Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cube and even the iPhone, and yet, it’s one of the most ...

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that ...