Brazil needs a decade more of grid expansion, with new lines earning fees for decades. Chinese and Japanese suppliers are taking opposite routes to win that business, and the difference in strategy may decide who captures the steadiest profits.
China's big construction-machinery makers posted rising revenue but falling profit in the first three quarters of 2026, with currency losses and weaker domestic prices eating the gains. Overseas sales carry far higher margins than at home, making exports the industry's real profit engine.
Leshan Airport in Sichuan is preparing to open as a 4C-grade facility designed for 2 million passengers by 2030, while Zaozhuang's Yiyun Airport also nears operation. The buildout reflects a broader reshuffling of China's smaller-city aviation map.
Hino and Mitsubishi Fuso merged into Archion in April and now face Chinese heavy-truck brands together, leaning on about 3,700 global sales and service points. Chinese makers went from near zero to roughly 40% of Indonesia's heavy-truck market in four years.
Transsion, the Shenzhen phone maker that conquered Africa's low-end market, is now squeezed by rising memory chip prices. It is leaning on stockpiles, a weak Hong Kong listing and a costly pivot into AI to hold its ground.
October delivery figures reshuffle China's new-energy carmakers, with Leapmotor holding the 100,000-a-month lead while Xpeng and Xiaomi pass 50,000. Analysts say overseas sales, not domestic volume, now separate winners from the rest as former leaders slip.
BYD reported October sales of 490,200 new energy vehicles, with overseas volume doubling year on year. Battery-electric sales rose 37.38% while plug-in hybrids fell 17.22%, and ten-month totals slipped 2.16% to 3.62 million.
Brazil's car industry once built a president in Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and now Chinese automakers are moving in as the country searches for an industrial way forward. The story traces how a new wave of investment is meeting a market shaped by seven decades of carmaking.
A Munich showroom run by a Chinese dealer group shows how BYD compressed decades of brand-building into five years in Europe. Meanwhile, Chinese carmakers are moving from exports to local factories, with Leapmotor's first Spanish-built B10 rolling off an old Stellantis line.
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