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Mapping the World
Season 36 · Episode 10
Smartphones: a power issue
0.012mMarch 28, 2025
The smartphone is an issue of sovereignty, security and technological control between the American and Chinese giants. At the center of this battle: semiconductors, essential components of all electronic objects. However, this market is dominated by Taiwan, an ally of Washington and a target of Beijing. The smartphone is at the heart of the major dividing lines of the 21st century.
Episodes
- Episode 1From the Bering Strait to the Arctic: Russian ambitions
- Episode 2Sea of Japan: sensitive area
- Episode 3The Dnieper: a river in the Russia–Ukraine war
- Episode 4Sinai: a desert between Egypt and Gaza
- Episode 5When the sea rises: a global issue
- Episode 6The Vatican: what diplomatic role?
- Episode 7Russia–North Korea: a long history
- Episode 8China: power of war or peace?
- Episode 9United Arab Emirates: understanding the new Middle East
- Episode 10Smartphones: a power issue
- Episode 11France and its Overseas Territories: complex territories
- Episode 12Germany: change of era
- Episode 13Poland: new European leader?
- Episode 14Russian economy: resilient or declining?
- Episode 15The Gulf of Guinea: a strategic and threatened crossroads
- Episode 16Africa: France at half mast
- Episode 17Biodiversity: SOS animals
- Episode 18China: the big breakdown
- Episode 19Space: in the process of privatization?
- Episode 20At the borders of Russia: fear of war
- Episode 21European defense: the great rearmament
- Episode 22Syria: what future after the Assad dictatorship?
- Episode 23Azerbaijan: hydrocarbons and dictatorship
- Episode 24Sudan: forgotten war
- Episode 25Artificial intelligence: a global competition
- Episode 26Europeans and British: what reunion?
- Episode 27Morocco: between Europe and Africa
- Episode 28Norway: Russia's worrying neighbor
- Episode 29Saudi Arabia: MBS places itself in the center