Mapping the World
Season 36 Episode 10 - Smartphones: a power issue
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1990
Documentary
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 in Season 36
1
From the Bering Strait to the Arctic: Russian ambitions
12 min
2
Sea of Japan: sensitive area
12 min
3
The Dnieper: a river in the Russia–Ukraine war
12 min
4
Sinai: a desert between Egypt and Gaza
12 min
5
When the sea rises: a global issue
12 min
6
The Vatican: what diplomatic role?
12 min
7
Russia–North Korea: a long history
35 min
8
China: power of war or peace?
12 min
9
United Arab Emirates: understanding the new Middle East
12 min
10
Smartphones: a power issue
12 min
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11
France and its Overseas Territories: complex territories
12 min
12
Germany: change of era
12 min
13
Poland: new European leader?
12 min
14
Russian economy: resilient or declining?
12 min
15
The Gulf of Guinea: a strategic and threatened crossroads
12 min
16
Africa: France at half mast
12 min
17
Biodiversity: SOS animals
12 min
18
China: the big breakdown
12 min
19
Space: in the process of privatization?
12 min
20
At the borders of Russia: fear of war
12 min
21
European defense: the great rearmament
12 min
22
Syria: what future after the Assad dictatorship?
12 min
23
Azerbaijan: hydrocarbons and dictatorship
12 min
24
Sudan: forgotten war
12 min
25
Artificial intelligence: a global competition
12 min
26
Europeans and British: what reunion?
13 min
27
Morocco: between Europe and Africa
12 min
28
Norway: Russia's worrying neighbor
12 min
29
Saudi Arabia: MBS places itself in the center
12 min
