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CDUT Monthly Newsletter August 2026

This month’s newsletter provides an early look at our September CDUT update’s top findings — that Hong Kong and Macau universities have become deeply involved in China’s space program, including the upcoming Chang’e 8 lunar mission.

| Australian Strategic Policy Institute

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This month’s newsletter provides an early look at our September CDUT update’s top findings — that Hong Kong and Macau universities have become deeply involved in China’s space program, including the upcoming Chang’e 8 lunar mission. 

We also examine new laboratories, new focus on aviation and aerospace, and some new links with Southeast Asia. The research institutes recorded this month cluster in three areas – brain-computer interfaces, the low-altitude economy and embodied intelligence.   

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