What China is actually building

Most of what matters is only visible in Chinese sources. I make it visible to the European decision-makers who have to act on it.

What China is actually building

Most of what matters is only visible in Chinese sources. I make it visible to the European decision-makers who have to act on it.

What I do

SE Incubator Consulting is a Vienna-based consultancy on China. I help European decision-makers understand where Chinese AI and industrial technology really stand — and what that means for their business.

An AI can summarise Chinese sources. It cannot tell you which of them to trust. That takes years of following the same companies closely enough to know.

Typical questions, for example

  1. Which Chinese technologies are actually in production — and at what scale?
  2. Which developments in China matter for our industry, and which are noise?
  3. Should we work with this Chinese partner?
  4. Does China belong on our agenda at all?

Your question isn't on the list? Ask it anyway. You get a clear position and the reasoning behind it — not a report you still have to interpret.

Who you work with

I'm Ting Wasner-Lian, MBA. I read the Chinese sources directly, and I have spent twenty years working between China and Europe — my own company in Beijing, the China presence I built for an Italian architecture studio, and eleven years building the China business of an Austrian automotive consultancy.

At a glance

Focus
Chinese AI and industrial technology
For
Executives and decision-makers at European companies whose products, markets or supply chains are affected by China
Industries
Manufacturing, automotive and technology — and any industry where Chinese technology is changing the competition
Formats
Recurring briefings, single questions, decision support, market entry
Languages
English, German, Chinese
Based in
Vienna, Austria — working across Europe

Latest analysis

22 September 2026

Two paths for consumer AI agents in China and the US: Doubao Phone and Meta Muse

Doubao operates the phone; Muse operates a computer in the cloud. Both were blocked by incumbent platforms. What this means for advertising, commerce and Europe.

Contact

ting@se-incubator.com

Ting Wasner-Lian, MBA · LinkedIn · Correspondence in English, German or Chinese.