Your offer for the first month of The Wire China for one dollar will close soon. More details below!For years, the United States has tried to stop China from getting its most advanced chips out of concern the technology could bolster the Pe
Good evening. Thirty-seven years ago this week, dreams of a freer China died on the streets of Beijing when the Chinese Communist Party sent in the army to crush the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. By the turn of the century there were rene
We’re offering your first month of The Wire China for just one dollar. More details below!The world is facing a global memory chip shortage, with companies scrambling to buy what they can. The crunch puts desperate U.S. firms in a bind: wil
Good evening. There were no knock-out blows when Trump 2.0 met Xi 3.0 in Beijing this month for the two presidents’ highly anticipated summit. But did one of them win on points? This week’s cover story asks seven Chinese and U.S. experts an
We’re offering your first month of The Wire China for just one dollar. More details below!Move over, DeepSeek and Minimax. Investors are flocking to a new set of AI winners: the Chinese manufacturers making circuit boards and other componen
Good evening. In a not too distant era, Jeffrey Chao would have been celebrated in America as another example of a successful immigrant and credit to his new country. After finishing university in Shanghai, Chao established TP-Link, a succe
We’re offering your first month of The Wire China for just one dollar. More details below!TP-Link is having a tough year. The California-based, Shenzhen-founded internet router company can’t seem to shake skepticism that moving to the Unite
Good evening. At present, Taiwan acts as a giant aircraft carrier moored off China’s coast, impeding the PLA Navy and Air Force’s access to the western Pacific. Should Xi Jinping realise his dream of uniting Taiwan with China, the island wo
There are fewer U.S. journalists working in China now than at any point since the two countries normalized relations in the 1970s. Today, the New York Times has one reporter in the country, the Wall Street Journal two, soon to be one, and t
Good evening. First it was alleged smugglers in California sending proscribed Nvidia AI chips to China by way of Singapore and Malaysia. Then Texas and Virginia-based executives were accused of shipping Nvidia’s to China via North Carolina,
Another day, another AI chip smuggling ring has been busted by the United States government. But this one is different: for the first time, executives from U.S. server manufacturer Super Micro have been charged with selling NVIDIA chips to
Good evening. As Chinese crypto investors plied their trade in the middle years of the last decade, the exchanges that served them also started to lend them money. It was an easy way to boost exchange volumes and fee revenues, and everyone
In the high-stakes world of cryptocurrency, traders are writing big checks with borrowed funds — a risky investment trend known as leveraging. To understand whether this will help or hurt the industry, The Wire looks back at the trend’s eme
Good evening. How does a belligerent power hide its preparations to conquer a neighbor, as Russia tried to do before moving against Ukraine in February 2022 and as China one might day attempt ahead of a blockade or invasion of Taiwan. The a
After so many years of Canada and the United States presenting a united front against Chinese electric vehicles, some were surprised by Canada’s announcement earlier this year it would drop its high tariffs on EVs — and even allow them to s
Good evening. In Part II of our oral history series on the April 2001 Hainan spy plane crisis, The Wire China is today publishing eight accounts of the incident from participants including Dennis Wilder, then the CIA’s China Division Chief
China’s solar imports aren’t welcome everywhere, but that’s not the case in Africa. Solar exports to the continent as a whole increased by almost 50 percent last year.Subscribe nowIn our latest episode, editor Andrew Peaple and reporter Noa
Good evening. Twenty five years ago this week, on April 1, 2001, a Chinese jet fighter and an American EP-3 spy plane collided over the South China Sea. The jet fighter plunged into the sea and its pilot, Wang Wei, was never found. The spy
25 years ago, a Chinese and a U.S. plane collided over the waters off of China’s southern coast. The Chinese pilot was never found, while the 24 surviving American crew members made an emergency landing on a Chinese military base on the isl
Good evening. China and America’s race to dominate AI will be determined by at least six factors including power generation, data center infrastructure, semiconductors, AI models’ capabilities, their popularity with users and industry reven