Cover Story

Grading Day

2025 has arrived. Has China’s grand vision for tech supremacy lived up to the hype?

The Big Picture

China's Rare Earths Riposte

China’s retaliation to U.S. tariffs included export controls of seven rare earth elements.

Q & A

Oren Cass on The Benefits of Tariffs

The economist discusses the need for a new global trading system.

News and Analysis

China’s Self-driving Danger

Automakers are striving to offer ever more advanced car models, but are they taking too many risks with driver safety?

Opinion

China's Chip Problem that Money Can't Solve

China may seem from the outside to have a joined-up industrial strategy, but internal interests aren't always aligned.

An ebook collection of interviews with the American policy makers who have shaped the U.S.'s relationship with China under six presidential administrations, carried out by former Wall Street Journal senior editor Bob Davis.

Interviews include Nancy Pelosi, Robert Lighthizer, Charlene Barshefsky, Robert Gates, Ash Carter, Robert Rubin and more.

China’s Year of Record Trade

China’s trade surplus hit a record in 2024, but the threat of U.S. tariffs looms.

Mike Froman on the China Trade Question

The Obama-era U.S. Trade Representative discusses the U.S.'s need to figure out what it wants from China economically, the problem with tariffs and his regrets over TPP.

The Tariff Toll

Tariffs have become a staple of the U.S.’s China policy, but a failure to enforce them properly is creating problems for American companies.

Mexico Is No Backdoor For Chinese Carmakers

A recent trip to Mexico suggests talk of widespread Chinese tariff evasion has been overdone.

Matt Turpin On Trump, Tariffs and Taiwan

The former Trump official on why China is still the main target of the trade war, Beijing’s response so far and how tensions over Taiwan could play out.

America’s Cultural Revolution

President Trump is seeking a fundamental break from historical norms in a way that bears comparison with the decade of turmoil Mao Zedong instigated in China, albeit in a much less violent way.

Elizabeth Economy on What the U.S. Should Want from China

The academic and former Biden administration advisor on what she tried to achieve in government and what Trump is getting right and wrong about China.

China Aims to Cut the Renewable Energy Waste

A new pricing plan should make China’s wind and solar power cheaper than coal-based electricity, although more reforms are still needed.

The Trump Tariff Challenge for Multinational Companies

With the U.S. emulating China’s protectionism, global firms face tricky decisions over where to invest.

Is DJI Done?

The most popular drone company in the world is fighting for its future in America with one hand tied behind its back.

The Road to TikTok’s D-Day

A look at how the U.S. government's approach to the wildly popular social media app has twisted and turned.

Jeremy Daum on how Beijing is Controlling China's AI Industry

The legal expert compares the U.S. and Chinese approach to regulating artificial intelligence, data privacy in China and the future of TikTok.

China is Not Undergoing Japanification

Comparing the China of today with the Japan of the 1990s won’t help fix the Chinese economy’s problems.

‘Deep-Sea Fishing’: Why China’s Local Governments Are Resorting to Extortion

Business confidence can only truly return in China when Beijing addresses the perverse incentives that prevail within the system.

Baichuan’s Big Pivot

One of China’s so-called AI tigers has made big changes to its leadership and strategy this year.

Baidu's Big Bet

Can Baidu’s longstanding investment in AI — especially autonomous vehicles — drive its future?

The Wire China

Grading Day

China's Rare Earths Riposte

Oren Cass on The Benefits of Tariffs

China’s Self-driving Danger

China's Chip Problem that Money Can't Solve

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Broken Engagement

The Race to Type in Chinese

Shortlist: 2024 Translated Literature Award

The Nanny’s Tale

Shortlist: 2024 Nonfiction Book Award

Life On a Blacklist

Ep. 19: Steven Schwankert on the Titanic's Chinese Survivors

Book talk Emily Feng on Identity in Xi Jinping's China

Pai Hsien-yung’s New York

Lin Yutang: My Country, My People

Workers of the World, Rewrite!