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The China Hawks’ China Hawk

Elbridge Colby, under secretary for defense policy at the Pentagon, is arguably Taiwan’s most powerful friend in Washington. But if China does make good on its threats to “re-unify” the island by force, will he be able to ensure that Donald Trump stands up to Xi Jinping?

The Big Picture

London Deal Offers Little Solace for Chinese Students

China has been replaced by India as the biggest source of foreign students in the U.S., amid conflicting signals from the Trump administration.

Q & A

Chenggang Xu on Why It’s Right To Call China Totalitarian

The academic discusses China’s ‘institutional genes’ and what it would take for the country to become more liberal.

News and Analysis

TikTok Ban Loses Its Bite

TikTok remains under Chinese ownership, five months after legislation required that it be sold or banned.

Opinion

How to Stand Firm Against Chinese Economic Pressure

Countries hoping to deepen trade ties with China should learn from those who that have faced conflict before.

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A podcast about the turbulent relationship between the world's two superpowers, the two men who run them, and the vital issues that affect us all.

US Ambassador Nicholas Burns recently served in Beijing for three years. In this episode of Face-Off: US vs. China, host Jane Perlez talks to Burns about how he got Americans out of Chinese jails, how security operatives stopped American cultural groups from performing, and how China agreed to limits on AI in nuclear weapons.

Joining the Chips Race

A look at Biren Technology, which is challenging companies like Nvidia in the field of advanced chips.

Jeffrey Ding on the Spread of AI

The political scientist tells us why we shouldn't just focus on how good countries are at innovation — but how well they adopt new technologies.

China’s Open-Source Embrace

Chinese AI firms and chipmakers have become increasingly open to making their technology secrets available to all-comers.

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.

Beijing Needs to Go Big

The Chinese government will have to spend more if it wants to keep economic growth on target this year.

Zhou Bo On Whether We Should Fear China

The former senior colonel in the PLA discusses China’s role in Ukraine, its intentions in Taiwan and why we should be more worried about the South China Sea.

The Silicon State

The contest between China and the U.S. for 21st century technological supremacy is not just a mano-a-mano bout pitting Xi Jinping against Donald Trump. The state of New York also wants in on the fight.

What is StepFun?

The Shanghai-based AI firm is one of China’s ‘AI tigers,’ with models that can process videos and images as well as text.

A Mar-a-Lago Accord Could Benefit China

Any deal to strengthen China's currency could help make Chinese people feel richer and ease trade tensions with other nations.

Outrunning China — But in What Direction?

There was plenty of consensus that the U.S. needs to keep ahead of China at this week’s big tech and defense industry conference in Washington — but less agreement on how to do so.

Kyle Chan on What We Need to Know About China’s Industrial Policy

The researcher talks about the state of the trade war, how the U.S. and others should deal with China’s growing dominance in several advanced industries, and the economic weaknesses Beijing still needs to address.

China’s Aging Migrant Workforce

Some 300 million Chinese workers are facing a more precarious future amid the country’s economic transition.

Will Trump Tip the AI Race in China’s Favor?

Over recent decades Chinese online platforms and social media companies rapidly caught up with, and then surpassed, their U.S. peers. The same is likely to happen again in the AI industry, thanks in part to...

The Hunt for an Heir

The entrepreneurs at the forefront of China’s economic emergence in the 1980s and '90s are retiring. Who will succeed them?

Fathers and Sons

Xi Jinping disappointed Chinese Communist Party reformers who thought he would be more like his father. In this excerpt from his new biography of Xi Zhongxun, Professor Joseph Torigian ponders “the mystery of Xi Jinping”.

Patrick McGee on How China Captured Apple

The journalist argues that Apple has played a major role in China's ascent as a technological power, but can’t meaningfully move its operations anywhere else for years to come.

The Wire China

The China Hawks’ China Hawk

London Deal Offers Little Solace for Chinese Students

Chenggang Xu on Why It’s Right To Call China Totalitarian

TikTok Ban Loses Its Bite

How to Stand Firm Against Chinese Economic Pressure

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Face-Off: U.S. vs. China
A podcast about the turbulent relationship between the world's two superpowers, the two men who run them, and the vital issues that affect us all.

Joseph Torigian on Xi Zhongxun

James Mann: Making Jeeps in China

Why “All Under Heaven” is Wrong

Ep. 21: Jenna Tang on Taiwan's MeToo Movement

The Life of Saint Xi

Barbara Demick on the One-Child Policy and International Adoption

How China’s Adoption Market Led to Child Trafficking

What China’s Reading: Uncertain Times

An American Marine In China’s Red Army

Announcing the 2024 Winners

Ep. 20: Linda Jaivin on the Cultural Revolution

Joining the Chips Race

Jeffrey Ding on the Spread of AI

China’s Open-Source Embrace

China's Chip Problem that Money Can't Solve

Beijing Needs to Go Big

Zhou Bo On Whether We Should Fear China

The Silicon State

What is StepFun?

A Mar-a-Lago Accord Could Benefit China

Outrunning China — But in What Direction?

Kyle Chan on What We Need to Know About China’s Industrial Policy

China’s Aging Migrant Workforce

Will Trump Tip the AI Race in China’s Favor?

The Hunt for an Heir

Fathers and Sons

Patrick McGee on How China Captured Apple

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Face-Off: U.S. vs. China
A podcast about the turbulent relationship between the world's two superpowers, the two men who run them, and the vital issues that affect us all.