Who's Who in Robotics

In our latest Who’s Who edition of industry leaders, The Wire China profiles the industrialists, entrepreneurs and academics responsible for advancing China’s robotics sector.

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Libel Lawfare

In recent years, several large Chinese companies have filed defamation suits against small organizations or individual researchers, leading to a strange reality: Even as the general rhetoric against China has become more hawkish, many in...

Walling Off China

Under President Donald Trump, a strategy built over two administrations to keep China behind in the AI race is adrift. Through interviews with more than two dozen former and current U.S. officials, The Wire China...

The Mother, the Son and the War

On Wednesday Xi Jinping presided over a Beijing military parade celebrating the 80th anniversary of Japan’s World War II defeat. Eighty-eight years ago his mother, Qi Xin, watched Japanese troops march into the city, at...

Cycling into the Future

In an extract from his new book, Breakneck, Dan Wang hops on his bike to explore how China’s problems throw America’s into stark relief. How is it, he asks while biking through Guizhou, that China’s...

Fool's Gold?

Laopu Gold, a homegrown jewelry brand that defied the consumer slowdown, is hailed as China’s Hermès. But some are raising doubts over whether it can sustain its success.