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.
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...
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...
China’s Myanmar Problem
Myanmar’s civil war poses one of China’s biggest foreign policy challenges. As the country devolves back into rebel fiefdoms, Beijing has fallen back on a...
Truck Crash
A self-driving trucking start-up unraveled amid boardroom battles and escalating U.S.-China tensions. Now, its founder is staking his future on an American revival.
The Realist
No one understands the Chinese Communist Party better than someone who was almost killed by it. Brent Crane talks to Chenggang Xu about his life...
China’s Trojan Horse Fleet
Chinese-operated vessels regularly ply Taiwan’s waters and visit its ports, while one of Beijing’s state-owned enterprises operates berths at the island’s biggest harbor through a...
Star Chasers
The race to achieve nuclear fusion is one of the most consequential technological contests of the century. Who will win it?
The Company that Refuses to Decouple
Walmart should be in trouble in China, where its competitors are in retreat and its sourcing operations have been criticised by both Beijing and Washington....
Mr. Magnet
Can a Japanese scientist loosen China’s grip on the rare earths supply chain needed for critical magnet technologies?
China Inc’s American Exodus
Beijing and Washington once encouraged Chinese corporate listings in the U.S, state and private-sector alike. No longer. Some U.S. politicians want them delisted, and Xi...
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...