The New Superweapon
Earlier this month, when the Biden administration imposed the most sweeping export restrictions yet on semiconductors, it represented the culmination of a U.S. tech policy...
Xi Jinping By the Numbers
Ten years after Xi Jinping ascended to China’s top leadership position, the Chinese Communist Party is a party remade. More than at any point in...
The Tragedy of Taiwan’s Success
Six decades after first spending time in Taiwan, Orville Schell recently went back for a visit and was struck by how much the island has...
Reinventing Money
The future of finance — the way Wall Street operates and how you manage your personal finances — is on the verge of upheaval. And...
Seed Savior?
Agribusiness giant Syngenta is unique on the world stage: it is a state-owned Chinese firm with an American CEO. After ChemChina's historic purchase of the...
China’s Bot Boom
China became “the world’s factory” in large part due to its demographics: a tidal wave of young, hungry workers drove growth by churning out low...
The 5G Fracture
It is business gospel in the West that for a corporation to be globally competitive, it must be competitive in China. But what happens when...
Insuring Engagement
At age 97, Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the former CEO of AIG, has advocated for deeper U.S. engagement with China for longer than perhaps any living...
Date Deception
Thanks to the recent enactment of the Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has had its hands full with imports from...
Pole Position
In public, Chinese diplomats and climate negotiators deny that they see any link between climate change and geopolitics. But there is a deeply cynical consensus...
The Congo Standoff
Chinese mining companies dominate the Congo’s critical mineral production, but an ongoing, nasty dispute at a cobalt mine shows the country is starting to drive...
The Battery King
By 2020, the Chinese battery maker CATL was supplying almost every electric carmaker, giving the company a dominant position in the transition away from fossil...