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Italy’s BRI Detour

As the Belt and Road Initiative gets ready to celebrate its 10th anniversary, Italy is looking for the off-ramp. Beijing's response, plus Italy's ability to negotiate a new deal for itself, will speak volumes about both China's standing in Europe and what the BRI, once...

The Chips Education Challenge

One U.S. university's efforts to improve knowledge of semiconductors could end up helping the country's economic rivals.

Matt Sheehan on how China is Shaping its AI World

The author and academic on Beijing's approach to regulating artificial intelligence, and how competitive Chinese AI firms could be.

The Science Split?

With a landmark, 44-year-old agreement set to expire at the end of this month, the U.S. is facing one of its biggest China tests: Can the two countries overcome their respective techno-nationalisms and cooperate on the most basic science?

China’s Graphite Grip

Critical minerals have become a geopolitical flashpoint, but two battery material startups in the U.S. and China are looking for ways to work together.

The New Trend for Chinese Companies — Dropping China

Some of China's fastest-growing companies are doing their best to portray themselves as coming from somewhere else.

BYD’s Big Moment

BYD’s blink-and-you-miss-it expansion in the last three years has blindsided just about everyone. Today it is the world’s largest producer of electric vehicles, the second largest producer of EV batteries, and China’s best selling car brand, displacing Volkswagen, which had held that title for at...

Failing to Fly

The number of flights between the U.S. and China has barely recovered since the end of the pandemic.

Beijing’s Latest Crackdown Deepens Foreign Business’s Confusion

The moves against consultancies and due diligence firms will make it harder for multinationals to operate in China, even as local governments are desperate to entice them in.

China Floats to the Top

The surge in IPOs on domestic markets is a win for Chinese policy makers and local investment banks.

The Nickel Pickle

Xiang Guangda invested in Indonesia when no one else would. Now, his firm, stainless steel giant Tsingshan Group, is both a leader and something of a gate keeper for the country's nickel industry. But with nickel increasingly needed for EV batteries, the dominance of Tsingshan...

Canada’s China Conundrum

Canada is the latest country wrestling with how to respond to Chinese influence in its politics.