A Strange Email, a Five Eyes Warning, and the New Front Line of Chinese Espionage
It started with a strange email: an unsolicited invitation for host Terri Wu to become a "senior geopolitical analyst" for a shadowy "defense advisory trust"—confidential, decoupled from her reporting...
15 Jun 35min
How America Keeps Getting China Wrong—And How China Can Get It Right
Terri sits down with Piero Tozzi, a China expert whose deep roots in both Western and Confucian thought give him a truly rare lens on the U.S.–China competition.In this conversation, they unpack why t...
9 Jun 1h 5min
‘Sea Blind’ to China’s Threat, and Waking Up To It
The Department of Justice unsealed an indictment on May 19, charging Chinese shipping container manufacturers with price-fixing their products during the COVID years.As a result, container prices near...
1 Jun 23min
Why China Is Finally Closing a Side Door It Tolerated for Years
For years, Chinese investors used Tiger, Futu, and Longbridge to buy Tesla and Nvidia — through a side door Beijing called illegal but tolerated anyway. On May 22, Beijing finally shut it.Why now? Mos...
25 Mai 20min
What Does US–China ‘Constructive Strategic Stability’ Look Like?
The Trump–Xi summit may not have accomplished much, but both countries walked away with new labels for the U.S.–China relationship.For Beijing, it's "constructive strategic stability." For Washington,...
19 Mai 20min
Entangled Combat: The Chinese Style of Competition Washington Should Understand
Most Westerners in business operate on the baseline assumption that hard work leads to success and beating the competition.With business in communist China, that doesn’t hold. Hard work is a must, but...
11 Mai 22min
On Shadow Fleets, ‘Teapots,’ and Layered Approaches to Avoiding Sanctions
Teapots, gas stations, and shadow fleets sound like a grab bag of unconnected things, but they’re all part of a complex system keeping a terrorist regime in power and rendering international sanctions...
4 Mai 28min
Why a Once-Taboo Topic on China Is Now a US Bestseller
Forced organ harvesting in China was once a taboo topic, in both China and the United States. But now, a book about it, “Killed to Order,” has made it to The New York Times non-fiction bestsellers lis...
27 Apr 45min
