A Troubled Road for TP-Link
SALE: We’re offering your first month of The Wire China for just one dollar. More details below! TP-Link is having a tough year. The California-based, Shenzhen-founded internet router company can’t se...
15 Mai 19min
China’s Missing Reporters
There are fewer U.S. journalists working in China now than at any point since the two countries normalized relations in the 1970s. Today, the New York Times has one reporter in the country, the Wall S...
8 Mai 17min
Super Micro’s Super Smugglers
Another day, another AI chip smuggling ring has been busted by the United States government. But this one is different: for the first time, executives from U.S. server manufacturer Super Micro have be...
24 Apr 21min
Crypto Leverage: a Controversial Chinese Export
In the high-stakes world of cryptocurrency, traders are writing big checks with borrowed funds — a risky investment trend known as leveraging. To understand whether this will help or hurt the industry...
17 Apr 19min
Chinese EVs are Charging Up for Canada
After so many years of Canada and the United States presenting a united front against Chinese electric vehicles, some were surprised by Canada's announcement earlier this year it would drop its high t...
10 Apr 18min
Chinese Solar's Sunny Future in Africa
China's solar imports aren't welcome everywhere, but that's not the case in Africa. Solar exports to the continent as a whole increased by almost 50 percent last year. In our latest episode, editor A...
3 Apr 16min
The Hainan Spy Plane Crisis 25 Years Later
25 years ago, a Chinese and a U.S. plane collided over the waters off of China's southern coast. The Chinese pilot was never found, while the 24 surviving American crew members made an emergency landi...
27 Mar 15min
The U.S.-China AI Scorecard
It seems as if everything is AI now — well, not this podcast. But you can't discuss U.S.-China relations without understanding which one is ahead in artificial intelligence. Who leads on the scorecard...
20 Mar 19min
