Mules, Moonshine, and Magnets
Reporter Noah Berman and editor Tom Mitchell take us to small-town North Carolina, where a new magnet factory has set up shop. Vulcan Elements wants to make magnets without sourcing any materials from...
13 Mar 16min
AI vs The Big Screen
In our sixth episode, reporters Eliot Chen, Rachel Cheung, and Savannah Billman discuss the latest breakthroughs in Bytedance’s AI video generation tool, Seedance 2.0. The extremely lifelike videos we...
6 Mar 16min
How to Smuggle Chips to China
Smugglers in Texas, New Jersey, and New York. A mysterious Hong Kong client. And a plot to illegally sell Nvidia AI chips to China. In our fifth episode, The Wire China reporter Eliot Chen ventures i...
27 Feb 20min
Epstein and China
China's economic rise beckoned Jeffrey Epstein in the 2010s. Associates of the financier and sex offender, who made much of his money from advising billionaires, sought opportunities to connect him wi...
20 Feb 20min
A Tale of Two Exports
In our third episode, features editor Tom Mitchell is joined by reporter Noah Berman to discuss shifts for two of China's most consequential exports: military armaments and electric vehicles. Even as...
13 Feb 10min
Living a Double Life at Google
Welcome to the second episode of The Wire China podcast, in which we take you behind the scenes of the stories we cover each week in our magazine, thewirechina.com. In this episode, reporter Eliot Ch...
6 Feb 18min
Robotaxis On a Roll
Welcome to the first episode of The Wire China podcast, in which we will take you behind the scenes of the stories we cover each week in our magazine, thewirechina.com. In this episode, news editor An...
31 Jan 14min
