Fish farming in Xinjiang is being sold as proof that technology can overcome geography. The reality is more complicated: a desert seafood boom built on political control, imported feed and a food syst...

Tom and Eliot return to the podcast to discuss Eliot’s investigation into why the journalist population in China has struggled to rebound.

Sanctions and export controls failed to contain the rise of Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp. Now the national champion is riding the AI boom to a record IPO.

China’s exports are leaning heavily on a handful of hi-tech, pricey products.

Belgian prosecutors are investigating whether a state-backed Chinese firm stole trade secrets from the country’s leading chipmaker before it collapsed.

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Current debates in the West about China’s approach to governing the technology ignore changes under way post-DeepSeek and Mythos.

Concrete outcomes are hard to discern, but Xi Jinping will see the treatment he received from Trump as a sign that China is now a peer of the United States.

The main muscle of President Trump’s second-term China policy isn’t at the State Department.

The main muscle of President Trump’s second-term China policy isn’t at the State Department.

Brendan Carr, President Trump’s combative chair of the Federal Communications Commission, has made his agency a key player in U.S. China policy.

Brendan Carr, President Trump’s combative chair of the Federal Communications Commission, has made his agency a key player in U.S. China policy.

Goldman Sachs economists argue that by allowing the renminbi to appreciate by 3-5 percent a year, Beijing can reconcile seemingly contradictory policy goals.

The agreement Trump and Xi reached last year in South Korea paused the trade war, but will soon expire. We look at whether both sides are living up to their promises.

The U.S. and EU are restricting Chinese inverters over cybersecurity and supply-chain concerns, but replacing them may create new challenges for the renewable-energy industry.

China’s Gen Z factory heirs have a problem.

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Rebuilding healthy ties between the Indian and Chinese governments is likely to be a long process, with issues from the border to the Dalai Lama’s succession looming.

China is playing a leading role both in developing AGI and regulating it globally.

Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy sealed China off from the outside world for almost three years. Joshua Busby, a Biden-era climate advisor to the Pentagon and professor at the University of Texas at…

Millions of Chinese factory owners have been bequeathed a difficult inheritance. AI offers a way to modernize their parents’ low-margin businesses, but only if they can overcome often deep-rooted…

Putin and Xi have similar goals for the region, but its governments are finding China’s offering ever more attractive.

Helping other countries build up their own semiconductor supply chains is a calculated gamble. Can sacrificing some economic advantage enhance Taiwan’s own security?

A judge in California last week overturned a jury verdict that had convicted Ding Linwei of economic espionage, after he stole documents about the tech giant’s AI chips.

Putin and Xi have similar goals for the region, but its governments are finding China’s offering ever more attractive.

A judge in California last week overturned a jury verdict that had convicted Ding Linwei of economic espionage, after he stole documents about the tech giant’s AI chips.

Trade between the two Asian giants has still been growing despite a months-long diplomatic row. There are important exceptions, however.

How did the late premier convince local governments to surrender fiscal revenues to Beijing? In an extract from his recent book, Authoritarian Markets, Adam Y. Liu explains how Zhu played his trump…