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The Wire is a digital news magazine dedicated to understanding and explaining one of the biggest stories of our time: China’s economic rise, and its influence on global business, finance, trade, labor and the environment.
The weekly publication — founded by David Barboza, who earned two Pulitzer Prizes while serving as the Shanghai correspondent for The New York Times — is staffed by a diverse, independent group of journalists stationed around the globe. Many of them have years of experience covering China and its evolving relationship with the rest of the world.
Our mission is to provide accurate and balanced reporting, in the pursuit of truth, “without fear or favor.” In doing so, we hope to demonstrate that we are worthy of your time and interest. Source
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| Language | English |
| Country | United States of America |
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The Wall Street Journal China Is Offering Half Measures to Its Mounting Economic Problems — Beijing pursues big technological advances while shunning painful policy measures needed to fix the broader economy. The New York Times Opinion: The Diminishing Returns of Choke-Point Diplomacy — Nations are rediscovering choke points as a foreign policy strategy. They should use them sparingly. By Michael Froman. Caixin Former Xinjiang Executive Vice Chairman Indicte Subscribe or login to read the rest.
Xinjiang’s “Blue Miracle”
A cold-water fish breeding base in Turpan, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, August 21, 2025. Credit: Gou Lifeng/Xinhua via Getty Images China’s Xinjiang region, located on the country’s far northwest frontier, is a land of unforgiving extremes. At Xinjiang’s southwest border stands K2, the second-highest mountain in the world at 28,251 feet. The Karakoram Range, where K2 is situated, is just one of four major ranges abutting, slicing through, or ringing Xinjiang.
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The Wall Street Journal Bond Yields Are Surging Around the World — but Not in China — Chinese government bond yields have fallen this year, reflecting a weak economy and a glut of savings. The Financial Times The fertility clinic on Taiwan’s front line — China’s reproductive restrictions are sending women across the Strait to freeze their eggs. EU envoy lands in China for last-ditch talks over car exports — Brussels blames Beijing’s surging exports for the loss Subscribe or login to read the rest.
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The Wall Street Journal Mercedes-Benz Car Sales Fall on China Market Weakness — Europe sales increased 5%, with broad-based growth across markets, led by strong momentum in Germany and the U.K. In China, Battle Is Raging for the Soul of Tibet — On edge of Himalayas, tourist boomtown sells Chinese visitors sanitized version of Tibetan culture.
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The Wall Street Journal Germany and France Are Proposing a New Weapon to Counter Flood of Chinese Goods — Europe’s largest economies release blueprint to level global playing field on trade. Opinion: China Spies on Taiwan on U.S. Soil — The U.S. charges a woman for surveilling the son of Taiwan’s president. By the Editorial Board.
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The Wall Street Journal FBI Arrests Alleged Chinese Agent Accused of Spying on Son of Taiwan Leader — California realtor surveilled family in Washington and reported back to handlers in China, federal complaint says. How Britain Learned to Love Chinese Cars—Especially a Look-Alike Range Rover — The Jaecoo 7, made by China’s Chery, was the U.K.’s bestselling vehicle in September.
YMTC, the Company that Would Not Die
Happy 10-1 China and Shuang’shi (10-10) Kuai’le Taiwan… Donald Trump and Xi Jinping’s summit in Washington last month was a repeat of their uneventful Beijing meeting in May. Neither side raised or lowered current tariffs on the other. China continued to delay implementation of a strict new export control regime, in return for Washington not expanding the number of Chinese companies subject to U.S. export controls.
Logan Wright on China’s Financial Decay
Logan Wright is the director of China markets research at Rhodium Group and senior associate of the Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has studied the expansion of credit in China, the Chinese government’s deleveraging campaign, and local government debt.
Made of Memory - The Wire China
Visitors view robot arms on display at the stand of Zhejiang Qianjiang Robot Co., Ltd. during the China International Industry Fair in Shanghai, China. Credit: IC Photo via Depositphotos China is on track for another record-setting trade surplus this year, thanks to the still-surging value of its exports. But the most recent data show just how reliant that surge has become on record-high prices — not volumes — for a few of its hi-tech product shipments.
Chips, China And Trade Secrets: How an Arrest In Brussels Could Tie Them Together
A sign outside the former BelGaN chip factory in Oudenaarde, Belgium. Credit: Sipa via AP Images Just before he could board a flight from Brussels to Beijing earlier this year, Belgian authorities arrested a 52-year old Belgian-Chinese semiconductor researcher who had worked in the country for more than a decade. His suspected crime? Stealing trade secrets on behalf of a Chinese competitor to Belgium’s only chipmaking firm. BelGaN's former chip factory in Belgium.