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We cover China like no one else. The Wire China is a digital news magazine dedicated to understanding and explaining one of the biggest stories of our time: China’s economic rise.
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AI Safety With Chinese Characteristics (opens the original)
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Early this summer, Anthropic’s advanced AI model Mythos stunned the tech world by identifying thousands of previously unknown vulnerabilities across the internet and even in U.S. government systems. Across the Pacific, Chinese AI regulators were also paying close attention.Subscribe nowIn this episode, reporter Savannah Billman is joined by Kristy Loke, a MATS research fellow focusing on China’s AI governance and innovation strategies and author of a recent <a href="https://www.thewirechina.com/
FCC vs the PRC (opens the original)
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The main muscle of President Trump’s second-term China policy isn’t at the State Department. Nor is it at the Department of Commerce. Instead, it’s the U.S. television regulator.Subscribe nowReporter Noah Berman and editor Andrew Peaple are back this episode to discuss Noah’s analysis of how the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, headed by Brendan Carr, has come to be the <a href="https://www.thewirechina.com
Brendan Carr’s FCC vs the PRC (opens the original)
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Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, almost... Barring any shock developments over the next few days, Xi Jinping will be coming to Washington this week for his third meeting with Donald Trump in ten months. First there was the October 2025 truce in tariff and commercial hostilities agreed by the presidents in Busan, South Korea. That truce was extended at their second meeting in Beijing in May, and is likely to be extended again in Washington. In this week’s issue, Noah Berman looks at a powerful new forc
China’s AI-Loving Factory Heirs (opens the original)
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China’s Gen Z factory heirs have a problem. They graduated into an era where high-tech robots and AI can usher in a new industrial revolution. But frustratingly, the factories run by their parents are too old-fashioned to ditch the pen and paper for profit.In this episode, reporters Peiyue Wu and Rachel Cheung discuss the tech-savvy Chinese who are trying to bring AI to the manufacturing sector. Many of them see themselves as Forward-Deployed Engineers (FDE), a job title populariz
China’s SMEs and AI (opens the original)
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Good evening America and Good Morning China. In the world’s manufacturing powerhouse, it is the BYDs, the Xiaomi’s and the Huawei’s that hog the limelight, with their vast workforces and space-age production facilities. But don’t forget the many more small and medium-sized enterprises that were the foundation of China’s modern manufacturing miracle, and still account for 50 percent or more of economic output, employment and tax revenues. A new generation of factory owners, or chang er dai, are t
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