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The Wire China recently passed a major milestone: 300 issues of our magazine 🎉
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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.
We hope to set a high standard for reporting on China, creating a forum for new voices and seasoned experts as well as a platform to showcase deeply reported stories and investigative journalism.
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This week's cover story by @MichaelKovrig is free to read:
thewirechina.com/
China's secret police have detained you.
You are hooded or blindfolded, handcuffed, abducted to a secret location, locked in a padded cell, and threatened with severe punishment for "harming China".
My cover story in @thewirechina: thewirechina.com/2026/10/25/… 1/7
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🎧️ What will China do with all its solar panels? Many of them, it turns out, are going on farms — turning sheep pens and fish ponds into green energy hubs.
Listen to our latest podcast on the profitable business of greening farms in China: buff.ly/4ZtxAEg
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has added Chinese gene testing firm, BGI, to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List.
Last month, we profiled BGI — which has operated at a loss in both 2024 and 2025.
This is not the first time the U.S. has sanctioned BGI. Recent deaths in Chinese gene-editing trials put the sector under further scrutiny. But despite it all, BGI is still ranked the world’s number one company in biological sciences.
thewirechina.com/2026/09/13/…
Is a U.S.-China AI deal possible?
Read our Q&A with Seth Center (@SAISHopkins), who led the first bilateral AI talks during the Biden administration: buff.ly/j0uwvby
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Seth Center: "The basic premise of this entire conversation is that somehow, if one side can just convince the other side to understand [the importance of AI safety], everything would be better...
"I don’t know if that’s the right premise. I think the correct premise of a cooperative discussion between the United States and China is that it is in the respective self-interests of both countries to ensure that these systems, as they’re deployed in different domains, act as they’re intended to act."
@eliotcxchen @thewirechina
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Thanks to @thewirechina's @peiyue_jess for including my analysis in this interesting piece.
I spoke about Beijing’s long-term efforts to position itself as a “near-Arctic state” and gain influence over Arctic resource extraction policies.
thewirechina.com/2026/10/25/…
Things are heating up in China's battery sector. Industry giant CATL is facing competition from electric vehicle makers — but is its position really at risk?
Free to Read: buff.ly/gqEupAa
Handshakes and smiles between Trump and Xi have done little to dampen U.S. lawmakers’ scrutiny of Chinese-origin companies operating in the U.S.
The latest firm caught up in bilateral tensions is online brokerage Webull: buff.ly/nzDMhcJ
A Chinese-owned mine in Canada's far north is too remote to use. But plans to build a new road connecting the mine to a shipping port are proving controversial.
@peiyue_jess reports on Canada's Arctic security balancing act: buff.ly/PcKRKTj
🎧️ What will China do with all its solar panels? Many of them, it turns out, are going on farms — turning sheep pens and fish ponds into green energy hubs.
Listen to our latest podcast on the profitable business of greening farms in China: buff.ly/4ZtxAEg
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China's secret police have detained you. What comes next?
@MichaelKovrig writes on China's pre-arrest detention, or Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location, in an excerpt from the forthcoming book People’s Republic of the Disappeared (3rd Edition): buff.ly/5MosRv6
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Beijing is pouring money into science. The country's state-backed research funder has already funded 12,000 new projects this year — 50 percent more than the number of projects added in 2025, and nearly double the projects funded by its U.S. equivalent.
Get the big picture on the National Natural Science Foundation of China: buff.ly/aDzAg2w
This week's cover story by @MichaelKovrig is free to read:
thewirechina.com/
China's secret police have detained you.
You are hooded or blindfolded, handcuffed, abducted to a secret location, locked in a padded cell, and threatened with severe punishment for "harming China".
My cover story in @thewirechina: thewirechina.com/2026/10/25/… 1/7
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In @thewirechina, a man who knows of what he writes - @MichaelKovrig on China's black jails. Ditto @JEPomfret and @garboyle on Taiwan's November mid-terms, and Seth Center @SAISHopkins on Sino-US AI talks. thewirechina.com/2026/10/25/…
Op-Ed: The world could change as a result of next month's elections — Taiwan's local elections.
@JEPomfret and Seamus Boyle analyze how the results will set the field for Taiwan's 2028 presidential race: buff.ly/klAERH2
China's secret police have detained you. What comes next?
@MichaelKovrig writes on China's pre-arrest detention, or Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location, in an excerpt from the forthcoming book People’s Republic of the Disappeared (3rd Edition): buff.ly/5MosRv6
"It’s very difficult for two governments, any governments, to have a conversation about future-oriented risks of a technology."
@eliotcxchen interviews Seth Center (@SAISHopkins), co-leader of the first U.S.-China AI dialogue, in our latest Q&A: buff.ly/bgaDgEV
Op-Ed: "The EU's greatest hold over China is the sheer size of its internal market, which China needs desperately as an outlet for almost 20 percent of its exports."
@georgemagnus1 (@SOAS_CI) writes for this week’s issue of The Wire China: buff.ly/GAIZ4e8
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This is surprising given that MiraclePlus was itself a victim of Ding's duplicity.
As I reported from his trial, Ding pretended to be his boss for a reference check, creating a fake email and going as far as downloading voice modification software ahead of a call w/ MiraclePlus:
US sanctioning incubator YC China successor MiraclePlus miracleplus.com/team/ over work with convicted former Google engineer Linwei Ding, but did not also sanction any of the MiraclePlus management, whiuch includes founder Lu Qi, a former executive at Baidu, Microsoft, and Yahoo. How many US LPs are in the MiraclePlus funds?
