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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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🎧️ New Episode: In China’s black jails, detainees are pressured to confess to crimes they don’t know they committed while being prevented from knowing where they’re being imprisoned or even from seeing daylight.

Peter Dahlin (@SafeguardDefend) and @MichaelKovrig (Kovrig Group, Centre for Strategic Statecraft) on China's practice of what's known as RSDL: buff.ly/6I72jot

Northeast China's Hengli Heavy Industries runs the busiest shipbuilding yard in the world, with over 200 orders to build new ships in the first half of this year alone.

Behind the shipbuilder stands the Chen family, a two-generation leader in ships, petrochemicals, and textiles.
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Free to Read: Here's how Nvidia convinced the Trump administration to allow it to sell more chips to China.

'In a report that Nvidia presented to the U.S. government — which The Wire has reviewed — the company warned that Huawei’s stockpile of chips, along with growing capacity at its manufacturing partner Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), give it “the flexibility to satisfy global AI chip demand.”'

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"The decision about whether to permit chip sales to the Gulf was fraught. The United States had complicated relationships with the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Both countries were critical U.S. partners but also had fairly close ties to China."