The Clash of Constellations
In 2021, Beijing announced Guowang, its answer to SpaceX’s Starlink. But with very few updates about the project — apart from disciplinary inspections — it...
Access Denied
Jen Easterly, the eccentric director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), has huge support when it comes to her number one priority: fighting...
The Great EV Glut
The new U.S. tariffs on Chinese-made EVs are both unprecedented and largely performative since Chinese EVs haven't yet penetrated the U.S. market. The European Union,...
China Goes Global — Again
Chinese companies have decided that the best place to make money right now is outside of China. The phenomenon known as chu hai (出海), which...
Mining’s Malaise
Washington’s $370 billion Inflation Reduction Act was seen as a generational opportunity for miners in the U.S. as well as mineral rich trading partners. But...
The Divine Disruptor
Bob Fu's relationship with China has gone through phases. First, he thought money would solve his problems there; then he joined protesters at Tiananmen Square,...
The Chip Comeback
What is so hard about making chips in America? And can the U.S. do anything about it? As part of his series, 'Remaking the Chain,'...
Status Symbol
For much of the past two decades, Europe's luxury market has counted on the ferocious appetite of Chinese consumers to bolster its bottom line. But foreign...
The China Whisperer
John Garnaut is one of the men most responsible for the global shift in China policy. As a journalist and then Australian government official, he...
The Czars Aligned
When Joe Biden took office, many of his supporters thought the first order of business would be unwinding Donald Trump's trade war with China. But...
Printer Problems
Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment (SMEE) wants to be 'China's ASML' and produce the engineering marvels that help 'print' semiconductor chips. But it seems to be...
Going for Gold
Thanks to economic turbulence and geopolitics, China is buying up gold like never before — and it's looking to places like Papua New Guinea to...