Crypto Leverage: a Controversial Chinese Export
In the high-stakes world of cryptocurrency, traders are writing big checks with borrowed funds — a risky investment trend known as leveraging. To understand whether this will help or hurt the industry...
17 Apr 19min
Chinese EVs are Charging Up for Canada
After so many years of Canada and the United States presenting a united front against Chinese electric vehicles, some were surprised by Canada's announcement earlier this year it would drop its high t...
10 Apr 18min
Chinese Solar's Sunny Future in Africa
China's solar imports aren't welcome everywhere, but that's not the case in Africa. Solar exports to the continent as a whole increased by almost 50 percent last year. In our latest episode, editor A...
3 Apr 16min
The Hainan Spy Plane Crisis 25 Years Later
25 years ago, a Chinese and a U.S. plane collided over the waters off of China's southern coast. The Chinese pilot was never found, while the 24 surviving American crew members made an emergency landi...
27 Mars 15min
The U.S.-China AI Scorecard
It seems as if everything is AI now — well, not this podcast. But you can't discuss U.S.-China relations without understanding which one is ahead in artificial intelligence. Who leads on the scorecard...
20 Mars 19min
Mules, Moonshine, and Magnets
Reporter Noah Berman and editor Tom Mitchell take us to small-town North Carolina, where a new magnet factory has set up shop. Vulcan Elements wants to make magnets without sourcing any materials from...
13 Mars 16min
AI vs The Big Screen
In our sixth episode, reporters Eliot Chen, Rachel Cheung, and Savannah Billman discuss the latest breakthroughs in Bytedance’s AI video generation tool, Seedance 2.0. The extremely lifelike videos we...
6 Mars 16min
How to Smuggle Chips to China
Smugglers in Texas, New Jersey, and New York. A mysterious Hong Kong client. And a plot to illegally sell Nvidia AI chips to China. In our fifth episode, The Wire China reporter Eliot Chen ventures i...
27 Feb 20min
