Andrew Peaple

London

Editor at @thewirechina and co-host of @asiamatterspod. Ex-WSJ @WSJHeard in HK, London, Beijing. Views expressed here are my own and RTs are not endorsements.

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Articles

Hal Brands on the Axis of Autocracies

2 months ago | chinabooksreview.com | Alexander Boyd |Brent Crane |Christopher A. Cottrell |Andrew Peaple

Hal Brands is an American scholar of U.S. foreign policy. He is Professor of Global Affairs at the Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University, and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He has also served as special assistant to the Secretary of Defense for strategic planning, and as a member of the Secretary of State’s foreign affairs policy board.
Kublai Khan, from Land to Ocean

2 months ago | chinabooksreview.com | Taili Ni |Christopher A. Cottrell |Andrew Peaple |Rachel Cheung

While many books have been written on Kublai Khan, none have framed him in terms of sea power.Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2024) is anthropologist and author Jack Weatherford’s latest historical account of the vast Mongol empire that rampaged across the 13th and 14th centuries, from Baghdad to Beijing, with control of the oceans as its central theme.
Sue-Lin Wong on the Rise of Scam Inc.

Feb 13, 2025 | thewirechina.com | Andrew Peaple |Ella Apostoaie

Sue-Lin Wong is the South East Asia correspondent for The Economist, having previously reported for the magazine in China. Her first podcast series, The Prince, told the tale of the rise and ascendancy of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. More recently she has turned her attention to the lucrative yet brutal world of online scamming and how it has become a massive global industry. The result, an eight-part series entitled Scam Inc, is now available here.
Patrick Jenevein on Tangling with a State-Owned Chinese Giant

Feb 9, 2025 | thewirechina.com | Andrew Peaple |Ella Apostoaie

Patrick Jenevein is a businessman from Texas whose long experience working in the energy sector in China forms the backdrop to his new book, Dancing with the Dragon. In it, he recounts how his company, Tang Energy, started investing in the gas industry in Xinjiang thirty years ago, before moving on to larger projects, particularly in the wind-power industry.
Barry Naughton on the State of the Xi Jinping Economy

Jan 5, 2025 | thewirechina.com | Andrew Peaple

Barry Naughton, the So Kwan Lok Chair of Chinese International Affairs at UC San Diego, is one of the world’s leading experts on China’s economy and its transformation over the last half century. His textbook The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth, has long been a must-read for students of China; more recently he has coined the term ‘Grand Steerage’ to describe how Xi Jinping’s government is trying to shape the country’s development.
Odd Arne Westad on the Decade that Shaped China’s Modern Destiny

Nov 24, 2024 | thewirechina.com | Andrew Peaple |Ella Apostoaie

Odd Arne Westad is a historian of modern international history who is currently the Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University. His latest book The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform, written with Chen Jian, recounts the dramatic political struggles that took place in China from the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, the outcome of which — the book argues — fundamentally shaped the country’s development until the present day.
Ken Wilcox on Trying to Build a Bank in China

Oct 27, 2024 | thewirechina.com | Andrew Peaple |Ella Apostoaie

For ten years up to 2010, Ken Wilcox was chief executive of Silicon Valley Bank, and one of the key drivers of its strategy of lending to the tech sector. SVB’s collapse in 2023 made international headlines: But in his new book, The China Business Conundrum, he tells the tale of the period after he stepped down from being the bank’s CEO and went to lead its efforts to expand in China, where it invested over $100 million to form a joint venture with Shanghai Pudong Development Bank.
Danny Alexander on Working at China's Multilateral Bank

Sep 22, 2024 | thewirechina.com | Andrew Peaple |Ella Apostoaie

Cover Story Remember Tibet? In recent years, there haven’t been any visible, large-scale demonstrations for Tibetan independence, either inside the country or abroad.
Tim Clissold on the Importance of Knowing China

Sep 15, 2024 | thewirechina.com | Andrew Peaple |Ella Apostoaie

Cover Story Remember Tibet? In recent years, there haven’t been any visible, large-scale demonstrations for Tibetan independence, either inside the country or abroad.
Ed Conway on Living in the Material World

Aug 25, 2024 | thewirechina.com | Andrew Peaple |Ella Apostoaie

Cover Story WuXi Waylaid When Congress resumes next month, the BioSecure Act will be one of its top priorities.