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6 days ago | 
thewirechina.com | Ella Apostoaie |Noah Berman
Oren Cass is the founder and chief economist of American Compass, a conservative think tank. His 2018 book, The Once and Future Worker, sought to explain how American public policy left blue-collar workers behind. It was lauded by Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He has since emerged as an influential voice in support of tariffs and decoupling the U.S. economy from China’s.
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2 weeks ago | 
thewirechina.com | Noah Berman |Ella Apostoaie
The trade war between the United States and China is now in full swing. U.S. President Donald Trump has retaliated against Beijing’s own retaliatory tariffs, imposing an additional 50 percent levy on China on Tuesday. Companies importing goods from China will now have to pay a tariff worth more than the product itself.
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3 weeks ago | 
thewirechina.com | Noah Berman |Ella Apostoaie
In October 2019, then-Senator Marco Rubio sent a letter to the Treasury Department that began a five-and-a-half year battle between the American government and TikTok. Two presidents and three administrations later, TikTok and its Chinese owner, ByteDance, face a crunch moment. An excerpt from a letter sent by then-Senator Rubio to then-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on TikTok and "Chinese influence operations", October 9, 2019.
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3 weeks ago | 
thewirechina.com | Noah Berman |Ella Apostoaie
China’s artificial intelligence sector has provided plenty of shocks this year. Its own companies are not immune to the industry’s rapid shifts. Baichuan, a leading Chinese AI start-up, is one that has dramatically changed direction. Two of its co-founders resigned last week to start their own business, just months after another top executive left the multibillion dollar company.
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1 month ago | 
thewirechina.com | Noah Berman |Eliot Chen |Ella Apostoaie
On Tuesday, Intel started its much anticipated new chapter when Lip-Bu Tan, a longtime chip executive, took the reins as chief executive. Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger unveils the Gaudi 3 accelerator at Intel Vision, April 9, 2024. Credit: IntelFor Intel’s board and investors, Tan represents something of a savior: Intel’s previous CEO Patrick Gelsinger resigned last December after the company posted a $16.6 billion quarterly loss — the biggest in Intel’s history.
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1 month ago | 
thewirechina.com | Noah Berman |Ella Apostoaie
Cape Girardeau, a town of 40,000 in southeastern Missouri, is normally far from the center of the competition between the United States and China. But last Friday, it joined the frontlines. An excerpt from a court document filed March 7, 2025, as part of the 'State of Missouri v. People's Republic of China et al.' case. Credit: Missouri Attorney GeneralOn March 7, a federal judge in the Mississippi River town ruled in favor of Missouri in a lawsuit against the Chinese government.
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1 month ago | 
thewirechina.com | Yi Liu |Noah Berman |Ella Apostoaie
ManusAI this week became the latest little-known Chinese AI firm to emerge with surprisingly advanced capabilities. Yet whether or not its rise is truly another ‘DeepSeek moment,’ the two companies will soon have at least one thing in common: how easily anyone can see and use the technology behind their sudden success. An example use case of the Manus AI agent. “We'll be open-sourcing quite a few good things in the near future,” ManusAI’s co-founder Ji Yichao wSubscribe or login to read the rest.
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1 month ago | 
thewirechina.com | Noah Berman |Ella Apostoaie
Tugboats assist an oil tanker leaving the pier at a sea port in Longkou, Shandong province, China, December 22, 2024. Credit: FeatureChina via AP Images China's transformation into a global economic power has also seen it become the world’s largest importer of crude oil. But is the country’s thirst for black gold from abroad now in decline?
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1 month ago | 
thewirechina.com | Noah Berman |Ella Apostoaie
Secretary Marco Rubio attends a meeting with U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad al-Aiban, the Russian president's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 18, 2025.
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2 months ago | 
thewirechina.com | Noah Berman |Ella Apostoaie
Liang Wenfeng, founder of DeepSeek, delivers the keynote speech during the 10th China Private Equity Golden Bull Awards, August 30, 2019, in Shanghai, China. Credit: VCG via Getty Images The sudden emergence of DeepSeek as a global leader in artificial intelligence has been one of the surprises of 2025 so far. Just as remarkable is the path the Chinese firm has taken from high finance to high tech in less than ten years. High-Flyer Quant's official website.
