In our third episode, features editor Tom Mitchell is joined by reporter Noah Berman to discuss shifts for two of China's most consequential exports: military armaments and electric vehicles.

Even as wars in Ukraine, the Middle East and Africa raged on in 2024, newly released data for that year shows that China's arms exports decreased by ten percent as Xi Jinping's anti-corruption investigations roiled the country's defense industry. Meanwhile, despite trade tensions, the door for Chinese EVs to enter U.S. markets is not entirely sealed shut, but President Trump's seeming openness to the idea puts him at odds with national and state officials alike.

We also have an extract from our latest Q&A with author Yi-Ling Liu on her new book "The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet," and a guide to the other articles you can read in this week's edition, published every Sunday evening EST at thewirechina.com

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Welcome to the second episode of The Wire China podcast, in which we take you behind the scenes of the stories we cover each week in our magazine, thewirechina.com.

In this episode, reporter Eliot Chen walks us through a true crime thriller with news editor Andrew Peaple. A mild-mannered Chinese software engineer working for Google in California schemes to make it big as a tech entrepreneur by setting up his own company back in China. Instead, he winds up in the middle of the U.S.-China tech war, accused of stealing Google's intellectual property for the Chinese government.

We also have an extract from our latest Q&A, with Ali Wyne of the International Crisis Group, and a guide to the other articles you can read in this week's edition, published every Sunday evening EST at thewirechina.com

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Welcome to the first episode of The Wire China podcast, in which we will take you behind the scenes of the stories we cover each week in our magazine, thewirechina.com.

In this episode, news editor Andrew Peaple talks to reporter Rachel Cheung about her latest cover story on China's fast-growing robotaxi industry, and whether a recent spate of accidents involving self-driving cars will drive the sector off course.

We also have an extract from our latest Q&A, with Chinese economist David Daokui Li, and a guide to the other articles you can read in this week's edition, which you can read at thewirechina.com