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The Daily Roundup
October 13th, 2026 | Welcome to The Wire’s daily news roundup. Each day, our staff gathers the top China business, finance, and economics headlines from a selection of the world’s leading news organizations.
Chinese Carmakers Try to Break Free from the CATL Herd
The highly profitable battery making giant CATL dominates the global and domestic market. Now, struggling EV manufacturers are pushing back with their own products.
Emily Feng on the Uyghurs, Syria and Xinjiang
The foreign correspondent describes meeting with the Uyghurs from Xinjiang who played a key role in the Syrian civil war, but who now find themselves potentially stateless.
Meet China’s AI Enforcers
The Wire profiles the Chinese government bodies responsible for managing the country’s AI rollout.
EV Makers’ Quest for Cheaper Batteries
Plus, China’s AI regulators and data centers in space.
Datacenters in the sky? China Bids on the AI-Space Nexus
In just over a year, China has built an ecosystem dedicated to orbital data centers.
Xinjiang’s “Blue Miracle”
Fish farming in Xinjiang is being sold as proof that technology can overcome geography. The reality is more complicated: a desert seafood boom built on political control, imported feed and a food system that masks its real burdens.
The Daily Roundup
October 7th, 2026 | Welcome to The Wire’s daily news roundup. Each day, our staff gathers the top China business, finance, and economics headlines from a selection of the world’s leading news organizations.
The Daily Roundup
October 5th, 2026 | Welcome to The Wire’s daily news roundup. Each day, our staff gathers the top China business, finance, and economics headlines from a selection of the world’s leading news organizations.
Chips, China And Trade Secrets: How an Arrest In Brussels Could Tie Them Together
Belgian prosecutors are investigating whether a state-backed Chinese firm stole trade secrets from the country’s leading chipmaker before it collapsed.
YMTC, the Company that Would Not Die
Plus an alleged Sino-Belgian semiconductor caper, and Logan Wright on China’s financial decay.
Logan Wright on China’s Financial Decay
The economist explains why China’s export-led growth strategy is at a dead end and what it would take to turn its economy around.
Made of Memory
China’s exports are leaning heavily on a handful of hi-tech, pricey products.
The Survivor
Sanctions and export controls failed to contain the rise of Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp. Now the national champion is riding the AI boom to a record IPO.
The Daily Roundup
September 30th, 2026 | Welcome to The Wire’s daily news roundup. Each day, our staff gathers the top China business, finance, and economics headlines from a selection of the world’s leading news organizations.
China’s AI Safety Catch-Up Is Hiding in Plain Sight
Current debates in the West about China’s approach to governing the technology ignore changes under way post-DeepSeek and Mythos.
The Real Significance of the Trump-Xi Summit
Concrete outcomes are hard to discern, but Xi Jinping will see the treatment he received from Trump as a sign that China is now a peer of the United States.
The Daily Roundup
September 24th, 2026 | Welcome to The Wire’s daily news roundup. Each day, our staff gathers the top China business, finance, and economics headlines from a selection of the world’s leading news organizations.
Brian Tse on How China Plans to Keep AI Safe
The Concordia AI founder explains how Beijing is looking to regulate and pace AI’s development while making sure it keeps up in the global race, and talks about the prospects of the U.S. and China working together on AI safety.
Why Beijing May Favor a “Slow and Steady” Rise For its Currency
Goldman Sachs economists argue that by allowing the renminbi to appreciate by 3-5 percent a year, Beijing can reconcile seemingly contradictory policy goals.
The Daily Roundup
September 21st, 2026 | Welcome to The Wire’s daily news roundup. Each day, our staff gathers the top China business, finance, and economics headlines from a selection of the world’s leading news organizations.
Brendan Carr’s FCC vs the PRC
Also, the Busan truce, eleven months on, and Bob Davis interviews Stephen Vaughn.
Stephen Vaughn on the U.S.-China Disconnect
The former Trump official argues that the president’s approach to China is working, and explains why time is on the American side as the U.S. and China continue to move apart.
The Power Grid’s China Problem
The U.S. and EU are restricting Chinese inverters over cybersecurity and supply-chain concerns, but replacing them may create new challenges for the renewable-energy industry.
The FCC vs the PRC
Brendan Carr, President Trump’s combative chair of the Federal Communications Commission, has made his agency a key player in U.S. China policy.
Back to the Busan Basics
The agreement Trump and Xi reached last year in South Korea paused the trade war, but will soon expire. We look at whether both sides are living up to their promises.
The Daily Roundup
September 16th, 2026 | Welcome to The Wire’s daily news roundup. Each day, our staff gathers the top China business, finance, and economics headlines from a selection of the world’s leading news organizations.
Xi’s Flying Visit to Delhi and the Quest for a ‘New Normal’ with India
Rebuilding healthy ties between the Indian and Chinese governments is likely to be a long process, with issues from the border to the Dalai Lama’s succession looming.
The Daily Roundup
September 14th, 2026 | Welcome to The Wire’s daily news roundup. Each day, our staff gathers the top China business, finance, and economics headlines from a selection of the world’s leading news organizations.
Taiwan Plays its Chips Card
Helping other countries build up their own semiconductor supply chains is a calculated gamble. Can sacrificing some economic advantage enhance Taiwan’s own security?
Susan Shirk on China and the U.S.’s Common Problem: Their Leaders
The longtime China scholar says that while Trump has diminished America’s reputation, Xi Jinping’s continued overreach means China has failed to take advantage.
Company in the News: BGI
China’s gene research industry faces scrutiny after recent scandals, but a sanctioned BGI holds on to its top spot.
From Pen-and-Paper to AI in Two Generations
Millions of Chinese factory owners have been bequeathed a difficult inheritance. AI offers a way to modernize their parents’ low-margin businesses, but only if they can overcome often deep-rooted resistance to change.
China’s SMEs and AI
Plus, a report from Taiwan Semicon and a conversation with Susan Shirk.