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<i>The Wire China</i>

The Wire China

Weekly online news magazine

The Wire China is a weekly online news magazine focused on Chinese business, economics and finance, founded by former The New York Times Shanghai correspondent David Barboza.[1]

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History

The Wire China launched its first issue in April 2020. It publishes five to six articles per week including a 3,000-5,000 word cover story, a news and analysis piece, a data investigation called 'The Big Picture', Q&A, and an Opinion section. The magazine also publishes a regular books column and the occasional long essay.[2] In 2020 it published cover stories investigating the collapse of Luckin Coffee,[2] whistleblowers at GlaxoSmithKline China's operations,[3] and Chinese aerospace company Aviation Industry Corporation of China's acquisition of American companies during the GFC.[4]

Content is behind a paywall, with monthly and annual subscriptions available.[1]

Coverage

According to its website, The Wire China's news coverage focuses on:

China largely from beyond its borders, so we are focused on looking at the country from a global perspective. How do China based businesses invest and operate outside of the country? How do multinationals operate inside China? Who are China's leading entrepreneurs and startups, and how have they succeeded or failed? How do cross border deals work? How do Americans, Europeans and others invest in China, and how do Chinese businesses invest overseas? When it comes to business, what happens at the intersection of China and the rest of the world? And is there a way to put today's dynamics in perspective with a historical piece, looking back at the origins of a conflict, or development?[1]

In 2020, when the Chinese government moved to take over billionaire Xiao Jianhua's assets, The Wire China first reported that Xiao Jianhua's Tomorrow Group put out a statement that was later censored.[5] In the statement, the Tomorrow Group questioned the takeover decisions of the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, as well as the Chinese government's risk assessment.[6]

In September 2020, The Wire China interviewed Steve Bannon on his relationship with Chinese fugitive Miles Kwok.[7][8][9]

Orville Schell, the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York wrote a long essay for the website titled "The Death of Engagement" which was praised by The New York Times opinion columnist Thomas Friedman.[10][11]

Its coverage on the practice of Chinese billionaires using trusts to hide their money in South Dakota was cited in a Hudson Institute report on kleptocracy and foreign corruption.[12]

The publication has published several pieces on semiconductors in the U.S.-China relationship. Willy Shih, a Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, gave an interview to the publication about the United States falling behind in semiconductor technology.[13] Similarly, it ran a piece on how Chinese regulatory approval complicated U.S. chip firm Nvidia's pending acquisition of Israeli chip firm Mellanox Technologies.[14]

On May 30, 2021, The Wire China published a detailed whistleblower report on securities fraud about CLSA and CEFC China Energy called "Broken Bonds".[15]

In April, 2023, The Wire China announced a new collaboration with Asia Society to launch the China Books Review, a major outlet of commentary on China-related publications.[16]

WireScreen

WireScreen is The Wire China's sister business that focuses on providing data and information on Chinese companies and individuals. It often appears in The Wire China, especially in the data section, 'The Big Picture'. It incorporates research from The Wire China journalists as well as other data sources. In an interview with Harvard's Nieman Lab, Barboza explained his rationale for launching WireScreen:

Traditionally, journalists are on one side and they do their research, and then they throw it away and don't give it to anyone else. I think how wasteful is it that most journalists throw away or never use or don't pass on any of their notes or records. Everyone that comes behind them does their research all over again.[2]

The database has over a million companies, and data engineers continue to collect and add information. Its target customers include other journalists, policy makers, scholars, and the business community.[17]

References

  1. [1]
    "About Us". The Wire China. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
  2. [2]
    "The Wire China is a new journalism-and-data business hoping to help unlock the country for others". Nieman Lab. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
  3. [3]
    "GSK found a suspected whistleblower. The real one is still in the shadows". STAT. 2020-06-23. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
  4. [4]
    "The PLA's Unlikely Wingman". The Wire China. 2020-10-25. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
  5. [5]
    Stevenson, Alexandra (2020-07-18). "China Is Dismantling the Empire of a Vanished Tycoon". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  6. [6]
    "China Seizes Tycoon's Assets". The Wire China. 2020-07-17. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  7. [7]
    Helderman, Rosalind S. (September 14, 2020). "How former Trump adviser Steve Bannon joined forces with a Chinese billionaire who has divided the president's allies". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  8. [8]
    "Coronavirus China US conflict could become a new Cold War". Australian Financial Review. 2020-05-29. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  9. [9]
    "Burning Man". The Wire China. 2020-08-31. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  10. [10]
    Friedman, Thomas L. (2020-06-23). "Opinion | China and America Are Heading Toward Divorce". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  11. [11]
    托马斯·弗里德曼2020年6月24日 (2020-06-24). "美国和中国准备"离婚"了". 纽约时报中文网 (in Chinese). Retrieved 2021-02-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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    Sibley, Nate (January 2021). "Countering Global Kleptocracy: A New US Strategy for Fighting Authoritarian Corruption" (PDF). The Hudson Institute. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
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    Kynge, James (April 29, 2020). "Huawei scores chip coup against US pressure". The Financial Times. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  14. [14]
    Ruehl, Mercedes (April 15, 2020). "SoftBank: is it game over?". The Financial Times. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  15. [15]
    "Broken Bonds". The Wire China. 2021-05-30. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
  16. [16]
    Apostoaie, Ella (2023-04-03). "China Books Review". The Wire China. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  17. [17]
    "The idea that caused the creation of The Wire China". Talking Biz News. 2020-09-04. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
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