📊 Chart of the Week: Perceived interference in China’s territory is trigger for sanctions or inclusion on Beijing's version of an entity list. The 330 sanctions China levied from 2019-2026 were all related to provocations involving Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Tibet, or Taiwan. Read more: buff.ly/1nH9ely

🎧️ As U.S. restrictions complicate DJI’s expansion beyond drones, its camera rival Insta360 has gained an unexpected advantage among American consumers. Listen to our latest podcast episode: buff.ly/QZqFlt6

📊 Chart of the Week: China and Europe used to be neck and neck in global car production. But as China surged ahead, Europe's share has collapsed. Why Europe's relationship with China has reached a tipping point: buff.ly/r241neR

"When [China] began its turn toward the environment some 20 years ago it did not move first through law." Brent Crane interviews @greenlawchina.bsky.social ( @law.ucla.edu) on whether China's experience represents ‘good environmental authoritarianism’: buff.ly/zzfbNwR

📊 Chart of the week: Even though Chinese solar firms are reducing their shares in U.S.-held factories, making way for made-in-America solar, knocking China from the position it earned through decades of investment in solar won’t be easy. Read the story: buff.ly/MiLYeN3

"I eventually started referring to my experience as being one with the “other China”: a world that is irrepressible, vocal, creative, and despite everything, somewhat upbeat, always optimistic." Brent Crane interviews noted sinologist Geremie Barmé on his lifetime studying China: buff.ly/oVbn6ig

This week's cover story: Around a fifth of the Chinese companies that Nvidia lists as partners have also won bids to supply China’s defense industry, including the People’s Liberation Army itself, according to procurement records. Read more: buff.ly/IiUIrbF

"The Party doesn’t have to do anything. Somebody is actually doing their job, writing those stories, trying to popularize them, and connecting the Party to the people..." Savannah Billman interviews Rongbin Han ( @ugaintl.bsky.social ) on the authors rewriting China's history: buff.ly/pojlTb2

"These [trade] confrontations are not going to be quashed by an institution. They’re going to continue to be managed through both sides using offensive weapons." Read the rest of our Q&A with @bennsteil.bsky.social (@cfr.org) on how the U.S. and China are reshaping world trade: buff.ly/BB9RroJ

📊 Chart of the Week: Reusable rockets, pioneered by SpaceX, give the U.S. a huge lead on the world's rocket launch leaderboard. China wants in — and last week successfully recovered a reusable rocket booster for the first time. Read more: buff.ly/wwhxp9g

Read our Q&A with Katrina Manson on about how the rise of China’s military has shaped the U.S. effort to put AI at the heart of its fighting capability: buff.ly/13WXBnr

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"We recognized that there would not be a huge gap, but our goal was to sustain as big a gap as we could in this space." Read our Q&A with Alan Estevez, former head of the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security: buff.ly/Lp1kkY9

📊 Chart of the Week: Chinese solar firms are exporting far more to Africa as their U.S. and European markets fade. Read more: buff.ly/XIKKlbg

"Part of the problem today is everyone’s focused on the trade wars that Trump is engaging in and starting, and much less focused on the bigger underlying issue — which is what China’s doing." Read the full Q&A with @soumayakeynes.ft.com and @chadpbown.com: buff.ly/ZXrN0t1

📊 Chart of the week: China's pharmaceutical industry is on a hot streak. Over $50 billion worth of deals between Chinese and multinational firms were signed in the first 2 months of 2026. buff.ly/BBkYCUo

"China has not exactly been silent in taking actions against the United States. In response to sanctions on its oil refineries, we’ve seen them impose new supply chain restrictions..." Read our Q&A with Liz Cannon in The Wire China: buff.ly/CykExII

The PLA relies on a broad network of suppliers to get advanced technology, including U.S.-made semiconductors. Listen to our latest episode covering a new report: buff.ly/pfTe88F

"I argue that 1989 in China was actually a lot like 1968 in Central and Eastern Europe: an effort to have Communist Party rule go on but with different leadership." Read our full Q&A with historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom: buff.ly/f2QbnPD

📊 Chart of the week: Who is funding quantum research? The fear surrounding China’s quantum advances is compounded by the logic-defying nature of quantum technologies. But China's supposed quantum breakthroughs deserve a second look. Free from the archives: buff.ly/nC26fEx

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"Factory labor in China now costs around $6-700 a month per employee; in Ethiopia or in Madagascar it’s $60-65 a month." Read our Q&A with Joe Studwell on whether the ‘Asian tigers’ model is one African countries can emulate: buff.ly/QT5y5gX

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🎧️ Move over, DeepSeek and Minimax. Investors are flocking to a new set of AI winners: the Chinese manufacturers making circuit boards and other components that keep the world's AI models humming along. Listen on our podcast: buff.ly/YuVmZWf

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"Many of these North Koreans, encountering Christianity for the first time, were struck by how similar it was to what I call Kimilsungism, the religion they were raised in." Read our Q&A with Jonathan Cheng: buff.ly/XvZ1pT0

🎧 TP-Link is having a tough year. The California-based, Shenzhen-founded internet router company can’t seem to shake skepticism that moving to the United States means it is no longer Chinese. Listen to our latest podcast episode: pod.link/1873741567

📊 Chart of the Week: China's EV export boom With so many battery-powered vehicles already on China's streets, domestic sales are slowing. Chinese carmakers have little choice but to export. Here's where they're selling:

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"The story that Washington seemed to be repeating to itself was that people in China don’t care about [AI] safety. I went there, and found that they did care about safety..." Read our Q&A with Sebastian Mallaby on why the U.S. and China need to talk about AI safety: buff.ly/17uSZOR