China's electric-car revolution is about to collide with a far messier problem: what to do with all the worn-out batteries. What began as a heavily subsidized push to get drivers into EVs—nearly 60% ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent commented on the Trump administration's strategy for the "trade war" with China during an appearance at a CNBC event on Friday. "I think things can de-escalate; we don ...

Nvidia’s H200 processor is becoming the epicenter of a conflict in China, and stock market experts and investors cannot see it on a chart. Chinese cloud and internet corporations want Nvidia's ...

China is worried about disorderly competition and low capacity utilization. But its trading partners fret over the rapid rise of overall capacity.

VW EV sales in China plunged 34% in the first half of 2025, so it's turning to local partners to help it develop more appealing China-specific models. The new VW ID. Unyx 08 is co-developed with Xpeng ...

Those hoping to pay their respects to Jiang Zemin, a deceased former president of China, will not find a tombstone. As befits a leader of the Communist Party, he was a “thoroughgoing materialist” ...

The fascination with China’s ability to build things America struggles with, from bridges to advanced tech, risks a dangerous miscalculation about what drives China. By Li Yuan Li Yuan has been ...

Chinese growth has relied on exports to an unprecedented extent in 2024 and 2025?   Should that continue, or is it time to pivot?

Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. Sign up I reported on China’s chip design progress last ...

China’s role as the world’s factory—producing and exporting goods across the globe—has entered a new phase. In the past decade, China has made a concerted effort to move its manufacturing sector up ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. It is not hard to find evidence of China’s massive trade surplus. China’s exports ...