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“China Watch” is a weekly deep dive that pulls back the curtains on one of the world's most enigmatic powers. Join Epoch Times contributor Terri Wu as she deciphers where China is headed next and how its politics, technology, and business affect Americans.
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- 6 days ago23 min
Back to Mao: China's Playbook for Taking What's Yours
China has updated its laws, in what looks like a move to gear up for war. The threshold for a “national threat” is lower than ever.And one of the major targets is private ownership. This time, American businesses are on the front line.The same thing happened in the 1950s, when U.S. claims of assets lost in China totaled $197 million—smaller than today’s business footprint.Listen to this week’s episode to find out what’s now considered a national threat to the Chinese regime.Host Terri Wu analyzes the latest change in China’s National Defense Mobilization Law and previous law updates, and why Mao’s playbook for seizing private property is shaping up in China in plain sight.Views expressed in this episode are opinions of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.—Terri Wu is a Washington-based freelance reporter for The Epoch Times covering education and China-related issues. Send tips to terri.wu@epochtimes.com.Show your support for Epoch Times and independent journalism by leaving a 5-star review of this show on your podcast platform or visit www.RateThisPodcast.com/chinawatch
- 2 weeks ago42 min
The Honeytrap That Reached Capitol Hill: Fang Fang, Swalwell, and China's Election Playbook
Newly declassified FBI files reveal how alleged Chinese intelligence asset Christine Fang—also known as "Fang Fang"—used a years-long sexual relationship, illegal straw donations, and planted congressional interns to work her way into the office of a sitting member of Congress.The files also expose "Rusty Thumbs," an FBI operation that tried to quietly turn Fang into a double agent before realizing she was actively running her own influence campaign against the U.S. political system.Epoch Times White House reporter Travis Gillmore joins host Terri Wu to walk through what's genuinely new in the documents, why the case went unprosecuted for a decade, and what it reveals about the scale of the CCP's efforts to compromise American election integrity, from Capitol Hill to the ballot box.Read Travis’s article here.Views expressed in this episode are opinions of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.—Terri Wu is a Washington-based freelance reporter for The Epoch Times covering education and China-related issues. Send tips to terri.wu@epochtimes.com.Show your support for Epoch Times and independent journalism by leaving a 5-star review of this show on your podcast platform or visit www.RateThisPodcast.com/chinawatch
- 2 weeks ago30 min
The Hidden China Factor in the US-Canada Trade War
Neither the Canadian prime minister nor the U.S. trade chief, in their own public accounts, has named China as a reason the U.S.–Canada trade talks collapsed.However, the China factor is very much present.What’s in it for China?If the North American manufacturing alliance breaks down, China will be better placed to maintain its economic leverage over the global supply chain. Exports are its lifeline to keep the economy going.Meanwhile, Washington sees Canada as a potential backdoor for made-in-China products to flood the U.S. market.Canada has sent mixed signals to the United States on trade. It signed an EV deal with China and then talked about a “Fortress North America” to bolster the region against overseas competitors such as China.In this episode, Terri unpacks the core issues facing the U.S.–Canada trade talks and how Ottawa’s approach to Washington may not be its own.Read more: China Factor Looms Over Collapse of US–Canada Trade TalksViews expressed in this episode are opinions of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.—Terri Wu is a Washington-based freelance reporter for The Epoch Times covering education and China-related issues. Send tips to terri.wu@epochtimes.com.Show your support for Epoch Times and independent journalism by leaving a 5-star review of this show on your podcast platform or visit www.RateThisPodcast.com/chinawatch
- 3 weeks ago36 min
The Million-Dollar Question: Will Taiwan Fight If Mainland China Invades?
What is the best strategy when one is up against overwhelming odds? That’s the Empty City Strategy that Terri Wu shares in this week’s episode of “China Watch,” in the context of Taiwan’s potential defense against the Chinese Communist Party.Two Taiwanese military experts join Terri in this episode: Max Tsung Chi Yu, a retired Major General in Taiwan and a former Dean of the Political Warfare College within Taiwan's National Defense University, and Kitsch Liao, associate director of the Atlantic Council Global China Hub in Washington.Hear their insights on what Taiwan is doing to prepare itself and coordinate with other local allies.And hear whether the spirit to fight is really a military one, or a human one. All that and more on this week’s episode.Views expressed in this episode are opinions of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.—Terri Wu is a Washington-based freelance reporter for The Epoch Times covering education and China-related issues. Send tips to terri.wu@epochtimes.com.Show your support for The Epoch Times and independent journalism by leaving a 5-star review of this show on your podcast platform or visit www.RateThisPodcast.com/chinawatch
- Aug 17, 202627 min
Degrading China’s Supply Chain—Battling for the Spirit of a Nation
For years, "decoupling" and "de-risking" have been the go-to words for describing U.S.–China economic relations.Host Terri Wu argues that neither term captures what's actually happening anymore and proposes a new one: degrading.Terri argues the United States and China are now playing to win on the same integrated chessboard. Both want the same things, and both have concluded that simply continuing to do what they're already good at, without pushing back on the other side, won't work anymore.The board they're playing on, she explains, is of the global supply chain. It’s now the main battleground of the U.S.–China rivalry.Behind that are the people who make the numbers a reality. As a manufacturing business owner puts it, this is about the purpose and meaning of American workers.Views expressed in this episode are opinions of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.—Terri Wu is a Washington-based freelance reporter for The Epoch Times covering education and China-related issues. Send tips to terri.wu@epochtimes.com.Show your support for Epoch Times and independent journalism by leaving a 5-star review of this show on your podcast platform or visit www.RateThisPodcast.com/chinawatch
- Aug 10, 202618 min
Could China Cut Off Taiwan? War Games Test the Scenario
In 1958, China tried and failed to cut Taiwan off from American help. Taiwan's 2026 war games rehearse the same scenario on a much larger scale—a blockade of the entire island, not just Kinmen.Host Terri Wu unpacks what has changed since 1958, drawing on analysis from Taiwan-based experts Qi Leyi and Shen Ming-shih on the drills, Japan's rising alarm, U.S. President Donald Trump's ambiguity about defending Taiwan, and whether the risk of invasion is rising or falling.Interviews for this episode were conducted by Gu Xiaohua, China Watch's correspondent in Japan.Views expressed in this episode are opinions of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.—Terri Wu is a Washington-based freelance reporter for The Epoch Times covering education and China-related issues. Send tips to terri.wu@epochtimes.com.Show your support for Epoch Times and independent journalism by leaving a 5-star review of this show on your podcast platform or visit www.RateThisPodcast.com/chinawatch
- Aug 3, 202621 min
Beijing’s Hidden AI Playbook—Why the Latest ‘Win’ Is Not What It Looks Like
Chinese artificial intelligence is making another push for world leadership. But the actual value of the services may be exaggerated and tailored to look good, misleading users on the ability to deliver practical results at the tempting, low prices being offered, analysts say.Listen as Terri talks to two experts about why AI is a deeply competitive, economically relevant topic for the future.It’s not about how well the models work, but how the world will use the service. And will the world choose the United States or China?Hear more on this week’s episode.Views expressed in this episode are opinions of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.—Terri Wu is a Washington-based freelance reporter for The Epoch Times covering education and China-related issues. Send tips to terri.wu@epochtimes.com.Show your support for Epoch Times and independent journalism by leaving a 5-star review of this show on your podcast platform or visit www.RateThisPodcast.com/chinawatch
- Jul 27, 202619 min
Fired for Talking: The Leak That Exposed China's Dam Secrets
A sacked Chinese hydroelectric executive. A shocking death toll. A leaked analysis of what a full collapse of the Three Gorges Dam would look like.Record rainfall has caused a dam collapse in southern China. At the same time, the situation for northern China is more dire, as downpours 20-50 percent higher than normal are forecast until mid-August.What did the dam collapse reveal about China’s flood management problems? And what does the leaked analysis reveal about the consequences of a failed Three Gorges Dam?There’s also one key estimate missing from that analysis. What is it, and why is it important?Whistleblower’s texts and video:https://x.com/LUOXIANG_PMTQ/status/2079315130886549941https://x.com/LUOXIANG_PMTQ/status/2079798667544854926Views expressed in this episode are opinions of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.—Terri Wu is a Washington-based freelance reporter for The Epoch Times covering education and China-related issues. Send tips to terri.wu@epochtimes.com.Show your support for Epoch Times and independent journalism by leaving a 5-star review of this show on your podcast platform or visit www.RateThisPodcast.com/chinawatch
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