Andrew Peaple
@andypeaps.bsky.social
News editor at The Wire China @thewirechina.bsky.social. Host and founder of Asia Matters podcast. Views expressed here are my own.
"I think our feelings of love were really born from these extreme and abnormal circumstances. Those emotions may not have been so strong, so fierce, had we been living in a normal society." My interview with Jung Chang on her new book 'Fly, Wild Swans'. www.thewirechina.com/2025/11/23/j...
Jung Chang on What Happened Next For the Wild Swans - The Wire China
The author talks about her family’s struggles in Mao’s China, and why she dare not return to the country of her birth under Xi Jinping.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
"I think our feelings of love were really born from these extreme and abnormal circumstances. Those emotions may not have been so strong, so fierce, had we been living in a normal society." My interview with Jung Chang on her new book 'Fly, Wild Swans'. www.thewirechina.com/2025/11/23/j...
Can’t take the Lemon and Collins smugness right now
"If they can't show some humility about the way you play in Australia, about the way you play on faster, bouncier pitches, this is going to be a long, long seven weeks."
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Can’t take the Lemon and Collins smugness right now
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The U.S. and its allies need to adapt better to China’s growing influence over the institutions that govern the global economic order, argues Kevin P. Gallagher in this week’s op-ed.
The China Lever - The Wire China
The U.S. and its allies need to adapt better to China’s growing influence over the institutions that govern the global economic order.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The U.S. and its allies need to adapt better to China’s growing influence over the institutions that govern the global economic order, argues Kevin P. Gallagher in this week’s op-ed.
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Calling all China people: nominations are open for the Baifang Schell Prize for non fiction. Please rush us your thoughts and suggestions! chinabooksreview.com/2025/11/06/p...
Nominations Open for 2025 Baifang Schell Book Prize | China Books Review
Our book prize returns in its second year, celebrating exceptional books on or from China and the Sinophone world. Nominate now!
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November 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Calling all China people: nominations are open for the Baifang Schell Prize for non fiction. Please rush us your thoughts and suggestions! chinabooksreview.com/2025/11/06/p...
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Trump Org’s income in the first half of 2024 was $51 million.
In the first half of 2025 it rose to $864 million.
A massive percentage came from foreigners.
It should be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics.
But few even care. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
In the first half of 2025 it rose to $864 million.
A massive percentage came from foreigners.
It should be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics.
But few even care. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine
The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that cash came from foreign sources as Donald Trump's sons touted their business on an international investor roadshow.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Trump Org’s income in the first half of 2024 was $51 million.
In the first half of 2025 it rose to $864 million.
A massive percentage came from foreigners.
It should be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics.
But few even care. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
In the first half of 2025 it rose to $864 million.
A massive percentage came from foreigners.
It should be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics.
But few even care. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Stunning
Breaking News: President Trump pardoned the billionaire founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao. Zhao admitted in 2023 to money-laundering violations that allowed terrorists, drug traffickers and other criminals to move money on the platform. nyti.ms/3J9mazz
October 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Stunning
Congratulations! Fabulous publication
China Books Review was delighted to celebrate our second year anniversary last week, hitting 180 articles, with this double review of two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang: chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/09/f...
We're off this week and will return to regular Tue/Thu posting next week.
We're off this week and will return to regular Tue/Thu posting next week.
October 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Congratulations! Fabulous publication
Question: How can broadband providers claim that a £4 increase on an annual bill of £26.99 is 'in line with inlfation'?
October 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Question: How can broadband providers claim that a £4 increase on an annual bill of £26.99 is 'in line with inlfation'?
I'm not an avid golf watcher but so pleased Europe won the Ryder Cup, especially given the throughly unpleasant crowd they had to deal with www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
US fan ugliness at the Ryder Cup was merely a reflection of Trump’s all-caps America | Bryan Armen Graham
European players were subjected to slurs and crude insults about their families. They were no surprise as public discourse in America has broken down
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September 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I'm not an avid golf watcher but so pleased Europe won the Ryder Cup, especially given the throughly unpleasant crowd they had to deal with www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
Nothing more moronic or obnoxious in the world of sport than the U-S-A chant
September 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Nothing more moronic or obnoxious in the world of sport than the U-S-A chant
What terrible questions from the UK and US press at that Starmer/Trump presser.
September 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
What terrible questions from the UK and US press at that Starmer/Trump presser.
Interesting www.ft.com/content/9ef2...
UK drops charges against two men accused of spying for China
Prosecutors had filed charges last year against the two for ‘providing prejudicial information’ to China
www.ft.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Interesting www.ft.com/content/9ef2...
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In a Q&A with Brent Crane, writer and academic Dan Wang discusses why the core differences between the world's two largest economies, the brutality of China's former one-child policy and whether it's right call it a Marxist country.
Dan Wang on China’s ‘Engineering State’ versus America’s ‘Lawyerly Society’ - The Wire China
Dan Wang discusses why the core differences between the world's two largest economies, the brutality of China's former one-child policy and whether it's right call it a Marxist country
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September 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
In a Q&A with Brent Crane, writer and academic Dan Wang discusses why the core differences between the world's two largest economies, the brutality of China's former one-child policy and whether it's right call it a Marxist country.
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www.bloomberg.com/news/article... / wait what? The price of labubu won’t go up forever??
Pop Mart Shares Fall on Demand Concern, Post-Index Entry Selling
Pop Mart International Group Ltd.’s shares tumbled, reflecting concerns over product demand for the Chinese toy maker and profit taking after the stock’s inclusion into two major indexes.
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September 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
www.bloomberg.com/news/article... / wait what? The price of labubu won’t go up forever??
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On the subject of Melvyn Bragg, I think of this Private Eye cartoon more frequently than I care to admit, when I’m struggling to raise the energy for a lecture or graduate supervision
September 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
On the subject of Melvyn Bragg, I think of this Private Eye cartoon more frequently than I care to admit, when I’m struggling to raise the energy for a lecture or graduate supervision
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Since floating shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Laopu Gold has become the territory’s hottest stock. @rachelcheung.bsky.social looks at the unlikely rise of Laopu and its founder Xu Gaoming, who was previously a fisheries bureau clerk in Hunan. buff.ly/xNhKMNl
Fool's Gold? - The Wire China
Laopu Gold, a homegrown jewelry brand that defied the consumer slowdown, is hailed as China’s Hermès. But some are raising doubts over whether it can sustain its success.
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September 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Since floating shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Laopu Gold has become the territory’s hottest stock. @rachelcheung.bsky.social looks at the unlikely rise of Laopu and its founder Xu Gaoming, who was previously a fisheries bureau clerk in Hunan. buff.ly/xNhKMNl
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Involution, or “irrational production”, has spread to China’s once-promising green industries. @aligarciaherrero.bsky.social warns that the government’s reflex reaction, forced consolidation, is not the answer to the problem. buff.ly/Vus25Yi
Beijing Is Failing to Solve Its Involution Problem - The Wire China
If China truly wants to get rid of its green tech involution problem, creating oligopolies will not do the trick.
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September 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Involution, or “irrational production”, has spread to China’s once-promising green industries. @aligarciaherrero.bsky.social warns that the government’s reflex reaction, forced consolidation, is not the answer to the problem. buff.ly/Vus25Yi
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NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️
x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
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x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
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August 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️
x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
🧵
x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
🧵
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This is pretty confusing and I might have it wrong but it seems to be saying the first family is just out there running an actual ponzi?
Streetwise: What’s not to like about infinite free money? Well, several things, says @jmackin2.bsky.social www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
Streetwise: What’s not to like about infinite free money? Well, several things, says @jmackin2.bsky.social www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
The Trump Family Cashes In on ‘the Infinite Money Glitch’
When President Trump gets in on a new online moneymaking idea, his followers often pile in—but two out of the last three times they went on to lose bigly.
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August 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This is pretty confusing and I might have it wrong but it seems to be saying the first family is just out there running an actual ponzi?
Streetwise: What’s not to like about infinite free money? Well, several things, says @jmackin2.bsky.social www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
Streetwise: What’s not to like about infinite free money? Well, several things, says @jmackin2.bsky.social www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
Tariffs are making baseball kit more expensive - great piece by @noahberman.bsky.social for @thewirechina.bsky.social www.thewirechina.com/2025/08/24/a...
America's Pastime Gets Caught Out - The Wire China
For companies that produce the goods needed to take part in ‘America’s Pastime’ — baseball — tariffs are now top of mind.
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August 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Tariffs are making baseball kit more expensive - great piece by @noahberman.bsky.social for @thewirechina.bsky.social www.thewirechina.com/2025/08/24/a...
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Super interesting interview with @heguisen.bsky.social about his new book Ghost Nation.
www.thewirechina.com/2025/08/10/c...
"Democratic countries have decisions to make now on what kind of Taiwan they want to see in the future."
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"Democratic countries have decisions to make now on what kind of Taiwan they want to see in the future."
Chris Horton on Taiwan the Ghost Nation - The Wire China
The journalist and author discusses Taiwan’s uncertain place in the world and how different generations have responded to the challenges it faces.
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August 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Super interesting interview with @heguisen.bsky.social about his new book Ghost Nation.
www.thewirechina.com/2025/08/10/c...
"Democratic countries have decisions to make now on what kind of Taiwan they want to see in the future."
www.thewirechina.com/2025/08/10/c...
"Democratic countries have decisions to make now on what kind of Taiwan they want to see in the future."
Is it safe to visit China? Few are better placed to answer this question than Michael Kovrig, one of the 'two Michaels' imprisoned in China for nearly 3 years. Read his @thewirechina.bsky.social op-ed here: www.thewirechina.com/2025/07/30/i...
Is it Safe to Visit China? A Former Detainee’s Warning - The Wire China
From exit bans to arbitrary arrests, vague laws, unsubstantiated charges, grueling prison sentences, and secret executions — the risks keep growing.
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July 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Is it safe to visit China? Few are better placed to answer this question than Michael Kovrig, one of the 'two Michaels' imprisoned in China for nearly 3 years. Read his @thewirechina.bsky.social op-ed here: www.thewirechina.com/2025/07/30/i...
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Watching China in Europe—August 2025 – Noah Barkin: ‘Another EU official put it this way: “The Chinese have shifted gears. They are convinced that they managed the US. And they are confident that they will manage us even better.”’
Watching China in Europe—August 2025
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July 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Watching China in Europe—August 2025 – Noah Barkin: ‘Another EU official put it this way: “The Chinese have shifted gears. They are convinced that they managed the US. And they are confident that they will manage us even better.”’
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"A decade later, the memory of 709 remains a grim milestone in the CCP’s war on the rule of law. But it also remains a testament to the courage and resistance of those who fight for justice and rule of law inside a dictatorial system."
A Decade After China's Crackdown on Lawyers, Persecution and Resistance Persist - The Wire China
While many remain in jail, the bravery of those at the forefront of pushing for the rule of law in China should not be forgotten.
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July 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"A decade later, the memory of 709 remains a grim milestone in the CCP’s war on the rule of law. But it also remains a testament to the courage and resistance of those who fight for justice and rule of law inside a dictatorial system."