David Barboza
@DavidBarboza2
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Former New York Times Shanghai Bureau Chief; 2-time Pulitzer Prize winner; investigative reporter and co-founder of The Wire China and @WireScreenAI.
New York City
Joined July 2011
Apple Makes Plans to Move Production Out of China - WSJ
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My Q&A with Steve Bannon on Hong Kong, Covid-19, and the War Already Underway
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A grim story. Global firms, but in particular American companies, are being forced to confront the horrors unfolding in Xinjiang. We contacted nearly 50 big American firms to ask about what they are thinking. Most had the same answer: silence.
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Interesting WSJ scoop: Prosecutors are preparing to sue casino mogul Steve Wynn, citing his push to get the U.S. to expel a Chinese businessman via @WSJ.
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Steve Bannon is teaming up with the Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui. My story is now online:
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Hi, @thewirechina is competing with the @nytimes and @WSJ to produce high quality journalism about one of the most important subjects of our time: the rise of China. If you're interested in writing for us, please email me at david@thewire.media.
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At his home, Orville Schell came upon an article he withdrew from The New Yorker about his search for forced labor camps in China in 1991. Now, more than 20 years later, he's publishing it. And it's quite a read!
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A look at Trump's SPAC, and its ties to a couple of Chinese firms and SEC enforcement actions. by the superb @NorthropKatrina ; excellent graphic by @eliotcxchen
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Sad to see so many remarkable journalists unable to secure a journalism visa to report from China. American journalists first set up in China in 1979. We have a chart looking at the situation here:
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I interviewed Stanford's Scott Rozelle about China’s Rural Problem, the middle income trap, and why he thinks everyone should be worried about an economic collapse in China.
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Here is part 2, the story of how elliott broidy and other Americans lobbied the white house and DoJ for Jho Low, and worked with China to get Guo Wengui extradited. for a mere $83 million in cash (if they succeeded)
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We looked at a number of giant Chinese firms that got bailout funds. Why? Because nothing in the law prevented it. Even firms on the Pentagon list as PLA affiliates were able to get funds. Read here:
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Kurt Campbell: “If you ask me what is the most important bilateral relationship for the United States going forward? I believe India is that country. What India offers is deeply significant in terms of technology, the diaspora, educational opportunities, and its desire to play a
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I'm looking for a China-focused researcher to help build out our data team. If you've got Chinese language skills and have an interest in research and corporate investigations, please email me at david@thewire.media.
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Here is part of our WireScreen graphic on the supply chain for advanced logic chips -- looking globally at who produces at each stage of development and the Chinese firms challenging for position.
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Soon to release issue 8 of our weekly magazine, tonight at 7pm (paid), w/ a lengthy Q&A with Steve Bannon (talk about unleashing the fury!). Sign up here for the (free) newsletter: For limited time, we offer one free article.
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On April 12, I plan to launch a new weekly digital magazine with a group of colleagues! Its singular focus is China. It's name, The Wire. I hope you'll follow us!
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Fabulous piece on Seoul’s Big Switch -- how South Korea is rethinking its China manufacturing strategy.
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The NYT publishes an investigation of paper affiliated with Falun Gong. How The Epoch Times Created a Giant Influence Machine
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The Wire is looking for freelance writers based in Taiwan and Silicon Valley. Please message me if you're interested!.
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“Taiwan is probably the target of more cyber attacks than anyplace else in the world on a daily basis,” says Bonnie S. Glaser, director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. “Hopefully TSMC has been protecting its IP. "
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After 11 years working for The New York Times in Shanghai I moved back to New York City today. I already miss China but happy to be home!.
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Wow. @bobdavis187 talks to Nancy Pelosi, about China, Xi Jinping, DC lobbyists, and her controversial trip to Taiwan. Quite an interview.
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China’s state capitalism model is fascinating. There are state companies, state investment vehicles, industrial policies, a trillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund and something called Central Huijin, holding stakes in banks and financial services firms
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In 2012, while investigating the prime minister's family fortune, I met in BJ with Duan Weihong & Desmond Shum. Now I know the prime minister's wife sent Duan to meet me. Desmond now tells the full story, that they were the Wen family biz partners!
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Some sad news – The China Project. @KaiserKuo @goldkorn @robertguterma and team enlightened us for years. My best wishes to everyone there, with hopes that the journey will reemerge in a different place and form!
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We just released a joint investigation by @thewirechina and @nytimes into the silent investor who profited off some of Jack Ma's biggest deals -- Xiao Jianhua. See it here:
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Alex Joske is 23 years old. Even before he finished college he began work on a project for an Australian think tank @ASPI_org on the PLA sending scientists to global universities. Here is our Q&A with Joske, on China’s Influence Operations
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I've long wanted to get this into a story or graphic! Who are the biggest exporters from China? Let's name them! And yes, most are foreign owned companies, like Dell, Intel and Foxconn (for Apple). This tells you about the front lines of the trade war
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What a fabulous opening essay by Orville Schell on his bookshelf, the books on it, and the heights he has to climb, in finding and reading books:
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Delighted this morning to say that our small news and data startup has raised Series A financing from an amazing group of investors led by Sequoia Capital partners Michael Moritz and Shaun Maguire. See my blog post here:
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We updated the graphic on Who's Who in reporting on China. (These are reporters who were based in Beijing or Shanghai in 2019 and 2020) See our story: The Great Expulsion
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The Wire is one year old! Thanks to our paid subscribers and others for your support. We have a small team of ambitious, hard working journalists, trying to compete at the highest level, writing about one of the most important stories of our time!
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The Corps of Xinjiang-- our cover story on XPCC, the quasi military outfit that dominates Xinjiang. Can this organization really be effectively sanctioned? Many say they doubt it.
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Really sad to see this. China is losing a group of brave, remarkable journalists from NYT, WSJ and Post! We at NYT had prepared for expulsion in Dec2013, then were told we could stay. I hope Beijing reconsiders. China Will Expel American Journalists
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Lots of interesting detail about NYU Shanghai, including tuition, leadership structure and more. some interesting questions arose out of a court case, raising questions about who actually controls NYU Shanghai -- NYU or the Chinese authorities?
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Isabella Weber is a young scholar now at UMass Amherst, and her book on How China Avoided Shock Therapy is superb, full of insights and also involves her own interviews with Chinese economists, reformers and intellectuals. Read my Q&A with her here.
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Nice to be mentioned in terrific piece in The Economist, on China's Red Elites, or Princelings!
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An excellent and eye-opening Q&A with @JosephTorigian, looking Chinese politics, Party history, Xi Jinping and his father, Xi Zhongxun; also a bit about the late Roderick Macfarquhar.
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So happy for @NorthropKatrina, one of the best journalists I've ever worked with! Congrats to The @washingtonpost on the hire. Our team @thewirechina will miss her. So grateful to have had her with us as we've built a great team that includes @ckamarckfox , @andypeaps.
After four amazing years at @thewirechina, I am very excited to move to Taipei as a China correspondent at @washingtonpost!!.
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Today, the Wire announces a new books venture, a collaboration with @AsiaSociety 's Center on U.S.-China Relations. We hope the China Books Review will enrich coverage of books, art, film and more, and we've hired a remarkable writer to lead it: @alecash
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Very sad to read this. Du Bin worked for some years for the @nytimes. He traveled with me several times and worked closely with my colleagues in Beijing. Wishing the best for him and his family.
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From my interview with John Bolton. the White House gave him a device to stay secure while in Singapore. It turns out it was Made in China, by ZTE. a company with military ties.
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congrats to @suilee @vwang3 @ChuBailiang and others @nytimes for winning the Pulitzer Prize for public service reporting, the highest honor!.
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I am so grateful for the opportunity to work on building what I hope will become a great news platform: The Wire. Please subscribe and help us celebrate our first birthday!
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NYT will soon publish a few documents related to my story on the ownership of the HNA Group.
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Fabulous work here by @PekingMike , @NorthropKatrina and @eliotcxchen on this investigation. The Billionaire Criminal Who Secretly Profited Off Jack Ma's Deals
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Some remarkable work done by @NorthropKatrina linking donations to New York City's mayor to a Chinese billionaire best known for running a Beijing nightclub.
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This is our 2d big effort to map a key supply chain. See it here and download it: Who’s Who in the EV Battery Supply Chain -- companies from the US, China, Japan and elsewhere. Great work by Paul Sedille, our research team and graphics.
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My Q&A with my former colleague @nicoleperlroth about cybersecurity, her new book, and even our work together looking at cyber attacks on the @nytimes (and yes my own email account!)
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A Chinese company backed by American pension fund money and built by one of world's premier private equity firms -- KKR -- publicly touted its ties to China's surveillance apparatus.
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Remarkable work by @eliotcxchen to pull this together from our archives and documents. This is like a case study of how shell companies are set up for the benefit of transferring assets to the relatives of political elites! Read Ping An and the Wen Family
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Here's a chart from our story about Zhang Jindong and Suning, which helps explain how he raised offshore money -- even from state owned firms. those lenders are now seeking repayment of debts as Suning struggles.
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We are getting pretty remarkable web traffic for this profile of Zhang Shoucheng, who was one of the world's leading physicists. He died in Dec. 2018. What happened in the final year of his life was remarkable and tragic! Death of a Quantum Man
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Our own @rachel_cheung1 writes that Beijing is weeding out bad actors in the semiconductor industry and concentrating its resources on well-established firms. Read "China’s Chip Consolidation"
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I've been following @m_maggiori's work on VIE and offshore shell companies for some time. He's helping remap global capital flows, and forcing a rethink on risk and the value of China's global companies. Here's our Q&A.
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My story in today's NYT on, How China Built ‘iPhone City’ With Billions in Perks for Apple’s Partner
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Jerry Cohen clerked for Chief Justice Earl Warren, dined with Zhou Enlai, met with Kissinger in the Nixon White House, and helped US companies enter China. He's also been a sharp critic of Beijing. Read our profile here!
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China’s New Nationalism, by @alecash, is a fascinating portrait of how a movement evolved over the past decade or so. must reading for all of us trying to make sense of China
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What a fabulous and important piece by @bcamcrane ! The Green Leap. Hydrogen, solar, fusion, EV batteries and more. The race is on. Read it here:
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What is astounding about China's big state-owned enterprises is how many people they employ. Take a look at this! these are perhaps the biggest direct employers in the world. lots of firms with hundreds of thousands, even one w/ 1.3 million employees
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Our look at the ZTE ownership structure! Dual listed in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, but major shareholder is here, in the chart attached.
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We don't have the answers, really. But with this story, our reporters tried to ask what can or should US companies do? What are the options? Some really smart people weighed in, like @jamesLmcgregor and @SheenaGreitens Read The Xinjiang Silence
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We are hiring a staff writer @thewirechina And we'd love more applicants with Chinese language skills. Please email me at david@thewire.media.
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HNA is back in the news. And it ain't good. Read my piece on China’s Falling Star. bankruptcy. Chen Feng out of power and barred from buying first class air tickets. reports of embezzlement!
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The Wire has finally introduced its Pitch Guidelines. We are always looking for freelance writers interested in writing about China. The goal is to produce high quality journalism, every week. Please see the guidelines here:
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HI all, our weekly magazine launches tonight at 7 pm. It's called The Wire. please sign up for the free newsletter here:
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This week we have a remarkable essay by @orvilleschell; it's brilliant, poignant, filled with suspense and incredibly disturbing. It's the longest essay we've ever published; it began as a New Yorker piece, and a 60 Minutes special. Now, it's on our cover!
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Game Over, this excellent profile of Evergrande by @NorthropKatrina, is already one of the most read stories of the year for us!
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Did you realize Tencent is the world's biggest gaming company and that it owns some of the world's biggest brands. Sony and Microsoft are really big. but look here:
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Cobalt is central to the electric vehicle revolution. And China dominates its production (largely in the Congo), and its processing (almost entirely in China). Read our piece about The Cobalt Empire!
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Pleased to announce that @andypeaps, a longtime @wsj reporter and editor (and host of @AsiaMattersPod ) has joined us as an editor!.
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Really interesting interview with the scholar (and one time Rhodes Scholar) @MariaRepnikova, on How China Tells its Story . in discussion with the talented @eyckfreymann
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BYD’s blink-and-you-miss-it expansion in the last three years has blindsided everyone. Today it is the world’s largest producer of electric vehicles, the 2d largest producer of EV batteries, and China’s best selling car brand, displacing Volkswagen, which held that title for at.
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Trump says Americans can no longer invest in dozens of companies deemed Chinese military affiliates. Who are these companies, and how have Americans been investing in them? Here's the list and details on their backgrounds and which US firms invested?
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Some of America's leading universities set up foundations in Hong Kong to accept offshore gifts, and then transfer the money back to the US. It seems it was legal, but it's interesting nonetheless. See our story: China’s Investment in U.S. Universities
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Harvard professor and former dean @BillKirbyHBS -- author of a new book on global universities -- argues here about the risk of academic disengagement with China.
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My story on Foxconn was just published: Before Wisconsin, Foxconn Vowed Big Spending in Brazil. Few Jobs Have Come.
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This year's IPO market has been dominated by China. Let's look at the numbers.
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My story, first published yesterday, on Xiao Jianhua. We include the Tomorrow Group statement here. China Seizes Tycoon’s Assets
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There's a book in HNA story: chairman dies in France while on vacation; fugitive billionaire Miles Kwok attacks on social media; link to family of Wen Jiabao; invests in Jeb Bush; tries to buy Scaramucci firm. Builds HQ in shape of Buddha! I could go on
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My story with Mike Forsythe: China Detains Executive Close to Family of Former Prime Minister via @NYTimes
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In the @nytimes, the most thorough piece yet on MIT's Chen Gang: Scientist Is Arrested, and Academics Push Back by @EllenBarryNYT
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My story, with colleagues, on China's art world: Forging an Art Market in China http://t.co/z47lfwgALg.
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My final story for @nytimes was edited by @CRTejada A Chinese Tycoon Sought Power and Influence. Washington Responded. I had some of the best in business, writing, editing with me, including @adriennecarter @jotted @paulmozur @MattGoldstein26 1/2.
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A must read Q&A with Elizabeth Economy, on China’s Assertiveness
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The Road to Beijing, Orville Schell's terrific piece, now on audio, read by the great @KaiserKuo
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What does the semiconductor supply chain look like? Here's one view of it.
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I love @ruima podcast @TechBuzzChina and now she's writing columns for us on the tech world! Read her first column here, on how The Next China is… China
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Here is the graphic showing how we traced some of the key holdings Xiao Jianhua's network held in Jack Ma deals: see the story here:
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We just released a special edition, our joint @thewirechina investigation with @nytimes -- a look into the Billionaire Criminal Who Secretly Profited Off Jack Ma's Deals --- Xiao Jianhua. Read it here:
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Excellent Q&A with Jörg Wuttke, who has been doing business in China for decades. A lot has changed recently, he says, in this talk about what he sees as "China’s self destruction."
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This Sunday will release an org chart of Biden's "China team," not necessarily China specialists but members of the administration that will have major engagement with China on a host of issues. 50 people on the list. Sneak peak image attached
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Te-Ping Chen has a new book of short stories out called the Land of Big Numbers. This interview with her is a delight to read. Shout out to her: @tepingchen
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When the Congo sent officials to the nation's largest cobalt mine, armed guards blocked them from entering. It's part of a tense standoff between China Moly and the authorities in the Congo. Fascinating read. a https://www.thewirechina.com/2022/08/07/china-drc-mine/.
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