When the rest of WIRED subscribers get their hands on our next print magazine, you, dear readers of Made in China, can proudly say you heard about it here first. The issue...

THE symbolism was clear last June when Emmanuel Macron, surrounded by factory workers, held up a sleek lithium battery in his right hand and a mining lamp in his left. He was...

An indie app with only one function is currently all the rage in China. It’s called si le ma (死了吗), which translates literally to “Are You Dead Yet.” The app asks users...

If you’ve never been to Shenzhen, China’s electronics capital, the annual CES trade show in Las Vegas is the next best thing. I’m reporting this week from the sprawling event, surrounded by...

I don’t want to admit it, but I did spend a lot of money online this holiday shopping season. And unsurprisingly, some of those purchases didn’t meet my expectations. A photobook I...

Go high or go wide? DeepSeek and ByteDance, the two leaders of China’s AI industry, are adopting vastly different strategies.On Monday, DeepSeek released DeepSeek V3.2, another open-weight model that anyone can tinker...

Despite the never-ending drama over whether to ban the app, President Donald Trump’s volatile tariff regime, and executive shake-ups, TikTok’s ecommerce division is still seeing massive growth.TikTok doesn’t disclose aggregate sales figures,...

Our fellow terminally online readers probably have seen this video, which originated on Chinese social media. In it, two guys who look at first like they are about to get into a...