Nvidia's Partner Problem

Nvidia has nearly 1,000 partners around the world, including over 100 in China. Some of these firms, according to a Wire China investigation, have close ties to China's military. What does this mean for Nvidia and the future of U.S. chip restrictions?

This week, reporter Noah Berman and editor Andrew Peaple go behind the scenes of Noah's investigation into Nvidia's China partners, discussing how one partner connects to a network of sanctioned universities, and what this reveals about the way the world's most valuable company operates. His article is now available to read on our website, thewirechina.com.

We also have an excerpt from our recent interview with historian and sinologist Geremie Barmé in which he talks about his misadventures studying Maoism in Shanghai right after the end of the Cultural Revolution.

Read Noah's investigation: https://www.thewirechina.com/2026/07/26/nvidias-china-partners-and-the-pla/

Read the interview with Geremie: https://www.thewirechina.com/2026/07/26/geremie-barme-on-the-other-china/

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