Most Westerners in business operate on the baseline assumption that hard work leads to success and beating the competition.

With business in communist China, that doesn’t hold. Hard work is a must, but not the most important ingredient for success.

In this episode, join Terri as she discusses the machinations that determine whether top companies live or die, and how the competitive mentality is set from a very young age.

Hear about one of many fallen giants, and how another may be in the same ominous position but still holding on—for the time being.

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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.

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Teapots, gas stations, and shadow fleets sound like a grab bag of unconnected things, but they’re all part of a complex system keeping a terrorist regime in power and rendering international sanctions ineffective.

That is, they’re part of the system China uses to import Iranian oil. But that system is no longer being allowed to run unchecked.

Hear about what has changed since Feb. 28, including what has been seized by the U.S. Navy.

Find out why this is all happening ahead of the Trump–Xi summit, with Terri Wu on this week’s episode of China Watch.

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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.

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Forced organ harvesting in China was once a taboo topic, in both China and the United States. But now, a book about it, “Killed to Order,” has made it to The New York Times non-fiction bestsellers list.

I interviewed the author Jan Jekielek, senior editor of The Epoch Times and host of American Thought Leader, about why and how the tide has turned.

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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.

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Beijing avoids the battlefield, then shows up for the rebuild. Precedents include Iraq and Afghanistan. The Chinese regime moved quickly to secure oil, minerals, and influence.

In this way, the regime acted like a vulture on a battlefield.

When the Iran war enters a new phase, what role will China play in reconstruction? And how can the United States respond to protect its strategic interests?

I spoke with Max Meizlish of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and Galia Lavi of the Institute for National Security Studies in Israel for more insights.

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How much could concepts such as high school education and high-tech development overlap? Terri says a lot.

Hear in this week’s episode, along with producer Daniel, how China’s education system builds people who are very specifically trained for certain tasks—and trained away from other tasks.

The specific innovations—and the shocks from China’s AI industry—appear to follow a certain pattern, something that is ingrained in the populace from a very young age.

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For decades, a core assumption about China has gone largely unchallenged: That the Chinese Communist Party can legitimately represent Chinese culture—or is inseparable from it.

Then came Shen Yun.

For 20 years, the dance company has presented a vision of traditional Chinese culture independent of the regime—one that, some say, counteracts a century of the Party’s efforts to harness culture as soft power.

A new documentary reveals the extent to which the regime has tried to suppress the dance troupe.

Terri speaks with the film’s executive producer about why the Chinese Communist Party fears Shen Yun, and the untold stories behind the campaign to stop it.

• Unbroken: The Untold Story of Shen Yun (Watch)

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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.

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China has set its lowest growth target since 1991, reinforcing concerns that its economy faces structural challenges that may be difficult to reverse.

Some analysts have taken it further, asking the fundamental question: “When does China stop growing altogether?”

And when that happens, what does it mean for the United States?

Join Terri as she presents expert views on this question.

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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.

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When an ally, even a business partner, is in dire straits, one would think that others would come to their aid. It would be unwise to make this assumption about a partner such as China.

As the war in Iran continues, China is being placed in a deeper dilemma about how to handle its relationships with the United States and Iran.

It manifests similarly to how many movies and stories have portrayed villains: in a state of total indifference toward their underlings and what happens to them.

Join Terri in this week's episode to hear how the Chinese Communist Party truly treats its people and allies, according to historical cases, and why this explains the lack of support for falling regimes such as those in Venezuela and Iran.

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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.

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