China
Every Magna Bureau story on china: 27 articles, investigations and analysis in one place.
Last updated: October 2026
The Smelter Trap: Why Owning the Mine Is Not Enough
Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run.
NewsThe Settlement Grid: Life After the Dollar's Plumbing
mBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed. A three-perspective investigation on optionality, not confrontation.
NewsThe Rare-Earth Truce: Greenland, Magnets, and the 60-Day…
Xi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals.
NewsThe Two Chokepoints Inside Every Chip — Magna Bureau
One Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries.
NewsCourt kills the tariff machine; Trump reaches for the next…
The Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency-powers tariffs 6–3, and Trump answered within 24 hours.
NewsBeijing opens the liquidity taps with a record…
China's central bank pumps a trillion yuan a day into banks through Golden Week — its biggest liquidity backstop ever. Why Beijing is flooding the system.
NewsA drought in Sulawesi shakes the world's nickel machine
Water shortages forced smelters at Indonesia's giant Morowali nickel park to cut stainless-steel feedstock output, rattling prices.
NewsHouthis tighten their grip on the Red Sea's southern gate
The rebels have seized the strategic Hanish islands and Mayun island at the Bab el-Mandeb's mouth.
NewsThe battle over Hormuz is now a battle over the numbers
Reuters tallies show visible tanker traffic through the strait at single digits and freight rates at records.
NewsThe dollar reclaims 101 as Treasury yields cross five…
The dollar index hits an eight-week high and the 10-year Treasury yield crosses 5% — unseen since 2007. Gold falls below $4,300. The Fed arithmetic, in full.
NewsGates: AI is powerful enough to 'cause a billion deaths'
On Meet the Press, Bill Gates said AI is 'certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths,' dismissed voluntary safeguards as insufficient
NewsSheinbaum's gambit: buy American, curb — Magna Bureau
Mexico will buy more US goods and cut its reliance on Asian suppliers ahead of the USMCA review, Sheinbaum said — with a record $102.6 billion bilateral surplus and Trump's tariffs on the table in Was
NewsLula signs it into force: the Mercosur-EFTA — Magna Bureau
Brazil's president promulgated the free-trade agreement with the EFTA states by decree on September 23. It takes effect October 1 for Brazil and Iceland, November 1 for Norway — ten rounds of talks si
NewsGermany stirs: PMI hits 53.8 as forecasters — Magna Bureau
Flash PMI hit its strongest since October 2025, institutes raised the 2026 forecast to 1.3%, and Merz cut fuel tax from October 1. Europe's engine is turning over.
NewsBeijing reaches for the levers: the — Magna Bureau
China's cabinet pledged 'stronger counter-cyclical measures' Monday to defend its 4.5–5% growth target — as Washington and Beijing each cut $30 billion in tariffs and opened an AI incident channel. Th
NewsA new mine opens in the Pilbara — built with — Magna Bureau
Rio Tinto and China's Baowu opened a $2 billion, 25-million-tonne iron ore mine at Paraburdoo this weekend. In a decade of decoupling talk, the ore that built modern China still ties the two countries
NewsFifteen million barrels and counting — Magna Bureau
Treasury Secretary Bessent says Tehran's last sanctioned crude deliveries will reach China within two weeks. Operation Economic Outcast has run since July 14 — and this is what the end of an oil empir
NewsRare-earth checks clog Indonesia's — Magna Bureau
About 120 surveyor reports are still pending under September's mandatory rare-earth content checks, the smelter group FINI says. Jakarta's anti-corruption assay is holding up nickel, bauxite and tin s
NewsChina's factories blink back to life as — Magna Bureau
The September manufacturing PMI is expected at 50.1 — barely expansion, but expansion. With the State Council promising incremental stimulus and the data landing Wednesday, Beijing is managing expecta
NewsNo clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math…
Three months before Guterres's term ends, no candidate commands the field — Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, possibly P5, keep…
NewsThe workaround chip: China may let ByteDance buy
Beijing is weighing whether to let ByteDance and Alibaba buy Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 — a workstation-class chip analysts expect to slip past US export…
NewsTrump signs “morally binding” AI accord with — Magna Bureau
Trump and six tech CEOs signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on Tuesday — a one-page pledge of self-regulation the president called “morally…
NewsThe UN gave Haiti's anti-gang force six more — Magna Bureau
The Security Council extended the Gang Suppression Force's mandate to March 2027 by 12 votes to 3 — hours after gangs killed 11 people in Haiti's…
NewsTrump accuses Xi of arming America's… — Magna Bureau
The US president says China is 'dumping' weapons into the hands of narco-terrorists killing Americans — hours before confirming a face-to-face with Xi in South Korea. Accusation and embrace, on the sa
NewsHuawei Folds Its Chips Like Paper — and… — Magna Bureau
The Mate 90's Kirin 9050 Pro squeezes more power from older factories with a 3D wiring trick, while DeepSeek hands Huawei's AI chips an open-source software arsenal. The catch, Huawei admits, is capac
NewsChina Turns Off the Fuel Taps for October — Magna Bureau
On Beijing's orders, Chinese refiners have suspended all October fuel exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau. PetroChina is canceling cargoes, Asia's diesel squeeze is deepening, and the world is learning
NewsUkraine urges tighter sanctions as Russian… — Magna Bureau
Shahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.