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EPISODE · Feb 6, 2026 · 18 MIN

Living a Double Life at Google

from The Wire China Podcast · host The Wire China

Welcome to the second episode of The Wire China podcast, in which we take you behind the scenes of the stories we cover each week in our magazine, thewirechina.com.In this episode, reporter Eliot Chen walks us through a true crime thriller with news editor Andrew Peaple. A mild-mannered Chinese software engineer working for Google in California schemes to make it big as a tech entrepreneur by setting up his own company back in China. Instead, he winds up in the middle of the U.S.-China tech war, accused of stealing Google's intellectual property for the Chinese government.We also have an extract from our latest Q&A, with Ali Wyne of the International Crisis Group, and a guide to the other articles you can read in this week's edition, published every Sunday evening EST at thewirechina.comFollow us on social media: https://x.com/thewirechinahttps://bsky.app/profile/thewirechina.bsky.socialhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/thewirechinahttps://www.instagram.com/thewirechina/?hl=en

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