How Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, became China's AI hub as the local government built a Silicon Valley-inspired innovation corridor in the city's west
or Hangzhou at all. Waiting for the next Deepseek “surreal” trauma moment, only to repress it soon afterwards... Time to reckon with the new world and rethink our place in it. S.L. Kanthan / @kanthan2...
How Shein, which filed for a US IPO in November 2023, became stuck in US-China tensions; Shein, founded in 2012 in China, has never sold products in the country
The fast-fashion giant aimed to bridge the divide between Beijing and Washington, but hopes for a U.S. IPO have faded @shenlulushen @cdriebusch @raffaelehuang https://www.wsj.com/... https://www.wsj.c...
Shein tries to shed its Chinese image, including by denying claims of sourcing its cotton from Xinjiang and staying silent on details of its suppliers in China
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Baidu EVP Dou Shen downplays the impact of US semiconductor restrictions, after the company stockpiled parts, and says its AI business would benefit long term
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As Chinese consumers become thriftier amid an economic slowdown, Insider Intelligence forecasts a 9.1% increase in 2022 e-commerce sales, the lowest since 2008
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New Oriental, one of China's largest private-tutoring companies, became a livestream grocery shopping service on Douyin, after China's regulatory crackdown
New Oriental's rebranding catches on with viewers as English tutors go viral selling produce online Tweets: @shenlulushen and @carlminzner Tweets: Shen Lu / @shenlulushen : I explored New Oriental's s...
Intel apologizes, following a backlash in China, for telling Chinese suppliers to avoid Xinjiang labor, saying it only did so to “ensure compliance” with US law
Tech companies withdraw from in-person CES Simon Sharwood / The Register : Intel ‘regrets’ offending China with letter telling suppliers to avoid Xinjiang Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal : Intel Apolog...
Intel apologizes, following a backlash in China, for telling Chinese suppliers to avoid Xinjiang labor, saying it only did so to “ensure compliance” with US law
Tech companies withdraw from in-person CES Simon Sharwood / The Register : Intel ‘regrets’ offending China with letter telling suppliers to avoid Xinjiang Agence France-Presse : Intel Apologizes Over ...
In response to internal calls for reform, Alibaba says it will form a committee of five female execs to handle workplace sexual harassment and related issues
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An ex-ByteDance employee recounts the inner workings of the company's complex content moderation system and the role of China's internet censorship policies
because the human rights of *all* users matter. For more: https://www.hrw.org/... https://twitter.com/... Emily Birnbaum / @birnbaum_e : This is the story of a former content moderation employee at By...