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Jonathan Cheng

@jchengwsj
474 posts
2026-01-05
In China, A.I. Is Finding Deadly Tumors That Doctors Might Miss—A tool for spotting pancreatic cancer in routine CT scans has had promising results, one example of how China is racing to apply A.I. to medicine's tough problems. @vwang3 https://www.nytimes.com/...
2026-01-05 View on X
New York Times

A Chinese hospital says Alibaba's PANDA AI tool has analyzed 180,000 CT scans and detected ~24 pancreatic cancer cases since its deployment in November 2024

A tool for spotting pancreatic cancer in routine CT scans has had promising results, one example of how China is racing to apply A.I. to medicine's tough problems.

2026-01-03
.@danwwang: “On AI, China is behind the US, but not by years. There's no question that American reasoning models are more sophisticated than the likes of DeepSeek and Qwen. But the Chinese efforts are doggedly in pursuit.” https://danwang.co/...
2026-01-03 View on X
Dan Wang

Tech analyst Dan Wang reflects on the Chinese Communist Party vs. Silicon Valley, AI and manufacturing, how China and the US are building the future, and more

danwang.co/2025-letter/ Conor Sen / @conorsen : This is how I learned I'm a better fit for finance culture and tech culture.  You only succeed in tech culture by fully embracing th...

2026-01-02
.@danwwang: “On AI, China is behind the US, but not by years. There's no question that American reasoning models are more sophisticated than the likes of DeepSeek and Qwen. But the Chinese efforts are doggedly in pursuit.” https://danwang.co/...
2026-01-02 View on X
Dan Wang

Tech analyst Dan Wang reflects on the Chinese Communist Party vs. Silicon Valley, AI and manufacturing, and how China and the US are building the future

One way that Silicon Valley and the Communist Party resemble each other is that both are serious, self-serious, and indeed, completely humorless.

2025-12-30
Meta Buys AI Startup Manus for More Than $2 Billion—The deal is one of the first in which a major U.S. tech company has bought a startup with Chinese roots @AngelAuYeung @raffaelehuang @KateClarkTweets https://www.wsj.com/... https://www.wsj.com/...
2025-12-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Meta is buying Manus for $2B+; Manus was raising at a $2B valuation when Meta approached it; Manus CEO Xiao Hong will report to Meta COO Javier Olivan

The deal for more than $2 billion is one of the first in which a major U.S. tech company has bought a startup with Chinese roots

2025-11-19
“Although many American executives, government officials and pundits have spent months painting China as the enemy of America's rapid push into A.I., much of the groundbreaking research emerging from the United States is driven by Chinese talent.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2025-11-19 View on X
New York Times

CEIP study: 87 of the top 100 Chinese AI researchers who were working in the US in 2019 are still doing research at US universities or companies in 2025

Although some Silicon Valley executives paint China as the enemy, Chinese brains continue to play a major role in U.S. research.

NYT: “When Mark Zuckerberg...unveiled the company's Superintelligence Lab in June, he named 11 artificial intelligence researchers who were joining his ambitious effort...All 11 were immigrants educated in other countries. Seven were born in China.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2025-11-19 View on X
New York Times

CEIP study: 87 of the top 100 Chinese AI researchers who were working in the US in 2019 are still doing research at US universities or companies in 2025

Although some Silicon Valley executives paint China as the enemy, Chinese brains continue to play a major role in U.S. research.

2025-11-12
America's Chip Restrictions Are Biting in China—Shortages of advanced AI chips are so acute that Beijing is intervening and tech companies are resorting to workarounds @Lingling_Wei @AmrithRamkumar @RWhelanWSJ https://www.wsj.com/... https://www.wsj.com/...
2025-11-12 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: the Chinese government is intervening in how SMIC distributes its chip output for AI, prioritizing Huawei amid US export restrictions on advanced chips

Shortages of advanced AI chips are so acute that Beijing is intervening and tech companies are resorting to workarounds

2025-10-30
“For decades China talked about trade as a ‘ballast’ in the relationship. Now it sees trade as both a sword and a shield in a strategic competition,” said Sara Schuman, who was until recently a top US trade negotiator on China. @Dimi @leahyjoseph https://www.ft.com/...
2025-10-30 View on X
Bloomberg

President Trump says he and Xi Jinping discussed Nvidia and other chipmakers' access to China, and that they didn't discuss approving sales of Blackwell chips

US President Donald Trump said he didn't discuss approving sales of Nvidia Corp.'s Blackwell chips to China with his counterpart Xi Jinping …

Trump and Xi came to an understanding that China would ease controls that Beijing has imposed on rare-earth exports, said Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative. https://www.wsj.com/...
2025-10-30 View on X
Bloomberg

President Trump says he and Xi Jinping discussed Nvidia and other chipmakers' access to China, and that they didn't discuss approving sales of Blackwell chips

US President Donald Trump said he didn't discuss approving sales of Nvidia Corp.'s Blackwell chips to China with his counterpart Xi Jinping …

2025-10-13
“On social media, users avidly chronicle their heart-to-heart conversations with chatbots, attempting to address anxiety, depression, and relationship issues. On Xiaohongshu, searches for ‘crying after chatting with AI’ are linked to over 1 million posts.” https://restofworld.org/...
2025-10-13 View on X
Rest of World

Young people in China are turning to AI chatbots like DeepSeek and ByteDance's Doubao for therapy to save time and money and avoid stigma around mental health

why young people are turning to AI for mental health care & the risks of sycophancy. 👉 https://restofworld.org/... Bluesky: @vegandroid : We get ostracized for this in America [emb...

2025-10-12
“Made-in-America AI girlfriends and made-in-China AI boyfriends are strikingly different, and so are the social contexts and regulatory environments in which they exist. Yet one thing both markets share is the tension with real-life relationships.” https://www.chinatalk.media/ ...
2025-10-12 View on X
ChinaTalk

How culture and regulations are shaping AI companion platforms worldwide, with US platforms primarily targeting men and Chinese platforms mainly targeting women

and what it all means  —  Zilan Qian is a fellow at the Oxford China Policy Lab and an MSc student at the Oxford Internet Institute.

2025-10-08
.@committeeonccp: “Companies...including ASML in the Netherlands...and Applied Materials, KLA, and Lam Research—fueled semiconductor manufacturing in China and made sizeable returns selling equipment to Chinese state-owned and military-linked companies.” https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.g ov/ ...
2025-10-08 View on X
Bloomberg

US House lawmakers criticize ASML, Tokyo Electron, KLA, and other equipment makers for selling to the Chinese military and helping build China's chip industry

including firms on U.S. restricted lists tied to the Chinese military and surveillance state. https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.g ov/ ... Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj : .@commit...

2025-09-09
AP: “Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers like the Yangs are trapped in a digital cage, barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes by the world's largest digital surveillance apparatus.” @dakekang https://apnews.com/...
2025-09-09 View on X
Associated Press

Investigation: IBM, Dell, HP, Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, and other US tech companies helped design and build China's digital surveillance state

BEIJING (AP) — The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody …

2025-08-13
The Recipe Behind the Trump Family's Crypto Riches: PancakeSwap—The under-the-radar trading platform is quietly administered by Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, whose founder is seeking a pardon @AABerwick @kowsmann https://www.wsj.com/... https://www.wsj.com/...
2025-08-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: World Liberty Financial's partnership with Binance-run PancakeSwap is helping boost demand for USD1, generating profit for Trump, as CZ seeks a pardon

The under-the-radar trading platform is quietly administered by Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, whose founder is seeking a pardon @AABerwick @kowsmann https://www.wsj...

World Liberty's relationship with PancakeSwap, whose website was registered in Shanghai, and Binance is one of several in which entities and individuals with strong ties to China have supported the Trump family crypto business. https://www.wsj.com/...
2025-08-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: World Liberty Financial's partnership with Binance-run PancakeSwap is helping boost demand for USD1, generating profit for Trump, as CZ seeks a pardon

The under-the-radar trading platform is quietly administered by Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, whose founder is seeking a pardon @AABerwick @kowsmann https://www.wsj...

Traders, mostly writing in Chinese, gather in groups on the Telegram messaging app to talk about competing for rewards paid out to top users of USD1 and advertised by PancakeSwap. https://www.wsj.com/...
2025-08-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: World Liberty Financial's partnership with Binance-run PancakeSwap is helping boost demand for USD1, generating profit for Trump, as CZ seeks a pardon

The under-the-radar trading platform is quietly administered by Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, whose founder is seeking a pardon @AABerwick @kowsmann https://www.wsj...

2025-07-28
FT: The US has frozen restrictions on technology exports to China to avoid hurting trade talks with Beijing and help President Donald Trump secure a meeting with President Xi Jinping this year, according to people familiar with the matter. @Dimi https://www.ft.com/...
2025-07-28 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: the US freezes tech export curbs on China to avoid disrupting trade talks and help President Trump secure a 2025 meeting with President Xi Jinping

US officials have been warned to avoid tough moves against Beijing as Stockholm hosts third round of negotiations

2025-06-15
@raffaelehuang @lizalinwsj KUALA LUMPUR—In March, four Chinese engineers flew to Malaysia from Beijing, each carrying a suitcase packed with 15 hard drives. The drives contained 80 terabytes of spreadsheets, images and video clips for training an artificial-intelligence model. https://www.wsj.com/...
2025-06-15 View on X
Wall Street Journal

How Chinese AI companies bypass US chip restrictions by transporting hard drives with AI training data to Malaysian data centers housing advanced Nvidia chips

Engineers carry data to countries where Nvidia chips are available, frustrating Washington's aims

Chinese AI Companies Dodge U.S. Chip Curbs by Flying Suitcases of Hard Drives Abroad—Engineers carry data to countries where Nvidia chips are available, frustrating Washington's aims @raffaelehuang @lizalinwsj https://www.wsj.com/... https://www.wsj.com/...
2025-06-15 View on X
Wall Street Journal

How Chinese AI companies bypass US chip restrictions by transporting hard drives with AI training data to Malaysian data centers housing advanced Nvidia chips

Engineers carry data to countries where Nvidia chips are available, frustrating Washington's aims

2025-05-27
The Self-Driving Truck Startup That Siphoned Trade Secrets to Chinese Companies: TuSimple shared with Beijing a best-in-class autonomous driving system—and became a prime example of U.S. shortcomings in protecting critical technology @heathersomervil https://www.wsj.com/...
2025-05-27 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Documents: self-driving truck startup TuSimple transferred critical autonomous driving tech and data to Chinese partners despite a 2022 agreement with CFIUS

TuSimple shared with Beijing a best-in-class autonomous driving system—and became a prime example of Washington's shortcomings in keeping critical technology in the U.S.