How xenophobic content on Chinese social media, directed towards Japan, the US, Jews, and others, became the subject of a debate and spreads despite censorship
Li Yuan / New York Times : X: @kenroth , @scs_disputes , @scs_disputes , @liyuan6 , @david_mulroney , and @alfonslopeztena LinkedIn: Dr. Nils Seibert , Michael D Pendleton , and G...
How xenophobic content on Chinese social media, directed towards Japan, the US, Jews, and others, became the subject of a debate and spreads despite censorship
Li Yuan / New York Times : X: @kenroth , @liyuan6 , @scs_disputes , @scs_disputes , @david_mulroney , and @alfonslopeztena LinkedIn: Dr. Nils Seibert , Michael D Pendleton , and G...
Analysis: China's internet had 3.9M websites in 2023, down ~27% from 2017; Chinese-language websites are 1.3% of the global total, down 70% from 4.3% in 2013
and collective online memory — is disappearing in chunks. I searched Jack Ma, Xi Jinping in earlier years and the Great Sichuan Earthquake in 2008 and found, basically, nothing. ht...
A profile of Li Ying, a Chinese graduate who used his X account to tell the world about protests in 2022 and now lives in exile after losing his livelihood
Li Ying used social media to help tell the world about last year's protests. Now in exile, he has been threatened and lost his livelihood for his defiance. X: @liyuan6 and @laurah...
A Wharton School professor whose classes required using ChatGPT to write essays says students fact-checked and quickly understood AI's accuracy and bias issues
(Spoiler alert: it has been very successful, but there are some lessons to be learned) — I fully embraced AI for my classes … Tweets: @doakshannon , @emollick , @emollick , @tung...
Experts say China is behind the US in AI tools like ChatGPT due to censorship, geopolitical tensions, and the government's growing control of the private sector
Experts say China is behind the US in AI tools like ChatGPT due to censorship, geopolitical tensions, and the government's growing control of the private sector
The state's hardening censorship and heavier hand have held back its tech industry; so has entrepreneurs' reluctance to invest for the long term.
A look at China's vision for semiconductor self-reliance, which has faced a series of issues after heavy investment, resulting in several investigations
The number of unemployed Chinese tech workers is growing amid fears that China's tech crackdown could kill the entrepreneurial drive that made it a tech power
Li Yuan / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @ajitpai , @kennedycsis , @jorge_guajardo , @david_mulroney , @charlesmok , @liyuan6 , and @paratus2014 Tweets: @nytimesbusin...
Didi, which grew by moving in regulatory gray zones before the US IPO, became a bellwether for how far China is ready to go in Big Tech crackdowns
Didi, which grew by moving in regulatory gray zones before the US IPO, became a bellwether for how far China is ready to go in Big Tech crackdowns
Didi pushed the limits and thrived in legal gray areas. Until China cracked down. — China's leading ride-hailing company, Didi … Tweets: @zhonggg and @liyuan6 Tweets: Raymond Zh...
Didi, which grew by moving in regulatory gray zones before the US IPO, became a bellwether for how far China is ready to go in Big Tech crackdowns
Didi pushed the limits and thrived in legal gray areas. Until China cracked down. — China's leading ride-hailing company, Didi … Tweets: @zhonggg and @liyuan6 Tweets: Raymond Zh...
After Alibaba fired an employee accused of rape, over 6,000 workers sign a letter urging it to ban sexual remarks and games in ice-breaking and business events
Li Yuan / New York Times : Tweets: @yueqi_yang , @paulmozur , @liyuan6 , @liyuan6 , and @jchengwsj Tweets: Yueqi Yang / @yueqi_yang : China's MeToo movement got two high-profile c...
After Alibaba fired an employee accused of rape, over 6,000 workers sign a letter urging it to ban sexual remarks and games in ice-breaking and business events
Li Yuan / New York Times : Tweets: @yueqi_yang , @paulmozur , @liyuan6 , @liyuan6 , and @jchengwsj Tweets: Yueqi Yang / @yueqi_yang : China's MeToo movement got two high-profile c...
Sources: China plans rule changes requiring Chinese companies to seek approval to list overseas, even if the unit selling shares is incorporated outside China
- Securities regulator working to change overseas listing rules — Change would require VIE firms to get nod to list offshore
Unlike Alibaba, Tencent has so far avoided an antitrust crackdown in China, likely due to it investing in upstarts instead of driving them out of business
but not, at least for now, Tencent. https://www.nytimes.com/... @chinausfocus : “Tencent's popularity may help it avoid trouble with Beijing. But its vast power could still squelch...
In a potential nationwide class action lawsuit, dozens of families allege TikTok silently collects user data and sends it to China via undisclosed third parties
As the pandemic raged and millions lived under lockdown … Tweets: Li Yuan / @liyuan6 : Saw people say TikTok parent company Bytedance's relationship w. the Chinese govt isn't good....
Source: Microsoft could buy TikTok for as much as $30B, or as low as $10B, and plans to finish acquisition talks within the next three weeks
- Microsoft and TikTok plan to finish acquisition talks within the next three weeks, ahead of the Sept. 15 deadline, CNBC's David Faber reported Wednesday.
Amid virus outbreak, authorities in China are using its vast surveillance network to identify potential carriers, ostracizing even those without the symptoms
The authorities hunt for people from Wuhan, the center of the outbreak, encouraging citizens to inform on others. Tweets: @paulmozur , @sugabelly , @jotted , @amyyqin , and @liyuan...
Huawei's reputation in China, once unimpeachable, has been dented by a labor dispute over severance pay with an employee, who was recently freed from jail
When an executive wrote about her house arrest in Canada, an outcry about a former employee's treatment arose on social media. Tweets: @nytimes , @liyuan6 , @liyuan6 , and @maryhui...