Amazing Wuhan police diss track

Apple depends on China to make its iPhones.

On Episode 2 of our podcast  #FaceOff , we’re talking how iPhones are made by millions of workers in China. I’m joined by Willy Shih, Wayne Ma The Information and Rana Mitter from Harvard University ’s Belfer Center
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Guy who thinks we need to make groceries more expensive.

(the guy is the republican party's presidential nominee)

This week a group of influential Chinese AI policy scholars released their recommended draft version of 🇨🇳's proposed AI Law.

The text is a window into key policy debates, and a potential preview of where Chinese AI governance is heading. Quick 🧵
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BREAKING: NGO Reporters Without Borders says it has been denied entry to #HongKong after 6-hours of searches, questioning. In full: hongkongfp.com/2024/04/10/bre… Said the move was 'unprecedented' worldwide.

Rehearsing for ‘Wu Fei and Shanir Blumenkranz’ at Lincoln Center tomorrow 4/11 at 7:30pm U.S. EDT.

Guzheng and oud 古筝和乌德琴
Video live streaming will be at link below ⬇️

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Today's artist without a (known) birthday: Joos van Craesbeeck, painter & baker of Antwerp. And smoker! Here, in first and last of these roles, 1635.

1/ It’s here: the annual Media Freedoms Report. Take a look.

Tl;dr- reporting conditions have not returned to pre-pandemic levels. Interference, intimidation, and surveillance remain on foreign news others.

fccchina.org/2024/04/08/med…

Today is Freedom of Expression Day in Taiwan, commemorating the self-immolation of publisher Nylon Cheng (鄭南榕) during a police raid on his office in 1989.

Thirty-five years after Cheng's death, Taiwan boasts Asia’s freest media environment.
thechinaproject.com/2023/04/07/thi…

Also a committed racist/antisemite.

Not that different from some contemporary 'tech bros' - (he believed since he mastered the 'tech' of the day, i.e. automotive technology, he was not only an 'authority on all matters', but 'infallible').

What’s the Point? That’s the question I ask myself after a very disappointing trek to the China Development Forum. I have seen the CDF in its best and worst days. China’s premier platform of debate and engagement with the world hit a new low in 2024. stephenroachauthor.com/whats-the-poin…

'It is quite remarkable that given an earthquake of this magnitude, we have seen so few reported causalities,' says Daniel Aldrich, a political science professor at Northeastern University who studies earthquake resilience around the world. npr.org/2024/04/04/124…

Now I have to learn to read Ukrainian! Thanks Vita Golod 维塔 for this volume on Ukrainian Sinology.

As I argued in my March 29 blog dispatch (“Views from a friend”), constructive criticism should be welcomed, not rejected, by trusted friends. My views on Hong Kong apparently crossed the line in a Forum I had spoken at for the last 24 years in a row! rfa.org/english/news/c…

Roughly, I tried to write a history of the little ad, or xiǎoguǎnggào 小广告—unauthorized advertisements on stickers or stencils, promoting counterfeit documents, impotence cures, apartment rentals, plumbers—as a history of the city.
theworldofchinese.com/2024/04/a-brie…

We need to expand our imaginations about heritage.
Mustang is one of the most well preserved sites to understand the dawn of human settlement in the Himalaya. But it's in trouble. 1/n

In 2007 I was hired as Google's first China product counsel. Over the next few days I'll share photos of swag I acquired over the last 16 years which, as I begin my last month at the company, have taken on some sentimental value, starting with the 1st piece of swag I ever got:

A species of spider found in China may have evolved so that a male-female pair together resembles a flower, helping them blend in with their background. newscientist.com/article/242358…

A 1937 #AprilFools edition of World Pictorial, one of the newspapers that my grandfather Cheng Shewo founded in Beijing.

Incidentally he passed away on an April 1st (in 1991), and I discovered this yellowed copy among the single suitcase of papers he carried w him to Taiwan.