Incredible reporting by Viola Zhou Rest of World restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-ariz…

This story provides a much-needed counterpoint to the narrative that 'Asians simply work harder. Everyone else is just lazy.' While I have no doubt that TSMC owes much of its success to its exceptionally

On #WorldBookDay , check out these 6 books featured on Carnegie Council's The Doorstep.

Watch or listen to the discussions with authors @Crmiller1, Mike Forsythe 傅才德 & @WaltBogdanich, John Vaillant, Bethany 貝書穎, Kristina Lunz, and Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. & Elliot Ackerman here: carnegiecouncil.co/3UvUZl6

⁦The Harvard Crimson⁩ story fails to mention manhandling (assault) on one of the protestors by a young man apparently not HU security. Much speculation that he’s CSSA or a student working for PRC embassy thecrimson.com/article/2024/4…

We demand that Apple take actions consistent with its stated commitment to human rights and that the company starts questioning its role in facilitating state censorship under the guise of legal compliance.
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SCOOP: A TikTok data scientist says he was assigned a Seattle-based manager on paper, while actually reporting to a Beijing-based ByteDance executive, who ordered him to regularly email U.S. data in spreadsheets to ByteDance workers in China during 2022. fortune.com/2024/04/15/tik…

As tensions in the South China Sea heated up, I headed out to Thitu Island, in the Spratlys, on one of the most interesting reporting trips I've ever done.

I had one question: what is it like to live on a tiny, contested island?
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Joseph John was sentenced today to 5 years in prison for incitement to secession committed in the European continent, therefore outside of China. He is the first Portuguese citizen, and so EU citizen, convicted in these circumstances. This outrage cannot pass without answer.

Padlocked mosques, mosques turned in museums, bans on fasting, cancelled Iftar suppers - how Ramadan worked in Xinjiang this year. My Chaguan on a new wave of secularisation being imposed on China's far west, reported from Urumqi and Turpan. economist.com/china/2024/04/…

Read our statement on Hong Kong’s denial of entry to a Reporters Without Borders representative: fcchk.org/fcc-statement-…

TFCC Thompson Chau Michael Garber Lloyd G. Roberts III 賴清德Lai Ching-te 柯文哲 Ko Wen-Je 外交部 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROC (Taiwan) 🇹🇼 Book talks! We sat down with eight awesome authors of six awesome books, including Shibani Mahtani, Timothy McLaughlin, Lev Nachman, Clarissa Wei, Ivy Chen, Bethany 貝書穎, James M Zimmerman and Mike Chinoy.

Here's Lev with a Boba pizza.

At least two Chinese dissident accounts on X said they have received what appears to be phishing links disguised as news tips. What they described resembles almost exactly what was revealed about Chinese hacking activities on X in the leaked I-Soon documents back in February. 1/

Chinese Cinema is getting ever more cosmopolitan and global in its scope,

This is an upcoming film about an Ivorian woman who following her fiance's infidelity escapes for a new start and love in Guangzhou, China's African mecca.

Chinese cinema is being slept on at the moment.

PM Kishida:
I have arrived in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States of America. I will now begin my official visit, the first by a Japanese prime minister in nine years

So Twitter has apparently just restored my blue check mark verification. (I didn't pay for a subscription).

Love this sort-of joke from Peter Hessler suggesting a new career path for China hands who can no longer get in China:

'Sometimes I envisioned a retraining program for old China hands: all of us could buy passenger brakes on Taobao and set up shop as mandarins of parallel

So incredibly proud of my former Axios colleague Barak Ravid for winning the WHCA Aldo Beckman Award for his White House coverage during the Gaza War!

Not many reporters could win an award for best overall White House coverage within 8 months of moving to DC, but Barak Ravid is not many reporters!

On Saturday, China's Ministry of Civil Affairs casually announced new standardized Chinese names for 30 locations in 'South Tibet' (藏南), together with an updated map (below).

'South Tibet' is India's state of Arunachal Pradesh.

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Since I came back to Jamestown Foundation I have been a little surprised that people are puzzled about how to get an article into Jamestown China Brief (China Brief).

It is pretty straightforward: email a pitch to cbeditor(at)jamestown(dot)org

My latest: A magnitude 7.2 earthquake shook #Taiwan early Wednesday, causing massive power outages and the partial collapse of several buildings in eastern Taiwan. At least seven people died and more than 700 were injured. voanews.com/a/magnitude-ea…