TSMC makes the world’s most advanced chips in Taiwan. Geopolitical shifts are pushing it to set up a new factory in the American desert.

It needs to bring its cutting-edge tech but also a notoriously harsh, military-style work culture to the U.S. 🧵
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1/A year ago, Chinese scientists published data from samples collected at a Wuhan market at the heart of the COVID outbreak - startling many, given it happened years ago. Then the data got retracted.

Maria Cheng and I tried to find out why. Our findings:
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The one at 2:26 AM was 6.0 in Hualien, waiting to hear on the one that came slightly after, around 2:32 AM now

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For decades, China’s first generation of migrant workers who come from villages helped build modern China, and hoped to improve their children’s lives, not themselves. But as they ages, they can’t retire. Why? My latest w/Ken Moritsugu
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I always wondered about the Japanese reaction to the glorified portrayal of Oppenheimer. By Yuri Kageyama apnews.com/article/oppenh…

For decades, they powered China’s rise. Now, China’s migrant workers are finding they can’t retire. Some fall through the cracks, forced out of a job due to age but not yet eligible for pensions.
Great work by my colleagues Wanqing Chen 陈婉晴 and Ken Moritsugu
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🧵 An The Associated Press investigation I worked on for over a year is finally out! Lethal Restraint, a deep dive on police tactics that aren’t supposed to be fatal but resulted in thousands of deaths. Thank you to AP staff & the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism for this opportunity! apnews.com/projects/inves…

Lovely slice of life from The Associated Press’s Beijing chief photographer Han Guan Ng. The bead-catching game traces back to the Qing Dynasty and the nobility who used to live in the hutongs. Beijingers play fetch with migratory birds in traditional game apnews.com/article/china-…

This is a wonderful story about China, culture and sci-fi.

Overheard in Chengdu: “We’re extremely anxious…It’s so cruel, the amount of money they’re giving us is so little.” “They abduct you, they threaten your children…They have so many dirty tricks.”
Dake Kang
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Absolute must-read by ⁦Don Weinland⁩ about approx 110m affluent (not super-rich) Chinese who’ve been huge beneficiaries of decades of growth, endlessly rising house prices etc but who are now on the wrong side of Xi Jinping’s remaking of the economy economist.com/briefing/2024/…

'I grew up within heavy political censorship in China. Today in the West, you're doing exactly the same.'

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei says, 'You cannot talk about the truth' nowadays.

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