BREAKING: Dow suffers its biggest wipeout since 2020 as fears of fallout from President Trump's tariffs shake markets. apnews.com/live/donald-tr…

SCOOP China investigates ‘princeling’ son of former vice-premier Liu He who negotiated trade deal with Trump team ft.com/content/47d8b4…

Great get by FT, nailing something that's been rumored but tough to confirm

Chinese diplomats threatened to cancel a summit and called top officials in two African countries to pressure lawmakers to quit Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), in an escalation of Chinese pressure in Africa. It shows how far China will go to influence politicians overseas: apnews.com/article/china-…

BREAKING - China hits back at the US, adds another 50% tariff on US goods: Huizhong Wu apnews.com/article/china-…

So, President Trump all but said it himself… he’s waiting for Xi to call and plead for a truce. The 125% tariff hike, paired with reduced rates for countries that “showed respect” and a pointed jab at China for its “lack of respect,” makes it pretty clear what he really wants.

Among Chinese, a consensus from both Beijing’s critics and its supporters is that the endgame of the tariff war may come down to which leader will be able to make his people endure misery in the name of the national interest. My latest nytimes.com/2025/04/11/bus…

"Stacks of just released movies in DVDs" When did he last go to China? 2010?

Sure seems prescient now

Two years ago, I heard that Taiwan's govt had unearthed surveillance files from the secret police of its authoritarian era. They were finally becoming open to the public, nearly four decades after Taiwan's democratisation. I wanted to see what was inside: economist.com/1843/2025/05/0…

My new piece in the New York Times is an urgent wake-up call. China is forging ahead on the industries of the future: AI, robotics, high-tech manufacturing. Meanwhile, Trump is destroying the pillars of US strength by slashing public R&D funding and scaring away foreign talent.

Telling sign on Xi's economic priorities, and what "Chinese-style modernization" (中国式现代化) really means. No surprise for longtime China watchers, but still illuminating coming straight from Xi’s mouth: “We’ve taken the right path by focusing on developing real industry...

Released from jail, China's notorious CRISPR scientist Jiankui He is fully in his villain era, with weird tweets and a new marriage with Cathy Tie that is now blocked by the Chinese authorities. I looked into the biotech spectacle with Antonio Regalado: technologyreview.com/2025/05/23/111…

Love this feature translated by Jiang Jiang (JJ), on a guy in Shandong who made millions of RMB selling MAGA hats last year: "In the days after the shooting, he estimated he’d pulled in 200,000 to 300,000 yuan. At that point, all he hoped for was a Trump win" mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3CmH4AS0j68k…