除夕真热闹。家家赶做年菜，到处是酒肉的香味。老少男女都穿起新衣，门外贴好红红的对联，屋里贴好各色的年画，哪一家都灯火通宵，不许间断，炮声日夜不绝。在外边做事的人，除非万不得已，必定赶回家来，吃团圆饭，祭祖。这一夜，除了很小的孩子，没有什么人睡觉，而都要守岁。 - “北京的春节” 老舍

In the era of Trump policymaking, hard to catch up on the trade war with a copy of actual newspaper, but my dear friend Lingling Wei 魏玲灵’s tale of two capitals showed us exactly why she is the best in the business, no one scoops from inside the red wall like her! #MorningCoffee

It’s refreshing to see my friend Lingling Wei 魏玲灵’s brilliant piece on a Chinese artist with moral clarity. “Prioritize reality over commentary” - she is writing about Xu Wenxin, while I also see her own experience and struggle reporting on China all over this piece. Great work!

Amazing reporting, I was always wondering how so many Chinese in US got large amount of money moved from China to US with such tight capital controls by the CCP. Seems to me the solution to this is obvious - loose the capital controls!

The effect of exposure to AI and machine learning technologies on wage earnings and employment, from Menaka Hampole, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Lawrence Schmidt, and Bryan Seegmiller nber.org/papers/w33509

China has been largely out of the news cycle in the first few weeks of the Trump admin., What’s going on? What’s next? If you are curious like me, no one does it better than my dear friend Lingling Wei 魏玲灵, simply the best synopsis on where the relationship is! #MorningCoffee

Congrats Lingling Wei 魏玲灵, my friend, you are the best in the business!!!

The gloomy weather in Washington today echos the mood in the market, while we didn’t hear much from China other than the retaliatory tariffs, plenty of behind-the-scene stuff to feed the anxiety. My dear friend Lingling Wei 魏玲灵 provides the best reporting on this. #MorningCoffee

When I woke up to an escalation of a trade war between the two largest economies in the world, I sit down with my coffee and read my dear friend Lingling Wei 魏玲灵, I highly recommend you do the same. #MorningCoffee

“How will Xi strike back?” “ Negotiations happening?” After a night of radio silence from inside the red wall, my first thing in the morning is to read my dear friend Lingling Wei 魏玲灵 ‘s unparalleled reporting, catching up during the calm before the storm. #MorningCoffee

What’s the likely next episode in the Trump-Xi standoff? What’s Xi’s next move? There is no one else in the press who can break down these issues surgically like my dear friend Lingling Wei 魏玲灵 did. Her reporting on China is second to none, great work and insights, Lingling!

This excellent piece by Lingling Wei 魏玲灵 is aging very well!

While the whole world preoccupied with the anatomy of Q1 US GDP data, April China numbers showed tariffs’ bite into the world 2nd largest economy. Xi’s Mao-like-mentality may make it even worse going forward. Excellent reporting from my dear friend Lingling Wei 魏玲灵 #MorningCoffee

This puts a smile on my face, potentially great news to finally open the phone line between Xi and Trump. The cost of a standoff is increasing by the day! Fantastic scoop from inside the red wall by my dear friend Lingling Wei 魏玲灵!

This underappreciated story indicated an important deviation from “conventional wisdom” way China engaged with US during standoffs, cracking into the WH through business community not working well now. Excellent reporting from my dear friend Lingling Wei 魏玲灵 . #MorningCoffee

For anyone following US-China trade drama, my dear friend Lingling Wei 魏玲灵’s reporting should be the first piece you read everyday, if not the only one! Looking forward to more stories on the Chinese side from inside the red wall…

36 years ago, the world watched as thousands of ordinary Chinese citizens—unarmed and unafraid—gathered in Tiananmen Square to demand democracy.   While the regime responded with tanks and bullets, it could not crush their courage or silence their call for freedom.

Thank you for this wonderful piece my friend Lingling Wei 魏玲灵, it’s deeply personal to me, a 12-year old standing by ChangAn Avenue 1 mile away from the Square the morning after, the pieces of bricks all over the street eulogizing the end of the golden decade of post-1949 China…

I overlapped with my dear friend Lingling Wei 魏玲灵 at Fudan as students in the middle of the 90s, and still vividly remember the crowds at 3108. Thank you Lingling for bringing us all back to those eventful years when we were young and hopeful!

中秋前后是北平最美丽的时候。天气正好不冷不热，昼夜的长短也划分得平均。没有冬季从蒙古吹来的黄风，也没有伏天里挟着冰雹的暴雨。天是那么高，那么蓝，那么亮，好像是含着笑告诉北平的人们：在这些天里，大自然是不会给你们什么威胁与损害的。 - 老舍