Utterly fascinating Chris Buckley 儲百亮 Michael Wines 🌻 obit on how Jiang Zemin made modern China as we know it nytimes.com/2022/11/30/obi…

The authorities in China are using the country’s powerful surveillance apparatus to find those bold enough to defy them. “If they want to find us, they can definitely succeed,” said a protester who received a call from police. w/Paul Mozur 孟建國 Claire Fu nytimes.com/2022/12/02/bus…

The end of Zero COVID may finally be in sight. But what do three years of the basic inability to plan for tomorrow do to people’s ambition and optimism? I spent two weeks in Guangdong — one of the most dynamic parts of China — trying to find out: nytimes.com/2022/12/04/wor…

We have an exclusive this morning on a new report that documents extensive links between the global auto industry and the Xinjiang region, where the Chinese government has carried out a brutal crackdown on Uyghurs and other minorities nytimes.com/2022/12/06/bus…

Computer science students and recent grads are confronting a shrinking Big Tech job market. nyti.ms/3F3kgu5

Some of the cruise missiles that Russia launched at Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure in late November were manufactured months after the West imposed sanctions, according to a weapons research group. nyti.ms/3VWQRbO

Xi Jinping, China’s leader, will travel to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for summits with leaders from across the Middle East, a region where U.S. allies are growing closer to China. He is expected to sign contracts with the Saudis and other Gulf States. nyti.ms/3UDwaRj

TV Rain, an independent Russian channel in exile in Latvia, is engulfed in the biggest crisis of its turbulent 12-year history, with Latvian and Ukrainian commentators accusing the station of supporting Russia’s war effort. nyti.ms/3h6oIQU

Among those arrested was a man who had tried to make contact with representatives of the Russian government over the plans... nytimes.com/2022/12/07/wor…

A sluggish economy continues to leave many young in China unemployed, decreasing jobs and opportunities. The frustration/anxiety worsen as students’ social experiences being robbed by covid ⁦Daisuke Wakabayashi⁩ ⁦Isabelle Qian⁩ ⁦Amy Chang Chien⁩ nytimes.com/2022/12/10/bus…

In 2009, I wrote an impassioned defense of Seoul after it made a Lonely Planet "cities you really late" list that called it "oppressively bland." The city has since blossomed into a truly vibrant destination. Come eat, drink, hike and see for yourself: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

“I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means.” nytimes.com/2022/12/15/tec…

We've spent ten months reporting from inside Ukraine. With secret battle plans and interviews with Russian soldiers, here now is the story of what Putin's war looks like on the other side: a calamity of historic proportions with no end in sight. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

In Ryazan, I spoke to the mother of a killed soldier. She said she thought the invasion “should have been planned better,” to minimize losses, but she expressed no anger at Russia’s leadership. “Something had to be done,” she said, referring to Ukraine. nytimes.com/2022/12/27/wor…

Currently at Twitter: - Seattle office faces eviction - people are bringing their own toilet paper to work as janitorial services are cut - workers scrambled to deal with the aftermath of a data center shutdown on Christmas Eve Ryan Mac 🙃 rat king 🐀 nytimes.com/2022/12/29/tec…

"As long as the two have the U.S. as their shared common threat, the convergence of their interests will outweigh the divergence." nytimes.com/2022/12/30/wor…

Competition for China’s civil service jobs is so fierce that ppl often refer to them as “thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge.” But for those who got the jobs, some felt that their days were ruled by rigid hierarchies and monotonous chores. nytimes.com/2023/01/02/bus…

On today’s Daily, I talk to Sabrina Tavernise about a Russian soldier who was sent to Ukraine with a 1960s era rifle and little else. He survived a massacre of his platoon and now says the war is based on a mountain of lies. But he plans to return to the fight nytimes.com/2023/01/04/pod…

Her recent public appearances marked the first time ​Pyongyang confirmed that Mr. Kim had a child. Until her debut in state media, ordinary North Koreans had never seen any of Mr. Kim’s children. nyti.ms/3GFUDSd

The F.B.I. has searched a suspected Chinese police outpost in New York’s Chinatown. Such outposts are unnerving diplomats and intelligence agents who fear they are being used to keep tabs on Chinese nationals abroad. nyti.ms/3X3BWxG