There are some people out there who think that if they can just "explain" China to Western audiences, and make Westerners "understand" China better, then attitudes toward China will become more positive. No. That will not work. A lack of understanding is not the problem.

Dinge, die ihr aus China nicht mitbekommt: Immer mehr chinesische Feminist:innen entscheiden sich für lesbische Beziehungen. Der Grund? Sie halten Männer nicht mehr aus. Und haben dafür sogar ein Wort erfunden: Straight Man Cancer. thechinaproject.com/2023/07/05/awa…

1/ China wants foreigners back. It may be too little, too late. For many, China is shifting from a land of opportunity to a source of risk. via The Wall Street Journal Yoko Kubota and I:

translating this was hell, please read for a taste of the stunning hubris of the Xi Jinping personality cult: chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/03/compas…

Heute zum Apéro: So faszinierend Chinas technologische Entwicklung der letzten Jahre sein mag, so erschreckend sind seine Überwachungsmassnahmen. Wird das im Westen Schule machen? Rezension über das Buch von Matthias Sander. schweizermonat.ch/blaupause-des-…

Recently Health Checking Urinals have begun popping up in Men's restrooms all over Shanghai. A private company is offering the urine analysis for RMB 20. Naturally I tried that out. Here's how that went.

Feels like a pretty seismic week in EU-China relations. I get the feeling that we're not in Kansas anymore Here is a summary of the major events that have happened, let me know if I missed any, bearing in mind it's still only lunchtime on Friday...

How is it these days as a foreign journalist to operate in China you ask ? Well, let me give you a little update now that I am back for about 7 months. Thread 1/

Xiexie für das Gespräch zu meinem China-Tech-Buch, Manuel Scherfer 📯 vom Podcast China-Ticker! chinaticker.podigee.io/40-doping-spio…

KI, Chips, Solaranlagen - ist China auf dem Weg zur Tech-Supermacht? Alexandra Stefanov hat mich für ihren Podcast "China Impulse" zu meinem Buch interviewt: china-impulse.de/podcast/folge-…

"Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic" “It should have been in our interest to get as much vaccine in people’s arms as possible,” said Greg Treverton, former chairman of the U.S. National Intelligence Council (...). reuters.com/investigates/s…

Must feel bad to be silenced by the system u are constantly publicly supporting. And over such an anodyne comment

In this new research article, Steve Tsang and I examine #XiJinping’s “whole-nation” approach to acquire strategic #technology from the #West. Read here: link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s… #China #EV #innovation #scientist #antimonopoly

A list of China's tools for controlling tech exports from the new MERICS report. Informal measures are as important as formal ones. I think of China's retaliation against South Korea over THAAD when a bunch of Lotte stores were closed due to alleged fire safety code

"Der Dalai Lama war ein Superstar, er traf Clinton, Sarkozy, Merkel. Doch dann wurde China immer mächtiger Der geistliche Führer der Tibeter besucht am Wochenende die Schweiz." Starkes Stück von Katrin Büchenbacher 王路也, Robin Schwarzenbach 🛰 und Dario Veréb: nzz.ch/zuerich/dalai-…

Super conférence demain soir à Lausanne (smiley), donnée by yours truly. Je peux encore avoir une place ou deux si vous m'écrivez. romandie-chine.ch/la-chine-une-s…

«Wenn Tamedia die ‹Tribune de Genève› nicht erhalten will, muss sie die Zeitung abgeben» Die liberalen Regierungschefinnen von Genf und der Waadt, @NatFontanet und Christelle Luisier , im Doppel-Interview zu Tamedias erneuter Sparrunde: nzz.ch/schweiz/wenn-t…

Good morning, if you're in Zurich and free this afternoon - I'll be giving a talk (in English) on China's tech capabilities: fvsinologie.uzh.ch/en/events/2024…

6/ ...and the rising power doesn't step up and provide those public goods, then you're in deep doo-doo. Charles Kindleberger, economic historian and architect of the Marshall Plan, thought that was the issue in the 1920s when the U.S. went isolationist and tariffed everyone.