Tag: china
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This dispatch is the entirety of S01 Episode 9. Cover illustration by FATFISHBOY. Krish: Welcome to our season finale. The word “wanghong” (网红) is inescapable in China. It’s everywhere as… more ›
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THE VISION is becoming clear. In a decade or so China will, if the Communist Party has its way, become a techno-utopia with Chinese characteristics, replete with “deep tech” such as… more ›
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This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. The tech giants have grown so powerful that they’ve become… more ›
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Those who pay attention to business news have probably noted an interesting and curious phenomenon over the past few months: China is smashing its internet companies. It started — or… more ›
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In 2016, AlphaGo, a computer program developed by machine learning experts in London, beat the world’s top players of the classical Chinese board game Go. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-07-29/chinas-sputnik-moment more ›
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It’s hard to describe Factory TikTok as just one type of video, but each clip — in its own way — offers a strange glimpse into how mundane objects are… more ›
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Huang Wei tried to break into China’s showbiz in the mid-2000s. It didn’t work out. Fifteen years later, Huang, now 36, is a household name. Now known as Viya, Huang… more ›
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Congenica is not the sort of company a lot of people follow closely. The Cambridge-based start-up specialises in genomics, an area most of us struggle to understand. https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/chinas-takeover-of-western-capitalism/ more ›
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HONG KONG — China’s long-form video platforms are stepping up acquisitions of popular media content and producing their own shows to lure back viewers from short-video apps. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Media-Entertainment/Alibaba-Baidu-and-Tencent-learn-Netflix-lessons-in-content-fight2 more ›