Tag: china

• The New-Style Pop Histories Making Socialism Cool Again

  January 2, 2021

  This article is the first in a three-part series on the ways online historians and writers are shaping the worldviews and mindsets of young Chinese. Who is the greatest figure… more ›

• As China Tracked Muslims, Alibaba Showed Customers How They Could, Too

  December 20, 2020

  The website for the tech titan’s cloud business described facial recognition software that could detect members of a minority group whose persecution has drawn international condemnation. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/technology/alibaba-china-facial-recognition-uighurs.html more ›

• 14 tech trends to watch in 2021

  December 12, 2020

  As tech ecosystems mature around the world, they’re not always following the path laid down by Silicon Valley. 2020 was a more eventful year than anyone could have imagined. What… more ›

• Secret deal reveals how Chinese spies are given free rein in Switzerland

  December 9, 2020

  The full text of a secret deal between Switzerland and China that allowed Chinese security officials access to the country at Swiss taxpayers’ expense has been revealed for the first time as… more ›

• Africa’s phone phenom: Your guide to Transsion

  December 2, 2020

  After spending the early 2000s globe-trotting for the overseas business arm of Chinese mobile phone maker Ningbo Bird, Transsion founder Zhu Zhaojiang broke out on his own. He opened Transsion’s… more ›

• The Clash of Capitalisms

  November 22, 2020

  Capitalism rules the world. With only the most minor exceptions, the entire globe now organizes economic production the same way: labor is voluntary, capital is mostly in private hands, and… more ›

• State of Surveillance

  November 11, 2020

  In 2015, a national policy document issued by nine different Party and government bureaucracies called for “public safety video-surveillance construction, networking, and applications” across China. The policy described such surveillance systems as… more ›

• How Ant Group built a $200 billion financial empire

  November 10, 2020

  Ant Group, a Chinese financial technology company, is reportedly looking to raise a record-breaking $30 billion dollars in an initial public offering later this year. The current IPO fundraising record… more ›

• Ant man

  November 10, 2020

  Three months ago, a screenshot went viral across the Chinese internet. It was supposedly a scene of Alibaba employees gossiping about an eruption of cheers from an office building owned… more ›

• Old names

  November 3, 2020

  It is said that water is one with ice, and that the fish forget the sea. What we call our generation – the span of our lives on this planet – has already… more ›