How China’s aging boom turned into an investment story With 300 million seniors and a shrinking workforce, China’s “silver economy” is emerging as one of its most durable new growth engines.

on.mktw.net/3Wqvces How China’s aging boom turned into an investment story

China’s trillion-yuan gamble on AI and chips is creating strange bedfellows As U.S. export controls bite, China’s tech giants and local governments are forging unlikely alliances — Huawei’s with rival SMIC, for one — to build a parallel ecosystem.

www.marketwatch.com/story/chinas...

China’s Consumers Are Spending in Smaller Cities. It’s the Power of the New Middle Class. China’s economic future increasingly hinges on the spending power of the population living outside the country’s wealthiest urban areas.

www.barrons.com/articles/chi...

Endlessly fascinating www.amazon.com/Spectacles-D...

I ran across it from this news story: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/s...

Chinese Exporters Are ‘Bleeding’ as Tariffs Bite Chinese exporters’ survival depends on absorbing rising costs, shifting supply chains, or abandoning the U.S. market altogether—three difficult and unpalatable options.

www.barrons.com/articles/chi...

Running on empty: Inside China’s quiet pension-funding crisis Surveys show that more than 40% of flexible workers — including delivery drivers, livestreamers and freelancers — are opting out of the pension system

www.marketwatch.com/story/runnin...

Two girls looking at their phones in the rain

Phones

Hero

I'm late to the game, but beloved comedian Jimmy Yang ripping it up on Xiaohonhshu in 上海话, 粤语, 普通话 and English

Post owner Bezos announces shift in opinions section; Shipley to leave In an email and social media post, Jeff Bezos outlined dramatic changes to The Washington Post’s opinions section, and announced that opinions editor David Shipley has resigned.

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos said that the newspaper’s opinions section would now be focused on “personal liberties and free markets” and won’t publish anything that opposes those ideas. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

Briton arrested in Thailand after overstaying 30-day visa by record 25 years The Briton’s 9,135-day overstay of his visa is a ‘record’, Thai police say

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Time to do some shopping.

DeepSeek Sent Silicon Valley Reeling. In China, It’s a Different Story. DeepSeek’s platform rollout has ignited fanfare among average Chinese citizens who previously hadn’t been engaged with AI systems.

DeepSeek Sent Silicon Valley Reeling. In China, It’s a Different Story. www.barrons.com/articles/dee...

China’s economic miracle appears to be over, and the future is looking bleak Weak consumption, an aging population and an exodus of personal wealth from the country put China on a perilous path.

www.marketwatch.com/story/chinas...

Was deep in thought about Musk running the Treasury when suddenly an AP news app alert popped up telling me Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow and is predicting six more weeks of wintry weather

DeepSeek just insisted it's ChatGPT, and I think that's all the proof I need AI, know thyself

www.techradar.com/computing/ar...

Sichuan friend sent me this mushroom poster, placed in a hiking area. Look how many kinds. And the poster tells you how poisonous (eg, 剧毒: hypertoxic vs 有毒: poisonous). And what body part they can damage (eg, liver, kidney).

Rows three and four feature 10 varieties that are 神经精神: psychoactive 😋

A Service of Prayer for the Nation - 1.21.25 YouTube video by Washington National Cathedral

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Here's the full towering sermon by Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde:

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Bishop Asks Trump to ‘Have Mercy’ on Immigrants and Gay Children (Gift Article) The direct appeal to President Trump on the first full day of his term was a remarkable moment at a National Cathedral event that traditionally has not been political.

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If you haven't seen or heard of the "Trump mercy" moment, here's the NYT clip of it. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

Supreme Court looks set to uphold TikTok ban. U.S. users are fleeing to another Chinese app as ‘refugees.’ Thousands of American users set up accounts on the increasingly popular app Xiaohongshu just days before U.S. law is set to go into into effect

www.marketwatch.com/story/the-su...

Mom left without her shirt after coming halfway around the world to see me