How China Learned to Love the Classics The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West.

My latest in @NewYorker: China is investing in the study of ancient Greece and Rome—and a familiar culture war is brewing in its universities about how it should be taught. Featuring Leo Strauss and Western scholars in the postclassisms initiative. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

The American Dream Is Fading. What Comes Next For China's Youths?

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I had a great convo with Xiang Biao, director of the Max Plank Institute for anthropology in Germany about youth disaffection, problems of elite politics, and how to find agency in a stagnant, more authoritarian era. (In China, but parallels to US arer clear) changche.substack.com/p/into-asia-...

‘I have to do it’: Why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China In 2020, after spending half his life in the US, Song-Chun Zhu took a one-way ticket to China. Now he might hold the key to who wins the global AI race

For @gdnlongread, I profile'd Zhu Song-Chun, one of China's top AI scientists and an avatar of America's "reverse brain drain" problem. I detail why he left, the geopolitics of his repatriation, and the keys to AGI he may have brought back with him. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

‘You Think We’re Afraid of America?’ Chinese manufacturers seem ready for a trade war.

"The broad message I heard in Yiwu was this: Trump had overestimated America’s leverage. At the end of this standoff, China, not America, would come out stronger: more self-reliant at home and more respected abroad."

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‘You Think We’re Afraid of America?’ Chinese manufacturers seem ready for a trade war.

In Yiwu, the largest wholesale manufacturing hub, Chinese sellers told me that Trump's tariffs would hurt, but they're ready to hunker down. My latest @TheAtlantic www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The man making a business out of China’s burnout generation Li Jianxiong was a highflying marketing executive in Beijing until a breakdown sent him to the west on a wellness voyage of discovery – just as his peers were losing faith in the Chinese Dream

For @gdnlongread, I wrote about Chinese burnout, and the man who's created a business—modeled of Alcoholics Anonymous—to tackle it, one session at a time. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

The Father of Chinese Authoritarianism Has a Message for America Xiao Gongqin thought that, in moments of flux, a strongman could build a bridge to democracy. Now he’s not so sure.

For @newyorker.com, I wrote about Xiao Gongqin, the architect of Chinese “neo-authoritarianism." I discuss its origins, Xiao's views of American politics, and what lessons his theory holds for America's current predicament.
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