How xenophobic content on Chinese social media, directed towards Japan, the US, Jews, and others, became the subject of a debate and spreads despite censorship
Li Yuan / New York Times : X: @kenroth , @scs_disputes , @scs_disputes , @liyuan6 , @david_mulroney , and @alfonslopeztena LinkedIn: Dr. Nils Seibert , Michael D Pendleton , and Gabriele Iuvinale . F...
How xenophobic content on Chinese social media, directed towards Japan, the US, Jews, and others, became the subject of a debate and spreads despite censorship
Li Yuan / New York Times : X: @kenroth , @liyuan6 , @scs_disputes , @scs_disputes , @david_mulroney , and @alfonslopeztena LinkedIn: Dr. Nils Seibert , Michael D Pendleton , and Gabriele Iuvinale . F...
The number of unemployed Chinese tech workers is growing amid fears that China's tech crackdown could kill the entrepreneurial drive that made it a tech power
Li Yuan / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @ajitpai , @kennedycsis , @jorge_guajardo , @david_mulroney , @charlesmok , @liyuan6 , and @paratus2014 Tweets: @nytimesbusiness : In place of th...
After Alibaba fired an employee accused of rape, over 6,000 workers sign a letter urging it to ban sexual remarks and games in ice-breaking and business events
Li Yuan / New York Times : Tweets: @yueqi_yang , @paulmozur , @liyuan6 , @liyuan6 , and @jchengwsj Tweets: Yueqi Yang / @yueqi_yang : China's MeToo movement got two high-profile cases recently: Chine...
Amid virus outbreak, authorities in China are using its vast surveillance network to identify potential carriers, ostracizing even those without the symptoms
The authorities hunt for people from Wuhan, the center of the outbreak, encouraging citizens to inform on others. Tweets: @paulmozur , @sugabelly , @jotted , @amyyqin , and @liyuan6 Tweets: @paulmozur...
Huawei's reputation in China, once unimpeachable, has been dented by a labor dispute over severance pay with an employee, who was recently freed from jail
When an executive wrote about her house arrest in Canada, an outcry about a former employee's treatment arose on social media. Tweets: @nytimes , @liyuan6 , @liyuan6 , and @maryhui Tweets: @nytimes : ...
How China is using social media and films to stir patriotism and get communist party propaganda enthusiastically embraced by young people
Leveraging celebrities, the know-how of tech companies and images built for social media, the Communist Party can effectively stir patriotism among the youth. Tweets: @jianglilily , @iandenisjohnson ,...
Inside Beijing-based Beyondsoft and its “censorship factories”, with 4,000+ staff monitoring online content for media companies eager to please China's censors
Thousands of low-wage workers in “censorship factories” trawl the online world for forbidden content … Tweets: @liyuan6 , @moonalice , @linhpnguyen , @wingcommander1 , @mariancw , @stevenleemyers , @m...
How data tagging firms in China are using cheap labor to apply labels to troves of images and surveillance footage to help train AI systems across the country
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The near-collapse of ZTE may prompt China's Sputnik moment, when it gets serious about developing its own advanced chip capabilities
HONG KONG — Once derided as a technology backwater and copycat, China is justifiably proud of its technology boom. Its people zip around the country on high-speed trains. Tweets: @pekingmike , @liyua...