With video this timeโฆ
With video this timeโฆ
In this time of conflict, it's good to seek solace in nature. Filmed mid-January this #duncansdispatch from Yucatรกn Mexico includes highlights from a wonderful 12 day trip with Amy Tan featuring an incredible variety of birds on a trip curated by Keith and Patricia @bird_hansen with @mooyam_photo
More scenes in this #DuncansDispatch from a trip last month to Mexico City, an endlessly fascinating and incredibly welcoming city. A city that has so far has been spared the unrest experienced by other states across the country in the past few days. Hoping that calm returns everywhere soon.
The โquiet geeksโleading Chinaโs AI boom, a useful overview by Bloomberg
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
๐Merry Christmas ๐
๐ฎ๐ณ Reflecting last month on the past at the Asia Society India Centre in Mumbai on this episode of #DuncansDispatch. Thank you @asiasocietyic and @inakshisobti for the invite. Watch the full Year in Review 2025 asiasociety.org/video/year-r...
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On this weekโs #DuncansDispatch, weโre in Mumbai ๐ฎ๐ณ Come with me as I wander through the #ArtDeco buildings lining Marine Drive and dodge the cricketers at the #OvalMaidan
Stay tuned for next weekโs Dispatch, and my talk at the Asia Society India Centre @asiasocietyic.
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On this weekโs #DuncansDispatch from Portoroลพ, Slovenia ๐ธ๐ฎ, I spoke at @FInance.siโs 27th PKP Conference
My talk focused on Chinaโs #OpenSourceAI landscape
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How India is looking afresh at the U.S., China. A pleasure to join this panel in Mumbai hosted by Asia Society India this past Monday theprint.in/india/at-asi...
Great piece by CNBCโs Arjun Kharpal on how Jack Ma came in from the cold (sort of). With some inputs by me recorded in London when I had an actual cold ha.
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Insightful feature on Alibaba from CNBC Senior Tech Reporter Arjun Kharpal.
Founded in 1999 Alibaba is just 26 years in to the cheeky 102 year mission Jack Ma gave the company to span the 20th, 21st and 22nd centuriesโฆ
www.cnbc.com/video/2025/1...
In this weekโs DuncansDispatch we visit Clerkenwell in London to visit locations featured in the hit Apple TV+ series Slow Horses, the British spy drama adapted from Mick Herronโs Slough House novels.
Follow in the footsteps of the notoriously unhealthy Jackson Lamb, including breakfast at Beppes
๐ A murder mystery in old Beijingโฆ ๐
On this episode of #DuncansDispatch, we join Paul French author of #MidnightinPeking for a walking tour of the key locations in the unsolved 1937 murder of Pamela Werner. Thanks @wildchina.bsky.social
When you've got to go, you've got to goโฆ but finding a clean, comfortable restroom in the city can be a real challenge.
In this #DuncansDispatch from NYC we are exploring how @yedi.app (a start-up I'm backing launching its consumer app in coming weeks) is redefining the public restroom experience.
๐ถ๏ธ New episode of #DuncansDispatch - this time from ๆฒ็ธ Okinawa ๐บ and Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST).
Shoutout to Koshu Kunii, General Partner at Lifetime Ventures ๐
#StartupEcosystem #Biotech #Climatetech #Innovation #Sustainability #ScienceMeetsNature #JapanTravel #MetaRayBan
Good to join from Beijing another Duncan - Duncan Hewitt - on his podcast 'China in Context' for SOAS University of London to chat China tech, AI and all the rest...
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on.ft.com/4nSibXx What China wants from Europe
Great piece by the FT's Simon Kuper quoting a number of our @asiasociety.org France @salzburgglobal.bsky.social China Summer Summit speakers
Will be in the magazine section this weekend if you want to get off your (made in China) devices :)
Looking forward to co-hosting in Paris the inaugural China Summer Summit on July 9th with new Asia Society France Co-Chair Lionel de Saint-Exupรฉry and event co-organizers Salzburg Global and ASPI's Center for China Analysis.
Great line-up with more to come! Email rnahas@asiasociety.org for info.
"Eddie is winning plaudits internally for having trimmed the old and built the new. Jack [Ma] and Joe [Tsai] ultimately made the decision to bet on him and it's paying off"
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In other news... sharing thoughts this morning on NPR's Weekend Edition on the significance of Jack Ma's return to a greater degree of prominence in China
www.npr.org/2025/03/01/n...
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A point the great @sabfis3.bsky.social was making to me in Berlin a couple of days ago. See also her forthcoming book - โChauvinismโ
Excited to join the Board of Rest of World, which with c. 86% of the population outside the West is a big Rest :) restofworld.org/inside/rest-...
Wonderful 'Laowai Lounge' ่ๅค้ฅญๅฑ 2nd edition tonight from @asiasocietyfrance.bsky.social at the amazing Imperial Treasure Paris