Chang Che

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.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...