China Bureau Chief @WSJ. Formerly of Seoul, New York and Hong Kong bureaus. jonathan.cheng@wsj.com
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May 6 • 27 tweets • 10 min read
How Images of the Dalai Lama Landed a Tibetan Woman in China’s Dragnet—Rare account of woman who escaped Tibet sheds new light on China’s policies aimed at bringing the region to heel
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@triptilahiri @austinramzy @pokharelkrishna DHARAMSHALA, India—Nam Kyi, a young Tibetan activist, had been out of prison for only a few years when she was picked up by Chinese police in 2022. wsj.com/world/china/da…
May 1 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Beijing Doesn’t Want America to See Its Trade-War Pain—Plunging trade has already led to job cuts; ‘it is very painful’
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China has signaled that as a nation it is better able to tolerate the pain of a prolonged tariff war than the U.S. But cracks are starting to show, suggesting how deeply that pain is already setting in across its economy. wsj.com/world/china/be…
Apr 28 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
China, Philippines Make Rival Claims in Disputed South China Sea—Both countries plant flags on a collection of sand bars, heightening a standoff between Beijing and Manila, a U.S. ally
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@gksteinhauser @austinramzy China and the Philippines have staked rival claims to a spit of land in the South China Sea, moves that could further inflame tensions in one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. wsj.com/world/asia/chi…
Apr 22 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The Atlantic: “‘You Think We’re Afraid of America?’ Chinese manufacturers seem ready for a trade war.”
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“When I approached a group of idle factory men, their replies were bellicose: ‘Hold strong!’…‘You think we’re afraid of America?’ barked another. Later, one man offered a steadier assessment: ‘The truth is, it will have an impact, but we will be fine.’” theatlantic.com/international/…
Apr 19 • 24 tweets • 9 min read
Man Versus Machine as China Shows Off Humanoid Robots: A half-marathon in Beijing featured a road race between human runners and 21 robot models—and showed how far robots still are from mimicking people.
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Metal met asphalt in a half-marathon that featured thousands of human runners—and 21 Chinese humanoid robot models. Saturday’s road race involving human and robot runners in Beijing has been billed as a showcase of China’s cutting-edge technology. wsj.com/tech/man-versu…
Apr 15 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
“Economic weakness, however, isn’t deterring Xi from hardening his position toward the U.S. That’s because Xi adamantly believes that ‘the East [meaning China] is rising, and the West [meaning the U.S.] is in decline.’”
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@Lingling_Wei “So as long as China manages to outshine the U.S. in sectors the top leader considers as key to the great-power competition, the overall economic weakness is both tolerable and manageable.” wsjchina.cmail19.com/t/d-e-sdjujdt-…
Mar 1 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
The Chinese EV Maker Threatening Ford and GM—Lei Jun set out to build the ‘Apple of China.’ Xiaomi’s car business is now outpacing Tesla and Rivian.
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@yoyominnie Four years ago, Xiaomi was a successful smartphone business with a car business consisting of nothing more than a plan approved by the board and a vow to make it work. This year, the company’s assembly lines are set to turn out 300,000 vehicles. wsj.com/business/autos…
Jan 30 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
DeepSeek Scrambles U.S.-China Tech War—The U.S. tried to slow China’s tech advances, but DeepSeek showed how hard that is
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@lizalinwsj @joshchin @stuwoo @hwclarence The unexpected success of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has revealed cracks in U.S. efforts to contain China’s technology ambitions, challenging both Washington and Silicon Valley to rethink how best to preserve American supremacy. wsj.com/tech/deepseek-…
Jan 28 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
DeepSeek Chief’s Journey From Math Geek to Global Disruptor—The Chinese engineer built the AI company after founding a successful hedge-fund
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@GZuckerman @raffaelehuang Some call him China’s Sam Altman. Others compare him to Jim Simons, the pioneer of quantitative investing. Liang Wenfeng shares a lot with both innovators, and his impact might end up being as great. wsj.com/tech/ai/liang-…
Jan 19 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
Xi Tells Officials Scared of Being Purged: It’s OK to Make Mistakes—With the economy on the line and many bureaucrats too cowed to act, party enforcers vow to be lenient (when appropriate)
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@ByChunHan Xi Jinping is intensifying a war on corruption that has purged officials in record numbers—with the side effect of leaving many unwilling to act for fear of punishment. wsj.com/world/china/ch…
Jan 15 • 29 tweets • 10 min read
China Reins In Its Once-Freewheeling Finance Sector With Purges and Pay Cuts—Xi’s campaign against capitalist excess ushers out internationally experienced financiers for a new generation of loyalists
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@RebeccaYFeng @ByChunHan For decades, China sought to learn from Western finance. Now it’s purging many of its internationally experienced financiers while ushering in a new generation of functionaries willing to carry out Communist Party edicts and disavow capitalist excess. wsj.com/world/china/ch…
Jan 1 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
China’s Economy Is Burdened by Years of Excess. Here’s How Bad It Really Is. Overindebtedness, overbuilding and overcapacity are causing problems at home and abroad.
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@wsj_douglasj @mingli_mingli China’s go-go days are behind it as its economy struggles with the end of the biggest real-estate bubble ever. Now, China’s goal of overtaking the U.S. as the world’s largest economy might take decades longer than Beijing expected—if it happens at all. wsj.com/world/china/ch…
Dec 17, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Few things annoy Beijing’s censors more these days than anyone “talking down” the Chinese economy. Yet recent trading in the country’s bond market is screaming the “D” word. You heard right: “D” as in depression.
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@Lingling_Wei Over the past week, just as Beijing tried to get the public—and markets—excited with another round of stimulus talk, China’s 10-year sovereign yield kept falling to fresh lows. Now, the yield is around 1.7%, a full percentage-point plunge from a year ago. wsjchina.cmail20.com/t/d-e-sslkdk-d…
Dec 10, 2024 • 30 tweets • 11 min read
In China’s Rapidly Aging Cities, Young People Flee and Few Babies Are Born—Fushun, where roughly a third of the population is 60 or above, offers a snapshot of nation’s future
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@Kubota_Yoko @QiLiyan @ByXiaoXiao FUSHUN, China—This rust-belt hub helped fuel China’s economic rise. Now, it offers a view of China’s future—in which eroding growth collides with a ballooning elderly population and a shortfall in babies. wsj.com/world/china/ch…
Dec 1, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“He is very pro-China, always has been,” says one former senior Tesla executive who worked closely with Musk for more than a decade. “The perception that China is trying to screw the US, that is not shared by Tesla.”
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Tina Hou, who leads China auto research for Goldman Sachs, estimates that more than 90 per cent of Tesla’s suppliers for the Shanghai factory are Chinese and when Tesla builds factories overseas these suppliers increasingly “go out” with Tesla. ft.com/content/e2ecd4…
Nov 12, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Donald Trump’s triumph is making Beijing nervous. And it’s not just his tariff threats that could cause more pain to an already-weak Chinese economy. Another, and potentially even bigger, fear is what some people call a “reverse Nixon.”
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@Lingling_Wei Much like Richard Nixon sought China out to counter the Soviet Union during the Cold War, now the U.S. might seek to turn Moscow against Beijing. Xi is worried Trump could disrupt his “bromance” with Vladimir Putin, a partner in his standoff with the U.S. wsjchina.cmail19.com/t/d-e-sluilhd-…
Nov 9, 2024 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
After Trump’s Victory, One Company Prepares to Shift Production From China—Most of Breville’s products are manufactured around Shenzhen, a sprawling Chinese city on the border with Hong Kong
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For Breville, the threat of new tariffs is a problem. The Australian company sells espresso machines, toasters, juicers and microwaves in more than 70 countries, including the U.S. Most of its products are manufactured in the area around Shenzhen. wsj.com/economy/trade/…
Oct 8, 2024 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
China’s Stock Market Fever Breaks as Authorities Disappoint—Expectations for a flood of stimulus had run high before a Tuesday morning press conference by Beijing’s economic planner
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An epic Chinese stock market rally lost steam Tuesday after a press conference by the country’s economic planning agency disappointed hopes for more fiscal stimulus measures and raised questions about whether Beijing has more to offer the ailing economy. wsj.com/finance/stocks…
Oct 5, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack—AT&T, Verizon are among broadband providers breached in China-linked ‘Salt Typhoon’ hack
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A cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of a wide swath of U.S. broadband providers, potentially accessing information from systems the federal government uses for court-authorized network wiretapping requests. wsj.com/tech/cybersecu…
Sep 24, 2024 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
An economist at a top Chinese think tank was placed under investigation, detained and removed from his posts after he allegedly criticized Xi Jinping’s management of the economy in a private chat group.
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The investigation of Zhu Hengpeng, who for the past decade was deputy director of the Institute of Economics at the state-run Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, comes amid efforts to suppress negative commentary about China’s economic health. wsj.com/world/china/to…
Sep 15, 2024 • 22 tweets • 8 min read
What Scared Ford’s CEO in China—Jim Farley is changing strategy to combat what he calls an ‘existential threat’ from China’s electric carmakers
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@MikeColias Jim Farley had just returned from China. What the Ford Motor CEO found during the May visit made him anxious: Chinese automakers were pulling away in the EV race. wsj.com/business/autos…
