PhD candidate, Leiden University. Data science for 🇨🇳 policy analysis. My book *Social Credit* is out now! Tweets in 🇳🇱🇬🇧
Nov 14, 2022 • 28 tweets • 5 min read
China finally announced a draft Law on the Construction of the Social Credit System. This has been at least five years in the works, and will spell out the system's future. A mega-thread with first observations and conclusions below🧵mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Up64GnBaiD5g…
I've recently started describing the SCS as three-dimensional chess, due to the extreme number of ambitions under its umbrella. This document is basically the epitome of it. It's a long wish list of things, but it now offers some clarity how the different dimensions link together
Sep 23, 2022 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
EVERYTHING you need to know about Covid-19 in China before and after the 20th Party Congress🧵
Spoiler alert: do not expect major changes soon 1/15
The current situation: ever since Shanghai’s lockdown in April and the emergence of Omicron, China cannot get the genie back in the bottle. Outbreaks are becoming more regular and more severe. 2/
Feb 17, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I dug into this, it seems unfounded. Raw data on pensions from Hubei:
