It’s not just the algorithms, but China’s cutthroat tech culture that offered a perfect training ground for the companies that made TikTok, Temu and Shein. When they expanded globally, they brought the China speed and experience with them, 卷到国外. wsj.com/articles/why-c… Chinese internet firms excel in catering to user’s every need, constantly fine tuning app features & AI models, thanks to a vast labor pool and a vast user pool at home. A telling industry term for the non­stop drive to get bet­ter: “em­broi­dery.” (绣花)
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In this profile of a group of women friends in Beijing who have been rounded up by authorities and become accidental symbols of dissent in China, we unpacked a fundamental shift in China's civil society. Please read: 1/ wsj.com/articles/in-ch… Cao Zhixin, a 26-y-o book editor, and a few friends were among the young people who were detained after attending a rally in Beijing on Nov.27. They had grilled skewers and later went to a bar after the protests. Then detentions began. 2/ wsj.com/articles/in-ch…

The 4th World Conference on Women, took place in Beijing in 1995, launched a hopeful era of women's empowerment in China: gender equality became a fundamental national policy, NGOs blossomed, feminist advocacy began.
Some say that era has ended. 1/ wsj.com/articles/under… Perhaps the most high-profile setback came when the CCP unveiled an all-men Politburo, breaking a 25-year norm where there was always a woman on the top party leadership. @YanLong_SOC says that symbolizes the end of “a hopeful era.” 2/ wsj.com/articles/under…