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January 21, 2026

Inside China's Real Advantage: Manufacturing at Scale

Notes from Liyang, China's battery capital, and the infrastructure reshaping global supply chains…

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December 17, 2025

What Chinese Scientists Think the World Could Look Like By 2049

Where advanced technology is treated as something to shape, not something to avoid…

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November 25, 2025

AI’s Bottleneck Is Power. The US and China Feel It Differently.

The US needs more generation. But China needs more efficiency.…

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October 15, 2025

What Surprised Me Most on Our Deep Tech China Trip

Notes from inside an ecosystem defined by constraint, coordination, and speed…

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February 27, 2023

The Dangers of a Too-Hot ChatGPT Craze

甲小姐对话张斯成：ChatGPT过热容易导致错误判断 | 甲子光年…

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February 23, 2023

Coming soon

Hey there, fellow curious minds!…

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Tech Buzz China

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Tech Buzz China is the company I founded to cover China's technology industry. This is a team publication — I contribute and help guide its editorial direction, but it's not exclusively my work.

April 3, 2026

The Taobao Inside Qwen: Why Alibaba's AI Gambit Is About Re-Architecting the Internet

While you could dismiss this as yet another company slapping a chatbot onto its existing services, what's actually happening here is more interesting (and consequential) than that…

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March 29, 2026