Mark Witzke
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@mkwitzke
Alumni and nonresident scholar @GPS_UCSD. Ex-ByteDance and @rhodium_group. 深圳人. Interested in US-China, tech and their global impacts
The candidates for California governor were asked "what was the last streaming show you watched" 🟦Xavier Becerra: Didn't answer 🟥Chad Bianco: Didn't answer, says he doesn't watch TV 🟦Matt Mahan: The Diplomat 🟥Steve Hilton: Reacher 🟦Katie Porter: Heated Rivalry 🟦Tom Steyer: Marshals
Chinese vehicles are a driving surveillance package, and it’s why my first bill was to ban them.
When I first moved to 🇨🇳 I had tons of conversations asking Chinese people why X problem exists, why they don’t just [slick western policy idea]. It took me a couple years to grasp the deep truth they’d been telling me the whole time: 人太多了吧。There are just too many people.
“China is now eating our lunch.” RFK Jr. warns the U.S. is losing its edge to China in medical research and drug development. “They got more drugs approved last year.” “They went from running 3% of clinical trials to running 30%.” “We are losing scientists, we’re losing our IPs, we’re losing the best researchers.” “We’re going to lose our biosecurity.” “We are fast-tracking approvals now in our country at record levels.”
There was a deliberate effort in the late 90's, early aughts to make houses easy to resell. Neutral became the goal and personalization was an error. So we stopped making homes and started swapping assets. Kind of like the temporary implication in the emergent phrase "based in [city name]," modern people are too cool to be tethered to a place. Upgrading must always be on the table. We design our houses as the pit stops they are.
When Greta Van Fleet proved rock was far from dead
After 15 years, San Francisco's trendsetting Sushirrito calls it quits sfgate.com/food/article/s…
what a crazy gap (Number of data centers by geographic area, 2025)
The fact that people are now actually debating the quality of life in China versus the West is, in itself, a striking development worth noting.
DeepSeek is now reportedly in talks at a $20 billion valuation. The earlier figure was $10 billion. The valuation jump is interesting. The reason behind the fundraise is more interesting. DeepSeek turned away VCs, Tencent, and Alibaba for 2 years. Something changed. Last week I published a deep dive into the 3 structural pressures that brought DeepSeek to this point. Full analysis for paid subscribers:hellochinatech.com/p/deepseek-300…
Once again starting to see a whole lot of serious, non-satirical commentaries that look almost exactly like this satirical commentary from almost 10 years ago. web.archive.org/web/2017092619…
