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Analysis of Chinese digital law and policy by Rogier Creemers. Assistant professor @UniLeiden, project director @AsiaLeiden, Co-founder @DigiChn.

Leiden, Nederland เข้าร่วม Nisan 2012
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Kyle Chan
Kyle Chan@kyleichan·
Siemens is expanding its partnership with Alibaba for industrial AI. “Siemens developers ⁠prefer to use Chinese open-source AI models over their closed-source U.S. rivals for certain tasks related to training industrial AI models because of their cheaper token cost and customisable parameters.” By @lauriechenwords reuters.com/world/china/si…
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China Digital@China_Digital·
ASML going the way of Boeing?
Omer Cheema@OmerCheeema

I live in Eindhoven, ASML town. Heard this from folks inside... Over the years ASML promoted a lot of strong EUV people into architect roles, group leads, management tracks. Built up serious layers. Classic growth pain. Then McKinsey comes in , says cut the management layers to speed things up. So now those same high performers, real good EUV experts, who got promoted are the ones on the block. About 3400 roles targeted, mostly management. Half will be reassigned, rest gone. Big hit in Veldhoven/Eindhoven area (~1400), some in US. Unncertainty is high, unions talking, details probably land around April. At the same time, ASML is still planning massive growth. The new campus near the airport just got final green light from city council. Construction starts soon, phased build-out. Long term they talk ~20,000 new jobs in the region (first wave ~5k by 2028). And the layoff packages are subpar. Philips is also based in the same town. And they had layoffs due to serious financial issues last year. Their layoff packages were much better than what ASML is offering. What a way to kill tje company culture. Especially at a time when the company is printing money.

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Finbarr Bermingham
Finbarr Bermingham@fbermingham·
Two Chinese companies and two individuals were sanctioned by the EU for cyber-attacks against EU member states and EU partners. 1. Integrity Technology Group, "a China-based company, that has routinely provided products used to compromise and access devices in EU members states"
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Kyle Chan
Kyle Chan@kyleichan·
China’s Hua Hong “is planning initial 7 nm chip production capacity of a few thousand wafers per month by the end of the year, with a goal to ramp up more later” Big news but still early. Many have seen this coming. Backed by some of the usual suspects: Huawei, SiCarrier.
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Exclusive: China’s No. 2 chipmaker readies 7 nm production as Beijing ramps up self-suffiency drive reut.rs/4cQ7Hoz reut.rs/4cQ7Hoz

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Kevin S. Xu
Kevin S. Xu@kevinsxu·
For those who found this tweet triggering or confusing, two important pieces of context to keep in mind: 1. Anthropic was deemed a "supply chain risk" by its *own* government due to *political* differences. Alibaba never suffered that fate. 2. Jack Ma wasn't some innocent, noble tech entrepreneur at the time speaking truth to power either. His speech that got him in trouble (see next post for my translation, always worth a read) came the day after Ant Financial priced its IPO, after years of operating in the wild wild west of P2P lending and fintech "boom" in China that caused more debt, financial anxiety, even suicides, among everyday people. Regulatory hammer was coming for Ant/Alibaba sooner or later. They deserved it. Ma knew it. He tried to influence the outcome, and got what he got (exile in the comfort of its mansion in Japan, do some teaching, come back in a couple of years), which was in hindsight not that bad.
Kevin S. Xu@kevinsxu

What Xi did to Jack Ma looks rather magnanimous in hindsight given what happened in the People's Republic of the United States of America today

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Kyle Chan
Kyle Chan@kyleichan·
Huawei chairman said “at least 43 mainstream large AI models had been pre-trained on Ascend chips.” scmp.com/tech/big-tech/…
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Jonas Nahm
Jonas Nahm@jonasnahm·
China automates while America hesitates. I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that America's strategy to compete with China in manufacturing is fundamentally misconceived — and that we're heading toward a reckoning we're not prepared for. 1/ nytimes.com/2026/02/24/opi…
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Jeffrey Ding
Jeffrey Ding@jjding99·
Co-authored w/ GW PhD student Dennis Li, my latest article is published open-access in RIPE. I wrote a recap of the main points, including implications for AI governance, for ChinAI: chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-346-r…
Review of International Political Economy@RIPEJournal

Reputation collectives: how international industry associations influence China’s safety standards in high-risk technologies, by @jjding99 & Dennis Yuen Li tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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Kyle Chan
Kyle Chan@kyleichan·
China does not have “hundred-year plans” for industrial dominance. Instead, China tries to identify key bottlenecks and then do whatever it takes to resolve them: - Infrastructure - Energy - Materials - IT & chips - Industrial equipment There are many, many failures & mistakes along the way. But they basically keep trying until they make it.
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Laurie Chen
Laurie Chen@lauriechenwords·
I interviewed the talented @yilingliu95 on her upcoming book, an intimate social history of China's tech evolution - a strong contender for this year's best China book. We also talked "Chinamaxxing" and how Chinese activists find freedom in the margins: reuters.com/lifestyle/cult…
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Glenn
Glenn@GlennLuk·
China allows millions of American EVs to be sold and driven all throughout the country. Clearly, they’ve figured out how to get comfortable with potential security issues here. Why can’t we? This speaks to either serious lack of institutional capacity or extreme paranoia more reminiscent of the old Soviet Union rather than the strong, confident “can do” America I grew up in. Sad to see.
Chris McGuire@ChrisRMcGuire

Disappointing this article doesn’t mention WHY sales of Chinese EVs are banned in the US: because the Chinese gov can access their data and even commandeer them, turning them into roaming surveillance platforms or even tools of mass disruption. Cool it has a mini fridge, though.

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Iza Ding
Iza Ding@izading·
‘China’s gaokao factories and America’s college-industrial complex are not accidents. They are the logical outcome of a global system that has mistaken education for investment and human life for capital.’ My essay in the London Review of Books: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/…
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Kyle Chan
Kyle Chan@kyleichan·
The founders of some of China’s hottest EV companies started in the tech industry, not the auto industry. One of the most interesting parts of my High Capacity podcast with Tu Le @SinoAutoInsight: high-capacity.com/p/podcast-chin…
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Thomas des Garets Geddes
Thomas des Garets Geddes@thomasdggeddes·
What does authoritarianism look like in the #AI age — when power no longer relies on persuasion or fear, but operates directly through the body? #China is scaling AI deployment faster and more comprehensively than any other country. But what’s striking is that some 🇨🇳 intellectuals are also producing unusually candid critiques of what this trajectory could enable. In a futuristic, Brave New World–style essay, Guangzhou University professor Tao Dongfeng (陶东风) warns of an emerging form of “authoritarian biopolitics” — where governance bypasses ideology and language, and instead intervenes through physiology, emotion, and sensation. 📌 He asks: "So what can we do today to prevent the return of fascism and the rise of new dictatorships?" Drawing on Foucault, Nazi biopolitics, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Tao argues that the core threat isn’t “technology” as such — but authoritarian power empowered by technology. It’s a reminder that the AI debate is not only about innovation, productivity, or competition — but about the future boundaries of autonomy, privacy, and human agency. 📣 Link to the article in the first comment below.
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Kyle Chan
Kyle Chan@kyleichan·
Is China worried that AI and automation will cause job losses? Vice Minister of China's MIIT: "From the Industrial Revolution to the Information Technology Revolution, every major technological revolution has triggered concerns about employment, but ultimately, it has achieved increased productivity, optimized employment structures, and created new jobs through industrial transformation." 从工业革命到信息技术革命，历次重大技术变革都引发过对就业的担忧，但最终都通过产业转型实现了生产力的提升、就业结构的优化和就业岗位的新增。 My takeaway: Beijing is not worried about unemployment from AI and seems to believe that AI and automation will drive productivity and ultimately create new jobs.
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