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Xin Zhilei: Always there is the desire urging, always the convention restraining
Venice Film Festival best actress embraced ambition and rejected shame in wanting more in a 2018 speech.
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Yuxuan JIA
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Zhong Huiqing
Beijing trades TikTok for lifting investment barriers from Washington
It's in the readout and Q&A, but we just don't know exactly what it is - for now.
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Zichen Wang
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Is China's High Speed Railway System Massively Overbuilt, just Overbuilt, or will be Overbuilt?
For the glory of High Speed Rail... this might be the start of a collection of posts.
Published on JRUrbaneNetwork • 
Big Science, Chinese Style: BGI’s Mei Yonghong on Reshaping the Research Paradigm from Govt Grant-guzzling to Profit-making Businesses
Govt official-turned-biotech corporate leader says fragmented academic silos can no longer deliver breakthroughs. Instead, he champions enterprise-led…
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Yuxuan JIA
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Zhong Huiqing
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Dandan Zhang: China’s factory workers go gig
Peking University professor profiles China's overlooked, rapidly increasing, poorly-insured day laborers in export-oriented manufacturing.
Published on The East is Read • 
Gordon G. Liu on China's healthcare reforms: overcrowded clinics, underpowered pharma
Top health economist calls for a stronger dose of mobility across hospital tiers and prescribes drug procurement adjustments to empower innovative drug…
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Ma Ying-jeou on the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan
Former Taiwan leader condemns the current Democratic Progressive Party leader William Ching-te Lai's disregard of history and obsequiousness toward…
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Zichen Wang

August 2025

Liu Jianjun: the false faith in social sciences
Disillusioned polisci professor at Fudan believes what he studies and teaches to be a "self-indulgent fantasy" that may be superfluous to human…
Published on The East is Read • 
Yao Yang calls for homegrown confidence and openness as Chinese companies go global
Leading economist who recently joined Shanghai University of Finance and Economics urges China to see JV/tech transfer demands as opportunities rather…
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Zhong Huiqing
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Yuxuan JIA
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China’s Ambassador in Kyiv: Ma Shengkun’s Nine Months
Who has the Chinese ambassador to Ukraine met?
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How Sino-centrism and U.S.-centrism warp(ed?) Beijing’s foreign policy thinking (2008)
Two Chinese grand strategists cautioned the perils of seeing the world only through China’s (imagined) glory or America’s shadow, and advised that China…
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Zhao Huiyi
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Yuxuan JIA
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Between Trust and Tension: Wang Jisi Reflects on U.S.-China Relations
With the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations, China's leading America watcher shares personal stories, assesses growing strategic…
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Zichen Wang
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