NEW: Our 4th story in The New York Times series on US-China espionage: Asian American officials say they're unfairly scrutinized by counterintelligence officers. And they say they're banned from critical jobs, including in diplomacy and intelligence. w/ Amy Qin. nytimes.com/2023/12/31/us/…

The Multimillion Dollar Machines at the Center of the U.S.-China Rivalry
The United States is taking unprecedented action to clamp down on sales of chip-making machinery to China, even as Chinese firms are racing to stockpile the equipment. nytimes.com/2023/10/20/bus…

Ever wonder why a far-left group like Code Pink became a strident defender of Chinese government policies, including the brutal crackdown on Uyghurs in Xinjiang? ⁦Mara Hvistendahl⁩ ⁦David Fahrenthold⁩ ⁦Lynsey Chutel⁩ have answers. nytimes.com/2023/08/05/wor…

A satellite image from Maxar Technologies captured on July 20, three days before the collapse of a middle school gym in China's Qiqihar city, shows gray tarp on the gym’s roof. It was likely to cover construction material underneath. The image on the right is from April 16.
w/ Christoph Koettl

🧵: quickly deleted official cremation data indicates as many people may have died from Covid in a single province earlier this year as Beijing has said died in the mainland during the entire pandemic.
W/ ⁦Mara Hvistendahl⁩ ⁦James Glanz⁩ nytimes.com/2023/07/19/wor…

ICYMI: The New York Times expose on China's crackdown on science of Covid-19. It goes far deeper than previously known, targeting international journals & scientific databases & shaking the foundations of shared scientific knowledge. Mara Hvistendahl Benjamin Mueller

nytimes.com/2023/04/23/wor…

NEW: The extraordinary rise - and stunning fall - of Guo Wengui, who made allies and sowed chaos at the highest levels of power in both China and the United States. By ⁦Benjamin Weiser⁩ and me. nytimes.com/2023/03/30/us/…

'Prosecutors said that in 2021 Mr. Bankman-Fried instructed those working for him to pay a bribe of $40 million to one or more Chinese officials to help unfreeze trading accounts maintained by FTX’s sister company.' nytimes.com/2023/03/28/bus…

Stunning story by Peter Baker about powerful Texas politicians who went to the Middle East in 1980 on a secret mission orchestrated by one of them: to get Iran to hold onto US hostages to help swing election to Reagan, who was running against Carter. nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/…

The US is seeing an unprecedented wave of migrant child labor right now.

Thousands of kids are working overnight in dangerous factories for brands like Cheerios, Fruit of the Loom and Ford. They're here alone and they're being failed in the most basic way.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/…

This is a big development and will likely disrupt vinyl flooring supply chains. Fully 10% of the world's PVC plastic comes from Xinjiang.

I obtained surveillance footage of the self-driving Tesla that abruptly stopped on the Bay Bridge, resulting in an eight-vehicle crash that injured 9 people including a 2 yr old child just hours after Musk announced the self-driving feature.

Full story: theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tes…

NEW: A U.S. Central Command investigation into the botched August 2021 drone strike in Kabul reveals how biases and assumptions led to the deadly blunder, and that military analysts saw possible civilian casualties within minutes of the strike:
nytimes.com/2023/01/06/us/… #FOIA