China is considering tapping $278 billion in offshore funds as part of a rescue package to stabilize its stock market bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Markets Bloomberg Bloomberg by Yue John Liu

As China's market continues to fall, I am reminded of our 2015 cover story AND the suggestion that Mr Xi himself may have seen it and commented on it (according to WSJ)

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Thread: The Wall Street Journal Exclusive - Fast fashion giant Shein's blockbuster IPO might have run into a big hitch. Its now on the radar of China's powerful internet regulator. The CAC opened a pre-IPO review, looking into the company's data handling and processing practices. w/Raffaele Huang

Happy #NewYear2024 !! The best is yet to come... 💜

Went to Dr. Gao Yaojie's funeral on Monday. It was both sad and empowering. 200+ people showed up despite the rain. When the service was over, the sun beamed through clouds -- how Dr. Gao would like us to feel. What a great, inspiring soul! RIP

This weekend I was selected as the Labour Party's parliamentary candidate for our new constituency of Earley and Woodley, my family home. It's the honour of my life to stand in the next general election to build a greener, fairer future for us all.🌹The Labour Party 1/3

TikTok Is Giving Xi Jinping a Rare Soft Power Win in Taiwan ⁦Bloomberg⁩ bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-…

Spotted in Beijing the other day. Most people are still going unmasked, but some aren’t messing around when it comes to this new wave of pneumonia.

Now is probably the time to announce that I've been writing a book about OpenAI, the AI industry & its impacts. Here is a slice of my book reporting, combined with reporting from the inimitable Charlie Warzel. Inside the year of chaos that led to this weekend. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

China’s housing market has a big problem: millions of unfinished homes that were sold but not delivered. Solving that is crucial for a recovery, but the problem keeps getting bigger.
Rebecca Feng Cao Li
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“This sense of insecurity, in my observation, in the Chinese entrepreneur community, really I have not seen it like this since 1978,” said well-known Chinese financier Fred Hu, referring to the years just before the reform-and-opening era.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Economics

People like to call him weak, but they underestimated his courage  — he spoke truth to power when absolute loyalty was the only way to survive. I’ve never felt so hopeless as I’m feeling now. 🙏

Xi's changing priorities for women in China:

2018: 'Help women [balance] family and work and be new-age women with responsibilities to society and contributions to families'

2023: 'Cultivate a new type of marriage and parenting culture, promote...policies to support childbirth'

Li Keqiang, Chinese Ex-Premier Who Helped Shape Economic Policy, Dies at 68 ⁦james t. areddy⁩ ⁦Chun Han Wong 王春翰⁩ ⁦The Wall Street Journal⁩ wsj.com/world/china/li…

[Thread] Massive pro-Palestine demonstrations across the United States.

The media isn't giving them enough attention, so here is a roundup:

1) Chicago: 15,000 protestors shut down the streets.

.Evan Osnos: 'China at the end of Xi’s first decade is…a nation slipping from motion to stagnation and, for the first time in a generation, questioning whether a Communist superpower can escape the contradictions that doomed the Soviet Union.'
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BYD, once a maker of cellphone batteries, is neck-and-neck with Tesla to become the world’s No. 1 seller of electric vehicles.
River Akira Davis Selina Cheng

wsj.com/business/autos… via The Wall Street Journal

So happy for you sis! ❤️

Let the record reflect people didn’t exactly take it well.. Some of the comments include: “I’ll give you $137 and you can get me a baby.” “Got it. This is meant to encourage us 30+ women to stay single.” “Trying to make something big happen with a bit of money? In your dreams!”