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The Untold Story of Jimmy Lai, Life in Stanley Prison (opens the original)
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Before Jimmy Lai was branded the biggest “black hand” behind Hong Kong’s 2019 protests, he was a child laborer in a glove and textile factory. His unlikely story is chronicled in The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong’s Greatest Dissident, and China’s Most Feared Critic (2024) by veteran journalist Mark Clifford. Clifford, now the president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, sits down with Ian and Chang to discuss Lai’s path from garment fac
A piece in the New Yorker on the “But China” problem; why China will lose control of AI (opens the original)
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When I was a graduate student in philosophy, we constantly dealt in “thought experiments”—things like the Trolley Problem. These mental exercises strip away messy, real-world complications to explore new moral terrain. One famous example is Peter Singer’s image of the drowning child, which helped argue forcefully why distance and visibility are not relevant factors for moral responsibility.The trouble with thought experiments is that they can erase so much of the real world that little of practi
What Trump’s Military Pullback Means for Asia (opens the original)
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Trump has scaled back military exercises with South Korea and is courting North Korea's president Kim Jung Un. Chang and Ian discuss what this means for Japan and South Korea from discussions of nuclear rearmament to the political consequences of a less dependable United States.We discuss:1:42 — What’s different about Trump’s pullback from South Korea now compared with 2018?8:16 — If the U.S. security guarantee weakens, what would Japan and South Korea actually have to do to defend themselves?12
China’s AI safety conundrum (opens the original)
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For people who follow my newsletter for updates on my writing, sorry for the wait! I’m currently emerging out of book writing and hope to post more.In my latest piece for New York Magazine, I chart the story of how China came to be seen by many AI observers as a more responsible AI superpower in this increasingly dangerous moment in AI history. (OpenAI recently announced it was slowing AI development to focus on safety.) It draws from a few months of conversations with dozens of researchers and
The China Model, ten years later (opens the original)
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In 2015, Daniel Bell, then a political theorist at Tsinghua University published “the China model,” where he argued that China should be evaluated not by its failure to reach a Western liberal democracy, but by their own ideals, what he called a political meritocracy. More than a decade into the Xi Jinping era, I asked Daniel whether his views had changed. We also discuss Bell’s new book Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters: Four Dialogues on China’s Past, Present, and Future (Princ
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