HeyJaredYinfi
Cultural commentary on China and its relations with the world, direct from the matrix.
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Xi-Trump Summit: Why It Looks Weird to Chinese Insiders (opens the original)
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General Secretary Xi Jinping has just wrapped up a three-day state visit with Trump in Washington, the first Chinese state visit to the US in 11 years. Behind the red carpets and the carefully choreographed smiles, there were some very weird signals that the mainstream media didn’t cover.A song tied to protests in China was played at the state dinner. Trump’s jokes were left untranslated. Xi talked about keeping AI under human control, while China is pushing AI into almost every part of its econ
Why Uyghur Slavery Is Invisible in China’s World Factory (opens the original)
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I spent four hours with a former Xinjiang police officer who defected and recently spoke out. Below is what I took away from that conversation, also available as a YouTube video.One of the strangest things about the Uyghur forced labour system in Xinjiang is how invisible it is.The cotton in your most expensive shirt. The lithium in your phone and your car battery. The silicon in the solar panels on your roof. All of it may have been produced in Xinjiang, a vast region in northwest China, where
How “Humiliation” Drives China’s Radical Tech Rise (opens the original)
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Welcome to Yinfi’s Substack. This is where I’ll share the in-depth writing behind my YouTube journey as a cultural commentator – grounded in three decades of experience in China and later the UK, across the entertainment, media, and tech industries.What follows is the full article behind my latest video. It is also, in part, my own story of moving between the Sinophone and Western worlds, which felt like the right way to open this publication. From here on, my video scripts will be adapted into
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