Tianyu Fang
@tfa.ng
PhD student in history of science at Harvard. Researcher of technology and culture. Previously Chaoyang Trap
Seeing China Clearly | Trans-Pacific tech watcher @tfa.ng joins @robertwrighter.bsky.social to take a close look at China—including how the government works (and doesn’t), online censorship, how China sees AI and the chip war, the legacy of the one-child policy, and more.
Seeing China Clearly | Robert Wright & Tianyu Fang
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While “war drones are unlikely to be what most people picture when they think of Silicon Valley,” defense tech startups wrapped in the American flag, complete with self-serving claims of patriotism, are taking over the Valley, @tfa.ng writes. www.noemamag.com/silicon-vall...
Silicon Valley Goes To War | NOEMA
The tech industry’s whiz kids once promised convenience at your fingertips. Now they’re embracing the military-industrial complex to defend the West.
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"The tech industry’s whiz kids once promised convenience at your fingertips. Now they’re embracing the military-industrial complex to defend the West." — @tfa.ng in @noemamag.com www.noemamag.com/silicon-vall...
Silicon Valley Goes To War | NOEMA
The tech industry’s whiz kids once promised convenience at your fingertips. Now they’re embracing the military-industrial complex to defend the West.
noemamag.com
The tech industry’s whiz kids once promised convenience at your fingertips. Now they’re embracing the military-industrial complex to defend the West, @tfa.ng writes. #defensetech #siliconvalley #defense
Silicon Valley Goes To War | NOEMA
The tech industry’s whiz kids once promised convenience at your fingertips. Now they’re embracing the military-industrial complex to defend the West.
noemamag.com
As is often the case with Western narratives about China, these memes are not really meant to paint an accurate picture of life in the country. Instead, they function as a projection of “all of the undesirable aspects of American life—or the decay of the American dream,” says Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng
So you are Chinese and you didn’t know
TikTok video by Chao Ban
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Sudden vivid memory of the night we launched, hitting 888 followers @tfa.ng. Miss chaoyang trap, miss everyone ❤️❤️
Adrian Hon@adrianhon.bsky.social · 7mo agoStruck by how Chaoyang Trap's 2022 piece on jubensha remains one of the best-written takes on the phenomenon even today. Not a week goes by without me missing that amazing newsletter on Chinese pop culture. RIP my sweet princes!! 😭😭😭
Who doesn’t love a good scam story - a mix of geopolitics, statecraft, crypto and public relations by @tfa.ng asteriskmag.com/issues/11/sc...
Scam Cities—Asterisk
Criminal networks throughout Southeast Asia are demonstrating the dangers of making “the ultimate exit.”
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important read on startup cities, criminal networks and the growth of special economic zones from @tfa.ng asteriskmag.com/issues/11/sc...
Scam Cities—Asterisk
Criminal networks throughout Southeast Asia are demonstrating the dangers of making “the ultimate exit.”
asteriskmag.com
excellent essay on xiaohongshu’s recent popularity and the “digital cold war” positionspolitics.org/lilian-kong-...
Lilian Kong and Shiqi Lin, “Hello My Chinese Spy, Take My Data”: Welcome to the Playground of the Digital Cold War
On January 12, 2025, just days before the short video platform TikTok was pressured to shut down in the U.S., a sensational “migration” began. Millions of American internet users flocked to the Chines...
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Still waiting for the “secret evidence” that supposedly justifies the TikTok ban. Can’t blame your constituents when your case is “trust me bro”
Engaging with #Xiaohongshu ( #RED / #REDnote / #LittleRedBook): A Reading List. @qianhuang.bsky.social and I curated this crowdsourced reading list on Xiaohongshu - qianxeniahuang.super.site/resources/xi... We're happy to add more suggestions! Hosted by Qian to make it accessible in China.
according to this 2019 interview, the red in xiaohongshu/rednote was a reference to the color of stanford graduate school of business and bain capital, where the founder studied and worked, not chairman mao m.36kr.com/p/1724258762...
Justin Smith on Semafor’s (so far failed) attempt to engage with China www.semafor.com/article/12/2...
important read by former techcrunch china writer rita liao: open.substack.com/pub/chinatal...
How My China Tech Beat Fell Apart
Why founders gave up on cross-border
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Trying to keep a thread of questions arising from the end of birthright citizenship in the US. 1. Is a US passport definitive proof of citizenship? 2. Is an expired passport proof of citizenship when that passport was valid? 3. Is birth in the US legal entry for adjustment of status?
always wear a tie with colors that match the weird jail you’ll stumble upon that day
The plan: Post your dissertation abstract online to rekindle a decades-long controversy about the utility of the humanities, turning your paper into the most-read publication in the history of your field
marc andreessen quoting editor of the official guide to the 2010 shanghai expo has been the most successful china soft power win since the invention of the printing press
Here are the revenue numbers from ccTLD domain sales (.ai) in Anguilla, as percentage of total government revenue, since 2015. Data from GovAI (also known as the Government of Anguilla).
I write about Oppenheimer, McCarthyism, Caltech’s Suicide Squad, the perils of a techno-nationalist case for immigration, and China’s brain drain: https://tianyu.co/p/oppenheimer-and-after
Oppenheimer and After
Also: China’s brain drain isn’t America’s brain gain.
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I talked to Rasheed Griffith about one of my favorite niche topics: citizenship by investment programs in the Caribbean.
Citizenship by Investment in the Caribbean with Tianyu Fang
Listen now (45 min) | The full transcript is available below. In this episode of Caribbean Progress, Rasheed chats with Tianyu Fang, a Fellow of CPSI and a well-known tech journalist. This was a far-r...
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view from the four seasons in East Palo Alto
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