Meredith Chen
@meredithchenn
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Joined October 2021
“Scarier than horror”: Is AI doctoring China's future for film censorship?
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A public outcry over a scene where a gay couple were turned into a heterosexual one has triggered a wider debate about the use of technology.
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Happy to appear again in the South China Morning Post, interviewed by @meredithchenn on the future of EU-China tech relations. Some takeaways 🧵👇
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Yesterday, @meredithchenn published a piece in @SCMPNews covering key findings from our latest report. My main worry? Having the "wrong prescription to what’s a very complicated issue." Some highlights 🧵 /5 And ICYMI, here's the original report thread: https://t.co/TgFTCZqOjF
🚨 NEW REPORT! 🚨 After 2 (!!) years working on a new dataset of thousands of PLA contracts, I’m very excited to share a new report, featured in today’s @WSJ! We ask: Who are the PLA’s AI suppliers? The answer: an unexpected, emerging class of firms and universities. 🧵/15
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I had a trip to Dengfeng in Henan province and visited the 1,500-year-old #Shaolin Temple after it came at the centre of scandal as its long-time celebrity abbot Shi Yongxin is investigated over alleged financial offences and sexual misconduct. https://t.co/IQQ4kG8q6u
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While long-time abbot Shi Yongxin faces criminal investigation it’s business as usual at the temple, but it could be a turning point.
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Grateful for the opportunity to interview @NeysunM who shared deep insights into the dynamics of US-China academic exchanges and other topics - super insightful!
It was my great honor to speak with @meredithchenn at some length on how the landscape of U.S.-China relations looks to me now, especially through the prism of academic exchange, as part of the @SCMPNews Open Questions interview series: https://t.co/BSty6b0e7q
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If you’ve ever wondered why China’s political statements sometimes appear to get lost in translation, have a read of our latest story @SCMPNews
https://t.co/WRtjE8k0yM
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Linguistic, cultural and political differences make interpretation difficult, but analysts also point to factors like the target audience.
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Bogged down by an incentive system favouring titles over innovation, young scientists struggle for academic support amid Beijing’s self-reliance push via @SCMPNews
https://t.co/GZXdZ5bWOw
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Bogged down by an incentive system favouring titles over innovation, young scientists struggle for academic support amid Beijing’s self-reliance push.
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Very cool to see my latest report covered by @meredithchenn in @SCMPNews! ‘Complacent’ US risks losing out to China in Global South tech race, report says Link to SCMP article in next tweet And in case you missed it, see below thread for key takeaways! https://t.co/dOwldOFQBm
Excited to share my first report with the @AtlanticCouncil, co-authored with @PeterEngelke1! We focus on how US-China competition in AI is playing out in the Global South—and why China’s position may be stronger than many in Washington realize. 🧵 /18
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Explored questions like: How did the country deviate from its original ethnic formula of “unity through difference” to a more aggressive push for ethnic integration? What’s at stake in the battle over New Qing History?
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As the US backslides, can China claim moral high ground on women’s rights? https://t.co/vDu46qN3t3
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Three decades have passed since the Chinese capital hosted a landmark women’s conference. Now it plans to do it again.
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My latest: After #DeepSeek AI shock, how far can China go to nurture and keep top talent? https://t.co/YVLLf5df2P
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In a global race to innovate, China’s next-generation tech talent needs more than resources – they also need freedom, experts say.
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My latest: #Trump eyes #MarcoRubio for top diplomat, but will sanctions create chaos for US-China ties? https://t.co/HWDXEh9ubl
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Analysts say if Donald Trump picks Marco Rubio for US secretary of state, it could signal more ‘confrontational’ approach to diplomacy.
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My latest: Private firms in China are in a “precarious” situation as debt-ridden local governments increasingly seek to boost earnings through harsh criminal law enforcement, lawyers and observers have warned. https://t.co/NCkkPEeHEY
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Recent trials have compounded concerns about unduly harsh legal action targeting businesses in other regions to ease the local debt situation.
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The Chinese embassy in Pakistan has called on Islamabad to punish those responsible for a deadly attack on Chinese nationals near the international airport in the southern city of Karachi on Sunday night. via @SCMPNews
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Baloch Liberation Army finds targeting Chinese interests ‘a useful tool�� in its separatist campaign, says academic.
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@navigatingadopt “Is it going to be harder for Chinese adoptees to go back to China? Will we no longer talk about the children from the one-child policy? … It just feels like we’re forgotten,” she said, who was born in Guangdong and adopted by a family in Texas in 2002.
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Cosette Eisenhauer-Epp, co-founder of the advocacy network @navigatingadopt said many adoptees struggled with feelings of abandonment and missing a piece of their identity and she felt glad children would grow up in their birth culture without “feeling forced to assimilate”.
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“You’re losing a kid even though you didn’t give birth to them and you haven’t even met them,” said Kathy Rice, one of the affected would-be parents, 61. “But they’ve been part of our family all this time and all of a sudden we’re losing them.”
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Children with disabilities and illnesses may have lost their last chance of a family life, as their chances of being adopted domestically are extremely low, they warn.
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