Senior Lecturer, Political Economist and China Specialist at King's College London
London, England
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Chinese tech giants are launching products to rival artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT. But these chatbots in China will be subject to Beijing’s strict censorship regime and regulations governing the development of AI. Will they prevail?
In this article, I clarified the myths around China's common prosperity drive and argued that it is to serve the political purpose of cementing the Party's comprehensive control over the economy and capital, a most important imperative of political survival for Xi.
The term “common prosperity” has quickly risen to prominence in Chinese domestic politics amid an intense regulatory crackdown on China’s leading tech companies. 🇨🇳
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Happy to share my two cents with the Economist on government guidence funds 政府引导基金 - mounting evidence suggests they are more responsive to political incentives than market signals, let alone the prevalent direct intervention by their supervising agencies.
Fear by state-capitalists of falling foul of ideological diktats could lower investment returns and throttle corporate dynamism econ.st/3CkoIBb
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House prices increased significantly for detached/semi-detached houses 12-25 miles from centre of London.
Price of flats fell everywhere
Rents fell most strongly central areas of cities, but in the outer areas, they grew substantially
@CEP_LSE report (PDF)
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Even more ironic is that customers are panic shopping for Nike and Adidas. Shall this be called "hedging for being a patriot"? 为爱国而囤货
The funny thing is while h&m became immediately unsearchable on Taobao, Nike didn't. Nor did official Chinese Football Association suspend the contract with Nike. 嘴上说不要，身体总是很诚实！
Western fashion brands, including Nike and H&M, are facing growing calls for boycotts in China, as Beijing pushes back against allegations of human rights abuses against the country's Uyghur Muslim minority. nbcnews.to/39fztcq
Could this be a "if Trump can fake and make it, I can make it too" mentality? :)
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I don't think banning Trump on Twitter does any good for democracy in America. I never liked Trump. But I insist that his speech and behaviour should be judged properly by the judicial system or, in the case of impeachment, be held accountable by the Constitution 1/
From authoritarian politics we learnt that surpression of freedom of speech hampers the flow of useful information that is badly needed for effective governance and regime stability. This applies also to today's America. 3/
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Check out this recent paper by @CSISFreeman sr. associate @vshih2 - "China’s Leninist Response to COVID-19: From Information Suppression to Total Mobilization" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
The rigidity of the regime delays information flow and prevent effective precautious measures from being taken. It is also the same regime that has an exceptionally strong mobilization capacity. Failing to recognize either of these two aspects misreads the Party.
One year ago, the first alarm about a dangerous virus was sounded. But it took the Chinese govt weeks to act. Our investigation into the 25 days that changed the world. It's a story of science vs politics, center vs local + too many unsung heroes to count nytimes.com/2020/12/30/world…
Why did Keir Starmer whip Labour MPs to vote for a Tory deal rather than allowing them to abstain? Answer from Chinese politics: during the line struggle at Lushan conference, everyone had to criticise Peng Dehuai, as hard as they can–not doing so meant disloyalty to the Party!
Sir Keir Starmer facing rebellion over decision to back Boris Johnson's EU trade deal on Wednesday
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嘴上说不要，身体却很诚实😂
EU and China poised to agree investment pact on.ft.com/3hqzEV2
Great thread of thoughts–however it is hard to tell where the boundary between policy-induced and competition-induced overcapacity is, esp when China's record of labor practices is considered. Waitress in the coffee shop may not have formal contract or social welfare!
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The adaptive nature of this deal, or no deal, will 1) make it inevitably a living deal and 2) set an important precedence for future trade agreements!
Waiting for the finale. I still believe the key trick to a deal will be a sufficiently vague "evolution mechanism" that kick key issues down the road. But in either case, there will be no "bespoke deal" to celebrate–not even the Canada model.
Johnson to go to Brussels after ‘no tangible progress’ on Brexit talks on.ft.com/3gqUgft
I think what Starmer tries to play here is to wait and see how hard Tory brexiteers view the deal–meaning either an implosion of Tories or to turn the page of Brexit over and return to the battlefield which Labor is more comfortable with. Nice move.
Would Labour back any UK-EU trade deal?
"We'll have a look at that deal and make our decision then," says Sir Keir Starmer who adds, "I can't “emphasise enough” how a deal is in the “national interest”
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