Paradite Decodes China
A Chinese scientist call He Jiankui recently claimed to have performed gene editing for two newly borned babies. This was reported widely within and outside China. So what are the reactions to this news in China?
Not good. Continue reading “PDC 7 – Doubts within China on gene-edited babies story”
The big news in the past few days in Chinese tech space is the massive scandal of fake reviews on Mafengwo(马蜂窝).
For those who don’t know, Mafengwo is a Chinese unicorn startup in travel industry, expected to be valued at $2.5 billion. It operates in the same space as TripAdvisor, Lonely Planet and travel tour agencies.
So what is it all about? Continue reading “PDC 6 – Chinese Travel Tech Unicorn Mafengwo Accused of Using Fake Reviews”
So there is this thread on Twitter going around about Huawei phone tracking your location. While it looks scary at first, there are some information gaps in this reverse engineering analysis that made it appear much worse than it actually it. Let me break it down. Continue reading “PDC 5 – Is Huawei really tracking you?”
You might know the equivalent of Twitter in China, Weibo as the place where Chinese Internet users express their opinions and share their life.
However, Weibo is not the only place where Internet users hang out in China publicly. There are many other platforms in the Chinese Internet where users can discuss current affairs in self-organized communities.
Here are some of the platforms that I know of, ranked by MAU (monthly active users).
Continue reading “PDC 4 – Introduction to Public Social Media and Forum Sites in China”
Weibo, for those who don’t know, is the equivalent of Twitter in China. It has more users than Twitter, but that’s not the only difference. Users can monetize their content on Weibo to earn millions of Chinese yuan.
If you follow news on politics or China, you probably know the existence of Social Credit system in China. But all the Western media are too fixated on the citizen score and surveillance part. Let me walk you through the real Social Credit system.
Continue reading “PDC 2 – Walking Through the Official Document on China’ Social Credit System”
If you know a bit about Internet in China, you probably know or use WeChat. But unless you are an avid WeChat user, you would probably not know the existence of WeChat subscription accounts. Continue reading “PDC 1 – WeChat Subscription Account”
