Christian Shepherd

RT @lilkuo: The Washington Post is hiring for a news researcher to join its China bureau in Taipei! More details here: https://t.co/nguf74d…

The photos @Jiankui_He regularly posts on this website — today is no exception — were taken in a PKU-affiliated biotech incubator lab in Beijing. After visiting, we discovered he was barred from the building weeks ago. One of the many oddities in his attempted comeback

Katrina Northrop @NorthropKatrina

But much about his return to science remains murky. We found that he doesn’t have a lab — despite posting photos on X to the contrary. He doesn’t have academic affiliations or access to his passport. And his relationship to the Chinese government is complicated.

RT @kyleichan: All Americans should think about this chart https://t.co/tRA5N6Qv5r

RT @NorthropKatrina: He Jiankui, China’s most infamous scientist, is attempting a comeback. He says he remains committed to use gene-editin…

After child rearing subsidies made China's work report for the first time, many are looking to Tianmen, a city of 1m in Hubei, as a model. Births rose 17% there last year after an 8-year slump. But a visit suggests it won't be easy to sustain or copy. https://t.co/IZ03q4PkTc

RT @HanFeiTzu: Thanks to @cdcshepherd for the opportunity to talk about the insidious costs of tariffs on consumers! TLDR: 🇨🇳 does not di…

RT @pstAsiatech: How China came to dominate the world in renewable energy China now eclipses every other country in the world — including t…

RT @haugejostein: Chinese companies are expanding across the world at breakneck speed. In this brilliant piece, Kyle Chan explores China’s…

RT @NorthropKatrina: Trump’s transactional style — and his threats to take over Gaza and Greenland, — unnerves Taiwan. As @ryanl_hass sa…

RT @CREACleanAir: 🇨🇳 NEW | Analysis: Clean energy contributed a record 10% of China’s GDP in 2024 🌿 Solar, EVs, and batteries drove a qu…

RT @laurimyllyvirta: The key role of clean energy in China's economy shows that the sector can be a major driver of economic growth and inv…

RT @laurimyllyvirta: New from us: clean energy technologies contributed more than 10% of China’s GDP in 2024 for the first time ever, with…

RT @EvanFeigenbaum: 1: It takes a unique kind of nihilism to think that everything the U.S. has done internationally was a scam except to p…

RT @KaiserKuo: 1/ I've been thinking a lot about a conversation I had years ago with Joseph Nye—Joe Nye, Political Science Guy—about the "K…

RT @dakekang: 1/In the US, Elon Musk says he champions free speech. In China, his car company, Tesla, is silencing criticism - with the bac…

RT @kyleichan: House of Huawei, the new book by Washington Post reporter @evadou, has to be one of the most important books on China and in…

RT @suelinwong: My year-long investigation into the multibillion dollar world of online scams is out today — on the cover of The Economist…