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- The quirky Ma Qianzu explains why the Chinese internet is so frustrating to read: there’s little actual analysis, only a straightjacketed state media and a pro… 18 Mar
- For the better part of a decade, I've been writing that the US government's restrictions on Chinese tech companies were unstrategic, poorly explained, and base… 28 Feb Quoting@deanwballThink about the power Hegseth is asserting here. He is claiming that the DoD can force all contractors to stop doing business of any kind w…
- Knowledge Wins — from the American Library Association (1917) 24 Jan
- I loved this joint review of Jia Zhangke’s latest feature with Breakneck by @kirenitynow 19 Jan
- Three book titles that made me laugh: There Is No Antimemetics Division The Future of Hegel Centrists of the World, Unite! 15 Jan
- My annual letter: https://t.co/5axz7jVwOb This year I discuss corgis, compute, and Cold War; the Texas State Fair; DSA; Neue Sachlichkeit; disfiguring the phys… 1 Jan
- 2025 letter 1 Jan
- What we choose to fight is so tiny What fights with us is so great When we win it's with small things and the triumph itself makes us small This is how we grow… 5 Dec 2025 Quoting@nabeelquConversations with Tyler is like a tennis match and the perfect guest is somebody who can return @tylercowen's (fast) serve and in some cas…
- A fun depiction from Chosun Ilbo 21 Nov 2025
- An excellent opening to a funny and tragic piece on what it was like to work in Inner Mongolia state media: 12 Nov 2025
- I'll be giving two talks open to the public: Oct 22 at Harvard's Fairbank Center with Susan Greenhalgh and Mark Wu https://t.co/rdcqV5bxVT Oct 27 at Stanford's… 20 Oct 2025
- Yes, because technology is ultimately people and teams. The U.S. should hold on to talent rather than drive engineers out through immigration raids 25 Sept 2025 Quoting@tszzlcorrect me if im wrong but it seems like: - the theme of the @danwwang book, and the general elite consensus now is that “industrial proces…
- A fun extension of by the lawyerly society by @Tom_Westgarth15: "The UK is closer to resembling a ‘managerial paralysis’: a surplus of managers, lawyers, HR st… 18 Sept 2025
- Excited to chat with @JulianGewirtz tomorrow at Asia Society in New York 15 Sept 2025 Quoting@chinabksreviewDan Wang. LIVE at Asia Society. Next TUESDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2025 @ 6:30. Spaces limited, buy your TICKETS now ➡️ https://t.co/n0bGaB9u2V In a…
- I outline a bear case for China to @DouthatNYT: substantial numbers of the rich, the creative, and the desperate are eager to emigrate — the latter trekking ac… 9 Sept 2025
- For friends in DC, I’ll be speaking tonight at an IFP/FAI event hosted by @AlecStapp and @hamandcheese https://t.co/48qiMEW8mG tomorrow at Politics and Prose W… 2 Sept 2025
- Last week on Odd Lots, @TheStalwart and @tracyalloway were really wonderful to say that I've been a friend of the pod for the past decade, to which I replied t… 2 Sept 2025 Quoting@TheStalwartSomething that I tried to get across in our interview is that, AFAIC, @danwwang has won. We've been talking to him for ~7 years now, and in…
- This ChinaTalk podcast felt special because @jordanschneider had me hold his one-year-old just before the recording, encouraged both of us to reflect on our ti… 30 Aug 2025
- One writer I admire is RF Kuang, whose creative output is a reminder that the rest of us are just not working very hard 26 Aug 2025
- I had a lot of fun presenting to @AaronBastani, who coined the term Fully Automated Luxury Communism, the idea that China should be understood as Partially Aut… 24 Aug 2025 Quoting@novaramediaThis week on Downstream, technology analyst and author @DanWWang joins @AaronBastani to compare China, the US and the UK. “For the Chinese,…
- Arthur and I have a piece in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs — China’s technological momentum is driven by its gigantic investments in power, connectivity,… 22 Aug 2025
- Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future 25 Jul 2025
- 2023 letter 23 Jan 2024
- China notes, July ’23: on technological momentum 18 Jul 2023
- 2022 letter 4 Mar 2023
- 2021 letter 1 Jan 2022
- 2020 letter 1 Jan 2021