Fan Wenxin
@xinwenfan.bsky.social
China reporter. Alum of WSJ, Bloomberg News and NYT. x.com/xinwenfan
Weeks before Zelensky said men from China are fighting for Russia, a tenacious Chinese journalist spoke to one. For NPR, I interviewed Chai Jing. A decade ago, she had the attention and emotions of millions of viewers at CCTV. Now she's back, to YouTube, prompted by a weird move from censors.
Chai Jing: China's Lesley Stahl returns to spotlight on YouTube - by @xinwenfan.bsky.social
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Chai Jing: China's Lesley Stahl returns to spotlight on YouTube
Chai Jing's interviews appear to strike a chord back home in China, even as YouTube is blocked in the country and popular platforms have deleted videos repackaging her show.
www.npr.org
April 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Weeks before Zelensky said men from China are fighting for Russia, a tenacious Chinese journalist spoke to one. For NPR, I interviewed Chai Jing. A decade ago, she had the attention and emotions of millions of viewers at CCTV. Now she's back, to YouTube, prompted by a weird move from censors.
Must-read feature that would have shined in any news magazine, by @violazhou.bsky.social who braved the Michigan snowstorm to bring us a documentary movie-style story of a Chinese EV business in America! restofworld.org/2025/gotion-...
How a Chinese battery factory sparked a political meltdown in a small Michigan town
The ambitious executives at Gotion wanted to join America’s EV gold rush. Then came geopolitics.
restofworld.org
March 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Must-read feature that would have shined in any news magazine, by @violazhou.bsky.social who braved the Michigan snowstorm to bring us a documentary movie-style story of a Chinese EV business in America! restofworld.org/2025/gotion-...
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“When the tiger is hungry,” the developer told me, “what do you think would happen to the lamb?” Another incredibly insightful column on the Chinese zeitgeist from the peerless @liyuan6.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/b...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/b...
China’s Police Are Preying on Small Firms in Search of Cash
With localities facing budget holes, the police are crossing provincial borders to collect fines and draining company treasuries. Businesses call it a shakedown.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2024 at 5:10 PM
“When the tiger is hungry,” the developer told me, “what do you think would happen to the lamb?” Another incredibly insightful column on the Chinese zeitgeist from the peerless @liyuan6.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/b...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/b...
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1/My colleague Fu Ting writes on a recent new, but unnoticed clampdown on independent bookstores in China - and how some are finding new homes overseas. At least a dozen have shuttered the past few months alone, with the owner of one arrested:
apnews.com/article/chin...
apnews.com/article/chin...
As China cracks down on bookstores at home, Chinese-language booksellers are flourishing overseas
Independent bookstores have become a new battleground in China. They're getting swept up in the ruling Communist Party’s crackdown on dissent and free expression.
apnews.com
November 18, 2024 at 2:44 PM
1/My colleague Fu Ting writes on a recent new, but unnoticed clampdown on independent bookstores in China - and how some are finding new homes overseas. At least a dozen have shuttered the past few months alone, with the owner of one arrested:
apnews.com/article/chin...
apnews.com/article/chin...
Another car ramming in China, at a primary school in Hunan this morning.😱
November 19, 2024 at 1:43 AM
Another car ramming in China, at a primary school in Hunan this morning.😱