Ingrid Fischer
@yingeli.bsky.social
Love & hate for China since more than 40 years. Translator
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Demokratie bedroht den Liberalismus, so der chinesische Philosoph Tongdong Bai. Ein Gespräch über Konfuzius, Menzius und die Herrschaft der Tugendhaften.
www.philomag.de/artikel/tong...
www.philomag.de/artikel/tong...
Tongdong Bai: „Die meisten modernen Staaten sind viel zu groß, als dass gewöhnliche Menschen sie verstehen könnten.“
Demokratie bedroht den Liberalismus, so der chinesische Philosoph Tongdong Bai. Ein Gespräch über Konfuzius, Menzius und die Herrschaft der Tugendhaften.
www.philomag.de
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Demokratie bedroht den Liberalismus, so der chinesische Philosoph Tongdong Bai. Ein Gespräch über Konfuzius, Menzius und die Herrschaft der Tugendhaften.
www.philomag.de/artikel/tong...
www.philomag.de/artikel/tong...
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Liedtexte u.a. von Herbert Grönemeyer und Helene Fischer illegal verwendet. Das LG München bremst OpenAI und seine KI ChatGPT. Ein Urteil mit Folgen:
www.lto.de/recht/nachri...
www.lto.de/recht/nachri...
GEMA siegt gegen OpenAI im Streit um Liedtexte
Das LG München I sieht bei der Verwendung bekannter Liedtexte durch ChatGPT eine Verletzung des Urheberrechts. Das könnte weitreichende Folgen haben.
www.lto.de
November 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Liedtexte u.a. von Herbert Grönemeyer und Helene Fischer illegal verwendet. Das LG München bremst OpenAI und seine KI ChatGPT. Ein Urteil mit Folgen:
www.lto.de/recht/nachri...
www.lto.de/recht/nachri...
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Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
highlight of my day!!!! vote @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social vote @workingfamilies.org ❤️❤️❤️
November 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
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Wow! Lest mal diesen Thread über die chinesischen Zeichen u ihre Bedeutung, die der neue New Yorker Bürgermeister, der Demokratische Sozialist @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social auswählte, um im Wahlkampf Wähler:innen mit chinesischen Wurzeln zu adressieren! Faszinierend!
Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
highlight of my day!!!! vote @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social vote @workingfamilies.org ❤️❤️❤️
November 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Wow! Lest mal diesen Thread über die chinesischen Zeichen u ihre Bedeutung, die der neue New Yorker Bürgermeister, der Demokratische Sozialist @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social auswählte, um im Wahlkampf Wähler:innen mit chinesischen Wurzeln zu adressieren! Faszinierend!
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Beijing Banner Protester: "Establish a New China That is Free, Humane, and Governed by Rule of Law"
"CDT Chinese editors noted censorship of the following combinations: 'Sanlitun + lift ban on political parties', 'Sanlitun + protest', 'Sanlitun + warrior', 'Sitong Bridge + Sanlitun' …"
"CDT Chinese editors noted censorship of the following combinations: 'Sanlitun + lift ban on political parties', 'Sanlitun + protest', 'Sanlitun + warrior', 'Sitong Bridge + Sanlitun' …"
Beijing Banner Protester: "Establish a New China That is Free, Humane, and Governed by Rule of Law"
The image above shows a one-man protest that reportedly took place at the high-end Taikoo Li Sanlitun mall (formerly Sanlitun Village) in Beijing on October 25, shortly after the end of the Party’s Fo...
chinadigitaltimes.net
November 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Beijing Banner Protester: "Establish a New China That is Free, Humane, and Governed by Rule of Law"
"CDT Chinese editors noted censorship of the following combinations: 'Sanlitun + lift ban on political parties', 'Sanlitun + protest', 'Sanlitun + warrior', 'Sitong Bridge + Sanlitun' …"
"CDT Chinese editors noted censorship of the following combinations: 'Sanlitun + lift ban on political parties', 'Sanlitun + protest', 'Sanlitun + warrior', 'Sitong Bridge + Sanlitun' …"
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As China’s space for independent film continues to shrink, two filmmakers-turned-curators have established festivals in Berlin and New York, creating vital platforms for Chinese cinema that can no longer be shown at home.
A New Global Scene for Independent Chinese Film | ChinaFile
This November, two unrelated festivals of independent Chinese-language films are taking place outside of China. The CiLENS Berlin Indie Chinese Cinema Week, which runs from November 1 to 9, is now in its fourth year. In New York, the inaugural IndieChina Film Festival is on from November 8 to 15.It’s a surprisingly positive development. “Many of us attending a conference on
www.chinafile.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
As China’s space for independent film continues to shrink, two filmmakers-turned-curators have established festivals in Berlin and New York, creating vital platforms for Chinese cinema that can no longer be shown at home.
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China's Cyberspace Administration (CAC) announced on September 22 the launch of a two-month campaign to curb content that incites antagonism and violence, and amplifies pessimistic and negative sentiments.
China’s Cyberspace Administration is suppressing ‘pessimistic and negative sentiments’ online
China's Cyberspace Administration (CAC) announced on September 22 the launch of a two-month campaign to curb content that incites antagonism and violence, and amplifies pessimistic and negative sentiments.
globalvoices.org
October 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
China's Cyberspace Administration (CAC) announced on September 22 the launch of a two-month campaign to curb content that incites antagonism and violence, and amplifies pessimistic and negative sentiments.
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"The Party’s tight control on historical narrative has rendered much of the pain afflicted in the name of liberation — or after liberation had ostensibly been achieved — unspeakable." Powerful from @yangyangcheng.bsky.social on voicelessness of Chinese women chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/09/f...
No Country for A Woman | China Books Review
Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression persis...
chinabooksreview.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"The Party’s tight control on historical narrative has rendered much of the pain afflicted in the name of liberation — or after liberation had ostensibly been achieved — unspeakable." Powerful from @yangyangcheng.bsky.social on voicelessness of Chinese women chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/09/f...
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Recorded Future just published a report diving into the Beijing Institute of Electronics Technology and Application (BIETA), which is almost certainly a front for China’s MSS, developing technologies to support intelligence and military missions. Full report: www.recordedfuture.com/research/bie...
BIETA: A Technology Enablement Front for China's MSS
Discover how China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) almost certainly operates BIETA and its subsidiary CIII as public fronts for cyber-espionage, covert communications, and technology acquisition. C...
www.recordedfuture.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Recorded Future just published a report diving into the Beijing Institute of Electronics Technology and Application (BIETA), which is almost certainly a front for China’s MSS, developing technologies to support intelligence and military missions. Full report: www.recordedfuture.com/research/bie...
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📚 L'ouvrage collectif "Penser en résistance dans la Chine d'aujourd'hui" (dir. A. Cheng, C. Froissart) s'interroge : "Comment, dans ces conditions, les intellectuels peuvent-ils continuer de penser de façon critique, mener leurs recherches, se faire entendre ? Sous quelles formes et… à quel prix ?"
September 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
📚 L'ouvrage collectif "Penser en résistance dans la Chine d'aujourd'hui" (dir. A. Cheng, C. Froissart) s'interroge : "Comment, dans ces conditions, les intellectuels peuvent-ils continuer de penser de façon critique, mener leurs recherches, se faire entendre ? Sous quelles formes et… à quel prix ?"
‘I have to do it’: Why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘I have to do it’: Why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China
In 2020, after spending half his life in the US, Song-Chun Zhu took a one-way ticket to China. Now he might hold the key to who wins the global AI race
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
‘I have to do it’: Why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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This is yet another story about authoritarianism — but one that hits a little different. Phurba is resilience incarnate, a person born for these times. And his tale is bonkers. I hope you enjoy reading it as much we did reporting it. Gift link: www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...
The Daring Caper of a Faithful Tibetan Who Outfoxed China
He escaped from police and crossed thousands of miles of wilderness on a decadelong odyssey toward freedom.
www.wsj.com
September 21, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This is yet another story about authoritarianism — but one that hits a little different. Phurba is resilience incarnate, a person born for these times. And his tale is bonkers. I hope you enjoy reading it as much we did reporting it. Gift link: www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...
Arc’teryx has issued an official apology after facing backlash from its recent campaign, which featured the works of Cai Guo-Qiang. www.lifestyleasia.com/hk/nature/ar...
www.lifestyleasia.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Arc’teryx has issued an official apology after facing backlash from its recent campaign, which featured the works of Cai Guo-Qiang. www.lifestyleasia.com/hk/nature/ar...
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The Trump-Xi phone call today was a nothingburger, and there is, of course, no deal on TikTok yet:
Chinese readout of Xi-Trump phone call on Friday
China’s foreign ministry just released the following readout in Chinese on the night of Friday, September 19 (Beijing Time)
www.pekingnology.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The Trump-Xi phone call today was a nothingburger, and there is, of course, no deal on TikTok yet:
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As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) promotes DeepSeek abroad, making cutting-edge AI technology accessible to the Global South, this comes with hidden risks and human-rights-related consequences.
DeepSeek and the digital battleground: China’s AI influence abroad
As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) promotes DeepSeek abroad, making cutting-edge AI technology accessible to the Global South, this comes with hidden risks and human-rights-related consequences.
globalvoices.org
September 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) promotes DeepSeek abroad, making cutting-edge AI technology accessible to the Global South, this comes with hidden risks and human-rights-related consequences.
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Massive leak shows how a Chinese company is exporting the Great Firewall to the world – Wired: ‘Geedge Networks, a company founded in 2018 that counts the “father” of China’s massive censorship infrastructure as one of its investors, styles itself as a network-monitoring provider’
Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World
Geedge Networks, a company with ties to the founder of China’s mass censorship infrastructure, is selling its censorship and surveillance systems to at least four other countries in Asia and Africa.
www.wired.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Massive leak shows how a Chinese company is exporting the Great Firewall to the world – Wired: ‘Geedge Networks, a company founded in 2018 that counts the “father” of China’s massive censorship infrastructure as one of its investors, styles itself as a network-monitoring provider’
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A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao’s campaigns in the wake of the 1958 Amdo Rebellion.
Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of "The Red Wind Howls" by Tsering Döndrup: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of "The Red Wind Howls" by Tsering Döndrup: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
chinabooksreview.com
September 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao’s campaigns in the wake of the 1958 Amdo Rebellion.
Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of "The Red Wind Howls" by Tsering Döndrup: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of "The Red Wind Howls" by Tsering Döndrup: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
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Translation: Jiangyou City Residents Explain Why They Turned Out to Protest in Support of Bullied Girl and Her Family
"No matter how powerful those officials are, we ordinary folks outnumber them. It’s not like they can wipe out tens of thousands of us in one fell swoop."
"No matter how powerful those officials are, we ordinary folks outnumber them. It’s not like they can wipe out tens of thousands of us in one fell swoop."
Translation: Jiangyou City Residents Explain Why They Turned Out to Protest in Support of Bullied Girl and Her Family
In the wake of early August’s spontaneous mass protests in the city of Jiangyou, Sichuan province over official inaction in a severe bullying case, there has been unusually stringent online censorship...
chinadigitaltimes.net
August 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Translation: Jiangyou City Residents Explain Why They Turned Out to Protest in Support of Bullied Girl and Her Family
"No matter how powerful those officials are, we ordinary folks outnumber them. It’s not like they can wipe out tens of thousands of us in one fell swoop."
"No matter how powerful those officials are, we ordinary folks outnumber them. It’s not like they can wipe out tens of thousands of us in one fell swoop."
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Egune is one of several linguistically and culturally aware AI models built by smaller nations to reduce reliance on American and Chinese tech giants:
With 128 GPUs, Mongolian startup Egune AI is training large-language models tailored to Mongolian language, culture, and nomadic traditions.
Story on why small nations are building their own LLMs despite limited resources
restofworld.org/2025/mongoli... via @restofworld.org
Story on why small nations are building their own LLMs despite limited resources
restofworld.org/2025/mongoli... via @restofworld.org
The Mongolian startup defying Big Tech with its own LLM
Egune is one of several linguistically and culturally aware AI models built by smaller nations to reduce reliance on American and Chinese tech giants.
restofworld.org
August 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Egune is one of several linguistically and culturally aware AI models built by smaller nations to reduce reliance on American and Chinese tech giants:
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Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
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China's new model of social governance merges Mao-era grassroots mobilization with digital surveillance and party-led service delivery. Nis Grünberg, Katja Drinhausen and Alexander Davey explore how China’s Communist Party is reinserting itself into daily life: merics.org/en/report/se...
August 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
China's new model of social governance merges Mao-era grassroots mobilization with digital surveillance and party-led service delivery. Nis Grünberg, Katja Drinhausen and Alexander Davey explore how China’s Communist Party is reinserting itself into daily life: merics.org/en/report/se...