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New York Times profiles Debra Bruno as he examined the enslavers in her family and worked with Eleanor Mire, whose family was one of the enslaved. nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/… via @NYTimes

魏玲灵在本期《中国洞察》中写道，中国各地大学顺应国家方针向“硬”科学倾斜，可能会忽视高科技发展中的人文因素。如果缺乏人文社会科学的批判视角，创造出有害AI的风险可能加大。buff.ly/mwzxPxH

Temu Battles TikTok-Like Backlash Over Data—Data-storage deal with Oracle follows several states’ allegations bargain site could hand over user data to Beijing Shen Lu wsj.com/tech/temu-batt… wsj.com/tech/temu-batt…

Israel-Iran Conflict Spurs China to Reconsider Russian Gas Pipeline—Power of Siberia 2 project has been stalled for years, but Beijing is concerned about reliability of oil and gas from Middle East Georgi Kantchev Lingling Wei 魏玲灵 wsj.com/world/china-ru… wsj.com/world/china-ru…

Russia-China talks on Siberia 2 have dragged on for years. One reason China has given is that China limits the import of oil and gas from a single country to 20% Now it’s back on the table. With ⁦Georgi Kantchev⁩ wsj.com/world/china-ru…

Western companies are struggling to secure approvals for rare-earth imports from Chinese authorities, despite the U.S.-China deal, reports ⁦Jon Emont⁩ wsj.com/world/china/ch…

Thanks for the great conversation and bold thinking on how best to keep the U.S. and its closest allies and partners safe, Ely

Alas the answer is a definitive no. It’s yet another sign of Xi further centralizing power as he formalizes top-down control.

Heard in Beijing: Deflation turns illegal! reuters.com/business/autos…

Trade deals are proving elusive for Trump. The standoff with Japan shows why. ⁦Gavin Bade⁩ ⁦Brian Schwartz⁩ wsj.com/economy/trade/…

“These provisions send a clear message to global firms: the recent fall in tariffs between the U.S. and China doesn’t weaken the argument for building supply chains outside China.”

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Xi Has Spent Decades Preparing for a Cold War With the U.S.—Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s strategy draws on his understanding of Soviet failures Lingling Wei 魏玲灵 wsj.com/world/china/ch… wsj.com/world/china/ch…

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been preparing for decades for a clash with the U.S., taking lessons from Soviet failures on.wsj.com/46p0RmI

This. Lingling Wei 魏玲灵 managed to resume here thousands of strategy pages. Well done. And very much on point

Thanks, Joe. In some ways, Beijing is pursuing a sort of guerrilla warfare, sparked by Henry Kissinger’s analysis of the nature of asymmetric conflicts: “The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.”