New China Literacy
Yaqi Li, YichaoA young Chinese IR scholar-practitioner's notebook — policy analysis, institutional observation, and firsthand dispatches from inside the system that trains a rising power to understand the world.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 31 | Founded | 6 months ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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Beijing Came Prepared to Name the U.S.-China Relationship First
from Xinhua
Buried in the Chinese readout of today’s Xi-Trump meeting is, to me, the single most consequential line of the summit so far.
Xi announced that both leaders agreed to make a “a constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic...
Can Mao Zedong Be Distilled?
In late March 2026, a doctoral researcher named Hugh Yau released 求是Skill, a Claude Code Agent Skill built from Mao’s most teachable writings: Oppose Book Worship, On Practice, On Contradiction, On Protracted War, and finally On the Ten Maj...
How Beijing Learned to See America as a Tech-Industrial Complex
I. Same elephant, opposite arrows
Set two pieces side by side.
In Transformer News on May 8, 2026, Yi-Ling Liu traced how Silicon Valley sold Washington the “AI race with China” story. Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang, Marc Andreessen’s a16z,...
Policy Entrepreneurship with Chinese Characteristics
How a Chinese think tank briefly became an AI company
In April 2023, inside a trade-fair pavilion in Shenzhen, a Chinese international-relations think tank unveiled what it described as a generative-AI product.
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Policy analyst, former US-watcher in China, now a China-watcher in Singapore, also a Chinese watcher of China watchers. Writing is solitary work, often done past midnight. Stay lucid, stay composed, and think from where I stand.
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