Amy Chang Chien
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News researcher for @nytimes amy.changchien@nytimes.com
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Chinese censors blocked #Clubhouse days after it became a hub for open discussion. “Clubhouse is exactly what Chinese censors don’t want to see in online communication - a massive, freewheeling conversation in which people are talking openly.” w/@amyyqin https://t.co/dBVfn3b1SC
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In China, brands speak out about forced-labor concerns in Xinjiang and consumers boycott H&M and burn Nikes. In the US, Anta and Li-Ning explicitly support Xinjiang cotton and continue to recruit NBA players -- one signed an endorsement deal last week https://t.co/ceW3OgqxF0
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Drought in Taiwan Pits Chip Makers Against Farmers
Read in Chinese, see bilingual version @nytchinese @zhonggg @amy_changchien https://t.co/T0zuo6opTL
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On 3/15, I agreed to write this. On 3/16, the Atlanta shootings happened--making this essay feel infinitely harder, but infinitely more important to write. So honored to have it alongside the work of these amazing Asian and Asian American photographers. https://t.co/tUfnhrvu31
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Following the Xinjiang cotton dispute, a blur of pixels has been obscuring the Western brands worn by contestants on China’s most popular online shows. As @haifeng_huang puts it, this censorship has become its own form of entertainment. Story w/ @albeezh
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‘What you’ve seen over the last year is an acceleration of concern in the US about Taiwan,’ he said that ‘this delicate situation that appeared to have been successfully managed or finessed for decades, suddenly people woke up to the possibility that the era has come to an end.’”
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“’I think there’s been a shift in peoples’ thinking,’ said Richard N. Haass, a former director of policy planning at the State Department under President George W. Bush and now the president of the Council on Foreign Relations... https://t.co/sc3RNQLV6J
New from me: as China gains strength, does “strategic ambiguity” still work? https://t.co/73A6mssbba
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Surreal scenes at Tsengwen Reservoir, whose water level is dangerously low. https://t.co/F8fEJq9FZd
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Taiwan, gripped by drought, has shut off irrigation across tens of thousands of acres of farmland. In Hsinchu, home to TSMC’s HQs, some farmers are paying the price for their high-tech neighbors’ economic importance. w/@zhonggg + nice photos by @Anrizzy https://t.co/5JsCYjs7m4
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Spare a thought for Taiwan's water woes, which are not good for the tech world but might be worse for the island's rice growers.
@amy_changchien and I met farmers whose fields have been cut off to save water for homes and chip factories. W/ @Anrizzy pics https://t.co/iJLoNakdLi
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New: China has made rapid advances in nearly unstoppable hypersonic missiles, which can be pointed at US and Taiwan.
But to develop them requires supercomputers made with help from companies and tech from…US and Taiwan.
New story with @nakashimae cont/ https://t.co/46reszthGj
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In a couple blocks here in Beijing yesterday, McDonald’s ice cream cones were 2 for the price of 1, Lego was offering a free kit with each purchase and everything from tea to wedding photos was discounted — provided you had been vaccinated. @vwang3 https://t.co/QI8KDYzQrr
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A new state-backed musical and a CGTN documentary about the “blood, violence, terrorism and separatism” in old Uyghur language textbooks are part of Beijing’s wide-ranging new propaganda campaign to push back on its crackdown in Xinjiang. https://t.co/7Dl6CF6gI7
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“If you’re a Filipino fisherman, you’re always getting harassed by these guys. They’re always maneuvering a little too close, blowing horns at you. At some point you just give up and stop fishing there.” https://t.co/X57rKuq7PI
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Still, Ms. Wu said she was concerned that the construction site may have fallen short of safety standards. “You have to ensure the safety of the construction, because if you don’t you will end up hurting other people,” said Ms. Wu.
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“I don’t want to blame anyone,” Ms. Wu said on Sunday, as she sat with family members under a tent at a funeral home in Hualien. They were waiting for a mortuary makeup artist to finish work on the body of Wu’s daughter, a 35-year-old nurse who had been on her way back home.
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The construction project had been commissioned by Taiwan’s transportation ministry to improve the safety of the slope near the crash site, which occurred on a steep mountainside on the Pacific coast. It was part of a larger, six-year plan to enhance railway safety in Taiwan.
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Two days after Taiwan’s deadliest rail disaster in decades, investigators were trying to determine why a truck had slipped downhill from a construction site into the path of an express train. w/ @amyyqin @QiuyiJoy https://t.co/8zWHifIq97
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Grim irony: the truck which slipped down the incline into the train track was associated with a construction project commissioned by Taiwan’s transportation ministry to improve the safety of the slope near the crash site. The driver is in custody. https://t.co/lfdg6r5Sm2
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