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Technology, education, parenting — my personal voice on what matters.
January 21, 2026
Inside China's Real Advantage: Manufacturing at Scale
Notes from Liyang, China's battery capital, and the infrastructure reshaping global supply chains…
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December 17, 2025
What Chinese Scientists Think the World Could Look Like By 2049
Where advanced technology is treated as something to shape, not something to avoid…
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November 25, 2025
AI’s Bottleneck Is Power. The US and China Feel It Differently.
The US needs more generation. But China needs more efficiency.…
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October 15, 2025
What Surprised Me Most on Our Deep Tech China Trip
Notes from inside an ecosystem defined by constraint, coordination, and speed…
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February 27, 2023
The Dangers of a Too-Hot ChatGPT Craze
甲小姐对话张斯成：ChatGPT过热容易导致错误判断 | 甲子光年…
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February 23, 2023
Coming soon
Hey there, fellow curious minds!…
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Company Newsletter
Tech Buzz China
Tech Buzz China is the company I founded to cover China's technology industry. This is a team publication — I contribute and help guide its editorial direction, but it's not exclusively my work.
May 8, 2026
China's Humanoid Robots Aren’t Ready. The Real Story Is the System Being Built.
The humanoids remain limited in capability, but many parts of the industrial system are being pulled into the experiment at once.…
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May 1, 2026
On the Ground in China’s Humanoid Robotics Moment
China’s Humanoid Robots Are Moving Fast. Paul Triolo Explains Why.…
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April 12, 2026
The Hundred Shrimp War: OpenClaw and China’s AI Agent Explosion
While you could read this as China catching up to Silicon Valley on AI agents, what's actually happening is more structural — and more permanent — than that framing suggests.…
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April 3, 2026
The Taobao Inside Qwen: Why Alibaba's AI Gambit Is About Re-Architecting the Internet
While you could dismiss this as yet another company slapping a chatbot onto its existing services, what's actually happening here is more interesting (and consequential) than that…
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