So very cool to work on my last front-page story @wsj.com with @chunhanwong.bsky.social!

Yes it’s me :( If you know of cool opportunities, please be in touch!

My latest about the controversy around the Harvard graduation ceremony speech delivered by a Chinese student and how that illustrates the problems Harvard and Chinese students in the U.S. are facing today: www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Tomorrow: www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

We unpack how targeting Chinese student visas could hurt US universities' finances & American innovation in 5 charts. With Liyan Qi, Ming Li. So, 1 in every 4 international students comes from China. They make a larger share at some elite schools👇 t.co/zbxOCHiAsj

Chinese scientists in the U.S. are bracing for a new wave of government scrutiny. Expect this to lead to a new wave of Chinese scientists in fields like AI leaving the U.S. Here's a telling chart, plus a gift link to the full story by my colleague @shen-lu.bsky.social www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Thread: prevalence of post-approval changes in generic drugs and jicai (集采) drugs. I analyzed >160k supplemental filings and found widespread post-approval changes in generics and jicai drugs. Importantly, jicai drugs underwent more changes than non-jicai counterparts. bsky.app/profile/airm...

一致性评价是确保仿制药有效、安全的关键监管措施。然而，若仿制药在通过一致性评价后，生产环节发生变化，是否依旧符合与参比试剂的一致性？ 实际上，一款仿制药在通过一致性评价后，可对原材料供应商、生产工艺、生产厂址等多项生产环节进行变更，而无需重新进行一致性评价，多数情况只需在省级药监部门进行备案。 我分析了国家药监局公布的2019年至今的16万余条药物补充备案，发现通过一致性评价的仿制药、进入集采的药品中，广泛存在过评后生产环节的变更。 并且，进入集采的药品，相对于同成分但未进入集采的药品，进行了更多此类变更。 这些变更并非一定会影响药效、安全性，但仍需解决如何对此进行有效监管的问题。

Thread: I found data fraud in multiple clinical trials for generic drugs in China. I've seen limited coverage outside China of the recent controversy over 集采 — centralized procurement of drugs, especially generics. It is a hugely important issue close to my heart.

李宇晖：How China's dictatorship evolved from personal to collective, and then b... youtu.be/CLCHWfshnE8?... via @YouTube

Meet Alex Zhu, a former "little pink" whose journey from a staunch party supporter to an outspoken critic reflects what many young Chinese have experienced in recent years. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

A former legal intern who was also a family babysitter says that Kennedy touched her inappropriately more than two decades ago and that she is willing to testify before the Senate. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-cabinet-sexual-assault-allegations-hegseth-rfk-c61fc4b2?mod=bluesky

Re-upping this piece on the mirror images of MAGA & PRC nationalist anti-LGBTQ rhetoric: "while purveyors of moral panic in the US have called LGBTQ History Month a 'left-wing social experiment' & pray to 'save America from homosexuality' keyboard warriors in China1/2 thediplomat.com/2022/12/dont...

Walmart, the world’s largest private employer, said it will roll back initiatives aimed at enhancing DEI, or diversity, equity and inclusion, at the workplace, as such programs face growing legal scrutiny and conservative backlash.

This year I spent months reporting in Colombia, Mexico, and California, following Chinese migrants hoping to seek asylum in the US. It's a route that's become known as 走线. We made a 4-part podcast series about their journey. The first episode is free this week: open.spotify.com/episode/0vTt...

lovely

Thanks to #Stanford #SCCEI for great rsch, including: “firms in innovative industries, such as [AI] & nanotechnology, prioritized by the Chinese govt…are 2.7 percentage points more likely to penalize applicants supporting Western democracy compared to other firms.” open.substack.com/pub/scceichi...

so interesting

Among the 45 imprisoned Hong Kong activists is nurse and union chair Winnie Yu, now sentenced to 6 years 9 months. HK has always been hostile to labor, but this is a new low hklabourrights.org/research/win...

Benny Tai, a scholar at the heart of Hong Kong’s biggest national security trial, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Tuesday. Other sentences in the case, which crushed the pro-democracy camp here, ranged from just over 4 to more than 7 years in prison. Gift link: www.wsj.com/world/china/...

1/My colleague Fu Ting writes on a recent new, but unnoticed clampdown on independent bookstores in China - and how some are finding new homes overseas. At least a dozen have shuttered the past few months alone, with the owner of one arrested: apnews.com/article/chin...

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