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Fan Wenxin

@xinwenfan.bsky.social
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China reporter. Alum of WSJ, Bloomberg News and NYT. x.com/xinwenfan

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Fan Wenxin @xinwenfan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Weeks before Zelensky said men from China are fighting for Russia, a tenacious Chinese journalist spoke to one. For NPR, I interviewed Chai Jing. A decade ago, she had the attention and emotions of millions of viewers at CCTV. Now she's back, to YouTube, prompted by a weird move from censors.
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Fan Wenxin @xinwenfan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Must-read feature that would have shined in any news magazine, by @violazhou.bsky.social who braved the Michigan snowstorm to bring us a documentary movie-style story of a Chinese EV business in America! restofworld.org/2025/gotion-...
restofworld.org
How a Chinese battery factory sparked a political meltdown in a small Michigan town
The ambitious executives at Gotion wanted to join America’s EV gold rush. Then came geopolitics.
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Mike Forsythe 傅才德 @pekingmikenyt.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
“When the tiger is hungry,” the developer told me, “what do you think would happen to the lamb?” Another incredibly insightful column on the Chinese zeitgeist from the peerless @liyuan6.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/b...
nytimes.com
China’s Police Are Preying on Small Firms in Search of Cash
With localities facing budget holes, the police are crossing provincial borders to collect fines and draining company treasuries. Businesses call it a shakedown.
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Dake Kang @dakekang.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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...
apnews.com
As China cracks down on bookstores at home, Chinese-language booksellers are flourishing overseas
Independent bookstores have become a new battleground in China. They're getting swept up in the ruling Communist Party’s crackdown on dissent and free expression.
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Fan Wenxin @xinwenfan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Another car ramming in China, at a primary school in Hunan this morning.😱
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