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I am doing another in the occasional Sinocism Live chats this Thursday March 20th at 8PM ET. My guest is Jon Czin, now of Brookings, before that at the CIA and the NSC. It should be a good conversation about US-China relations, Xi Jinping and PRC elite politics, and some other fun topics. If you are not yet a Sinocism subscriber please …
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The current shutdown of VOA has likely marked the end of my employment there. So, I’m looking for new work opportunities.
I’m a China-focused reporter based in Washington DC covering disinformation, internet surveillance and how AI is impacting these areas.
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If I could offer advice to anyone it’s simple: too many words. Brevity is next to godliness. So many substackers bore me before they get to the point. Stop it. Working for a newspaper we had word counts. Just because the internet allows you to overwrite, stop it. My advice? Crisp piece, 350 words. 750 for more expansive. You’d better have something important to say to get to 1,000 words.