Today’s show features my dear friend Tianyu Fang! Tian is a writer and researcher focused on tech policy and US-China relations. He’s currently a Tech and Democracy fellow at New America, and is a cofounder of the iconic Chinese internet newsletter Chaoyang Trap.

We discuss:

* How Tian became a teenage China watcher

* The death of the China journalist

* Why Chinese founders don’t blog

* Censorship and its discontents

* Has the “China model” won?

* The Falun Gong’s alternative internet

Transcript and links at jasmi.news.

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