Author’s note: This piece was originally published in Italian by Wired Italia, It was republished on October 20, 2020, in The China Project. The near-simultaneous narrative-shifting events of the last couple of weeks — the advent of the Chinese LLM DeepSeek and the rush of “TikTok Refugees” onto Chinese app Xiaohongshu — have made this piece suddenly very relevant again, and I urge you to read it if you haven’t already!
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Author’s note: This piece was originally published in Italian by Wired Italia, It was republished on October 20, 2020, in The China Project. The near-simultaneous narrative-shifting events of the last couple of weeks — the advent of the Chinese LLM DeepSeek and the rush of “TikTok Refugees” onto Chinese app Xiaohongshu — have made this piece suddenly very relevant again, and I urge you to read it if you haven’t already!