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Damien Ma
@damienics
Director @CarnegieChina | Prev. @macropolochina @KelloggSchool @eurasiagroup @theatlantic @uschinabusiness | author & builder | eating & boxing
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    Damien Ma
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    Mar 28
    Xi places an innovation-driven economy far above a consumption-driven one. That's why "high quality" was everywhere in the new five year plan. It's no longer a buzzy neologism but akin to a Xi doctrine. This has several macro implications: 1. The indicator that matters much
    The Xi Doctrine Zeros in on “High-Quality Development” for China’s Economic Future
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    Damien Ma
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    Mar 22, 2022
    One of my favorite China pics
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    Damien Ma
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    Feb 16, 2020
    What a teriffic series from Southern Media group - the nurses and doctors on the frontlines without their face gear
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    Damien Ma
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    Jun 14, 2022
    Just realized that Harvard was founded in the same year as the Qing Dynasty but has outlasted it by about a century.
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    Damien Ma
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    Oct 4, 2021
    From Snowpiercer and Gangnam Style to Parasite and Squid Game, every Korean cultural product that's gotten big in US seems to revolve around the theme of inequality and fairness.
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    Damien Ma
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    Apr 7, 2020
    All coronavirus memes can end after this one:
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    Damien Ma
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    Apr 22, 2020
    Sound like a broken record, but America's superpower is the ease with which it creates new Americans. It's the only superpower that is basically immune to IP theft.
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    Margaret O'Mara
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    Apr 22, 2020
    This is more than just H1B visas. One reason the US tech sector became so world-dominant: the post-1965 immigration system allowed talented people from across the globe to come here to work, study, start companies, raise families, build new American lives.
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    Damien Ma
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    Apr 6, 2023
    80% of Chinese talent that contributed to GPT-4 got their graduate degrees in US and ended up staying
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    MacroPolo
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    Apr 5, 2023
    The AI race heats up and the contribution of Chinese talent to breakthrough products like OpenAI's ChatGPT cannot be ignored. Our latest piece looks into their role in generative AI and why the US needs to embrace foreign-born talent to remain competitive: macropolo.org/chinese-talent…
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    Damien Ma
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    Sep 27, 2022
    Beijing reveals NSA has hacked into universities, but slips in the reason they know it was America was cuz 1) hackers always clocked out at 4pm EST 2) never worked weekends So China is accusing the NSA of quiet quitting. Where's that 996 hacking ethos! h/t @ZichenWanghere
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    Damien Ma
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    Jun 23, 2022
    How did a tire company become the industry standard by which restaurants are assessed?
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    Damien Ma
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    Apr 21, 2021
    Young tyrants
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    Damien Ma
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    Mar 5, 2016
    Louis C.K.: "Trump is...the worst of all of us. He is a symptom to a problem that is very real. But don’t vote for your own cancer."
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    Damien Ma
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    Mar 22, 2025
    What's the best explanation you've heard for why China is leaning so hard into open source? It's now an official position from the foreign ministry apparently.
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    Damien Ma
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    Oct 6, 2024
    It was about last year around my birthday that I got cancer. This year for my birthday all I wanted was to run up the Rocky stairs (after realizing the elder Rocky in "Creed" was also diagnosed with lymphoma). Onwards with life
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