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Zichen Wang
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Zichen Wang writes Pekingnology, a personal blog at pekingnology.com about politics and economics. Since 2022, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “China says U.S. cyberweapon found in computer systems”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Zichen Wang's Pekingnology for translated interviews with DeepSeek's founder and analysis of Chinese tech firms, including Huawei's ownership structure and the funding of Chinese carmakers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
China's opinion page A.
Most-linked posts?
- China says U.S. cyberweapon found in computer systems2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-01
What Hacker News says?
Another great interview dug up from 2020 but translated today. https://www.pekingnology.com/p/ceo-of-deepseeks-parent-high-... Interesting tidbit: >So far, there are perhaps only two first-person accounts from DeepSeek, in two separate interviews given by the company’s founder. I knew DeepSeek was lowkey but I didn't expect this much stealthmode. They were likely off CCP boomer radar until last week when Liang met w…
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on “DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]”Submitted Dutch govt accused of freezing operations of Chinese chipmaker Nexperia as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSee this earlier interview from 2020. https://www.pekingnology.com/p/ceo-of-deepseeks-parent-high-... TDLR Highflyer started very much as exclusive ML/AI focused quant investment firm, with a lot of compute for finance AI and mining. Then CCP cracked down on mining... then finance, so Liang probably decided to pivot to LLM/AGI, which likely started as side project, but probably not anymore now the DeepSeek has taken…
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on “Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history”Submitted Sharp Decline in the Number of Foreigners in China Demands Serious Attention as a story · 6 points
HN discussionLots of things sound like good ideas that aren't. China has fewer checks and balances, so lots of things get built that sound like good ideas. This impresses people! Especially when they hear the huge numbers involved. E.g. the author gushes about "40,000 kilometers of high-speed rail that runs at 350 km/h." So as a counterpoint, consider the former President of the Geographic Society of China arguing to that there…
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on “China is eating the world”Submitted Beijing determines US hacked Chinese university, infrastructure and ~80 states as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI, too, can claim that "the spaghetti monster exists" is in the same ballpark as "UK is a parliamentary system". Let's take a look at a related field: the accusation that Chinese car makers are subsidized/funded by "the CCP". It just so happens that the CF40 research forum recently published a study that shows there the money actually comes from, by analyzing the companies' financial reports. https://www.pekingnolog…
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on “Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency”Submitted China overbuilt high-speed rail, says leading economic geographer as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis is a very detailed examination of Huawei's ownership structure: [0]. It was written after claims that Huawei is secretly state-owned. The author goes into some detail about Chinese corporate law, and shows that Huawei is effectively employee-owned ( effectively , because Chinese corporate law limits the numbers of shareholders in private companies, so there is a legal structure that holds shares on behalf of em…
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on “U.S. Bans Equipment from Huawei and ZTE, Citing National Security Concerns”Submitted In Full: Xi Jinping's Speech at the Welcome Dinner in San Francisco as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted China says U.S. cyberweapon found in computer systems as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Hit Chinese Legal Drama Reopens an Old Question About Lawyers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five Major Misunderstandings of China's Fiscal Stimulus Package as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Unique Window into Huawei as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted China says U.S. cyberweapon found in computer systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Costs of Studying China from a Distance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Xi's speech to private entrepreneurs in Feb 2025 now available as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Ren Zhengfei Grew Up as a story · 1 points
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