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Tech in China: The Party, The Pig, and The Penguin

On Wednesday, The New York Times’ Raymond Zhong and Paul Mozur reported that, while China’s tech industry has so far defied predictions that tight political control would stifle innovation, "Xi Jinping’s tilt toward strongman rule could put all that to the test." One danger comes from increasingly assertive micromanagement of the industry, according to UCSD’s Tai Ming Cheung, who commented that "having the state define and pick winners