Mon Dec 13 2021

<p>What's it like to live across the US-China scientific divide? Yale Law School postdoc, particle physicist and essayist Yangyang Cheng (@yangyang_cheng) joins me alongside undergrad Alex Liang to talk about understanding the other, how the personal can be lost in the noise of geopolitical tension and science across borders.</p><br><p>We also discuss</p><ul><li>Power hierarchies and identities</li><li>The “new red scare” and scrutiny on Chinese scientists</li><li>The Large Hadron Collider as a</li><li>Language as an instrument of state power</li><li>"Brain drain" and other phrases Yangyang doesn't like</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Please consider supporting ChinaTalk on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/ChinaTalk</strong></p><br><p>Links to Yangyang’s articles:</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-china-US.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-china-US.html</a></p><p>...