If you don't know Chinese, or learn from someone who does, you don't know what's going on in China. This is basic information hygiene that surprisingly many smart people don't practice. In particular, the Western press exaggerates the capabilities of Chinese science & tech.https://twitter.com/XiXiDu/status/1117063893057253378 …
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
Surely someone in the chain from "event in China" to "Western press" knows Chinese or learns from someone who does. The press in general warps information toward their ends (readership, influence); I think the issue is info source curation & not specific to China or language.
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Replying to @youarezera
Not knowing Chinese exacerbates the problem because we can't go check primary sources as easily. Bad (Western) science journalism isn't a huge infohazard to me because I can just click through to the original paper.
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In China, where not only there's a different language, but it's not widely known and has no cognates, we wind up reading pieces whose only Chinese-speaking source is the government or the tech company putting out a press release. Not Chinese engineers or bloggers.
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