In a show taped in front of a live audience at SupChina’s NEXT China conference, Kaiser and Jeremy chatted with particle physicist Yangyang Cheng, one of the boldest new voices writing on science and contemporary China. Get to know the woman behind SupChina’s Science and China column.
2:38: A day in the life of a particle physicist
8:26: Scientific research and the state
15:15: The overlap between politics and science
24:28: Is technocracy problematic?
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