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Edward Wong

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Western media presence in China has been vastly reduced since February 2020, the consequence both of political tensions and the Covid-19 pandemic. As the Chinese government finally begins to dismantle its “zero-Covid” policy in December 2022, the prospect of Western journalists returning to on-the-ground reporting from China appears more promising than it has in years. In this episode, Neysun Mahboubi discusses with Edward Wong, who reported from China for The New York Times from 2008-2016 and served as Beijing bureau chief, the narrative-defining stories he covered in those years, which so much have shaped the present moment in China’s governance and relations with the outside world. Recorded on October 16, 2019, the conversation highlights the unique and valuable “critical empathy” foreign correspondents can offer when deeply immersed in China. Edward Wong is a diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times, who reports on foreign policy from Washington, D.C. In 23 years at the Times, he has spent 13 years abroad, filing dispatches from dozens of countries, including North Korea, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Myanmar, Vietnam and Indonesia. He covered the Iraq War, based in Baghdad, from 2003 to 2007 and reported from China, based in Beijing, from 2008 to 2016. As Beijing bureau chief, he ran the Times’ largest overseas operation. Wong has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and done fellowships at the Belfer Center of Harvard Kennedy School and at the Wilson Center in Washington. He has taught international reporting as a visiting professor at Princeton University and U.C. Berkeley. Wong received a Livingston Award for his coverage of the Iraq War and was on a team from the Times’ Baghdad Bureau that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. He has two awards from the Society of Publishers in Asia for coverage of China. He graduated from the University of Virginia and U.C. Berkeley, and studied Mandarin Chinese at the Beijing Language and Culture University, Taiwan University, and Middlebury College.  Sound engineering: Neysun Mahboubi Music credit: "Salt" by Poppy Ackroyd, follow her at http://poppyackroyd.com

Western media presence in China has been vastly reduced since February 2020, the consequence both of political tensions and the Covid-19 pandemic. As the Chinese government finally begins to dismantle its “zero-Covid” policy in December 2022, the prospect of Western journalists returning to on-the-ground reporting from China appears more promising than it has in years. In this episode, <a href="https://cscc.sas.upenn.edu/people/Neysun_Mahboubi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Neysun Mahboubi</a> discusses with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/edward-wong" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Edward Wong</a>, who reported from China for The New York Times from 2008-2016 and served as Beijing bureau chief, the narrative-defining stories he covered in those years, which so much have shaped the present moment in China’s governance and relations with the outside world. Recorded on October 16, 2019, the conversation highlights the unique and valuable “critical empathy” foreign correspondents can offer when deeply immersed in China. Edward Wong is a diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times, who reports on foreign policy from Washington, D.C. In 23 years at the Times, he has spent 13 years abroad, filing dispatches from dozens of countries, including North Korea, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Myanmar, Vietnam and Indonesia. He covered the Iraq War, based in Baghdad, from 2003 to 2007 and reported from China, based in Beijing, from 2008 to 2016. As Beijing bureau chief, he ran the Times’ largest overseas operation. Wong has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and done fellowships at the Belfer Center of Harvard Kennedy School and at the Wilson Center in Washington. He has taught international reporting as a visiting professor at Princeton University and U.C. Berkeley. Wong received a Livingston Award for his coverage of the Iraq War and was on a team from the Times’ Baghdad Bureau that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. He has two awards from the Society of Publishers in Asia for coverage of China. He graduated from the University of Virginia and U.C. Berkeley, and studied Mandarin Chinese at the Beijing Language and Culture University, Taiwan University, and Middlebury College.  Sound engineering: Neysun Mahboubi Music credit: "<a href="https://poppy.bandcamp.com/track/salt" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Salt</a>" by Poppy Ackroyd, follow her at <a href="http://poppyackroyd.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://poppyackroyd.com</a>

Reporting From a Rising China – Edward Wong

Edward Wong is a Finance Technologist professional who is currently working for QuantDesk, which incorporates quantitative AI-bots that will automate high-frequency trades (HFT) and in the past, he was involved as an Application Architect playing an important role in the delivery of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. We will unpack all of that and more during the course of our discussion with him.    Edward has worked in Silicon Valley, Hong Kong and is now managing a team of developers in Saigon, Vietnam. Today on the podcast we want to talk to him about Cyrptos, AIs and all the trending technology topics and also about what it is like leading and managing teams across Hong Kong, Silicon Valley and Vietnam. So first of all, let me welcome Edward to the Pinpoint Asia podcast. Questions:  Briefly talk about your background What got you interested in IT? Between 2006 and 2013 you worked for IBM and you played the role of an Application Architect and were involved in the delivery of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Please talk about that project. What’s an Application Architect? You worked as a Treasury Architect for the Fed reserve bank around 2013. Can you talk about that experience? What is it like working for the US government? They say governments are slow to adapt to change – did you find that this was the case? Why did you choose to return to Hong Kong and why the interest in Finance Technology? You were the Co-founder of the Shanghai Commodity and Futures Exchange. Talk to us about that.  Technology:  What did you attempt to do with Crytpos? Why the interest there? What is a bot? And, what is the difference between bot and AI Bot? What does architecting a crypto trading platform mean? What is a crypto trading platform? How did the idea of development in Vietnam come about? What is it like working in Vietnam? How did you find the developers and what was it like communicating with them? Why did they choose Vietnam as the dev center and not China?   Future of Technology in Finance:  What’s your view on cybercrime? Do you think it will become a bigger problem with thieves becoming smarter than cops? If you could invest in one great FinTech idea and pour most of your investment money into it, which one would it be?    Advice for aspiring technologists:  Is there anything different that computer science students need to do now to prepare for the FinTech world ahead of them? If there’s any advice you can pass on to your 20-year-old self, what would it be? Is there anything else you’d like to say that I haven’t asked you yet    The post 14: Edward Wong (Talking Architecture / Crypto / High Frequency Trading) appeared first on Pinpoint Asia.

Edward Wong is a Finance Technologist professional who is currently working for QuantDesk, which incorporates quantitative AI-bots that will automate high-frequency trades (HFT) and in the past, he was involved as an Application Architect playing an important role in the delivery of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. We will unpack all of that and more during the course of our discussion with him.    Edward has worked in Silicon Valley, Hong Kong and is now managing a team of developers in Saigon, Vietnam. Today on the podcast we want to talk to him about Cyrptos, AIs and all the trending technology topics and also about what it is like leading and managing teams across Hong Kong, Silicon Valley and Vietnam. So first of all, let me welcome Edward to the Pinpoint Asia podcast. Questions: <ol> <li>Briefly talk about your background</li> <li>What got you interested in IT?</li> <li>Between 2006 and 2013 you worked for IBM and you played the role of an Application Architect and were involved in the delivery of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Please talk about that project. What’s an Application Architect?</li> <li>You worked as a Treasury Architect for the Fed reserve bank around 2013. Can you talk about that experience? What is it like working for the US government?</li> <li>They say governments are slow to adapt to change – did you find that this was the case?</li> <li>Why did you choose to return to Hong Kong and why the interest in Finance Technology?</li> <li>You were the Co-founder of the Shanghai Commodity and Futures Exchange. Talk to us about that.</li> </ol> Technology: <ol> <li>What did you attempt to do with Crytpos? Why the interest there?</li> <li>What is a bot? And, what is the difference between bot and AI Bot?</li> <li>What does architecting a crypto trading platform mean? What is a crypto trading platform?</li> <li>How did the idea of development in Vietnam come about?</li> <li>What is it like working in Vietnam? How did you find the developers and what was it like communicating with them?</li> <li>Why did they choose Vietnam as the dev center and not China?</li> </ol> Future of Technology in Finance: <ol> <li>What’s your view on cybercrime? Do you think it will become a bigger problem with thieves becoming smarter than cops?</li> <li>If you could invest in one great FinTech idea and pour most of your investment money into it, which one would it be?</li> </ol>   Advice for aspiring technologists: <ol> <li>Is there anything different that computer science students need to do now to prepare for the FinTech world ahead of them?</li> <li>If there’s any advice you can pass on to your 20-year-old self, what would it be?</li> <li>Is there anything else you’d like to say that I haven’t asked you yet</li> </ol> The post <a href="https://pinpointasia.com/14-edward-wong-talking-architecture-crypto-high-frequency-trading/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">14: Edward Wong (Talking Architecture / Crypto / High Frequency Trading)</a> appeared first on <a href="https://pinpointasia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pinpoint Asia</a>.

14: Edward Wong (Talking Architecture / Crypto / High Frequency Trading)

Edward Wong became a reporter for The New York Times in 1999. He covered the Iraq war from Baghdad from 2003 to 2007, and then moved to Beijing in 2008. He has written about a wide range of subjects in China for the Times, and became its Beijing bureau chief in 2014. For more on Ed’s background and samples of his reporting, find our Sinica backgrounder here. Ed is a regular guest on the Sinica Podcast, with many appearances going back to August 2011, when he joined the show to discuss his profile of documentary filmmaker Zhao Liang and self-censorship in the arts scene at that time. Since then, he has appeared on many Sinica episodes, including a discussion of the “trial of the century” (which resulted in the conviction of senior Communist Party leader Bo Xilai for bribery, abuse of power and embezzlement) and what it meant for media transparency, and an episode in which Ed drew on his years as a war correspondent in Iraq to comment on China’s view of the Middle East in the age of the Islamic State. In this week’s episode, Kaiser and Jeremy talk to Ed about the state of foreign correspondence in China: the differences in today’s reporting environment compared with a decade ago, and how media companies deal with censorship and hostility from the Chinese government. Recommendations: Jeremy: Little North Road: Africa in China, photography of Africans in Guangzhou, China, by Daniel Traub and others. Also check out the accompanying website, Xiaobeilu. Ed: Two documentaries by Zhao Liang. One is Crime and Punishment, which is distributed in the U.S. through dGenerate Films. The other is Petition. Both films are available on Amazon. Kaiser: “Can Xi pivot from China’s disrupter-in-chief to reformer-in-chief?,” by Damien Ma.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Edward Wong became a reporter for The New York Times in 1999. He covered the Iraq war from Baghdad from 2003 to 2007, and then moved to Beijing in 2008. He has written about a wide range of subjects in China for the Times, and became its Beijing bureau chief in 2014. For more on Ed’s background and samples of his reporting, find our Sinica backgrounder here. Ed is a regular guest on the Sinica Podcast, with many appearances going back to August 2011, when he joined the show to discuss his profile of documentary filmmaker Zhao Liang and self-censorship in the arts scene at that time. Since then, he has appeared on many Sinica episodes, including a discussion of the “trial of the century” (which resulted in the conviction of senior Communist Party leader Bo Xilai for bribery, abuse of power and embezzlement) and what it meant for media transparency, and an episode in which Ed drew on his years as a war correspondent in Iraq to comment on China’s view of the Middle East in the age of the Islamic State. In this week’s episode, Kaiser and Jeremy talk to Ed about the state of foreign correspondence in China: the differences in today’s reporting environment compared with a decade ago, and how media companies deal with censorship and hostility from the Chinese government. Recommendations: Jeremy: Little North Road: Africa in China, photography of Africans in Guangzhou, China, by Daniel Traub and others. Also check out the accompanying website, Xiaobeilu. Ed: Two documentaries by Zhao Liang. One is Crime and Punishment, which is distributed in the U.S. through dGenerate Films. The other is Petition. Both films are available on Amazon. Kaiser: “Can Xi pivot from China’s disrupter-in-chief to reformer-in-chief?,” by Damien Ma. See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

Edward Wong on foreign correspondence and dealing with censorship in China