Aowen Cao

@NPR’s Beijing news producer | formerly @Francetele Everything that rises must converge.

[Emily Feng 冯哲芸 @EmilyZFeng]

One of the best jobs in the world is now up for grabs. NPR is hiring for a China correspondent

https://t.co/jjRhNhWt84

[John Ruwitch @jruwitch]

Time flies. It's already been five years since COVID-19 emerged. @AowenCao and I visited Wuhan.

https://t.co/3Hs9kUdxym

[Emily Feng 冯哲芸 @EmilyZFeng]

The miracle of trains and how the U.S. became so car dependent. With sound from @AowenCao in China (which has gone all in on trains) and the U.S. https://t.co/DArmrd4Je1

[Vincent Ni @nivincent]

China raises its retirement age to dull the impact of a shrinking, aging economy - ⁦@jruwitch⁩ reports from #Beijing. https://t.co/uhWgAu5RCI

[Frank Langfitt @langfittnpr]

王靖渝：一位高调批评中共的异议人士会设下骗局吗？
Here is the Chinese version of @NPR investigation of Chinese celebrity dissident Wang Jingyu, who is accused of being a conman, which he denies.
https://t.co/aJ64YbZCTP

[Frank Langfitt @langfittnpr]

Congratulations to @NPR for winning 8 Edward R. Murrow awards @RTDNA including @jruwitch @AowenCao @nivincent and Didi Schanche for this moody meditation on the politics of grief in China https://t.co/rwZ7rqr6Qa

[Emily Feng 冯哲芸 @EmilyZFeng]

A fun (and eery) story on @NPR from me and @AowenCao on how generative AI is creating stand-in avatars for livestreamers and news anchors in China. And yet, the tech has actually created a new category of work ... for humans. Listen to the end! https://t.co/OmA8XNeq6M

[Vincent Ni @nivincent]

In China, AI-generated avatars are making work easier for some online influencers - by ⁦@EmilyZFeng⁩ and ⁦@AowenCao⁩ https://t.co/VRRXCspXXr

[Emily Feng 冯哲芸 @EmilyZFeng]

Protests this week at Temu's offices illustrate just how powerful the e-commerce platform has become - and how merchants say they feel they have no choice but to sell on Temu, no matter how difficult they think Temu is to work with. W/@AowenCao
https://t.co/mP9N2r7mJA

[Emily Feng 冯哲芸 @EmilyZFeng]

AI is already changing the way we live - can it change how we approach death? @AowenCao and I interviewed companies and families creating “digital clones” of their loved ones…sometimes the results are not what you’d expect. Take a listen https://t.co/Bwegb3lkxg

[Mike Forsythe 傅才德 @PekingMike]

THREAD: Those darned Swiss banks.
Anyone closely reading our story yesterday about the ties between Jack Ma and the jailed financier Xiao Jianhua would have noticed the names of 3 Swiss Banks: UBS, Credit Suisse, and one that isn't a household name: J Safra Sarasin (1/x)

[Emily Feng 冯哲芸 @EmilyZFeng]

Love this @NPR story from @NPRinskeep on marriage and demography in China, in which our (already taken, sorry) producer @AowenCao gets asked out repeatedly 😅 https://t.co/mWsiJHft2e

[Yi Liu @61LiuYi]

My first cover story published on @thewirechina . Compared with the first "going out" 20 years ago, this time, Chinese enterprises and capital have encountered skepticism and scrutiny, but they still feel that outside China is now the best place to invest.

[Emily Feng 冯哲芸 @EmilyZFeng]

I visit a huge scam/economic zone in Laos and talk to people scammed and the people who scammed them after being tricked into slavery in SE Asia...the world is crazy and big and scary sometimes. https://t.co/UsrHqX5fC6

[Steve Inskeep @NPRinskeep]

In Beijing, Blinken told Chinese leaders that it would be in their interest to stop helping Russia.

China called the suggestion “hypocritical” and rejected it—leaving the US warning of further action. From the NPR interview:

https://t.co/A8AM5tC6LH

[Dake Kang @dakekang]

1/A year ago, Chinese scientists published data from samples collected at a Wuhan market at the heart of the COVID outbreak - startling many, given it happened years ago. Then the data got retracted.

@mylcheng and I tried to find out why. Our findings:
https://t.co/WsVFIBumZi

[Zhaoyin Feng @ZhaoyinFeng]

Scoop from @BeimengFu and me: Eight Chinese migrants trying to reach the US were found dead on a Mexican beach. We find out more about their identities, why they went on the fatal boat journey and the human trafficking operations allegedly aided by local Chinese restaurant owners

[Emily Feng 冯哲芸 @EmilyZFeng]

A must listen: In China, a man has been playing the piano outdoors, often in places of great sadness—the epicenter of an earthquake, a dam that submerged villages, a street emptied during a COVID lockdown.

He plays just one song, by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

https://t.co/deIhhoQVD4

[Neysun Mahboubi @NeysunM]

The “Fanhua phenonmenon” makes it to NPR, courtesy of @jruwitch and @AowenCao. Can Netflix be far behind? https://t.co/jIq6EdW9b2

[Dake Kang @dakekang]

CCTV reporters being shoved away from the scene of a gas explosion by police officers in the outskirts of Beijing:

“Us three reporters are being surrounded and pushed away by ten or more people, they’re shoving us… what is this?”