Jonathan Cheng

China bureau chief @WSJ. Formerly of Korea, New York, Hong Kong bureaus. Author of KOREAN MESSIAH (Alfred A. Knopf), out now.

[Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ]

@LibraryJournal @KirkusReviews @MikeCosper @hesp365 @JaccoZed @nknewsorg @JulianGewirtz @AsiaSociety @orvilleschell @alecash @WEAI_Columbia @sarah_kovner @JoeTerwilliger @ianbremmer @gzeromedia @LizEconomy @PescaGist @pescami @FT @TheWorld @melissakchan @AndrewIYeo @junghpak1 @tongscott @Mister_G_2 @AriusDerr @KoreaEconInst @AtlanticCouncil @PublishersWkly @AirMailWeekly @NahlahAyed @CBC “Totalitarian repression, as well as assistance from powers such as China and Russia, help explain the regime’s resilience. ‘Korean Messiah’ by Jonathan Cheng, a journalist at the Wall Street Journal, sheds light on a less appreciated force: faith.”
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[Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ]

To tighten his oversight, Xi has deployed roving inspection teams across the country and embedded CCDI officials into major party institutions and state enterprises. They have undertaken blitzes in sectors such as finance, healthcare and energy.
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[Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ]

Two people were faulted for taking rides in private aircraft, while another six were cited for flying first class. One official styled himself as a “tasting expert” for Moutai, illegally receiving hundreds of bottles, according to a party disclosure.
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[Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ]

Other offenses included: Improperly discussing the party center’s policies; trading power and money for sex, illegally distributing classified materials.
Punishment: Expelled from the Communist Party in 2021; received suspended death sentence in 2022.
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[Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ]

@jiyoungjsohn @joyuwang @junko_fukutome Starting wages for an engineer at TSMC can be triple the pay of comparable jobs elsewhere. Some executives poached by the company from smaller firms were enticed by raises of as much as 30%, said Choc Chiang of Taipei-based recruitment platform WeFer.
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[Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ]

Crazy Rich Returns Lure Cabbies and Even Kids to Red-Hot Asian Markets—Global success of AI-related companies in South Korea, Taiwan and Japan stokes market fever
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[Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ]

@jiyoungjsohn @joyuwang @junko_fukutome The chip maker accounts for more than 41% of Taiwan’s main stock market. By comparison, the Magnificent Seven—Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta and Tesla—together make up roughly a third of the S&P 500.
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[Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ]

Recently-departed State Dept. official Jonathan Fritz: “The fact that the president of the United States might indefinitely delay or even cancel an arms package to Taiwan…because Xi Jinping had persuaded him to…would be a profoundly destabilizing event.”
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[John Nilsson-Wright @JNilssonWright]

Was a pleasure to review @JChengWSJ fascinating new book for @GlobalAsiaEAF

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@JChengWSJ @LibraryJournal @KirkusReviews @MikeCosper @hesp365 @JaccoZed @nknewsorg @JulianGewirtz @AsiaSociety @orvilleschell @alecash @WEAI_Columbia @sarah_kovner @JoeTerwilliger @ianbremmer @gzeromedia @LizEconomy @PescaGist @pescami @FT @TheWorld @melissakchan @AndrewIYeo @junghpak1 @tongscott @Mister_G_2 @AriusDerr @KoreaEconInst @AtlanticCouncil @PublishersWkly @AirMailWeekly @NahlahAyed @CBC @LynnThoman @ClementeLisi @ReligionMag @PresbyHistory @NRO @SinicaPodcast @clearroads @commonwealmag @JNilssonWright For what little it's worth, this has been my favorite nonfiction read in at least the last 4 years. Both amazing in the breadth and depth with which it covers Korea's Christian history and very accessible and entertaining to the non-historian. Thank you!

[Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ]

@LibraryJournal @KirkusReviews @MikeCosper @hesp365 @JaccoZed @nknewsorg @JulianGewirtz @AsiaSociety @orvilleschell @alecash @WEAI_Columbia @sarah_kovner @JoeTerwilliger @ianbremmer @gzeromedia @LizEconomy @PescaGist @pescami @FT @TheWorld @melissakchan @AndrewIYeo @junghpak1 @tongscott @Mister_G_2 @AriusDerr @KoreaEconInst @AtlanticCouncil @PublishersWkly @AirMailWeekly @NahlahAyed @CBC @LynnThoman @ClementeLisi @ReligionMag @PresbyHistory @NRO @SinicaPodcast @clearroads @commonwealmag @JNilssonWright Nilsson-Wright: “Cheng’s exceptionally well sourced and exhaustive study (drawing from Korean and English language scholarship and…archival documentation) is…an invaluable re-telling of the complex narrative of Korea in the 19th and 20th centuries.”
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[Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ]

@LibraryJournal @KirkusReviews @MikeCosper @hesp365 @JaccoZed @nknewsorg @JulianGewirtz @AsiaSociety @orvilleschell @alecash @WEAI_Columbia @sarah_kovner @JoeTerwilliger @ianbremmer @gzeromedia @LizEconomy @PescaGist @pescami @FT @TheWorld @melissakchan @AndrewIYeo @junghpak1 @tongscott @Mister_G_2 @AriusDerr @KoreaEconInst @AtlanticCouncil @PublishersWkly @AirMailWeekly @NahlahAyed @CBC The Economist: “The unlikely inspiration for North Korea’s first dictator—Kim Il Sung’s regime was influenced by Christianity, a new book shows”
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[Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ]

@LibraryJournal @KirkusReviews @MikeCosper @hesp365 @JaccoZed @nknewsorg @JulianGewirtz @AsiaSociety @orvilleschell @alecash @WEAI_Columbia @sarah_kovner @JoeTerwilliger @ianbremmer @gzeromedia @LizEconomy @PescaGist @pescami @FT @TheWorld @melissakchan @AndrewIYeo @junghpak1 @tongscott @Mister_G_2 @AriusDerr @KoreaEconInst @AtlanticCouncil @PublishersWkly @AirMailWeekly @NahlahAyed @CBC @LynnThoman @ClementeLisi @ReligionMag @PresbyHistory @NRO @SinicaPodcast @clearroads @commonwealmag @JNilssonWright Nilsson-Wright: “Faith on the part of North Korean citizens in their dynastic, cult-like system of authoritarian, if not totalitarian, control has been the decisive factor that has sustained the country since its founding…in 1945 to the present.”
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[Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ]

“Last year, the European Union sanctioned two small regional lenders for the first time. ‘Are we serious about enforcing these sanctions or not?’ said Elaine Dezenski, a former senior Department of Homeland Security official.”
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[Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ]

“No Chinese bank has been sanctioned by the U.S. for facilitating payments for Russia, the bipartisan U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said in a November report to Congress.”
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[Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ]

“The Chinese will push back hard…China’s recent decrees on supply chains and other countries’ extraterritorial measures make clear that it wants to keep the world dependent. On trade policy, the EU and China are heading for a mighty collision.”
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[Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ]

The Economist: “A trade war between the EU and China seems inevitable…The question is no longer whether Europe will pull up some drawbridges, but how many and how fast, and how it will deal with the consequences.”
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[Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ]

“The great unknown is China’s response. It might hit back with export bans that would deny European industry crucial materials or parts. ‘China is overconfident, but that makes them a difficult negotiation partner,’ argues a longtime observer.”
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