2023
2022
May 24, Washington Examiner, “Are Spy Agencies Ready for Open-Source Intelligence?”
May 7, Washington Examiner, “Fleeting Freedom and Propaganda Lessons in Hong Kong.”
Apr 8, Discourse, “Misinformation, Disinformation and Propaganda.”
Mar 22, Lawfare, “Democracies Need Open Networks to Counter China’s 5G Big Brother.”
Jan 7, The Dispatch, “Xi Jinping Strengthens His Grip Over Chinese Media.”
2021
Sep 26, The National Interest, “It’s Time for America to Tie the Knot With Taiwan on Trade.”
Sep 3, The Dispatch, “The U.S. Intelligence Model Is Dangerously Behind the Times.”
May 12, Discourse, “The China Challenge: Enjoying Key Advantages, the Mainland May Soon Overtake the U.S.”
Feb 6, The National Interest, “Biden Is Now the President, But Does That Matter For America’s China Policy?”
2020
Nov 17, The Diplomat, “China’s Big Brother Is Watching Your Democratic Process.”
Oct 9, Observer Research Foundation, “What Can Artificial Intelligence Tell Us About the Scale of COVID-19 in China?”
Aug 14, Tribune News Service (papers nationwide), “What Artificial Intelligence Is Telling Us About US-China Relations.”
Mar 23, The National Interest, “I Built a Bot That Predicts Policy Changes in China After the Coronavirus Pandemic Ends.”
2019
Jul 16, The Bridge, “How China’s State-Run Media Foretold the Trade War Stand-off.”
May 23, The National Interest, “Why China Is Not Backing Down in the Trade War.”
Mar 11, China Business Review, “Will China Fold on Structural Issues? An Algorithm Says Not Any Time Soon.”
Jan 15, AEIdeas, “China’s Next Policy Change: Not What President Trump Hopes For.”
2018
Nov 21, AEIdeas, “Sinology 2.0: Decoding China’s People’s Daily.”
Nov 19, MLconf, “Machine Learning with a Twist: Detecting Structural Differences in Complex Data.”
Nov 1, Dataconomy, “Machine Learning with a Twist: How Trivial Labels Can Be Used to Predict Policy Changes.”
2024
2023
Nov 15, Axios, “Chinese State Media Turns on the Charm Ahead of Biden-Xi Meeting.”
Nov 15, Axios, “How China’s Economic Slowdown Factors Into the Biden-Xi Meeting.”
Sep 8, South China Morning Post, “China and the US Are in a Battle Over AI. Experts Say This Is Just the Start.”
Jun 9, Fox Business’s Mornings with Maria, “American Intelligence Agencies ‘Falling Behind’ China.”
Apr 13, CNBC, “China’s ‘Belt and Road’ Grew Out of a Lending Spree. Now Those Loans May Be Its Problem.”
Mar 26, Newt’s World, “Putin and Xi.”
Mar 24, Fox Business’s Mornings with Maria, “TikTok’s ‘More Threatening’ Security Concern Is Its Algorithm.”
Jan 11, C-SPAN Washington Journal, “Weifeng Zhong on New House Select Committee on China.”
Jan 4, Virtual Sentiments, “Weifeng Zhong on Machine Learning and the Policy Change Index.”
2022
Dec 15, Bloomberg, “Xi Stays Silent as Covid Zero Strategy He Championed Crumbles.”
Dec 7, Bloomberg, “Xi’s Covid Retreat Shows China Masses They Have Real Power.”
Nov 30, Wall Street Journal, “China Officials Soften Tone on Covid Curbs Amid Protests.”
Nov 16, Wall Street Journal, “China Continues to Relax Covid Measures Even as Local Officials Battle Record Cases.”
Jul 29, Fox Business’s Mornings with Maria.
Jul 22, The Great Antidote, “Weifeng Zhong on China’s Propaganda.”
Jun 2, Washington Times, “Amazon to Close Kindle Offerings, Other Big Tech Players Also Shrinking Footprint in China.”
May 1, C-SPAN Washington Journal, “Weifeng Zhong on China’s COVID-19 Outbreak and Global Economic Impact.”
Feb 27: Morning Consult Global newsletter.
Feb 16, Morning Consult, “China Threads the Needle of a Financial Crisis, but Evergrande Woes Are Not in the Rearview Mirror Yet.”
Feb 10, Newt’s World, “China – In Propaganda We Trust.”
Feb 8, Real America’s Voice, “International Diplomacy and the Communist Party of China.”
2021
Nov 22, History As It Happens, “Xi Jinping Forever.”
Oct 6, Acton Line, “How Do We Respond to Beijing’s Forced-Labor Camps?”
Sep 3, Just the News’s John Solomon Report, “China Sets Sights on Taiwan After Us Abandonment of Afghanistan, Expert.”
Aug 27, Fox Business’s Mornings with Maria, “Exposing China’s Relationship with Taliban Militants.”
Aug 27, Freedom Works Radio Show.
Aug 25, David Webb Show.
Aug 5, Steel on Steel.
Jul 15, Shootin’ Straight with Ken Buck, “How Chinese Propaganda Works — Research from a Chinese Academic.”
Jul 13, History As It Happens, “Emulating Mao.”
May 28, C-SPAN Washington Journal, “Weifeng Zhong on U.S.-China Relations.”
May 14, American Legislative Exchange Council, “China’s Rise, America’s Response w/ Dr. Weifeng Zhong and Karla Jones.”
May 4, The Federalist, “Inside The CCP’s Effort To Suppress Information.”
Apr 24, American Radio Journal.
Mar 24, John Batchelor Show.
Mar 23, C-SPAN Washington Journal, “Weifeng Zhong on U.S.-China Relations.”
Mar 17, Fox 5, “Team Biden Set for First Sitdown with China.”
Feb 2, Jesse Kelly Show.
2020
Dec 31, National Review, “Uncovering the Chinese Government’s Pandemic Deception.”
Dec 21, Buck Sexton Show.
Dec 1, Mike Slater Show.
Nov 2, Virtual Global Village podcast, “Public Policy Decision Making.”
Sep 16, John Batchelor Show.
Sep 10, Data Exchange podcast, “Using Machine Learning to Detect Shifts in Government Policy.”
Aug 27, ChinaFile, “When China Reporters Can’t Report from China.”
Aug 19, Center for Strategic and International Studies podcast, “Using Machine-Learning to Predict China’s Next Move.”
Jul 20, Freedom Works Radio Show.
Jul 14, David Webb Show.
Jul 14, Dan Proft Show.
Jul 10, Lars Larson Show.
Jul 9, Politico’s China Watcher, “It’s Not Kanye West’s China Anymore.”
May 15, American Legislative Exchange Council podcast, “Tracking China’s Policy Changes During COVID-19 w/ Dr. Weifeng Zhong.”
Apr 8, Washington Times, “Transparency International Organizing Coalition to Defend Whistleblowers During Coronavirus Pandemic.”
Apr 3, Disinfo Cloud, “Spotlight: Policy Change Index.”
Mar 26, Piter TV, “China’s Future Revealed after Coronavirus epidemic” (in Russian).
2019
Nov 27, Instyut Wolnosci, “How Do Think Tanks Work in the United States? Mercatus Center Case Study” (in Polish).
Aug 29, Analytics Insight, “Will AI Take over the Change for Generating Corporate Strategy and Run World Economy?”
Aug 19, Forbes, “Can Artificial Intelligence Generate Corporate Strategy?”
Apr 27, Everbright Securities, “Markets Split over Policy Outlook.”
Mar 15, Hong Kong Economic Journal, “Trade War and Stock Prices” (in Chinese).
Feb, LSE-Oxford Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development, “The Relationship between Influential Actors’ Language and Violence: A Kenyan Case Study Using Artificial Intelligence” (by Chris Mahony, Eduardo Albrecht, and Murat Sensoy).
Feb 28, Yahoo Finance, “Trump Exits NoKo Summit Early — What That Could Mean for U.S. China Trade Negotiations.”
Jan, Bates White News & Insights, “Senior Economist Develops Machine Learning Tools to Read Text.”
2018
Dec 14, JoongAng Ilbo, “The Policy of Xi Jinping Confused Artificial Intelligence” (in Korean).
Nov 27, Huanqiu Online, “What Happens When an AI Reads 70 Years of the People’s Daily?” (in Chinese).
Nov 23, BBC, “AI Program Reads between the Lines of Party Mouthpiece to Study China” (in Chinese).
Nov 21, Asia Times, “Newspaper-Reading Algorithm Tracks Policy Changes.”
Oct 31, Pagina Siete, “Un programa predice las politicas de China” (in Spanish).
Oct 30, South China Morning Post, “Predicting Beijing’s Thinking with the Help of Artificial Intelligence and People’s Daily.”
Oct 29, Democracy Digest, “Blunting the Hard Edge of China’s ‘Sharp Power.’”
Oct 29, Contacto Hoy, “Un economista desarrolla un programa que predice politicas del Gobierno chino” (in Spanish).
Oct 25, Dataconomy, “Ethics to Ecotech: 5 Unmissable Talks at Data Natives 2018.”