Press

I’ve been quoted in publications, and I sometimes appear on radio and podcasts. Below is a recent selection. For media requests, please email me at hello (at) tianyufang.net.

Radio and podcasts

• “Has China already won the internet?” Panic World with Ryan Broderick, 2025.
• “the china model,” with Jasmine Sun, 2025.
• “How A Chinese Glycine Manufacturer Went Viral.” Better Offline, 2024.
• “The TikTok ‘Ban.’” American Prestige, 2024.
• “Top-Level Domains.” The Economics of Everyday Things, Freakonomics, 2024.
• “China’s Rocket Man.” BBC World Service, 2020.

Video

• “Another Chinese AI company says it outperforms ChatGPT and DeepSeek,” Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2025.
• “China’s little red app and the power of propaganda,” Sky News, 2019.

Also quoted in

• “Trump’s Trade War Is Strengthening China’s Soft Power.” Wired, 2025.
• “America is a step closer to banning TikTok, but will it work?” Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2024.
• “Aux Etats-Unis, TikTok tente de se distancier de la Chine pour éviter une interdiction.” Le Temps, 2023.
• “A younger, fandom-driven nationalism.” Garbage Day, 2022.
• “One million foreign students risk being frozen out of US colleges. Some might never come back.” CNN, 2020.
• “Colleges Brace for Sharp Drop in Foreign Students, Especially From China.” The Wall Street Journal, 2020.
• “As Beijing, Hong Kong face second coronavirus onslaught, quarantine gets serious.” South China Morning Post, 2020.
• “Qian Xuesen: The man the US deported - who then helped China into space.” BBC News, 2020.
• “中美外交官推特骂战再起，中国外交愈趋 ‘战狼化’？” BBC Chinese, 2019.
• “Chinese propaganda app allows government to spy on users’ phones.” Sky News, 2019.
• “From Naked Museum Tours to A.I. Brains: 17 Times Articles Teenagers Recommend Right Now,” The New York Times, 2018.
• “Interpreting China’s Banned Pollution Documentary,” The Tyee, 2015.
• "‘I have never seen a real star’ - Heartbreaking film of environmental hell," SFGATE, 2015.
• “China and Crowdsourcing: The Rise of a New Green Generation?” New Security Beat, Wilson Center, 2015.