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Damien Ma

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Damien Ma

@damienics

Currently building knowledge venture @CarnegieChina. Previously building in Chicago and DC @macropolochina | @KelloggSchool | @eurasiagroup | @theatlantic

Singapore

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Joined June 2011

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Damien Ma
@damienics
Mar 28
Xi places an innovation-driven economy far above a consumption-driven one. That's why "high quality" was everywhere in the new five year plan. It's no longer a buzzy neologism but akin to a Xi doctrine. This has several macro implications: 1. The indicator that matters much
The Xi Doctrine Zeros in on “High-Quality Development” for China’s Economic Future
From carnegieendowment.org
Damien Ma
@damienics
Mar 22, 2022
One of my favorite China pics
Damien Ma
@damienics
Feb 16, 2020
What a teriffic series from Southern Media group - the nurses and doctors on the frontlines without their face gear
Damien Ma
@damienics
Jun 14, 2022
Just realized that Harvard was founded in the same year as the Qing Dynasty but has outlasted it by about a century.
Damien Ma
@damienics
Oct 4, 2021
From Snowpiercer and Gangnam Style to Parasite and Squid Game, every Korean cultural product that's gotten big in US seems to revolve around the theme of inequality and fairness.
Damien Ma
@damienics
Apr 7, 2020
All coronavirus memes can end after this one:
Damien Ma
@damienics
Apr 22, 2020
Sound like a broken record, but America's superpower is the ease with which it creates new Americans. It's the only superpower that is basically immune to IP theft.
Margaret O'Mara
@margaretomara
Apr 22, 2020
This is more than just H1B visas. One reason the US tech sector became so world-dominant: the post-1965 immigration system allowed talented people from across the globe to come here to work, study, start companies, raise families, build new American lives.
Damien Ma
@damienics
Apr 6, 2023
80% of Chinese talent that contributed to GPT-4 got their graduate degrees in US and ended up staying
MacroPolo
@MacroPoloChina
Apr 5, 2023
The AI race heats up and the contribution of Chinese talent to breakthrough products like OpenAI's ChatGPT cannot be ignored. Our latest piece looks into their role in generative AI and why the US needs to embrace foreign-born talent to remain competitive: macropolo.org/chinese-talent…
Damien Ma
@damienics
Sep 27, 2022
Beijing reveals NSA has hacked into universities, but slips in the reason they know it was America was cuz 1) hackers always clocked out at 4pm EST 2) never worked weekends So China is accusing the NSA of quiet quitting. Where's that 996 hacking ethos! h/t @ZichenWanghere
Damien Ma
@damienics
Jun 23, 2022
How did a tire company become the industry standard by which restaurants are assessed?
Damien Ma
@damienics
Apr 21, 2021
Young tyrants
Damien Ma
@damienics
Mar 5, 2016
Louis C.K.: "Trump is...the worst of all of us. He is a symptom to a problem that is very real. But don’t vote for your own cancer."
Damien Ma
@damienics
Mar 22, 2025
What's the best explanation you've heard for why China is leaning so hard into open source? It's now an official position from the foreign ministry apparently.
Damien Ma
@damienics
Oct 6, 2024
It was about last year around my birthday that I got cancer. This year for my birthday all I wanted was to run up the Rocky stairs (after realizing the elder Rocky in "Creed" was also diagnosed with lymphoma). Onwards with life
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