Wen Chen's View

  A 30-minute overview of ancient Chinese women's roles in their families, their education, and stories of some outstanding women professionals in history. Literature and traditional Chinese paintings were annotated by Wen Chen, a scientific curator for Caltech's WormBase project. This talk was originally crafted for the Lunar New Year celebration of Caltech Women in Biology and Biological Engineering.

When I grew up in China, being "political" was dangerous. Once you complain about policies made by the government, you become "political" by challenging the propaganda system. The authority will punish you, your family, and your friends. We all carefully stayed within the line to protect ourselves. Getting used to the freedom of speech in the U.S. took me quite a few years. Then I noticed a similar fear of being political.  For example, sports are apolitical. People cannot wear a T-shirt asking "Where is Peng Shuai" at sports games because it is a political slogan. But it is apolitical for Eileen Gu to say that Peng Shuai is "freely doing what she wants to do." to whitewash the sexual assault that the female tennis player suffered from a former Chinese prime minister. In the same logic, some of my colleagues believe that science is apolitical, so scientists can collaborate with any country without worrying about how the government will use their ...

(By Amber Wang and Wen Chen, Feb. 28, 2023 ) As of right now, Canada and 32 states in the US have banned government employees from using TikTok on government-issued devices. And there’s a good reason for that. While it is one of the most popular social media apps on the market today, TikTok presents serious security issues that are further exacerbated by its widespread usage.(2)   In a 2022 report, cybersecurity research group Internet 2.0 revealed TikTok’s excessive data collection regimen and the dangers it poses to users. In addition to typical user permissions requested by other social media apps, TikTok retrieves all installed applications on the phone, which could theoretically provide it with realistic “device maps” for every user. (4) Other highly intrusive functions performed include GPS location checking at least once per hour, asking for persistent access to the calendar and contacts, and collecting a plethora of device details such as clipboard content and all ac...

  China leads 4 out of the 15 agencies of the United Nations and holds important positions in other agencies . (1) China is the center of an alliance of totalitarian regimes with financial and technological support Support nuclear technology in North Korea China provides nuclear material to North Korea. (2) China has been training North Korean nuclear scientists. (3) Sold U.S. technology to Iran. ZTE paid a $ 1.2 billion fine for exporting U.S. technology to Iran (4) Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou lied to HNBC about its tie with Iran (5) China allowed drone technology from the U.S. to Iran, then used by Russia during the Ukraine War. (6) Expand military influence via Belt & Road Initiative (7) Infrastructure development and investments in 147 countries by March 2022. (8) China often worked with corrupted government administrations to sign contracts involving inflated project costs. (9)  https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/15/the-belt-and-road-initiative-is-a-corruption-bonanza/ (...