{"id":11179,"date":"2023-08-13T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T06:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/13\/into-brain-and-the-heart-how-china-is-using-apps-to-woo-taiwans-teenagers\/"},"modified":"2023-08-13T08:38:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T06:38:10","slug":"into-brain-and-the-heart-how-china-is-using-apps-to-woo-taiwans-teenagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/13\/into-brain-and-the-heart-how-china-is-using-apps-to-woo-taiwans-teenagers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Into brain and the heart\u2019: how China is using apps to woo Taiwan\u2019s teenagers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lifestyle and shopping apps are the latest weapons in Beijing\u2019s information war against its neighbour<\/p>\n<p>Ariel Lo spends a couple of hours most weeks sharing anime art and memes on Chinese apps, often chatting with friends in China in a Mandarin slightly different from the one she uses at home in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople use English on Instagram, and for Chinese apps they use Chinese phrases. If I am talking to friends in China, I would use them,\u201d Lo said as she picked up a bubble tea at a street market in central Taichung city.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/13\/into-brain-and-the-heart-how-china-is-using-apps-to-woo-taiwans-teenagers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/82bf5e9b6635c981e77334a66688aaf30a7d39bc\/0_378_5674_3405\/master\/5674.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=039c8342f065c434f88327cf14cb1841\" title=\"\u2018Into brain and the heart\u2019: how China is using apps to woo Taiwan\u2019s teenagers\" \/>Lifestyle and shopping apps are the latest weapons in Beijing\u2019s information war against its neighbour<br \/>\nAriel Lo spends a couple of hours most weeks sharing anime art and memes on Chinese apps, often chatting with friends in China in a Mandarin slightly different from the one she uses at home in Taiwan.<br \/>\n\u201cPeople use English on Instagram, and for Chinese apps they use Chinese phrases. If I am talking to friends in China, I would use them,\u201d Lo said as she picked up a bubble tea at a street market in central Taichung city. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifestyle and shopping apps are the latest weapons in Beijing\u2019s information war against its neighbour Ariel Lo spends a couple of hours most weeks sharing anime art and memes on Chinese apps, often chatting with friends in China in a Mandarin slightly different from the one she uses at home in Taiwan. \u201cPeople use English &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/13\/into-brain-and-the-heart-how-china-is-using-apps-to-woo-taiwans-teenagers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Into brain and the heart\u2019: how China is using apps to woo Taiwan\u2019s teenagers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}