Since COVID she's been much more pro-CCP. It's unclear how much of this is because of the true fact that she was genuinely very, very upset with how much of the western world handled COVID, and believed heavily in the CCP's zero-COVID policy (as a moral position). Versus how much is whether the CCP started pressuring/threatening her after the Vice news stories reached their desks and they realized she was the most-followed Chinese influencer on the internet.
I imagine that the way Vice treated her may have encouraged her to rethink any previous lionization of Western culture. But also anyone working in electronics and embedded systems sees a growing divide where all the real work is happening in Shenzhen and Taiwan -- and if you're not there and dont read/write chinese, it's really hard to push boundaries. So, living and breathing the space of embedded electronics can also lead to an idea that China/Taiwan is infinitely far ahead of the West.
I imagine that the way Vice treated her may have encouraged her to rethink any previous lionization of Western culture. But also anyone working in electronics and embedded systems sees a growing divide where all the real work is happening in Shenzhen and Taiwan -- and if you're not there and dont read/write chinese, it's really hard to push boundaries. So, living and breathing the space of embedded electronics can also lead to an idea that China/Taiwan is infinitely far ahead of the West.