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Sibei Sun 孫思備

3 months

New article is online in Contemporary Politics! We analyze #TaiwanCanHelp as a strategic narrative and how US politicians reproduced it, but with subtle distortions underpinning say-do gaps and disparities in narrative power. (50 accesses at this link )

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@SunSibei

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I'm not a communist, but I am certainly fine living under the governance of the Communist Party of China. Contrary to popular Western belief, the political system that has led to the most premature death in this world isnt 1950s communism – its post-colonial liberal democracy. 1

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Here's two magazine covers by the @TheEconomist ten years apart, each depicting our Earth facing an existential threat. In 2013, the threat was China's carbon emissions. In 2024, the new threat is China's lead in green technologies.

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US Congress: China owns you. TikTok CEO: We're willing to let an American company host all our data and grant the US government more supervision over us than any US social media company has ever done. US Congress: But, you're controlled by the Chinese government! (×999)

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And no, the West doesnt get to cheat with the excuse that "those are just flawed or 'not full' democracies." They should take responsibility for the mess they made in the Global South by enforcing political-economic conditionality on independence, investment, aid, and trade. 2

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Winston Churchill once said China was a grave threat to the 'Aryan race' in an era when Britons in China freely raped and murdered due to extraterritoriality. Sunak speaks of threat now as US military bases encircle China. 'Threat' is purely self-imagined.

Sunak vows to get tough on China, Britain’s ‘biggest long-term threat’

Rishi Sunak has promised to ban China’s Confucius Institutes from the UK, in what would be a major hardening of government policy on China if he becomes the next British prime minister.

www.scmp.com

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The only way that Chinese criticism of Japan's far-right can be seen as remotely valid is if South Koreans say the exact same thing. South Korean anger is "understandable". Chinese anger is "barbaric". Such is the "good Asian" and "bad Asian" in Eurocentric self-imagination.

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Most overseas Chinese who vocally wish for regime change in China wont even return to the country if it happens. They will be enjoying their cozy permanent residency far away from the ensuing instability while their 𝕏BC children grow up seeing China as completely alien. 1

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The TikTok debacle 100% convinced me that if Chinese big tech controlled global social media, USA would have the Great Firewall. Its easy to tout liberal values while monopolizing global information space, but when a rival does, suddenly securing national sovereignty trumps all.

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“Has the ship ever been a Chinese flagged vessel?” > No, it's Singaporean, General. “Has the ship ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party?” > General, again no, it's Singaporean.

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@CNguyenEc Because Stalin. Why else?

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2 years

When Westerners trivialize China's history or mock Chinese civilization, it creates the impression that the West's objective isnt only to contain China materially, but also to erase China's very identity — sort of like how erasing Soviets from WW2 alienates someone else.

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1 year

"I love China." – Donald J. Trump, 2015 Xiaohongshu user Willy Studio (小红书号 6513397591) brought Trump's fondness of China to life with Midjourney AI.

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Wall Street Journal using historical imagery to push good vs evil framing. Contemporary China is represented as Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany. It is analogous reasoning and false equivalence etc, but to the average American this is a convincing visual argument for killing us. 1

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2 years

Tory British commentators are resorting to the exceptionalist "at least we're not China" card as a band-aid for mediocrity - following USA in being motivated to fix their democracy for sake of proving superiority vs China, rather than for their own good without an imagined enemy.

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@WallStreetSilv 1. This footage is from Shandong Province, not Henan. 2. Tanks are being moved for some sort of training exercise. Its a military base town. Thats why unarmed men in hi vis vests are seen controlling traffic, instead of hundreds of infrantry. 3. Lots of morons in this thread.

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@thelegendofdaxi Didn't want to open another app. 😂

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1 year

@johnklin They can if they adjust to China's domestic laws. TikTok has offered to do that in the US – even beyond the capacity of other US tech companies. The US tech giants are absolutely horrified by a rival granting the US that type of regulatory power.

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@WallStreetSilv This is an old video from BEFORE the pandemic of a construction dormitory handing out free watermelons to migrant workers. Notice how nobody is wearing a face mask?

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@SunSibei

2 years

China did not assault thousands and murder hundreds of Asian Americans over the two and a half years. Americans did. Going after imagined "malign Chinese influence" does not protect "your Asian Americans" in any way– it radicalizes racists and encourages crimes against Asians.

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1 year

@artlukmic The Westernization has its limits. For instance, the international campaign to end whaling almost exclusively focused on Japan whereas Norway was largely overlooked. This is not to defend whaling, but just to demonstrate another double standard.

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@ElbridgeColby This kind of rhetoric sounds awfully familiar. Don't try to hide behind context with this one.

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1 year

The United States does not hide information about its military. The @nytimes says so.

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2 years

In 1941, Hawaii was a plantation colony of the United States far from the American continent. Most Americans did not know where Hawaii was, let alone think of it as an integral part of their country until after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. 1

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1 year

See the keyword? "Rare". For 6 years, US policy elites screamed "CHINA" nonstop at every tiny problem home and abroad. When China's leader expresses a fraction of that alarmism, it is suddenly "dangerous" escalation and "deflection" for domestic issues.

China’s Xi Jinping Takes Rare Direct Aim at U.S. in Speech

Chinese leader Xi Jinping blamed what he termed a U.S.-led campaign to contain China for worsening the troubles and global uncertainties that his country has faced over the past five years.

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10 months

@realsteelmuslim The way this person types is not how a Chinese person types English grammar (by applying Chinese grammar or removing tenses, but still SVO). Their sentences randomly assemble words in any non-SVO order, thus seeming intentional.

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2 years

@jasonhickel I enjoyed my time in the states. It was glamorous, excessive and comfortable. But I still prefer life in China because I feel healthier and active here. I actually walk places, cycle and eat freshly cooked meals on a daily basis. Our cities copy 🇪🇺，not 🇺🇲.

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Theres this narrative that China, after taking Taiwan, will then conquer smaller neighbors. This is routinely uttered by Tsai Ing-wen and MOFA officials. Some Australian think tankers seem to think China intends to invade Australia after Taiwan. The narrative goes deeper.. 1

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HK films from the 1970-80s 'Golden Age' tend to be ethno-nationalist, depicting Westerners as villains. Why? It reflected popular sentiment, not pro-UK elites. Then 1989 changed things, reshaping UK & local mentality. This is why colonial history is being whitewashed today.

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Eventually, the neo-McCarthyists will start running out of targets to expose as "malign Chinese influence", and start trying to ruin each other's careers over the smallest things. This is how foreign policy echo chambers tighten.

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1 year

I find it fascinating how acceptable it is to discuss internalized racism and self-orientalization as Asian American issues, but when you suggest that overseas Chinese people contribute to stoking Sinophobia for similar reasons, you've violated the discourse and get cancelled. 2

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She said it is luck that my dream school from 10 years ago rejected my application because we otherwise may have never crossed paths.

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@zriboua Okay. Now apply the same logic to the millions of Americans who gleefully played "No Russian" as kids... 💀

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@yuanyi_z In a 2018 Purdue survey, Chinese students in the US developed better opinions of China and slightly worse toward the US. Many early 20th C Chinese revolutionaries were educated by their nemesis, Japan. Political elites in every non-Western / Global South country have same trend..

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2 years

Marco Rubio: “It’s no surprise the two Chinese companies continue to break US law by partnering together.” Let that soak in for a minute. The US penalizes Chinese companies for working with other Chinese companies.

Bipartisan group urges US blacklist for ‘Beijing-directed’ chipmaker

Leading members of Congress raise alarm over YMTC after allegations of co-operation with Huawei

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10 months

It's fascinating how people making two-week China trips and reporting about China's situation on Twitter are seen as more credible than those of us who, uh, have been living here for the past five years and are actually affected by what goes on. Nonetheless, it isn't surprising.

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Let me reiterate: Western discourse on China, whether in media/advocacy or academia, is heavily influenced by ingrained racial and cultural beliefs that Chinese people themselves can and do internalize. They should not be an exempt from criticism. 4

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Even though Hong Kong is right across the delta from us (Macau & Zhuhai), we haven't been able to visit for over 3 years due to Covid restrictions. So now we're absolutely ecstatic to finally resume our weekend trip shenanigans just like old times! 🇭🇰

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@SunSibei

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Made using 2,000+ tons of granite blocks and completed in 2009, the Young Mao Zedong statue is now one of the most visited monuments in Changsha, Hunan. It depicts Mao as a youthful visionary based on his appearance from 1925. Do I give off the same vibe?

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The term "Han supremacy" discursively imposes qualities of whiteness on Chinese people for Western audiences that understand such terms in the Western social context of "white supremacy". Asia's racialization was imported from the West, based on knowledge produced in the West. 1

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Han Chinese people are not the “white people of Asia”, white people are.

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Criticizing such people is "targeted harassment" and "inciting violence" by "nationalists" and "misogynists". They pretend that their China discourse is completely genderless, raceless and devoid of Western-centric bias. Nobody can to question their motives/bias. That is power. 3

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We all yearn for acceptance from "the West", or for ethnic diaspora, the "majority". Pro-China and anti-China BOTH want acceptance to climb the social ladder, but react to hegemony differently. Either challenging it for collective gain, or reinforcing it for individual gain. 5end

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2 years

Ah yes, British press depicting China as an oriental despot as usual; to be 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 is China's 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦. Just what would the Global South do without liberal and humane Britain to protect the natives from rapine and injustice?

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1 year

@CarlZha The original, more candid.

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@stevenmazie @TheEconomist Tell the person in the cover art department to maybe read the article.

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Very proud of my fiancée. She now has her MA in European Studies. 🎓

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Sky News literally recreating the “look how close they put their country to our military bases” meme.

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Sky News Australia, everyone... 🤦‍♂️

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"China watcher" is no longer an epistemic community devoted to professional expertise. Its becoming an imagined community – an exclusionary shared identity requiring ideological conformity while pushing those with differing stances to the "malign influence" out-group, or enemy. 1

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The PRC–HK people issue is about feeling powerful. HKgers feel threatened as their social status relative to the once-poor "PRCs" is diminishing – so they cling to identity. Discursively stigmatizing + discriminating ag the "other" makes them feel powerful & ontologically secure.

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@WardMikeward868 @johnklin Yes. If the US accepts TikTok's proposal, the company would effectively be incapable of giving data to China. The other problem is that China does not care about TikTok data. TikTok being outside their jurisdiction does not present a security threat — in contrast to Douyin.

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@CarlZha The original is from a kindergarten teacher named Taozi Laoshi in Huzhou, Zhejiang. This girl in the video you're sharing made a video copying it, then it went more viral because she's an internet celebrity to begin with — and it's very staged. The song is catchy though.

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China threat is the perfect self-fulfilling prophecy. Proclaim China is a threat, then advocate addressing threat by (1) blaming domestic problems on China and (2) confront and isolate China 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢. When China responds- "Look I was right! China is aggressive! Do more!"

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@SunSibei

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@RnaudBertrand “They won't ever listen to us again” Maybe the G7 states should listen to others for a change.

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Many of my peers specialize in researching mainland China's public policy. This includes corruption, public health, women's rights, childcare, food safety, etc. They want to find solutions that improve the system... whereas China watchers think destroying the system will help us.

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@_mm85 This is Wenheyou in Luohu district, Shenzhen. The huge sign says so for those who can't read.

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@SunSibei

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K Carrico: says Hanfu Movement is based on 'racial purity'. Also: retweets photo of a Chinese woman's French boyfriend/husband to ridicule them. Chauvinism? Nationalism? Valid. But using 'race' this way outside Western social contexts is hijacking knowledge production vs China.

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I agree, except for the "our adversary" part at the end. Indeed, hoping China would become "like us" through trade was flawed. But thinking others ought to be "like us" in the first place, or else be "our adversary", is the bigger US mistake — one that goes far beyond China.

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Did we really believe that, once modernized, #PRC would follow a different path and not reaffirm the culture, ideology and its state model? The assumption that trade with and investment in China would democratize it was folly. Instead, it strengthened the PRC—our adversary. End/

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If it wasn't for Holman W. Jenkins, I'd absolutely have no clue that I haven't been human for three years but am now human again. This totally isn't an exaggeration, media bias, hysteria or hyperbole.

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That's why Americans and Japanese can have their symbolic reconciliation ceremonies. It means little to both. It is extremely condescending for Americans to use their reconciliation as an example for China and Korea, which were grotesquely, irreversibly ravaged for decades. 2

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Most people who talk about being "Global Citizens" are really just saying they are (or want to be) educated Anglophone elites. They think national identities – like Chinese or Indian – are backward contradictions of "Global", but define "Global" using Anglosphere as the standard.

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2 years

@isaacstonefish With all due respect, Mr Fish, 1. The PRC is the ROC's (incl Taiwan) recognized successor state by the United Nations — a condition all states agree to upon normalization. 2. "President of Taiwan" does not exist in Taiwan's laws. Is Tsai's bio in Chinese also disinformation?

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China is the only nuclear power with an unconditional «No First Use» policy, unlike USA which retains an unlimited «Preemptive Strike» doctrine. Like many triangular issues, this TW Nuclear Umbrella idea is a solution in need of a problem – as a realist self-fulfilling disaster.

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The civilized/civilizing British self against the despotic Chinese other no longer carries explicit racial connotations. However, the discursive construction of 'threat' is all the same. It is a product of self-imagination above all else.

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The actual article is from Robert Kagan whose name is seen as synonymous with neoconservatism. He advocated aggressive American interventionism in the 1990s and 2000s, including the Iraq War. Are the old neocons using China Threat to redeem themselves? 2

Robert Kagan - Wikipedia

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If China's motives were so simplistic, Taiwan wouldnt be first target. Laos and Myanmar wouldve fallen long ago as much easier targets with arguably more geographical value. But China isnt a villainous Fu Manchu-style caricature wanting to conquer for the sake of conquering. 3

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@business The man insinuated that the white race is superior, and that his son would have superior children because he has an American girlfriend.

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@shen_shiwei @RnaudBertrand If CNN is working with the Department of Defense to advance US foreign policy objectives is not worthy of a "state-affiliated media" label, I have no idea what is.

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@SariArhoHavren @SariArhoHavren Assuming that all "historical boundaries" are political myths / essentialist claims. Your insistence on China ethnically balkanizing is just as baseless, and reflects positional motives rather than any concrete reality. Its a futile "my word vs your word" debate.

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Han supremacy is just another faulty, contextual analogy used to construct a social reality likening Han people to white people. This legitimizes anti-Chinese racism by discursively replacing the 'oriental' identity with a 'white identity'. It is similar to Nazi analogies. 5

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I know of several professors who returned to China after several years in the US, UK, Canada, & Australia – some in STEM, some in HSS. The main driver is salary, but if China can offer a comparable salary, then culture/family will influence their choice.

Award-winning Chinese mathematician returns to Peking University from US

Sun Xin joins long line of US-based ethnic Chinese scientists who have switched their affiliation from American to Chinese institutions.

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@JChengWSJ @MPhillipsWSJ "America Fumes as Transnistria Refuses to Unfriend South Ossetia: Few European regions have the nerve to say no to America. Independence-minded Transnistria is one."

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@BethanyAllenEbr Yeah, it almost reminds me of the linguistic contortions to avoid using "Chinese" to describe anyone/anything in Taiwan with Chinese ancestry. But on a lighter note, most people in most countries identify by region and country – unlike in the US where race/ethnicity rule all.

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Every 𝕏 discussion of Chinese efforts to restore traditional culture or preserve heritage results in this red herring: “but you destroyed it in the Cultural Revolution!” Its like saying younger generations shouldn't restore the environment because past generations damaged it.

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Some US politicians also reproduce this narrative, and think China seeks world domination including unrestrained territorial conquest. This enters popular belief with memes depicting a China hell-bent on conquering and assimilating all its neighbors. But how valid is it? 2

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Such a contextually-specific historical analogy is a reflection of how Westerns see the West rather than reality of China. Hitler's expansionist ideology was inspired by Manifest Destiny. Liberal internationalism is also said to be ideationally successive to Manifest Destiny... 5

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My article w/ Prof. Xiangning Wu on Taiwan's think tank diplomacy is published in 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢: 𝘈𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭! We examine Taiwan's long-term relationship with US think tanks and how deep intersocietal ties reinforce this. 1/8

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@dissorientalism Every time I hear a reporter pronounce Shayng-High instead of Shànghǎi, it's like hearing someone misgender the victim of a of a hate crime. If you're getting paid buckets to cover a city under lockdown, the least you can do is pronounce the name of the largest city. 😭😭😭

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@EliDFriedman Everything is fine here in Guangdong. It is a rough end to three years of literally knowing nobody with the virus, but definitely nothing you haven't already put up with in the states. How did you sustain yourselves through that nightmare and grieve together? Oh wait, you didn't.

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China views Taiwan the same way that North Vietnam once viewed the South, and how two Koreas continue to view each other. Constitutionally, as written in law, Taiwan views mainland China the same way despite the ruling party's platform wanting to abolish this. 8

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Western observers like to liken China's reunification goal to Nazi Germany's Anschluß with Austria, which was followed by Lebensraum – Deutsch expansion through unrestricted conquest, massacre and settlement - as well as Holocaust. But there's big problems with this analogy... 4

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My mom's family lived in Saigon, VN after 1949 always believing themselves to be "ROC nationals." After RVN defeat in 1975 and anti-Chinese purge in 1979, they left VN but were turned down by Taipei with countless other Hoa refugees. Parallels in HK now? 1

Opinion | Hong Kong dissidents unwelcome in Taiwan

Despite their profession of democratic camaraderie, lawmakers from President Tsai’s own party have held up indefinitely proposed amendments to relax residency rules for people supposedly fleeing Hong...

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@CurtExplores "used to have a massive Western presence" Yet another ethnocentric all-about-me take that uses Westerners as a measuring stick for Chinese progress.

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In 2020, the West praised Taiwan's Covid response as "worthy of emulation" (in the words of Pompeo), but never remotely emulated Taiwan. Today, there's scores of Westerners praising Taiwan for joining the West by living with Covid. Narrative framing is remarkably self-serving.

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@SpiritofHo I would not compare Taiwan and Palestine. Taiwan is a highly militarized Western creation to contain China, similar to Israel to the Arab States. The 'independence' movement only gained ground in the 2000s with US Neoconservative & Nippon Kaigi support for the pan-green movement.

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@SunSibei

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@yuanyi_z Your perspective from afar lacks a temporal dimension. Before 2022, the Zero Covid approach was effective and I certainly prefer my 2020-21 in China over, say, the US or UK. The only flaw with Zero Covid is that there was no long-term exit plan with it. That is my gripe now.

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@SunSibei

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@ElixirAudioProd My comparison is not with the United States. My comparison is with 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹 democracies which the US is not considered since it is one of the major 19th century colonial powers itself. India and most of Africa fall into this category due to Western legacies.

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@SunSibei

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@wanderlustwlee I don't think most Taiwanese people harbor hatred toward us. I found Taiwan to be very friendly – much more than Hong Kong. Taiwanese at least dared to ask the dumb questions and want to listen. They know 小紅粉 is just some people. Unlike these comments by Anglophone people.

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@SunSibei

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@CarlZha Him: "This doesn't look like modern Chinese. I can't read it, so they can't either." His idea of modern Chinese: “王朋，你好。我是李友。🔊 Wáng Péng, nǐhǎo. Wǒ shì Lǐ Yǒu.”

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@SunSibei

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@AcetheflyDragon The irony is that China haters all keep saying Xi is Mao & mainland is having another Cultural Revolution. Meanwhile, the HK 曱甴 teen mobs were attacking elderly people, taping signs on them, & screaming revolutionary slogans in public. Kind of like idk, actual Red Guards did.

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@SunSibei

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@CarlZha US and allies invaded/bombed several Global South nations in living memory. The South took it. Now they must fight Putin? W. Europe destabilized the Global South & created the refugee crisis. Now W. Europe is kicking out Global South refugees to make room for Ukrainians. Hmmm.

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@SunSibei

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Tsai Ing-wen and DPP officials want to construct a reality to foreign audiences that Taiwan is equivalent to Japan and Australia, and that China seeks conquest of an indistinct country rather than unification with its other half after an unresolved civil war. 9

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@SunSibei

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@ZhangTaisu There's plenty of people in Washington DC who, with a completely straight face, will tell you that it is bad for humanity because China was involved, and that's all – as if it is supposed to be some kind of essentialist common sense.

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@SunSibei

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This in no way means liberal internationalists are comparable to Nazis - that would be absurd despite the two having overlap in ideational genealogy. Considering this, attempting to apply the same analogous logic to contemporary China is even more absurd - realist or otherwise. 6

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@SunSibei

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Most successful struggles for unification did not result in endless conquests like Nazi Germany's. Take Vietnam for example. After victory and unification in 1975, Vietnam conducted an intervention in Cambodia but without annexation. The SCS disputes predated these events. 7

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@SunSibei

2 years

Despite this rhetoric, the same ROC flag flies above Taipei and Sun Yat Sen's portrait still overlooks every government chamber. Signalling to the rest of the world that Taiwan is indistinct from other countries, as first of many on China's shopping list, doesnt change this. 10

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@SunSibei

1 year

Few people are talking about this on Twitter, but Indian antiviral drugs saved thousands of lives in China over the last couple weeks – I can confirm, doctors here see it as a capable and affordable Paxlovid substitute. This has been a trend before Covid.

Indian generics emerge as a life-saver in COVID-hit China

As China grapples with a sudden surge in COVID cases, anti-COVID generic drugs from India–particularly the generic version of Pfizer's

www.orfonline.org

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@SunSibei

1 year

@MrSeanHaines Unless it looks like this, it isn't freedom.

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@SunSibei

2 years

And sure, China's intention to take Taiwan contradicts the peaceful non-aggressor image it presents to the world. But the PRC has been crystal clear about its intentions for 70 years, and very patient. Beijing taking Taipei is no more 'aggressive' than Hanoi taking Saigon. 15

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@SunSibei

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@McardleCurt People in China see gendered violence and misogyny first and foremost. They want to eliminate these problems and want to punish the culprits. People abroad treat this as a matter of just China. They say China is the problem and just want to punish China. Every time.

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@SunSibei

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This is the riverside downstairs from my home in Zhuhai, Guangdong. Seen in the distance is the Grand Lisboa casino in Macau. About a quarter of residents in my building are Macau people who make daily cross-border commutes. Few outsiders realize how closely integrated we are.

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@SunSibei

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@trussliz @NikkeiAsia Lizz Truss "deeply admires Chinese culture and civilization" and "wants the Chinese people to prosper".... and her way of expressing this is by stifling our innovation and doing everything possible to stop our economic growth. Typical IPAC behavior.

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