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@goldkorn
Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
why Apple can't make iPhones outside of China:
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6 months
Some sad news. We have to shut down and this why:
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
Poetry is not dead.
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@goldkorn
Jeremy Goldkorn
6 years
Nashville: James Shaw Jr. tackled the naked shooter and took his AR15
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Eugene Gu, MD
6 years
This is the Waffle House hero, James Shaw Jr. He tackled the shooter and saved so many lives in the process. Thank you James. And thank you TriStar Southern Hills Medical Center for your wonderful doctors and nurses who quickly took care of his injuries.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
The thing people talked about that we cannot talk about that absolutely did not happen
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
And now another employee of state broadcaster CGTN somehow has access to Peng Shuai's friend's WeChat…
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
Can confirm: Weibo blocks “Stay strong America” 美国加油
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
We got @AndrewYang to talk about the dangers for America of a "new Cold War" with China is bad for U.S. and the misperception that America sometimes falls into that the world is a zero sum game @supchinanews
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Jeremy Goldkorn
6 months
Thanks to everyone who has sent or tweeted messages of support about The China Project. It felt odd "liking" your messages about this sad turn of events, but I deeply appreciate the support.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
This video includes the minute before Hu Jintao was led away. It certainly doe snot look like his removal was caused by a health issue in this clip?
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九阳评论——李九阳
2 years
这是胡发现自己的文件有问题,而栗战书极力阻止胡查看文件,最后习担心影响后面修改党章的议程,马上介入,命令保镖把胡锦涛架出去! 中共内斗台面化了
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Jeremy Goldkorn
8 months
“If you marry me, I’ll give you some money, healthcare, and a place to live and work. But if you refuse, I’ll beat you into submission.” Does that sound like a proposal that would lead to a happy marriage? That is roughly what Beijing is offering Taiwan today… 1/4
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
The China cushion has deflated: I spoke to the renowned economist and former Morgan Stanley executive and found him gloomier on China than he’s ever been. He also told me to get new friends.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
7 months
China’s image, especially in the West, has been gravely damaged since Xi Jinping rose to power at the end of 2012. One factor is certainly the anxiety and resentment in Washington, London, and Brussels caused by a newly powerful China’s challenge to the global order, but…🧵 -1
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Jeremy Goldkorn
9 months
I am enjoying the apologist accounts that are suggesting it is completely normal for a country's foreign minister to just disappear for nearly a month and then get removed from his position without explanation
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
There seems to be a coordinated campaign against @JiayangFan . A bunch of newly registered accounts, apparently from people in China are attacking her in the most beastly ways. @Twitter @TwitterSupport @jack
@JiayangFan
Jiayang Fan 樊嘉扬
4 years
I’ve evidently become target of massive campaign on Chinese social media. My crimes are everything to moving to the US, supporting democracy,writing abt China,writing abt HK,most disturbingly I’m “disgusting Bc she likes black people.” The rage here is frightening& disheartening
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
Jack Ma will sell South China Morning Post to Chinese state-owned company, I've been predicting for months. Bloomberg seemed to confirm it today, but SCMP head Gary Liu & Alibaba's Joe Tsai denied it. Meanwhile, Hong Kong journalists are fed up… More:
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
Tutu was the only prominent anti-apartheid activist who stood by the Dalai Lama as the ANC cozied up to the CPC
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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore
2 years
this is extraordinary footage
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Jeremy Goldkorn
1 year
This is absurd, irresponsible, and provably incorrect. The only reason that there is a diminished British and western press corp in China is because the Chinese government is not granting visas to journalists.
@martjacques
Martin Jacques
1 year
Sinophobia has led to a diminishing UK media corps in China. Being replaced by Taipei Singapore & London. BBC news reports on the demos were from Singapore. Guardian once had a reporter in Beijing but now in Taipei. A growing no of FT China stories are being sourced outside China
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
This will happen even if Trump loses by a landslide
@MaxBoot
Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸
4 years
Imagine a narrow Trump loss. He screams fraud. Barr suppprts him by claiming to have detected efforts by China, Antifa, and other enemies of the people to steal the election. Violence erupts. SCOTUS gets involved.... This is a nightmare scenario.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
Like WHO visits to Wuhan, this was the inevitable result of @mbachelet ’s visit to Xinjiang: propaganda for the Party, presented with the imprimatur of the UN Human Rights Office
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Jeremy Goldkorn
7 months
China sentenced the Uyghur folklore expert Rahile Dawut, 57, to life in prison in 2018. She disappeared in 2017, but her fate was only reported last week. She was an associate professor at Xinjiang University, and a member of the Chinese Communist Party for 30 years. But…
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
China's propaganda workers have a tough job this week: Convince the outside world that Peng is totally fine by giving her maximum exposure abroad while ALSO scrubbing her completely from local internet and even from international TV feeds viewable only in high-end hotels etc.
@EarlyStart
CNN Early Start with Kasie Hunt
2 years
The live CNN feed in China has been dropped as @klustout joins to discuss the update on tennis star Peng Shuai, who has finally been seen in public after having not been heard from for several weeks. @ChristineRomans @PaulaReidCNN
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
How it started; how it’s going. Amazingly, this lady with Beethoven talent and Helen of Troy beauty still seems to love me as much as I love her!
@wufei
Wu Fei 吴非
4 years
10/16/10 our wedding in Beijing - 10/16/20 our home in Nashville. A toast to an incredible decade being married to @goldkorn a handsome, crazy, intelligent, gold-hearted man! The ups & downs have made us a strong team. Proud parents of 2 beautiful children. Feeling grateful💕
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Jeremy Goldkorn
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I've been publishing, editing & consulting about English-language media about China since 1997, seen traffic of huge range of websites. In 2006, I made Goldkorn's Iron Law of English Language Media about China: There are only 10K ppl a day who want to read in depth about China…
@LinZhang9
Dr. Lin Zhang/@[email protected]
3 months
After an academic talk on China&tech, I learnt from my audience (mostly graduate students in social sciences) that a large number don’t know who Mao is. And I kept saying post-Mao China in my talk. I learnt A lesson abt what it means to do research on non-US countries in the US
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Jeremy Goldkorn
1 year
A message from a friend in Beijing: “Covid zero is working! My fridge is zero. My WeChat wallet is zero. This morning my Alipay is also zero. Ok you know, I’ll stop talking now before my mobile phone account is zero!”
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
Xi Jinping in 2012 : "Finally, Gorbachev announced the disbandment of the Soviet Communist Party in a blithe statement. A big Party was gone just like that. Proportionally, the Soviet Communist Party had more members than we do, but nobody was man enough to stand up and resist.”
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
I am a bit tired of the hand wringing about the WSJ headline. Chinese state media, not privately-owned media like the WSJ, regularly insult other countries and you never see reactions like this from the governments of the insulted countries.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
Global Times salivating, again, over the idea of punishing a small country
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
Chinese officials in white shirts now doing mainland style awkward home visits in Hong Kong to show their connection to the people.
@XHNews
China Xinhua News
4 years
Liaison office director in HKSAR visits Hong Kong residents on National Day, saying central government attaches great attention to Hong Kong, cares about safety and health of Hong Kong compatriots.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
6 years
Wow, this is like a report from Chinese state media after a Communist Party meeting.
@joshtpm
Josh Marshall
6 years
White House Just Sent This Out. Includes Words of Praise from Every Cabinet Member
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
Mexicans were treated horribly by the Chinese government during the 2009 H1N1. @jorge_guajardo tells us all about it:
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
Twitter does not offer the option of reporting a tweet as disinformation or non factual or false.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
3 years
I was not worried about this until Zhao Lijian said: "There is no abnormality in the radiation levels around the nuclear power plant, and safety is guaranteed."
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Jeremy Goldkorn
5 years
What fresh hell awaits? That’s what I think every time I prepare to open Twitter.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
CDC seeming Chinese speaking public health professionals for three month contracts at airports. See images for details. 求扩散:CDC在美国16个机场紧急招募会中文的医疗顾问。 需要:1. 美国公民, 2. 公共卫生专业本科(硕士最好)3. 至少工作3个月, 4. 需要去亚特兰大接受一周的培训
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
The coming biosecurity state — How the COVID-19 epidemic and the government cleanup of its aftermath will probably lead to invasive new forms of surveillance An article by me. Behind a paywall, so here’s a thread:
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
CCTV reports that a Chinese citizen was shot today by Russian troops on the way fleeing from Kyiv to the Polish border by car. Ukrainians sent him to hospital. His wife posted on social media that she + husband + children were fleeing from Kyiv to the Polish border by car.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
An interview with @FukuyamaFrancis : COVID-19 is threatening global democracy and peace, lots on China and relations with U.S.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
5 years
@prchovanec We already know and it’s fine
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
White anti-vaxers scared of Chinese coronavirus but not measles: we truly live in the dumbest timeline.
@CatherineShu
Catherine Shu 🧶
4 years
Looking at the demographic of people who are now panicking about coronavirus in the US but acted like the rapid resurgence of measles there was no big deal for their little kids, I can’t help but detect some...what’s that word again...oh yeah, RACISM.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
5 years
Disagree. The only way that China MIGHT stop threatening companies in this way is if they publicly speak @our about it. And with Beijing so prickly right now, anything could set them off. So why even bother trying to placate them?
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
This just arrived. Who knows when I’ll be able to get back to China and use it in the field.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
7 years
Alright people: @laurenduca has followed me. The time has come to unite and destroy Nazis, misogynists, and bigots.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
Lady, this was your guy's first meeting with Xi. The only thing he pressed was a golden urn.
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@MarshaBlackburn
Sen. Marsha Blackburn
2 years
Joe Biden’s first formal meeting with the Chinese Communist Party will be a Zoom call with no goals. Biden is weak and scared of Communist China. Biden must press Xi about Beijing’s destruction of Hong Kong’s autonomy and abuse of human rights in mainland China.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
CGTN has a long track record of producing and broadcasting hostage videos, so this message should not really reassure anyone concerned about Peng's fate.
@CGTNOfficial
CGTN
2 years
Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai has sent an email to Steve Simon, the WTA Chairman & CEO, CGTN has learned. The email reads:
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
Another totally normal, not at all creepy tweet from one of China’s best known propagandists who now also knows all the details of Peng Shuai’s daily activities
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Jeremy Goldkorn
5 years
No headline writers: the Xi Thought app is NOT China's most popular: it's probably China's most hated app. It is however, apparently the most DOWNLOADED app.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
5 years
Martin Jacques is really leaning in to his role as useful idiot
@globaltimesnews
Global Times
5 years
British scholar: violent demonstrations are unacceptable in any society #HongKong (via @CGTNOfficial )
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Jeremy Goldkorn
3 years
This guy is not a "concerned community member." His kids aren't in the Nashville public school system. He is just an anti-mask troll.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
My new favorite Substack: West Africa Weekly See for example: "How to Spoof an Entire Career: The Curious Story of Kemi Olunloyo" Or
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
That feeling when people I used to know in Beijing, who are actually smart and nice but work for state media, have gone totally insane
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
You can't bullshit a bullshit propagandist with propaganda!
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
I know I was young then and now I'm getting old and nostalgic, but when I think back to the 1990s and compare to now, I can barely believe how optimistic I was about the human race
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
It's very depressing when people I know and love in China who are artists, editors, journalists, or teachers post about Xi Jinping's thoughts on art and culture.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
Could Xi Jinping really not have known of Putin's plan to invade Ukraine? “The China-Russia relationship has grown into a big ship featuring the highest degree of mutual trust, the highest level of coordination and the highest strategic value,” said the People’s Daily of the
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
"How can I leave Shanghai" was the main comment…Screenshot from livestream of Shanghai government press conference on April 18 about lockdown.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
The fix is in. They are going to find some scapegoats to punish in Wuhan, and give Beijing a clean bill of health.
@shen_shiwei
Shen Shiwei 沈诗伟
4 years
#Breaking National Investigation Special Team dispatched to #Wuhan as the passing Dr. #LiWenljang , a whistleblowers and early warns #coronavirus outbreak has aroused public uproar. Central commission for Discipline Inspection of CCP and National Supervision Cominission.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
5 years
I agree with this. Fox News is a greater threat to American democracy than Russian interference.
@ewarren
Elizabeth Warren
5 years
We need to call it out: Fox News is a hate-for-profit machine that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
3 years
Maybe they're banking on NOT needing to open up. The China of 1980s to 2012 is dead and gone. I don't think things will open up like they were again. At least until Xi Jinping is no longer in power. And barring cancer or a heart attack, that's going to be a long, long time.
@zhsfz
芝士分子 Cheese Molecule
3 years
Nationalism + xenophobia + anti-globalist + anti-oligarch + anti-Western sentiments = public support for tech clampdown + zero covid + common prosperity. Such a beautiful formula for CCP right now. But when it finally needs to open up, I expect serious confusion among the public.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
3 years
Good morning China Twitter. What can we kill each other over today?
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Jeremy Goldkorn
7 months
But perhaps the Chinese government actions that have done the most harm to Beijing’s reputation — at least among business people, scholars, journalists, and others who were previously highly sympathetic — are its imprisonment of foreign citizens on vague and spurious charges. -3
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Jeremy Goldkorn
3 years
With a chapter on Jiang Zemin by yours truly
@CUPAcademic
Cambridge University Press - Academic
3 years
It's now just ONE MORE WEEK until 'The Chinese Communist Party' publishes on May 6th @supchinanews @goldkorn @ChinaFile @AsiaSociety @susanjakes ?
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Jeremy Goldkorn
1 year
@MollyVegas @yashar The world also used to be more fun!
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
Here is @wufei live, for the next hour.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
Peng Shuai is one of the things that people are talking about that Global Times can't really talk about because the the thing people are talking about is supposed not to have happened…
@kerrya11en
Kerry Allen 凯丽
2 years
Does the Global Times now do “editorials” for Twitter? Because while this appears on a platform blocked in China - I can’t see that it’s posted this on it’s own website.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
5 years
I naturalized as an American citizen last month. @AOC is one reason why I am proud to be accepted here.
@AOC
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
5 years
Naturally, the same week we kick-start a nat’l convo on marginal tax rates endorsed by Nobel-Prize winning economists, I’m being described as “vacuous.” If you’re allowed to characterize female politicians as “unlikeable,” are we allowed to describe takes like these “resentful?”
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Jeremy Goldkorn
8 months
China doom talk and China boom talk in the U.S. is usually driven by hopes and fears, not by facts
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Joe Weisenthal
8 months
One thing that gives me pause about a lot of the China doom talk is how much it seems like it’s what audiences in the US/EU really just want to hear right now.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
5 years
This is a message to people who have been commenting about @supchinanews and a short video clip of our CEO, Anla Cheng, where her message was truncated by @SCMP and, consequently, misconstrued by some in the China watching community. Click on image to read.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
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many of the reputational problems are self-inflicted, including industrial-scale repression of Uyghurs, militarization of the South China Sea, interference with the operations of foreign companies in China, and the use of trade barriers to punish countries that offend Beijing. -2
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
I have archived the censored Caixin piece (and a similar censored Caijing piece) in this Google Doc:
@dakekang
Dake Kang
4 years
Caixin should win prizes for this jaw-dropping report: _First virus sample sent for sequencing on Dec 24 _Virus sequenced Dec 27 _Hubei health officials orders destruction of samples on Jan 1 _National Health Commission centralizes sample tests Jan 3
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
@pajolicoe @danwwang We have more cases than that inside the convenience store attached to my local gas station here in Tennessee.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
Here is today’s hilarious top story on Xinhua News Agency’s Chinese-language website. It’s titled: “Overseas readers can’t wait to get their hands on Xi Jinping’s third book.” The book in question is the third volume of Xi’s The Governance of China.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
My take on Matt Pottinger's speech: Nice speech, but it is likely to confirm the Communist Party’s worst fears that the U.S. is bent on regime change. Speech is here: Transcript in English: Chinese:
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Jeremy Goldkorn
5 years
“No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.” ~ Mandela
@paulmozur
Paul Mozur 孟建國
5 years
To end, a cruel joke. Alongside the CCP propaganda in the Xinhua bookstore was a display for what I assume was Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. Only the brave would dare buy it, and probably no one believes Xinjiang’s story could end the same way.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
6 years
@HuXijin_GT 老胡,你们环球时报党支部下次开会请我参加,行不?
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Jeremy Goldkorn
3 years
The worst of my worlds collide.
@cliffordcoonan
Clifford Coonan
3 years
When ignorant and wrong meets misogynist and abusive. A whole bowl of wrong.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
"Hu Xijin, Chinas greatest internet troll"
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Jeremy Goldkorn
5 years
When the Global Times says “understand China” they simply mean “see China the same way the Communist Party does.”
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Jeremy Goldkorn
5 years
Remember the miandi 面的出租车?
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Jeremy Goldkorn
5 years
More and more, Beijing-induced self censorship is being noticed by people who don’t usually focus on China. Every day another one, from the American left and right
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Jeremy Goldkorn
6 years
An interesting development
@ismaelan
真回安然 ☪️ Cui Haoxin
6 years
#Bangladesh Muslims protest against China oppression with #Uyghur Muslims in Dacca. They are the first people of Islamic world to stand up for brothers and sisters in #china . Muslims, our fate is connected!☝ 孟加拉民众大规模走上街头,抗议中国在新疆的法西斯运动,这是历史的先声!
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Jeremy Goldkorn
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Overseas tests, including TOEFL, GRE, IELTS, in Beijing cancelled by Ministry of education...
@wstv_lizzi
李其 Lizzi
3 years
教育部考试中心:取消北京地区近期有关海外考试,包括托福、GRE、雅思等。
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
There are a bunch of replies to this tweet that make excuses for trolls harassing Jiayang. I don't care if you love China or hate China, if you condone or excuse highly toxic targeted harassment, you are worthless, cowardly scum.
@goldkorn
Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
There seems to be a coordinated campaign against @JiayangFan . A bunch of newly registered accounts, apparently from people in China are attacking her in the most beastly ways. @Twitter @TwitterSupport @jack
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
Almost everyone who talks about this subject is full of nuance, ambiguity, doubts, questions, problems etc. Except for the people who might actually do the invasion. Most of them say, "hell yeah, let's do it! As soon as we can guarantee victory!"
@GeringTuvia
Tuvia Gering 陶文亚
2 years
"The mainland is genuinely preparing for war and is ready to take action if and when necessary" - In an interview with Duowei, Prof. Huang Zonghao of Shanghai Jiaotong University's Center for Taiwan Studies discusses Taiwan, democracy, and discourse power.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
Why did @twitter suspend @zaikandongxi ?
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Jeremy Goldkorn
5 months
Note paper from Jianguo Hotel 建国饭店, Beijing from the 1990s
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Jeremy Goldkorn
6 years
@jayrosen_nyu @mattseaton Bullshit, not a fair point. These liars need to be called out. It’s not gotcha journalism to point out the truth to people who tell lies.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
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I have a new rap name, thanks to @shaunrein : The Odious Jeremy Goldkorn
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Jeremy Goldkorn
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"My last trip to China was in March 2017, and this is now my longest absence from the People’s Republic since I first went there to study in October 1974," writes Barmé. This is his advice:
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
Zhege shi feichang possible gen Chinese. However, you yi ge wenti that is unique: 英文and 中文 use different scripts, 所以 if you are not very shuxi with 拼音,or with 汉子,it could be 比较麻烦
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
I should have noted that the excerpt above is in answer to a question from @Chris_Marquis_ on his podcast China Corner Office. Click through above for a transcript, or here for the podcast:
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
My understatement of the year. From late February.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
Last week I asked: How would America handle a COVID-19 Epidemic? The U.S. does not seem to have much of a plan. Here are two signs that America is not be prepared:
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
Surprise surprise! Another scam by or in cahoots with the Chinese Red Cross (a vehicle of corruption that is not affiliated with any other country's Red Cross organization)
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Filip Jirouš 葉飛立
4 years
2/ On Mar 16, Czech police raided a warehouse in the northwestern Czech town of Lovosice. In there, the authorities have found 680 thousand face masks and 28 thousand respirators. Approximately 100 thousand masks were labelled as Chinese Red Cross aid to Italy.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
In case you thought Chinese state media was backtracking in any way on Beijing's Xinjiang policies, here is the Global Times holding out detention camps as the (final?) solution for protestors in Kazakhstan.
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Global Times
2 years
#Opinion : Just like China's Xinjiang region years ago, Kazakhstan is a victim of gradual infiltration of global extremism and terrorism. Chinese government's efforts to curb extremism might provide countries like Kazakhstan with some valuable experience.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
Was the Shanghai lockdown legal? Some Chinese scholars questioned the coercive measures taken by the government. What does this mean for rule of law in China? I asked @NeysunM about this and plenty more.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
4 years
The @WHO has really lost credibility in the last few weeks. Difficult to trust anything they say when their senior people consistently parrot CCP talking points.
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Gerry Doyle
4 years
a really odd thing to say considering the utter medical chaos in hubei, among other things
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Jeremy Goldkorn
2 years
Presented without comment: Three 大白dudes, speaking Beijing accented Mandarin, wearing full hazmat suits, boarding an ANA flight from LAX on June 13, where pretty much no one was wearing a mask.
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