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Tianyu Fang

8 months

Li Keqiang and cybernetics, a short thread: 1/ During the post-Mao era there was a renewed interest in cybernetics which, alongside von Bertalanffy's systems theory and Shannon's information theory, was known as the "(old) 3 theories" (老三论).

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Tianyu Fang

@tianyuf

2 years

history of coca cola

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There's a town in Maine named China, or as I call it, Maine-land China

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"I collect Coca-Cola things. I'm a coke addict; total coke addict...Coca-Cola addict."

Outrageously awkward clip of Rishi Sunak explaining to teenagers how much he loves Coca-Cola goes...

Rishi Sunak will set out the government’s tax and spending plans for the next 12 months this afternoon, and even before he does that we can predict that there is unlikely to be any impact on Coca-C...

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2023 beginning with my worst nightmare coming true

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1 year

The most interesting thing about Chinese state mobilization is that Zero Covid didn’t just quietly fade away; rather, with the government now asking citizens *not* to get tested, cadres are being mobilized to rally *against* the very policy they rallied for just two weeks ago.

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3 years

Imagine writing this

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10 months

Folks, this is what happens when you don’t teach Lin Biao in school.

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11 months

Shanghai–Hong Kong route. I wonder what has happened here before

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@tianyuf

2 years

Beijing’s Zero Covid policy is forcing the most tourism-dependent economies to adapt to a reality without Chinese tourists. It’s making decoupling (however defined) a much more tangible position — not sure if Beijing realizes this yet.

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3 years

Narrator: Stanford has cut its Cantonese language program due to budget shortfalls. The plan?

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2 years

found this in Galeries Lafayette, must be a legit 法国 brand

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3 years

Who are the Chinese people buying zongzi at Starbucks every year? I'd like to interview you morons for a piece.

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3 years

Bidding farewell to China, for now. It didn't really hit me that I was really about to leave, and not be back for a while, until yesterday. When I arrived in March 2020, I wasn't expecting to be here for so long!

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3 years

There are Chinese idioms that, when translated literally to another language, sound far more extreme than they really are in Chinese. Such a weird hill for China watchers to die on.

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“oriental spaghetti” literally a hate crime

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This isn't Stanford, but the new campus of Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, College of Advanced Copper Industry in southeastern China.

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2 months

total moral bankruptcy

Moshe Schwartz

@YWNReporter

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NSC Spokesperson John Kirby: There is no evidence that Israel deliberately struck and killed WCK aid workers in Gaza. Kirby adds that to date, the US has found no instances where Israel has violated international humanitarian law in their war with Hamas.

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TikTok has always been prone to Chinese manipulation. Gen-Z Americans are now trying to buy high quality industrial grade glycine from Donghua Jinlong—a Chinese-controlled firm with CCP links—instead of our allies. Very soon they’ll be monopolize the supply chain of…

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1 year

For the state media nerds out there: The Chinese FHM, a Playboy-like magazine, is owned by textile maker Chinatex, which is owned by food conglomerate COFCO, which is owned by the State Council of China

Jacobson🌎🌸贴贴BOT

@jakobsonradical

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李强：我一直是在国务院亲自部署、亲自指挥“福利杂志”啊。谢谢大家。

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2 years

The American dream realized

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3 years

This political meme page on Instagram which satirizes Chinese propaganda has, in an ironic twist, been flagged by @instagram as a state-affiliated account lol

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11 months

Is WaPo hiring a fact-checker? Asking for a friend

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fang_final_3.pdf

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3 years

This framing is very questionable. When we talk about the CCP 'targeting' Chinese American researchers, there's almost no coercion in talent programs, funding, or tech transfers. The U.S. attempt to 'counter' these efforts, however, has ruined people's lives

Kate O'Keeffe

@Kate_OKeeffe

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The Chinese Communist Party disproportionately targets them, viewing them as state resources regardless of their nationalities or desires, and the U.S. government tries to counter those efforts, sometimes failing quite counterproductively. 2/x

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9 months

“red and expert” we’re so back

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2 years

In the midst of lockdown in Shanghai, where groceries are sold out on delivery apps the minute they're online, local programmers have developed apps and scripts to snap up vegetables

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3 years

In case you're worried about Li Fabin, the Chinese weightlifter who has just won a gold medal 🥇 in Tokyo:

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I had always found the West Lake in Hangzhou an overrated attraction. Turns out I've been doing it wrong—the proper way is to avoid the heat and crowd by finding a rooftop terrace on a day that isn't too cloudy.

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If Beijing was in America (colorized, 2023)

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2 months

Don’t get fooled: the Donghua Jinlong videos are a clear example of the CCP using TikTok to covertly boost sales of its high quality industrial grade glycine to American consumers as Beijing grapples with its excess industrial capacity.

Chinese Manufacturers, Meet American Shitposters

What a new meme says about content from China on TikTok.

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@tianyuf

1 year

what a great party leader! i wonder where he is now

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@Kanthan2030

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Chongqing Model: One of the misconceptions about China is that Beijing (or Xi Jinping) controls everything. In reality, provinces, cities, towns and villages have a lot of leeway in formulating their own policies and experimenting with creative ideas. An excellent example is

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2 years

China should just lift inbound quarantine. (It probably will very soon.) Doesn't make any sense to be quarantined for 8 days to enter what is currently the biggest covid hotspot.

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The failure of Zero Covid wasn’t that it was an inherently bad policy; for more than a year it saved lives as governments around the world chose to look away. The mistake was to have advertised it as a long-term, not temporary policy.

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7 months

In shock. The folks at @thechinaproj have, amid the geopolitical crossfires and the dreadful economy of online media, tried very hard to be reasonable, empathetic, and honest.

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@goldkorn

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Some sad news. We have to shut down and this why:

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3 years

The bigger question is whether Meng Wanzhou will be able to find a plane ticket to China, and if the Chinese consulate in Vancouver will grant her a green code

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Shaxian x Brooklyn (photo by @sowithvoices )

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3/ Many intellectuals in the 1980s examined China's quest for modernization in cybernetic terms; the best known among them were Jin Guantao and Liu Qingfeng, who famously argued that China's historical stagnation was a result of its 'ultrastable system' in the 1984 兴盛与危机.

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10 months

“Chinese microblogging platform Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of X, formerly known as Twitter”

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3 months

Ezra Pound (which means the British currency)

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3 years

Proper translation for 亲 is bestie

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@yangliuxh

3 years

Kudos to @MoutaiGlobal for bringing the Chinese tradition of addressing customers as 亲 into English world

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2 years

I don’t know who runs it, but this Instagram account turns hotel quarantine food into pretty, garnished dishes…

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1 year

郭冬临老婆刚从方舱隔离回来，就看到一个大白和郭冬临在家里，以为郭冬临出轨。郭冬临连忙解释大白只是来做核酸检测，一切都是误会。很快小区里传来了解封的消息，以后都不用做核酸了，郭冬临老婆请大白在家吃饺子拜年。

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3 years

It worries me that war with China thought experiments have become a favorite pastime of Silicon Valley pundits.

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1 year

hi

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This is the extreme example of a strong state. The Chinese government’s loosening of Zero Covid is taking place almost exactly the same way it implemented it in the first place.

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11 months

I can’t believe we’re citing “Chinese friend of Paul Graham” as a legitimate source of knowledge

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@AlecStapp

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Facts

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Wrote about one of China's few state-sponsored subculture communities, Esperanto. Imported from anarchist circles, it became a revolutionary project for post-Qing modernizers and anti-imperialists, before becoming the PRC's int'l propaganda vehicle:

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3 years

Looking at the policy document on which narratives about China’s “abortion ban” are based: the same paragraph also proposes to provide services to “prevent unwanted pregnancies” and “secure women’s right to know and choices about contraception and birth control.”

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3 years

One thing that was missed by almost everyone who analyzed the Wang Liqiang spy story was that...his Chinese passport , like his Korean one, was obviously fake. Here's the thing: PRC passports have the Chinese characters of the holder's name encoded in the machine-readable zone.

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the clearest sign I've seen for China's EV success is that some of the country's richest are buying Chinese cars and not imported Maybachs

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China is quickly becoming the premiere car maker. They are on the road to soon make the iphone of cars that everyone in the world will want — and not because they are subsidized, but because they have made an ecosystem of tech expertise. This article gives a hint of this path.

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3 months

As someone who literally goes to Stanford I hear more about Stanford from national news than at Stanford

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3 years

Methinks the solution to China's demographic crisis is a 10 child policy. Here's my population projection in 20 years

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Just how good are KFC China’s egg tarts? This Chinese café in *Seattle* advertises (in Chinese) ‘Portuguese (KFC) egg tart’

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most brilliant american who committed war crimes, but his worst offense was being an agent of chinese influence. weird take but ok

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Henry Kissinger is dead at 100. Kissinger's obituaries will be mostly about his opening of China, his crimes in Vietnam, Laos, and India, and his wit. But Kissinger was also an agent of Chinese influence, and, for the last forty years of his life, a businessman masquerading as a

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Qin Gang wasn’t made a member of the Politburo but of the CCP Central Committee. But I suspect deviation from basic facts has never stopped Josh Rogin from publishing anything

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Nicholas burns moment

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3 years

Except that in this case the Chinese government (a local government, in fact) actually said, prepare first-aid kits and food at home in case there's a natural disaster

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦

@Noahpinion

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Chinese government: We might go to war Chinese internet: YAY WAR YAY WAR YAY WARRRR Chinese government: Uhh, actually, that's not what we meant...

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3 years

America would NEVER do this to China

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦

@Noahpinion

3 years

Today a Chinese friend of mine told me that her family members in China give her a hard time about living in an "enemy country".

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3 years

There are many arguments to be made against Beijing's (alleged) rejection of English education, which I think is going to do more harm than nationalists can fathom. But I'm also unsure about the framing that Westernization *is* modernization...

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@tianyuf

3 years

til simu liu speaks perfect mandarin and is way too humble about it

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Constantly in a state of wishing I spoke better Chinese but just wanted to say xiexie anyway :)

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8 months

Very happy that after 3 years of hiatus, the Forum for American-Chinese Exchange at Stanford (FACES) was able to resume the tradition of bringing delegates from US and Chinese universities to California this past week.

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1 year

iykyk…

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9 months

idea: certification for China Watchers

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3 years

Holy crap being a college applicant sucks this year: Harvard has an unprecedentedly low acceptance rate of 3.43%. Columbia, 3.7%. Princeton, 3.98%. Legacy institutions will 内卷 themselves to death.

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2 years

Bonjour

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3 years

This Olympic Games hits different because suddenly all the medalists are younger than I am.

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If you know…you know

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It’s been a while, Taipei!

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TIL La Jeunesse (New Youth, 新青年), the revolutionary magazine that later became the Chinese Communist Party's theoretical journal, featured Andrew Carnegie on the cover of its founding issue.

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YouTube channel idea: coronavirus vaccine reviews. The host travels around the world to try out all the vaccines available. BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Sputnik V, Sinovac, Sinopharm, CanSino, Novavax, Bharat.

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The elephant in the room has always been, “How does China get out of the pandemic?” Because obviously China had to open up at some point. Zero Covid, in its pursuit of totality and unrealistic optimization goals, failed to address this.

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It is in this context the lack of preparations for reopening makes sense. The directive was to uphold Zero Covid with no end date; one can only assume it to be indefinite. It’s why there was so much resource devoted to building quarantine centers.

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2 years

Beijing feels like NYC a year ago—all of a sudden almost everyone I know there is getting covid. This will be a tough winter.

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2 years

@brianhioe endorse me you coward

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3 years

My taste of Mandarin songs happens to overlap with a certain demographics of my Chinese immigrant friends, who never updated their playlists since leaving China in 2009

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giving a presentation tomorrow

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Maybe it's not that people underrate him, but as someone who is obviously well-read on (and confident to write about) U.S. history, I just never see people talk about Franklin Delano Roosevelt and how much of a towering figure he was. /s

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At least in conversations I’ve been in these past two years, I’ve always been quite amazed by how convinced—arguably more so than the Chinese government itself—some of America’s most influential policy thinkers are of an imminent Chinese invasion of Taiwan in ~5 years.

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1 year

I present to you, ruishi huoguo

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11/ "Digital computers aren't omnipotent but are ultimately used by humans. They mustn't replace the dominant role of humans," the authors wrote in 1983. End

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2 years

好好笑啊

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University move-in updates: - Locked myself out of my room on my 1st night - Still haven't figured out how the meal plan works

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4/ In 1980, Li Keqiang was a junior at PKU Law School. His paper titled "The Rule of Law Machines and Systems, Information, and Control in Society" won him an award, and while the original essay was never published (afaik), the university newspaper offers an excerpt:

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I’ve said this for years, but border closures are physical decoupling; they’re test runs of disengagement by cutting off significant portions of economic, political, people-to-people exchanges. Academia, businesses, and local gov’ts are getting used to having no PRC visitors.

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an internet café in taiwan is called 網咖, which literally means internet café; in mainland china it’s 网吧, or internet bar. this is because mao tse-tung was an alcoholic and chiang kai-shek preferred the western lifestyle of caffeine

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Domain names today are a commodity. The .ai domain is generating $3 million in revenue every month for the government of Anguilla—around a third of its budget. But it hasn't always been this way.

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Famous hater of technology, science, and progress builds hydrogen bomb in 1967 and satellite in 1970

delian

@zebulgar

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Sometimes I read about the Chinese Cultural Revolution and I wonder... How did they get to the point of hating technology, science and progress so much?? Then I look at the USA today and am reminded how that happens...

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The Chinese dream

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my contrarian take is that all countries should boycott all Olympics

Bloomberg Originals

@bbgoriginals

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"The Biden administration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games" over "egregious human rights abuses and atrocities in Xinjiang," @PressSec says

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🙄 at expats & upper-middle class folks in China telling people they don't trust the Chinese vax

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chinese men who went abroad in the 80s are, in general, exceptionally good at formal wear, because to going abroad required pre-departure training courses that involved western attires and etiquette. and because suits weren't mass produced, they often had to go to a tailor.

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Out of every European political history textbook…

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5/ Li argued that institutions are "a rule of law machine" which, "along with the society it controls, constitutes an artificial open system."

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The funny thing is that any Chinese immigrant from the PRC who was alive between 1966 and 1976 can be said to have 'survived Mao's purges'

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The TikTok bill will legitimize the Chinese model of internet governance, which sees foreign platforms as inherent threats to political stability. My piece in @NewAmerica :

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3 years

Paging Wuhan Twitter…

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2 years

Time to revive the Fang Trinity of Dashes:

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While Donghua Jinlong claims that its glycine is industrial grade, there’s no denying that it can be a dual-use tech with applications in *both* civilian and military scenarios. CCP sympathizers would say it’s for consumer use, but glycine is also present in military age men.

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Elon Musk

@elonmusk

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Proposed law: if someone tears down the American flag and puts up another flag in its place, that person should get a free (but mandatory) one-way trip to that flag’s country

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