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Kaiser Kuo

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3 years

There’s a Chinese language Clubhouse room on the Xinjiang camps right now.

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A thread 🧵: I’m overwhelmed by the words of support that have come pouring in since our announcement yesterday that we’re shutting down The China Project. My sincere thanks to everyone who’s reached out directly or here. A few things to clarify: 1/x

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Some very sad news from The China Project. For me, this was more than a job: it was a calling. But don't worry. I still hear the calling.

Some sad news – The China Project

Some sad news

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@McFaul The best phrase I've seen is how Chinese have described him: 钉子户 (d̄ingzi hù – a homeowner who refuses to vacate his home).

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2 years

Ugh, Chinese social media already full of “congratulations” and other deeply inappropriate reactions. Buckle up.

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1 year

They’re everywhere!! To arms! To arms, my fellow freedom-loving Americans!

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3 years

Xi Jinping's essay on "common prosperity" in Qiushi has been published. DeepL translates it pretty decently if you don't feel like slogging through the Chinese.

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2 years

Finally, this perspective is being given serious consideration. Remember, China has only 3.7 ICU beds per 100K people, whereas the U.S. — overwhelmed by Omicron during the peak — has nearly 10x that number at 34.

Why the World Needs China’s Covid-Zero Policy

The alternative is a massive surge in infections and deaths that could bring global supply chains to a halt, sending inflation higher.

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3 years

Dinner tonight is 水煮鱼！Reason number 986 of Why I Love My Wife.

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2 years

I've been reading all these summaries from different guys who live-tweeted or offered perspectives on the opening 20th Party Congress speech, but do I believe them? After all, it's all only "he said Xi said."

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4 years

So many awful people. I'm decoupling from all the strident, categorically binary "China is evil" types. It's a non-starter for me. No conversation is even possible. Put your hands up so I can more conveniently mute or block you. You're encouraged to do same.

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2 years

Graduation!

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5 years

I highly recommend "American Factory" (《美国工厂》), the new Netflix documentary that the Obamas' company produced, to anyone who wants to better understand the challenges to American competitiveness in our globalized world, as well as China's strengths & weaknesses.

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Clearing out my mom’s place we found my late dad’s scholar gown. Thought I’d try it on! I look like I’m going to do a 相声routine.

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2 years

My decidedly nonauthoritative stab at what to make of events in Beijing. To be taken with a grain of salt.

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3 years

If New York were Beijing. (I have some quibbles, but this is mostly right). Found on FB.

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3 years

Big parenting win: My 15-year-old grumbled when I didn't let him go to a sleepover with four other boys last week on Boxing Day. Today, three have tested positive and the fourth has likely symptoms. My son says to me, "So, like, Dad, I guess you were right not to let me go..."

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1 year

This is great: absolute vindication for this brilliant, unconventional economist.

What if We’re Thinking About Inflation All Wrong?

Isabella Weber’s heterodox ideas about government price controls are transforming policy in the United States and across Europe.

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2 years

Just got the good news that my daughter got into another university she applied to. 2 for 2 so far — fingers crossed. Still haven't heard from her top pick, but the two she got into (picks 3 and 4) are perfectly good with strong programs in her field of interest!

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10 months

@RnaudBertrand @theallinpod He said, "From their (i.e. the Chinese standpoint," which is accurate. But your quote above omits these important words and makes is sound as if Musk is himself endorsing that view. He may share this view, he may not, but let's be fair about what he did say.

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4 years

Today is the 10th anniversary of the first episode of the Sinica Podcast, which was about the Google pullout from China. @goldkorn and Bill @Niubi Bishop sat down with me in @dlancashi 's grotty studio near Chaoyangmen and hit record, and ten years later Sinica is still going!

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1 year

What a truly vile take. Why anyone takes this person seriously is truly baffling.

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4 years

A friend just said she'd been singing "Covid-19" to the tune of "Come on Eileen" and now it's completely stuck in her head. Sorry – now also stuck in your head. Let this be a lesson about the ease of viral transmission.

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1 year

Woke up to the horrific news from Monterey Park. Once again, two issues that far too many Americans refuse to confront have collided in tragedy: guns, and rampant sinophobia that too readily fuels anti-Asian hate.

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4 years

1/ You’ve probably seen the photo of Trump’s modified speech, where he crossed out “Corona” and wrote in “Chinese.” This was a deliberate provocation, and he said as much even before the pictures were out. He'll doubtless use it again in his upcoming press conference.

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3 years

Some fantastically candid things being said. One woman asked, earnestly, how to handle the sense of offense, her instinctive defensiveness, as a Han person confronted with allegations and evidence of the atrocity. Absent so far is any overt denial or apologism.

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@QiZHAI Ugh, I have a bad feeling about this...

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4 years

Celebrating with 羊肉串

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3 years

Sometimes I still can’t believe that I get to live in this beautiful town and that this is the view from my front doorstep.

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2 months

I'm just 150 pages into Pete Hessler's new book "Other Rivers" and already it's one of the best China books I've read. Hard to think of any books in English that have captured the experience and perspectives of ordinary Chinese in the last 40 years as well.

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4 years

May the new GOP look a whole lot more like this.

Mitt Romney

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Ann and I extend our congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. We know both of them as people of good will and admirable character. We pray that God may bless them in the days and years ahead.

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In one ugly paroxysm of racism & xenophobia, all that goodwill China has tried to create in Africa goes up in flames. China needs to face its racism problem squarely. It's shameful.

Africans in China allege racism as fear of new virus cases unleashes xenophobia

Black residents of Guangzhou have been evicted or quarantined as part of a new crackdown.

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3 years

Dinner is served! Sichuan spicy fish, red braised trotters, pork with diced pickled chilies, barbecued wings, cold duck livers, salt water duck, greens.

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1 year

Niall Ferguson at Davos: "The United States has a strategy of technological containment. It’s a bit like in 'The Three Body Problem,' where the Trisolarans try to halt the technological advance of Earth. That’s exactly what the U.S. is trying to do with China. "

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3 years

First shot!

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3 years

Okay nobody follow or unfollow me: I've reached a most auspicious number (in a Chinese cultural context).

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4 years

What's this I'm doing called? Joyscrolling?

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8 months

@goldkorn @SinicaPodcast In the last 14 hours, just about every single person in the China field whose wisdom I cherish and whose work I admire has reached out with words of encouragement. I’m truly touched, and I’m inspired to redouble my efforts in these difficult times. 19/x

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2 years

The Biden administration apparently has a policy of strategic ambiguity regarding whether or not its policy of strategic ambiguity on Taiwan has in fact changed.

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3 years

Sitting in a "Barnes & Noble Café" and working on a Saturday afternoon as my daughter book-browses, I'm reminded of what a piss-poor substitute this is for those afternoons at The Bookworm in Beijing. God, I miss that place. So many serendipitous encounters & great conversations.

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8 months

Back in March, I heard a panel at AAS with @izading . She introduced a great concept: Authoritarian teleology. In brief, it's the belief (ubiquitous among China analysts in the English-speaking world) that everything the Party does is done solely to remain in power. 1/n

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4 years

@ianbremmer Let's be honest. That's due entirely to hubris.

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2 years

Heartening to see this from Amb. Qin Gang. Chinese humanitarian aid headed to Ukraine. Unequivocal statement that Ukraine is a sovereign state. Flat denials of foreknowledge of Feb 24 invasion, of agreement to delay, and of Russian military aid requests.

Opinion | Chinese ambassador: Where we stand on Ukraine

Assertions that China knew about, acquiesced to or tacitly supported this war are purely disinformation.

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5 months

My boy was 8 when he did this back in October 2014. Happy Year of the Loong!

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4 years

No more Barr, no more Pompeo, no more DeVos, no more Esper, no more Navarro, no more Pottinger... what a lovely thought!

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4 years

Some context I think is necessary in conversations on U.S.-China tech competition.

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3 years

Dinner is served! 西红柿炒鸡蛋，牛肉炒蘑菇，猪肉炒芦笋

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5 years

Nine years ago today @goldkorn and I sat down with @niubi and recorded the very first @SinicaPodcast in Beijing. 400+ shows later we're still at it. Here's the very first show.

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5 months

Sinica comes roaring back in the Year of the Dragon: A chat with Jeremy Goldkorn

Sinica comes roaring back in the Year of the Dragon: A chat with...

Sinica is back, and on this first post-China Project show, Kaiser chats with TCP’s ex-editor-in-chief and Sinica’s co-founder and former co-host, Jeremy Goldkorn. They chat about the Beijing that...

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2 years

This is pathetic. Even this tiny snippet is so full of holes, problematic framing, and this insidious idea that to protect our open society we need to be more like censorious China. Contemptible blame-shifting.

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“It’s almost like [Chinese company Bytedance] recognize[s] that technology’s influencing kids’ development, and they make their domestic version a spinach TikTok, while they ship the opium version to the rest of the world,” says Tristan Harris.

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1 year

That’s what I really admired about Donald Trump all along: his subtle, deeply informed grasp of history.

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3 years

Oh FFS. Isn't it just possible to believe that the Chinese government is committing a terrible atrocity in Xinjiang AND that rabid sinophobia is a major factor in the anti-Asian hate crimes? And also see that disrupting a Stop Asian Hate rally proves the severity of sinophobia?

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Really wild stuff downtown. A Stop Asian Hate rally is clashing with a Pro-Uighur drive by. The pro-Uighur group is shouting “F— China!” The Asian rally is responding by calling them “racist.”

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2 years

Always amazing to talk with @yuenyuenang , and in this episode of the @SinicaPodcast about her recent piece in the Journal of Democracy, she was in exceptionally great form.

Yuen Yuen Ang on Xi Jinping, the Party bureaucracy, and authoritarian resilience – The China Project

Yuen Yuen Ang on Xi Jinping, the Party bureaucracy, and authoritarian resilience

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4 years

These new anti-lockdown militias shall henceforth be known as the Branch Covidians. (Stole this from someone soliciting militia names. Pretty brilliant).

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And I’m off to China aboard good ol’ US 888 SFO-PEK. Full flight, lots of American college kids for Princeton in Asia if I overheard correctly — a good sign. Will take good notes!

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3 years

Peter Hessler does it again! I've waited a long time for this piece.

China’s Reform Generation Adapts to Life in the Middle Class

My students from the nineteen-nineties grew up in rural poverty. Now they’re in their forties, and their country is unrecognizable.

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4 years

Fucking hell, this ass-hat. Can't believe people are buying into this scapegoating and distraction. Terminating relationship with WHO, he says. Jesus. And he's pushing this line that China allowed flights from Wuhan to rest of world when this is demonstrably false.

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Don't miss this episode of the @SinicaPodcast with the brilliant @adam_tooze . It's a bold challenge to many elements of the DC consensus on China — and to the negativity we hear so much on China's future growth prospects. Listen on Apple or wherever:

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3 years

By the end of 2020 an astonishing 97% of KFC and Pizza Hut (Yum China) sales in China were being settled with digital payment, Yum China CEO Joey Wat said recently. Wow.

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2 years

Here's the White House readout of the Biden-Xi video call. Considerably shorter than the Chinese readout, but no obvious inconsistencies.

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8 months

Last Sinica before pupating or going chrysalis or whatever. Amazing one with @MariaRepnikova and @eric_olander plus of course @goldkorn . Recorded last week at our NEXTChina Conference!

Live from New York: China and the Global South, with Maria Repnikova and Eric Olander – The China...

Live from New York: China and the Global South, with Maria Repnikova and Eric Olander

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7 years

Trump's in great company!

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2 months

I've translated long sections of my grandfather Kuo Ting-yee's (郭廷以's) "Outline History of Modern China"《近代中国史纲》about the May Fourth/New Culture Movement for this week's essay. Find a link in my bio, and please support my work.

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3 years

Very emotional, tearful profession of 'Han guilt' by a participant now – response by a Uyghur man assuring this woman that we are friends, and this atrocity makes the need for friendship even more important. That was a lovely moment.

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4 years

I urge you all to report this hateful tweet to Twitter, as I just did. Let's make it a thing.

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The United States will be powerfully supporting those industries, like Airlines and others, that are particularly affected by the Chinese Virus. We will be stronger than ever before!

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To be sure, there's skepticism and a lot of watering-down and defensiveness – "Well, isn't it right to try to prevent a 9/11?" and the like – but anything nudging people into more of a shared reality I count as a victory.

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2 years

Lots of books get recommended on the @SinicaPodcast but this one (recommended by @danwwang ) ranks among the most engaging works of history I’ve encountered. Absolutely brilliant. About ⅓ of the way through and wanting to play hooky to read all day!

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3 years

Delighted to hear Xi Jinping's announcement that there will be no more building coal-fired power plants for the Belt & Road Initiative.

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I have to say, though this moment may be fleeting, it really does give me hope, to see so many heartfelt responses from Han people. I renounce my earlier cynicism about this app. It's pretty wonderful.

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Proud papa brag: My daughter just learned she won first prize statewide in North Carolina among third-year Japanese students in the annual speech competition!

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3 years

Great spiel from a woman now talking about Han denial and the phenomenon of "Hansplaining," and the importance of confronting uncomfortable truths.

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Great point made just now: speaker discourages emphasizing how secular you or your family are, as Uyghurs, because it only lends force to the argument that internment because of religiosity is in some way legitimate.

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3 years

Listening to the most wonderful Chinese room now on Clubhouse – 学说北京话 (learn to speak Beijingese). It's like fucking music! In Beijing, every day is Talk Like a Pirate Day!

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Let's remember that many participants are overseas – in North America, in Europe, outside of the PRC in Greater China. And iPhone users skew urban, cosmopolitan, and less nationalistic – real patriots in China use Huawei, Xiaomi, and Oppo right? Still, this is encouraging.

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Now there's a Uyghur woman in Sweden talking about her family's experience in the camps. Moderators are doing their best to give Uyghurs as much airtime as possible. One troll keeps interrupting but being kicked.

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I can’t attest to the accuracy of this post making the rounds on Chinese social media. It purports to summarize reforms proposed by Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng, who took office in Aug. Rumors of major changes have been abroad a while but this would be quite extreme. 1/N

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4 years

Having a horrible, horrible feeling of deja vu.

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Welp, the PRC certainly seems to have accomplished ONE of its long-cherished ambitions: It has finally destroyed the KMT.

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4 years

My daughter was disappointed to learn just now that Rice University was named after someone and not dedicated to the study of her favorite staple grain.

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4 years

Wow, fantastic photo!!

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It's taken nearly two decades, but today I was finally able to take this shot. Yes, that's Beijing's skyline taken from the Great Wall of China. Massive thanks to @chasbuduo for assisting with the ad-hoc identification of a well-suited part of the wall with the correct alignment.

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Oh wow, this is some serious drama — read the thread to the end! Amazing. h/t @NeysunM

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Waiting at a scary scene at the American Falls. A car is in the Niagara River near the brink of the falls. No official word yet but it is believed to be occupied. Unclear how it ended up in the water. (See it in the center of photo just above firefighter helmets.)

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@RudyGiuliani You seriously can't spell the name of the head of state of the most populous country on earth – the country with which the US has the most consequential bilateral relationship? Whatever you think of him, or China, shame on you.

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3 years

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival everyone! 中秋节快乐🎑

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4 years

A useful little cheat sheet, courtesy of my daughter. Unknown provenance, some student in China.

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9 months

I've just heard the terrible news that the great @davidrdollar has died. He was a real gentleman and a brilliant economist with a deep understanding of China. He'll be sorely missed. Rest in peace, David.

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3 years

We're taping an episode of @SinicaPodcast tonight with Jude Blanchette on "How bad assumptions about China's political system shape US policy." Join me in my Twitter Space if you have some pet peeve "bad assumptions" about Chinese politics you'd like to hear discussed.

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"The US mostly reacted to the technological rise of the USSR & then Japan by investing a great deal more in itself, and it's mostly reacted to the technological rise of China by trying to kneecap leading Chinese companies like Huawei or SMIC." - @danwwang on Sinica, out Thursday.

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Love the fact that Bannon was arrested on the Lady May, a yacht owned by – you guessed it! – Guo Wengui. See the following post for evidence that it's Guo's, from a most ironic source.

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon was cruising the Connecticut coast on mega yacht when federal...

Steve Bannon, former senior adviser to President Donald Trump, was pulled from a mega yacht off the Connecticut coast early Thursday and charged in what federal prosecutors said was a scheme to emb…

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I suspect that more of this kind of discussion – which alas is not likely to last – are as important to changing the minds that matter as Magnitsky sanctions, entity lists, and cotton boycotts.

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I’ve done considerable damage to the duck population of China just in the time I’ve been here. Sixth Peking Duck meal tonight — all in under three weeks. Doubt I had duck six times a year in the 20 years I lived here. But damn, it’s so good.

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President Macron has hurt the feelings of the American people! In retaliation, we will only be serving Freedom Fries once again. And we're banning Grey Poupon for good measure.

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Major parenting win: My 15-year-old boy has discovered Pink Floyd, is keenly appreciative of the phenomenal production on Dark Side, and listened with me to Time and Great Big Gig in the Sky in the driveway as he made astute comments just now.

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If you're in the Triangle region please join me Friday as I chat with the legendary Peter Hessler for the @SinicaPodcast on "Modern Revolutions in Ancient Civilizations," about his work on China and Egypt. At Duke Nasher Museum, 3pm.

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4 years

You’re fucking fired, @realDonaldTrump .

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2 years

“I’m begging somebody to explain to me how Nancy Pelosi going to Taiwan right now makes Taiwan safer. We have an obligation to our partner to consider whether its security is enhanced or diminished by the actions that we take.” - Shelley Rigger

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Anecdote just now: a Han guy in a WeChat group had a (Han) friend in Urumqi, asked about whether news of the re-education/concentration camps was true, and his tepid remark affirming got him detained for (I think it was) 10 days.

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@thocpodcast Great ranking! If you leave aside wealth, literacy, longevity, infant mortality, caloric intake, and pretty much every other measure of human flourishing.

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4 years

The result. ⁦ @EdSander ⁩

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