Don Weinland @donweinland Twitter profile

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Don Weinland

2 years

Yes, Google, Shanghai still exists. Not that bad here just yet. And, yes, Shanghai is now called Beijing and it's located in Hong Kong

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Don Weinland

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2 years

When u arrive at a hotel in Shanghai these days ur given a document with every high and medium risk area in China on it. You are told to check the list and confirm with signature that you have not been to one of these places recently

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Shanghai is going into the harshest phase of lockdown yet. Food delivery is halting. We’re told to rely on govt for food (rotting cabbage?). Day 39 of full lockdown feels like it could be day 1. They say this new phase is 2-5 days. The original lockdown was supposed to be 4 days

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Before the full lockdown order came yesterday I got out to see what was going on. I didn’t like what I saw. Many streets open just a few days ago have been completely boarded up. The most shocking to me was Danshui road, which looks like a war zone, walled off on both sides 1/3

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2 years

Today is my 46th day in quarantine/lockdown in Shanghai since March 3rd. I feel like a prisoner of the Chinese state

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4 years

The cops have been following my every step across Tibetan Sichuan for days, appearing next to me in restaurants and on high elevation grasslands. One added me on wechat yesterday. V glad I screengrabbed his profile pic before he changed it

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1 year

Classic Letter to The Economist, complaining about the price of The Economist

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1 year

How the reopening of China is going: my friend runs a bar in a large city. The police have just told him that foreigners who enter the bar must “register”: fill out a form with name, passport#, phone#, employer, residential address … this has nothing to do with covid

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2 years

First time out of China since moving to Shanghai in March. I’ve heard this from others and can now confirm it myself: it’s not until u get out of China that u realise how absolutely bonkers zero covid is

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2 years

This is representative of China’s overall zero covid policy

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Only in #China #airport #Covid19 @francetvchine

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Day four of who knows how many days of lockdown in Shanghai, my hotel has ran out of water. They advised me to buy online but these delivery services have stopped. And I’m in a hotel in a central area of the city. I can only imagine how terrible things have become in other areas

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2 years

The Shanghai lockdown has been somewhat misinterpreted as a quick, efficient, 8-day exercise. This misses the fact that many many areas of the city have already been locked down for several weeks and that more areas will remain that way for longer. 1/

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3 years

Bravo Regina Ip. You have crafted quite possibly the world’s most despicable tweet

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@donweinland

3 years

A friend was in a bookstore in Shanghai today and tried to buy this book. When they rang it up on the computer the clerks said the book was no longer allowed to be sold. He showed them where he found it and they removed the rest. Many books coming off the shelves these days?

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2 years

The situation in Shanghai is quite grim. This “soft” lockdown is shuttering city block after city block. I took just a quick walk in Huangpu to find many streets fully shut. I’m told the districts further from the city centre are in much worse shape

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2 years

I’m not sure who the joke is on, me or the people handing out these lists. I asked the receptionist: “you want me to read this?” And she just started laughing. It’s things like this that undermine the seriousness of zero covid in China. Who can pretend this is a good idea?

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2 years

This messaging is nuts. If there was ever a time to wear a mask in China, it’s right now. Many lives depend on flattening the curve

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2 years

Being shared in chinese social media today. Feel like I have whiplash from how quickly things are changing here!

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More very recent walling work on Fuxing road. This is a small sample of what’s happening here. And it’s all hidden from the world. It’s now impossible for me to step outside for at least the next few days. This isn’t just a lockdown of residents, it’s a lockdown on information3/3

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2 years

China’s international financial hub, everyone

Caleb Leal

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2 years

This is insane. #shanghai is now installing cages on roads and infront of building doors, wtf! #china #lockdown #Covid_19 #shanghailockdown

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1 year

China reopens its borders to the world today. For the past 1,016 days you had to quarantine for up to 3 weeks upon arrival. Now you should be able to freely walk out of the airport. I’m giving it a shot this morning. The HK airport is packed!

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1 year

20 years in China, as of today. Oof

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2 years

Mood in Shanghai

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2 years

Lots of videos circulating of protests in Guangzhou. Hard to verify exactly what is happening. One crucial thing many people outside of China might not realise is how hard it is to cover these events. 1) There are very few foreign reporters in China to begin with 2) Traveling…

Disclose.tv

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NEW - People in China's Guangzhou city tear down COVID barricades.

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As state media tells the world Shanghai is opening up, here’s what’s actually happening across the city

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2 years

Just received notice our compound will go "silent" for next three days, meaning no deliveries, everyone locked in. The state-sanctioned cruelty is staggering. Lock everyone in for months and then deny even basic necessities. Politics and zero COVID trump all, even hunger.

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2 years

You’re gonna need 10 PCR tests if ur gonna rise from the dead in Shanghai Jesus

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@donweinland

2 years

Wife bought a $9K return ticket from China (yes, $9,000). This is standard these days. @united airlines has just sent an email saying the return trip is now “unconfirmed”, could be cancelled. She’s asked for a refund and has been offered $43 (yes, forty-three dollars)

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2 years

These are interesting documents. I was accidentally given the list from Aug 18, which is noticeably shorter. Noticing the mistake they swapped it for today’s, which has really grown. I wonder if they’ll have us reading thick volumes of risk lists in a few months

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2 years

Some very good signs today that Shanghai is reopening. I haven’t seen this many people on the streets (and not in testing lines) in 2 months. This is Huaihai/Wukang/Xingguo rds. This intersection was an anomaly and not representative of every street corner. Still it’s progress 1/

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1 year

I’m an American but very accustomed to British spelling and newspaper style. I don’t flinch when adding a “u” in words like “labour” or saying “in future” instead of “in the future”. But when I typed out this line I did have to pause for a moment and think about my life

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2 years

Changle road, the subject of @rob_schmitz book, was suddenly boarded up on Sunday and now looks like this. This trend does not seem compatible with the lower and lower case numbers reported here 2/3

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2 years

@rachel_cheung1 She’s also using a fork in the pic. And she’s sitting down. Pelosi also uses forks and at times sits down. This is a clear sign of support for Pelosi

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@donweinland

2 years

That moment when u realise u need to enter ur name and Chinese ID number in order to buy a subway ticket in Beijing

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@donweinland

2 years

I’m seeing more and more attempts in state media to portray a quick and easy opening up of Shanghai. So I’m posting another video from a stroll tonight. This is Huaihai Rd, one of the main roads in the old area of town. Shot a around 9pm

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2 years

BBC statement on the arrest of one of their journalists by Chinese police while covering a protest in Shanghai. The only explanation given for the arrest (during which he was kicked and beaten) is that it was for his own protection against catching covid from the crowd

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@donweinland

2 years

For a sense of just how much zero covid is turning China into an international backwater, try booking a hotel in downtown Wuhan. Many nice hotels (a few below) no longer accept foreigners. Hard to imagine this just a few years ago. Hope it’s not a permanent trend

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@donweinland

2 years

Hard to overstate just how low public trust in the govt is right now in Shanghai. Official denials of a re-lockdown are only feeding the paranoia here. The only truth I know right now is that it is almost impossible to predict what's coming next

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Don Weinland

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3 years

Good to see that the global centre of economic growth is headed back toward Omsk, Russia, which I have always considered to be the centre of the world

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2 years

I left HK for Shanghai yesterday. Never did I imagine departing under these conditions, essentially escaping a crisis in HK for the safety of the mainland. Not the historical precedent

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1 year

Snow in Shanghai!

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4 years

Ganzi Sichuan is a lovely area but the police harassment has been unbearable. Plainclothes cops have simply camped out in the guesthouse entryway since I arrived yesterday. If I step outside, they follow. I feel terrible that they have intimidated the Tibetan owner of this place

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2 years

Just an average day in zero-covid Shanghai. Can only guess that a case was rumoured to have been found inside. I wonder why the guys in scrubs grab the one fellow there. Easy catch? Or contagious agent? Gotta love the woman’s high-pitched response: “SHIT! SHIT!”

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2 years

After watching videos of the protests in Shanghai last night, one thing is pretty clear: it’s currently easier for people in large mainland cities to gather and demonstrate than it is in Hong Kong. (Should note that this won’t last long tho)

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2 years

Fears confirmed: the strict lockdown measures are being extended for 3 more days in Shanghai. No food delivery/can’t step outside. This “silent” period was originally set for 2 days. Biggest problem here is the utter lack of reliable info from govt. Why even set a timeframe?

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2 years

Folks, it’s perfectly logical to disagree with the horrible excesses of zero-covid AND ALSO take issue with an unplanned, chaotic exit from it. Many epidemiologists agree zero-covid was wasteful and unsustainable and this exit lacks many of the measures needed to reduce deaths

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7 months

These massive comic scare-mercials in Hong Kong are quite a sight. They seem to imply that all around you ppl are learning to make guns and bombs

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@donweinland

3 years

Hello my name is Nicole Kidman

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@donweinland

2 years

A crack team of experts would struggle to design a better crisis 1. squander two years not preparing for an outbreak 2. terrify the local population 3. implement political not scientific solutions 4. plan a lockdown a few weeks off 5. watch Hong Kong fall apart

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1 year

China's leaders think they can just flip off and on society and the economy like a light switch and everything will just come springing back. They are finding out that's not the case with zero-covid and probably not with the private sector either

Xi’s Big Private-Sector Push Runs Into Wall of Skepticism

China’s latest pledges to rebuild a shattered private sector fell flat with investors, underscoring the damage two years of crackdowns and pandemic controls have had on confidence in the world’s...

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2 years

It is wild that research firms are projecting 9,000 deaths PER DAY right now in China and that there is no way to confirm or refute these numbers on the ground. Is it actually possible that so many ppl could be dying without clear signs of this?

China COVID deaths accelerate to 9,000 a day - UK research firm Airfinity

Around 9,000 people in China are probably dying each day from COVID-19, UK-based health data firm Airfinity said on Thursday, nearly doubling its estimate from a week ago, as infections ripped across...

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1 year

Super Bowl Monday in Shanghai (what decoupling?)

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2 years

Day 6 of reopening Shanghai, small protests are breaking out in areas that have been freshly locked down. These pics (stills from videos on wechat/not mine) are from Shaanxi Rd and Changle Rd. These areas were locked down late Friday night when a few cases were discovered

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2 years

And there it is. We are now cut off from food delivery and fully reliant on the govt for provisions. They says 2 days? Let’s see

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2 years

Yes, people worldwide are willing to pay $10K for a scarce flight into China, do quarantine in a govt designated hotel and put up with endless covid lockdowns, not to mention risk being hauled off to a fever camp, just for one bite of China’s delicious soup buns

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1 year

What a difference six months can make. Pics taken from roughly the same spot on Shanghai’s Danshui road

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@donweinland

2 years

38 days after the end of the Shanghai lockdown, I’ve just been locked down again. A guest was a close contact with a delivery driver who tested positive? (Unclear) but what’s clear is the policy is falling apart

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2 years

Day 3 of the Shanghai reopening, residents in the center of Shanghai are being hauled out of their homes and to either to central quarantine or a hotel (they don’t know where they’re going). An entire street, Jinxian Rd, has been shut down. Does not bode well for reopening

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2 years

Shanghai once again declares victory over covid. And yet city streets with no cases for weeks are still being shut down. I think the message from the govt must be that this is what victory looks like: long-term, random enforcement of unclear rules

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2 years

This is new to me: a Hong Kong politician (Steven Ho) has added a picture of Xi Jinping to one of his roadside political ads. I have not seen images of Xi used in this way before in HK. It’s interesting to me for two reasons: 1) the poster promotes various political slogans …1/

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11 months

If u follow the global/Chinese law industry you'll know that it was a big deal when Dentons added the Chinese characters "大成" to its global logo in 2015. Now it is delinking with China (and will drop the Chinese characters from its name) 1/3

Law firm Dentons hives off China business as Beijing tightens regulation

Move comes after Chinese government broadened scope of cyber security and data protection laws on national security grounds

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A scene that captures the mood in China today. I'm chatting with a well-known local investor. He gets a call that ends quickly with "no, sorry there's not much to say". Hangs up, tells me: that was state media. They asked if there's anything positive I can say about the economy..

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2 years

Cops just called me to ask if I had ever had covid, at any time in the past. Hard to imagine receiving a phone call like this anywhere else in the world in 2022. When we try to total up the cost of China's zero-covid machine I think it's safe to assume we are undercounting

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2 years

Tried to think of a witty response. Then realised I’d need something more like a PowerPoint presentation. Then realised it just doesn’t matter

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Gotta appreciate this subtle form of protest. Someone on a street in Shanghai has written out the “Core Values of Socialism” but made FREEDOM extra big. The Core Values are everywhere u look in China. Whoever did this is using Party ideology against itself

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2 years

The Shanghai lockdown has forced thousands of people to live in tents on the streets. Here's a shot from this morning next to my hotel (I was out for a PCR test). @_KarenHao has written about why this is happening Many are delivery drivers who cant go home

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2 years

I feel like nothing freaks out the top leadership more than videos like this. Renmin U should prepare for a struggle session

China in Pictures

@tongbingxue

2 years

Taylor Swift in Renmin University of China, my Alma Mater, tonight.

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8 months

OH NOO. Mandatory covid swab tests ARE BACK at Shanghai’s airport. These appear to use the zero-covid era contact tracing system tied to passport and mobile numbers. I guess the covid infrastructure China built is not going away. Amazing how quickly it can be put back in use

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2 years

It was impossible to find liangpi in Shanghai during the lockdown. Now it’s back and I’m eating as much as I can before the next lockdown

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2 years

Just out for a pcr test. Perhaps the greatest shame of the Shanghai lockdown is the squandering of this wonderful spring weather. That, and the removal of 25 million people’s rights to free movement

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1 year

China: we need to project our soft power. Also China:

Imported stand-up comedy should abide by Chinese law and social norms

Recently, a Chinese stand-up comedian going by the stage name House got caught up in a controversy after one of his jokes during a performance was deemed as

www.globaltimes.cn

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2 years

I caught state TV news at breakfast the past 2 days at my hotel in Beijing. The program should be called “Why America is bad”, nothing but guns and poverty. But it got me thinking: why on earth is the Chinese govt upset about foreign media reporting “negative news” about China?

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2 years

Starting to see all sorts of new compound lockdown notices in Shanghai. For those that support zero covid, how long are you willing to live like this? A year? Five years? Serious question

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4 months

Glimpse of what it’s like to report on protests in China. Local officials think this looks better than just allowing coverage of unhappy investors

Byron Wan

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Feb 27: China correspondent of the largest Dutch news organization NOS Sjoerd den Daas was harassed and manhandled by plain-clothes and uniformed 🇨🇳 policemen when he was filming a group of investors protesting outside the HQ of struggling shadow bank Sichuan Trust (四川信托) in

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2 years

Hard to express just how strange it feels to walk down Nanjing road right now

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2 years

State media has a very different take on the news today. Glad there’s some “bliss rediscovery” taking place somewhere

Shanghai Daily

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2 years

As lockdown rules ease in some areas of the city, residents are rediscovering the bliss of plying the aisles of food stores. #COVID19

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It is bewildering how China has gone from mass lockdowns and sprawling quarantine camps to forcing staff to come to work with covid, all in just a year's time. What was Zero-Covid?

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Two small banks in Liaoning will enter bankruptcy proceedings. This is big news. Not the first time a Chinese bank has done this but from what I gather this process here will help chart out a new path for troubled lenders to exit the market—a much needed step that …

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China has experienced 25 covid deaths since the start of December. One-fifth just so happen to be well-know academics and celebrities

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4 years

Entering Wuhan was relatively painless. You just have to hand over all ur personal data at several different check points. After that, free to go

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2 years

Imagine this: u just told Shanghai’s 25million people they would be detained at home for 4days. Then once 4days pass u tell them it’s unclear when they will be released. How will people eat? Delivery apps say they are “using prehistoric power but can’t keep up”. This is a failure

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A few thoughts on the very slow reopening of Shanghai. At central level the politburo SC did not use phrases such as "reconcile zero-covid with growth" in the latest memo. These have been used before. So the message to localities on implementation is to pull out all the stops 1/

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1 year

Absolutely love how my iPhone has created a dystopian compilation of the Shanghai lockdown and set it to cheery jazz

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2 years

This can’t possibly be the response to the Tangshan bbq attack. Please tell me this isn’t real

小径残雪

@xiaojingcanxue

2 years

吃烧烤最安全的日子来了。

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I do try to avoid senseless Cultural Revolution references but ... this is a middle schooler

China Professor Suspended After Student Says He ‘Worships’ West

A Chinese professor has been suspended by his university after a talk he gave at a school prompted an outburst from a student who accused him of worshiping the West.

www.bloomberg.com

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2 years

This (probs soon to be known as the "Sitong Bridge incident") highlights what a strange reality China exists in. What appears to be a one-man protest is hardly news in most places. In Beijing, under tight control over personal expression, this becomes a short chapter in history

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今天上午北京四通桥上有人挂出了条幅，在社交媒体疯传。

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Shanghai is tearing down some of the covid barricades that went up two weeks ago around many neighbourhoods in the centre of the city. They are clearly preparing to reopen things, or at least make the city look more open …

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The mere existence of this story in @SCMPNews is disturbing. Is HK to the point where govt advisors need to “assure” the public that they won’t be punished for buying a copy of a newspaper on the street?

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2 years

The Shanghai lockdown is over for some. Now we are entering into the unending covid state. It’s easy to say that standing for a half-hour in summer heat every two days is no biggie. But locals seem in happy about it. This level of constant state intrusion is unprecedented 1/3

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2 years

People are really going strong on Xi-Li discord. I think it's overblown. Check out the latest issue of @TheEconomist for the smart take from @jarmiles

Rumours emerge of disharmony within China’s leadership

But little evidence suggests Xi Jinping faces a challenge

www.economist.com

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2 years

Many Chinese media have lots their independent voice over the past decade. (I used to be an avid Southern Weekend and Economic Observer reader). In this environment, I’m still surprised how well Caixin’s English version has held up. Its criticism of covid policy has been decent

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2 years

Looks like we are finally approaching the end of the QR health code in China. A dream come true. But why didn’t they do this in the spring? Why wait for winter? So many questions

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4 years

Happy Wuhan liberation day. Lots of cars on the road in Hankou area, although I hear far fewer than usual

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10 months

Timothy James Kingman still lords over the people of China like some vengeful god of sleep

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4 months

Two years ago today my wife and I were moved into a Kumamon-themed quarantine hotel to serve the final 7 of our 21-day mandatory China covid lockup. In all the fresh hells I was capable of dreaming up at the time, this thoroughly exceeded the powers of my imagination

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2 years

Amazon closing Kindle in China. Airbnb just closed here. LinkedIn is out. Whatever happened to all the “biggest market in the world” and “can’t not be in China” talk?

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1 year

It seems insane that ppl are constantly asking very direct questions about what is legal and what is not, only to be told in the vaguest possible terms that the law is clear and they must act in accordance with it

Aaron Busch

@tripperhead

1 year

Q (SCMP): Why were you not more clear before June 4th on what was and was not a legal activity? John Lee: Everybody must act in accordance with the law. The law is already clearly stated. All such cases will be dealt with in accordance with the law.

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Don Weinland

@donweinland

2 years

@histories_arch @archeohistories I’m in Garni right now. Here’s what the temple looks like from a distance at dusk

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Don Weinland

@donweinland

2 years

Feels like more and more compounds have simply had enough with arbitrary lockdowns. I’m seeing lots of this type of thing on Shanghai Twitter. The funny thing is it seems to work. Compound committees often let people out once they protest #WholeProcessDemocracy

Weronika Truszczyńska

@wtruszczynska

2 years

And here it is! My compound in Jing’an District started a protest today!

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Don Weinland

@donweinland

2 years

Something is not quite right about the new lockdowns across Shanghai. 10 transmissions in the community reported since June 3 (in a city of 25m). None yesterday. And yet I have heard from six different people who have had their compounds locked down again due to a "close contact"

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Don Weinland

@donweinland

2 years

Now for the bad news. Jing’an, one of Shanghai’s most important central districts, is back in semi-strict lockdown. Officially they are calling for 3 days of testing. Unofficially, many residents have been locked up again in another “quiet period”. Unfortunately this is coming …

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Don Weinland

@donweinland

2 years

The Shanghai Pudong airport experience is incredibly bizarre. I’d say it feels like 2020 but I think airports were busier at that time. I know one day it will be buzzing again with passengers. But when? Three years? I hope sooner

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