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China brokers Ukrainian Peas Agreement ✨ #PeasInOurTime

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Good job 👍 #JournalismWithChineseCharacteristics

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"My analysis is there will decisions, and talking.. And it may affect people. 😌" Such empty words. Two Sessions is both state media's golden hour — and it at its most cuckolded, vapid, and inefficant.

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"Fight until the end". China might dress up language, for sake of their troop's egos, but every way you look at it, the reciprocal tariffs were lesser. Again. Are Beijing trying not to poke Trump? Or are they that worried about the domestic economy..? 🤔

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Not an exaggeration to say this was pound-for-pound the most effective piece of US public diplomacy in China. Twitter was blocked, but U.S. embassy pollution tweets forced Beijing to start publishing its own pollution data, which fed public outrage. Result: millions breathing vastly less toxic air

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#Statemediaworkerdirective Before pushing the Blue Skies narrative: look out your window.

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I was at the football last night. Blissfully unaware of any Oval Office press conference. Came out to a slightly changed world~

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Oh my. Xinhua News Agency have just dropped their latest satire, and.. well. Prepare yourself for some accents. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇯🇵 & 🇲🇽(?)

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"And that’s while they were busy accusing people like ME of being influenced by a foreign government!" In his latest video, Shanghai Daily's Andy mocks the idea he, or his studio, is "a CPC asset". If only there was proof. Oh. Wait.

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Got offered a job interview for CGTN today. They were dusting off old CVs and called me. Considered carrying on, to see how far I'd get, but recruiter is bloody lovely, and didn't want it to reflect back on them. So fessed up what I've been writing of late. "Oh.. So controversial stories."

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New: Three decades after China liberalised its property market and ushered in a historic era of urbanisation, the state is back in force. Our latest visual investigation uses residential land sales to show that state-owned developers are propping up China’s housing sector. ig.ft.com/china-proper...

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"With Europe browbeaten / pre-occupied by war, and a rusting US in full self-sabotage mode, China smells blood. Yet, CPC have learned lessons from last time. I doubt we'll see hectoring commentaries or Chinese ambassadors starting flame wars. Instead, a drip, drip, drip of quiet self-confidence."

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The US threatening to cut off Ukraine's access to Starlink unless the country signs over its natural resources is exactly what the US warned China would do if other countries accepted Chinese tech. The Trump administration now proudly aspires to be that global mafia state.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

One of my New Year's resolutions was to actually meet online acquaintances offline. Already ticked off a few interesting people. Got some free time tomorrow (Friday) in London if anyone is free to swap war stories~ 🍺☕ (DM)

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Love Private Eye. I'm sure whoever wrote this is most handsome~

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Quelle surprise~

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Assistant t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ President.

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A US-based vocal critic of China's censorship regime has found himself in the crosshairs of a months-long online harassment campaign that experts say is likely the work of a Beijing-backed operation known as Spamouflage. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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This week, I delve into China's stealthy campaign to win global support for its coercion of Taiwan. 70 countries have now backed "all" China's unification efforts, without saying they should be peaceful. Most adopted the new wording since mid-2023 www.economist.com/internationa...

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

"I'm immune to accusations of racism :D" —Andy quips. Before shortly deleting this second attempt, too.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Howdy. Did you notice how muted official reaction was to the USAID story? Despite it so obviously benefitting Beijing? "Never interrupt your opponent while he is in the middle of making a mistake" A few didn't get that memo. Though, they could have been talking about themselves~

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Chinese media suspiciously quiet on USAID. +US does something harmful to PRC 👉 Hammer with furious commentaries about "bottom lines" 🤬 +US actions benefit mutual goals 👉 glowing write-ups about "shared community" 😌 +US does something stupid, progressing PRC interests 👉 Hold breath, don't jinx it~ 😬

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Just had the strangest spam phone call. Apparently I can "earn money from home posting and liking TikTok videos".

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Glad Kaiser posted this here, too. Excellent breakdown~

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Watching all the Deepseek videos, of the program ever-so-slowly logicking itself into censorship, only gives me more respect for Chinese who have to do that inherently, day-in-day-out in nanoseconds.

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A notorious Chinese diplomat famous for spreading disinformation on Twitter updated his X profile last month to "Inspector of X" and began pumping AI-generated cultish praise for Elon Musk. In this new investigation, I explain why

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One question has been nagging me all week: just how 'red' is Little Red Book, the app TikTokers are joining? Did some digging. Turns out: Very. And increasingly so. +4 Party cells +200 Party members +A system where they prioritise members when hiring/elevate them into roles.. Full story 👇

submitted 48 days ago • 5 comments

What's that? You want a thread of Chinese state media and it staff discovering they actually very much care about free speech? Oh. Ok then~

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

Hua Chunying, finally stands down as spokesperson ~7 months on from her promotion to Foreign Minister.

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

Thank god for all the western 'TikTok refugees' brave enough to cry into their smartphones this week. Otherwise the 700 million Chinese on less than $100 per week, or the 25% rural residents without a toilet, or the 50 jailed journalists, wouldn't know how good they have it.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Sure, sure, US TikTokers. Try RedNote on for size. It will be a crash course in what it’s like to live inside the Great Firewall.

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