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Any foreign government or police officials accepting China's reassurances that it will 'look after' individuals from persecuted groups and 'fully safeguard their rights' is entirely complicit and responsible for the consequences.

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Authorities in Thailand on Thursday deported dozens of Uyghur men to China, despite vehement public objections and weeks of behind-the-scenes diplomacy from the U.S. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

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I hope this study gets as much write-up as the previous one.

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You can tell Xi's Akhetaten hasn't been going that well because about, let's say a year or so ago, the PRC press mostly shut up about it.

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Sentencing for Lam Cheuk Ting and 6 other defendants convicted of "rioting" by detering pro-China mob in Yuen Long on July 21, 2019 will begin at 11:00. The 6 defendants aside from Lam have been behind bars since their guilty verdict in December.

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The U.S. spends as much as the next 12 largest defense budgets combined in raw dollar amounts. But if you plot defense spending against GNI per capita, there's a different (maybe surprising?) standout.

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The street finds its own uses for things in order to replicate 19th-century art fads. Your phone (turned off) is also a 'Claude glass'. from the UK's National Gallery on IG: www.instagram.com/reel/DF5SQUj... #cyberpunk

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Jimmy Lai is a British citizen, and _only_ a British citizen. GovHK has denied consular access. 'Blood ties of the Chinese race' sounds much better in the original Aryan.

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BREAKING: Junius Ho doesn't understand what his job is.

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Quite impressed that they kept the same logo for the "Not Shit" Party even 5 years after their preferential voting video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kYI...

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Hong Kong's League of Social Democrats have called off a protest outside government headquarters ahead of the annual budget speech, citing “immense pressure." In full: https://buff.ly/43cbyaw

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Wu Guoguang: Xi Jinping’s Purges Have Escalated. Here’s Why They Are Unlikely to Stop www.chinafile.com/reporting-op...

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MERICS: Beijing often puts a higher priority on geopolitics and the international recognition flowing from the bilateral relationship, so is willing to disregard trade defense measures on some steel, some manufactures, and some e-commerce by not retaliating.

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Re Monaco F1 plans, it would be nice if someone remembered that overtaking is not the only thing about racing.

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Per Wuttke, BRI and growing trade surplus helped to shift some of China's overproduction abroad. Growth remained strong throughout the 2010s, particularly because of the then-booming real estate, so China's economy was largely able to absorb the manufacturing growth. But this model no longer works.

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Few people have more experience in Chinese manufacturing than Jörg Wuttke, with over 30 years at BASF China, part of which time he was also president of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China. Here he discusses the problem of excess manufacturing capacity in China. themarket.ch/meinung/joer...

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A prominent Uyghur historian and expert in Uyghur place names is serving a 17-year prison sentence for his writings, people with knowledge of the situation said. www.rfa.org/english/uygh...

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More like Dan Malgino, am I right

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Trump's German election post on "Truth Social" (whatever that is) reads like it was scheduled since last week. Everyone else's messages (NATO, Greece, Israel etc.) at least mention some detail of the results.

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Repost with the first album you bought with your own money

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Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

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Spotted in Hong Kong yesterday afternoon. Two of them made me gasp in shock (and awe?); the third caused me to let out an audible sigh... as I wonder how free Hong Kong now is. 🥲

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TIL about a weird protestant hat.

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The thing about this is... if Uber is stopped in Hong Kong, I'm not going to use the taxis instead. I'll just get the bus. hongkongfp.com/2025/02/20/h...

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Big turnout in Surabaya too, I have been told.

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New Mandala on Rohingya refugees in Indonesia. www.newmandala.org/will-pekanba...

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That Golkorn fellow has a new podcast. In this episode he talks to Geremie Barmé about the Cultural Revolution, autogolpes, etc. www.goldkorn.world/p/how-to-com...

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HK breaking records now that it is "ruled by patriots."

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Yicai: "The number of credit cards in use in China tumbled 10 percent at the end of 2024 from the end of 2022, when the government tightened credit card regulations to rein in consumer risk." www.yicaiglobal.com/news/chinas-...

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Xi Jinping the comic book bitterwinter.org/who-is-xi-ji...

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DriveThruRPG always suffered from a certain amount of shovelware, but AI slop has taken it to a new level. It's not overwhelming the good stuff, but... it's always disappointing to see an interesting title, be intrigued, check the preview and realize oh no, this is actually terrible and useless.

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It’s legitimately quite jarring how pandas are suddenly everywhere in Hong Kong. Here are a couple of recent snaps from my home district — historic fishing villages facing the South China Sea, nearly 2,000km from the native habitat of the giant panda.

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See if you can spot where this podcast switches back to Centrist Dad Content.

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Two years ago put up some artwork in Hong Kong that earned me an arrest order that’s still active today. apnews.com/article/hong...

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Ho King-yuen, who brought Mister Softee to Hong Kong and imported the city's first ice cream van, passed away in Perth, Australia at the age of 98. The first Mister Softee truck opened in 1970 at a football pitch in Tsuen Wan, selling ice cream cups for 50 HK cents www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

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Forced by work reasons to reactivate a Facebook account... Meta's gutting of its support services is maddening. I imagine it's not great for the twelve members of staff still left handling things, either.

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