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Also was expecting a bit more depth from WSJ but it essentially reads like a puff piece

25.02.2026 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Now that it has reached mainstream media I hope this trend can now die thank you

25.02.2026 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wenhao Ma Washington DC based photographer specialized in event documentation and news photography.

I created a portfolio site to showcase some of the photos I took over the past seven years. If you are in the DC region and need a photographer to cover any news events (or anything, really), I’d love to connect! wenhaoma.myportfolio.com/work

25.02.2026 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Somebody please ask Arthur Liu what he thinks of the comments below so we can finally have an answer to our much speculated question

24.02.2026 02:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah it’s content at the end of the day. It gets him views and fame and gets people talking about him which is always good for a streamer

23.02.2026 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A lot of his videos are just him telling stories about his time in America and what America is like. Kill line was just the content that got him super popular in China

23.02.2026 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Kill line is about how fragile the American social safety net is that many middle class people are just one job loss or hospital visit away from sliding into perpetual poverty. Lao A (η‰’A) is the Chinese streamer who popularized the term

23.02.2026 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Gonna have a hard time finding a publication willing to commission something containing this much racist talkπŸ˜‚

23.02.2026 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyway I think it’s very funny how so many people here treat Lao A’s kill line as some kind of legitimate criticism. It’s like taking Alex Jones or Nick Fuentes seriously because they once said something that resembled a point of view that you agree with

23.02.2026 06:17 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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More knowledge from Lao A

23.02.2026 06:12 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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From my notes

23.02.2026 06:09 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Very sad that kill line didn’t become a bigger discourse in the US because I was so ready to write something about its inventor Lao A after spending two hours listening to his race-mixing theory on Bilibili, which was so racist that I wanted to give myself a lobotomy

23.02.2026 06:03 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

Hmm couldn’t seem to find anything. Do you have the exact Chinese words of the hashtag?

21.02.2026 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not sure the point of this is? Although the hashtag is banned, the platform immediately shows you posts containing these words under the ban notice

21.02.2026 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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?? β€œAlysa Liu wins gold” is a banned topic on Weibo

21.02.2026 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

People like to make fun of Western media always asking "but at what cost" when they cover China's achievements. But I am of the opinion that it's always good to ask "but at what cost" when covering anything, especially AI

21.02.2026 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Media outside China has covered a lot of Chinese AI in terms of power competition and what new models just came out and how great they are. Need more stories on these AI debates inside the country and more focus on the impact of the technology.

21.02.2026 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Sensing a growing anxiety among general public in China over AI. CCTV did a segment on Seedance 2.0 the other day and the bilibili comments were all questioning if AI will actually lead to a better future. Seen a lot of social media posts complaining about AI’s negative impact in the workplace.

21.02.2026 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Substack is like glorified 公众号

21.02.2026 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The China media circle here is way too 卷 like what do you mean I’m competing with graduates of Yale and Princeton for some entry level job come on shouldn’t you guys be working at JP Morgan or something

19.02.2026 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Insane. Rich Chinese man from Xinjiang had over 20 kids in California through surrogacy, kept them in his mansion, abused them, lost almost all of them to forester families, and is still allowed to have more babies.

17.02.2026 04:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
16.02.2026 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Growing up everybody I knew and I just called it spring festival. The only analytical contemplation I've had about the name is that the "spring" part is quite misleading since it's always cold af around that time

15.02.2026 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Okay what's really going on with this Lunar New Year and Chinese New Year thing like is this just the latest manufactured controversy or do some Chinese people have like legit concerns that their culture is being erased..?

15.02.2026 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Video game is actually the only logical medium for this one of the most overrated franchises. First movie was fantastic but then they just copied and pasted it three more times with increasingly comical fights. Might as well just call it Captain Underworld and have him join the avengers.

12.02.2026 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'd like to know the backstory of the invention of doubles luge

12.02.2026 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tokens of AI Bias - China Media Project A simple technical test reveals that the Alibaba AI model Qwen has been broadly aligned to give positive messages about China in English.

A simple technical test reveals that Alibaba's Qwen3 AI models have been broadly aligned to give positive messages about China in English.

chinamediaproject.org/2026/02/09/t...

09.02.2026 06:46 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

You met Eileen Gu at a very Chinese time in her life (every fours years)

06.02.2026 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

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