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There's a correlation/causation trap a lot of people fall into when it comes to thinking about the PRC because their aggressive censorship of social media is because it *isn't* fully under their control and they are very aware of how quickly local protests can spread from province to province

this is a complete fiction and the sooner that foreign policy people recognize american imperial history is real the better

Frequent labor movements in China contradict Wang’s claim. It's not the lack of “development,” but the state machinery - in "constant adjustment" - that suppresses. The New Left evades and alienates the very subject of leftist critique: the working people and their lived experiences & voices

The state goons are powerless before the awesome might of someone in an inflatable frog costume, and you seriously expect me to believe the situation is hopeless?

picture of gazans gathering for food aid. text superimposed written: 680,000 Dead. Based on all the data collected, the death toll in gaza is at least 680,000 and 380,000 are infants under five years of age. on september 3, 2025, Dr. Gideon Polya and Professor richard Hill calculated the total death toll for gaza since october 7.

i cannot comprehend what this means

We are speedrunning China huh

they're cooking

X post by Branko Milanovic: What I found interesting & to some extent puzzling even three decades ago is that Russian/Soviet "liberals" are like all peripheral liberals. They suffer from an inferiority complex, they read only the news about the top Western counties, and they are simply ignorant (and worse: willfully ignorant) of the world.

puzzling they may be, the Soviet and Chinese liberals who only saw good things about the US were not so different from the American leftists who only see good things about China. for either direction they are more puzzling today than say the 1980s because the internet...

We're in another prole wave right now but the anglophone media learned its lesson from 2011-14 and the extreme anglo-centrism of this app means we're not getting nearly the movement/news crossover of Twitter but the discourse on here is genuinely kept almost entirely within a yt liberal frame

Absolutely, and I feel like this is something that both the right and the left doesn't realize at all. US literally detained Uyghur Refugees in Guantanamo Bay for China in the 2000s ffs.

Seems like your recent Epstein stuff and, of course, the Trump backing of Israel is really turning a not insignificant amount of online right towards embracing Nazi-esque anti-semitism

Having my monthly twitter logins and I'm increasingly convinced that the next generation of the GOP is going to be straight-up groypers.

As a FLAS alum this is absolutely abhorrent.

Taiwan estimates China spent 40% more on military exercises in the Pacific last year, reaching $21 billion China spent $21 billion on military exercises in the Taiwan Strait, the East and South China Sea and the Western Pacific last year, nearly 40% higher than 2023.

So they decided to throw themselves a year long $21 billion military parade on the sea while the pension system is collapsing

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

Episode 3 | Typing Chinese | Made in China Journal In 1947, the acclaimed Chinese writer and linguist Lin Yutang stunned the world with an invention: the first Chinese-language typewriter with a keyboard. Lin poured years of effort and his life’s savi...

Decades after it was assumed lost, the first Chinese typewriter with a keyboard reappeared in a NY basement. For Ep.3 of 开门见山|Gateway to Global China, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social talks with historian @tsmullaney.bsky.social about the legendary MingKwai and the century-long effort to type in Chinese.

US economy deck supported by nvidia and taylor swift

And @melhogan.bsky.social has collected an excellent library on Critical Data Center Studies at:

Sadiq khan in a suit

The Lord Mayor of London in a golden fucking carriage

Apparently London has both a “Mayor of London” (does normal mayor stuff) and a “Lord Mayor of London” (does civic events in costumes) and like, not to hand it to England, but I think I’ve figured out what we can do with Eric Adams

Important detail: John Brown was going around fighting and killing slaveowners with the sickest looking longsword I've ever seen

The Canon of Asian American Literature – Post45 Data Collective This dataset traces the Asian American literary canon through nearly 1,900 scholarly citations from 1971 to 2023, capturing which authors and texts have shaped the field over time.

"Representing the canon that scholars of Asian American literature have built, it is the most expansive dataset to date on Asian American literature."

Data and essay: doi.org/10.18737/092...

The data doesn't lie; the court order in Los Angeles had a clear and measurable impact.

Really hope this isn't true. With all the issue with US-based area studies, it certainly does not deserve to end like this

adrian vermeule's research program insists that the constitution is a blueprint for a catholic theocracy, which is the legal academic version of a tenured english professor whose entire research program is insisting that the x-men are in canterbury tales

one of the biggest arguments against AI dependence is that the strongest proponents of its use have become visibly *dumber* in the last few years.

The Security–Sustainability Nexus: Lithium Onshoring in the Global North Abstract. The political economy of lithium, a “critical mineral” for the renewable energy transition, is marked by two striking developments. First, Global North governments that have historically off...

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American "leftists" be like, "Yes to more planet-destroying extraction!"

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Yall be cheering for whoever is on either side of this interimperial conflict on who produces better new shining toys while we are going to die thanks to the extraction of the earth that sustains the present condition of late-stage planetary capitalism.