Dexter Tiff Roberts

‘Help is not on the way’ - High Country News As fire season ramps up, thousands of Forest Service firefighting positions are vacant.

“We were told, ‘Help is not on the way,’” said one employee, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing their job. “I’ve never been told that before.” -my latest for @highcountrynews.org www.hcn.org/articles/hel...

Libo, Guizhou - First visit back to see Mo Ruchun and Mo Rubo and their village profiled in my 2020 book “The Myth of Chinese Capitalism.” The wood-walled room is where photographer Greg Girard, my news assistant, and I stayed twenty-five years ago.

Libo, Guizhou - First visit back to see Mo Ruchun and Mo Rubo and their village profiled in my 2020 book “The Myth of Chinese Capitalism.” The wood-walled room is where photographer Greg Girard, my news assistant, and I stayed twenty-five years ago.

Hailongtun Fortress, Guizhou. Built in 1257 during the Southern Song by the chiefdom of Bozhou. A UNESCO World Heritage site.

Hailongtun Fortress, Guizhou. Built in 1257 during the Southern Song by the chiefdom of Bozhou. A UNESCO World Heritage site.

“Under the Microscope”: Activists Opposing a Nevada Lithium Mine Were Surveilled for Years, Records Show Law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, have collaborated with private security to surveil largely peaceful protesters opposed to the Thacker Pass mine, according to a ProPublica review of thousa...

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Good illustration of how tariffs and policy uncertainty are undermining investment in US manufacturing: Richmond Fed capex expectations six months ahead at financial crisis/plague levels in July

Watch: Senior Trump adviser dumps on Minneapolis, prompting retort from Mary Moriarty Stephen Miller’s comments are the latest in a recent string from Trump loyalists targeting Minneapolis.

In response to White House staffer Stephen Miller’s comments, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said: “If we wanted a white supremacist’s opinion, we’d ask. But we don’t. So we won’t. Also, Minneapolis is great.”

Zunyi, Guizhou - street scenes

Zunyi, Guizhou - street scenes

"on numerous occasions, the President has clearly demonstrated that he doesn’t really understand what the BRICS is"

ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....

When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Zunyi, Guizhou - structures

This Osprey is so majestic…. 🥰
And in the bird world this is considered a sick move….

Meitan, Guizhou

China, Vietnam Plan First Joint Army Drill Amid US Tariffs China and Vietnam plan to hold their first joint army training exercise this month, a sign of deepening military ties as the two countries grapple with US tariff policies.

The exercise will take place in southern China’s Guangxi region, which borders Vietnam.

Meitan, Guizhou

I'm actually open to the idea of thinking about the Pearl River Delta as the largest urban agglomeration, but to say that "Guangzhou" is a city with 72 million people, and is 75% bigger than Tokyo or Shanghai, is obviously and insanely wrong.

K I'm done for the night

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Consumption has contributed 60% annually on average to China's economic growth since 2021, according to Wang Wentao, China's Minister of Commerce, adding that "the role of consumption as the economy's main engine has continued to strengthen."

english.news.cn/20250718/21f...

China's global popularity rises as US stumbles More people around the world see China as the top global economy, according to a new Pew survey.

Surprise surprise: "Views of China and its leader...have improved slightly among many people around the world over the past year while the opposite is true for the United States and...Trump, according to survey results provided by the Pew Research Center." www.newsweek.com/china-us-xi-...

Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.

Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.

Do not.

Back in Beijing

Back in Beijing

Trade War Precipitous drops in industrial profits and land sales show two pillars of Chinese economy are still weak. Trump says US and China signed a trade deal the “other day.” Beijing says the two side only “...

Meanwhile, a White House official later clarified that rather than a signed deal, the two sides had reached “an additional understanding of a framework to implement the Geneva agreement.” Get more of the latest China news in Trade War: open.substack.com/pub/dexter/p...

Trade War Precipitous drops in industrial profits and land sales show two pillars of Chinese economy are still weak. Trump says US and China signed a trade deal the “other day.” Beijing says the two side only “...

Meanwhile, a White House official later clarified that rather than a signed deal, the two sides had reached “an additional understanding of a framework to implement the Geneva agreement.” Get more of the latest China news in Trade War: open.substack.com/pub/dexter/p...

Trade War Precipitous drops in industrial profits and land sales show two pillars of Chinese economy are still weak. Trump says US and China signed a trade deal the “other day.” Beijing says the two side only “...

“They’re going to deliver rare earths” and “we’ll take down our countermeasures,” Lutnick said. “Silence regarding the terms suggests that there is less substance to the deal than the Trump Administration implies,” says former trade official Jeff Moon. open.substack.com/pub/dexter/p...

Trade War Precipitous drops in industrial profits and land sales show two pillars of Chinese economy are still weak. Trump says US and China signed a trade deal the “other day.” Beijing says the two side only “...

Meanwhile, Washington has yet to say whether the tech restrictions it imposed on China—for example curbs on sales of advanced semiconductor chips—will be eased, as Beijing hopes. Instead, Commerce's Howard Lutnick only referred to ending “countermeasures.” open.substack.com/pub/dexter/p...

Trade War Precipitous drops in industrial profits and land sales show two pillars of Chinese economy are still weak. Trump says US and China signed a trade deal the “other day.” Beijing says the two side only “...

“China will, in accordance with the law, review and approve eligible export applications for controlled items. In turn, the United States will lift a series of restrictive measures it had imposed on China,” the statement said. dexter.substack.com/p/trade-war-...

Trade War Precipitous drops in industrial profits and land sales show two pillars of Chinese economy are still weak. Trump says US and China signed a trade deal the “other day.” Beijing says the two side only “...

“They’re going to deliver rare earths” and “we’ll take down our countermeasures,” Lutnick said. “Silence regarding the terms suggests that there is less substance to the deal than the Trump Administration implies,” says former trade official Jeff Moon. open.substack.com/pub/dexter/p...