Alex Colville

US-PRC convergence takes another step forward as Washington adopts the time-honoured practice of "One Institution with Two Names" (一個機構兩塊牌子).

CCTV has a montage of cute small children watching the military parade yesterday, netizens saying this is "the best patriotic education."

There really isn't any national security topic state media hasn't tried levering cuteness into to make it more appealing.

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Civilizational State - China Media Project The “civilizational state” is the idea that China is unlike any other ordinary country, but a civilization forced into the restrictive nation-state framework developed in the West. While the notion is...

On parade day, amid talk of a new world order, Jordyn Haime looks at the notion of China as a "civilizational state" (文明型国家). Arising years before "civilization" joined the core of CCP thought, it connects today to Xi's “Global Civilization Initiative.” chinamediaproject.org/the_ccp_dict...

China’s growth is impressive, but have you seen Taiwan’s growth?

One of those articles that gives the most terrifying possible answer to the question "is AI *really* stealing my job?"

I've been reading the court docs and it is incredibly upsetting reading. Absolutely awful.

What America Reads About China | China Books Review Conspiracy theories and alarmism about Cold War redux are the best selling China books on Amazon.com. We read them so you don’t have to.

Great piece from @alexludoboyd.bsky.social on what America is actually reading about China: "American reading appetites, when it comes to China, skew towards conspiracy theories and analyses of Cold War redux"

Willing to bet the UK little different.

Invite ‘will-bes,’ not has-beens - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Boris Johnson in Taiwan suggests "the solution to the cross-strait dispute would be to ask Beijing if they really wanted Taiwan." Give the man his Nobel Peace Prize.

Kudos to Sasha B. Chhabra for pointing out the DPP paying BJ and Liz Truss 100k to speak on Taiwan is money down the drain.

YouTube video by rylxyc Monty Python - The First Heart Transplant

As did their re-enactment of the first heart transplant www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrDr...

DeepSeek web version says it can't talk about a serious bullying incident in China that's currently a public scandal. Chinese AI being coopted into the wider "social stability" system...

That's quite the headline.

Visualizing Power in China's Press - China Media Project Despite speculation about Xi Jinping's political troubles, our latest analysis reveals his continued dominance in Chinese state media, overshadowing all known potential rivals.

Visualizing Power in China’s Press: Despite speculation about Xi Jinping’s political troubles, our latest analysis reveals his continued dominance in Chinese state media, overshadowing all known potential rivals. chinamediaproject.org/2025/07/10/v...

thanks!

Hey Matt, you got a link for this?

DeepSeek’s Democratic Deficit - China Media Project Governments and companies are underestimating the power of the high-performing AI model as a propaganda tool.

DeepSeek’s Democratic Deficit: Governments and companies are underestimating the power of the high-performing AI model as a propaganda tool.
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A Trump Card for China’s Media - China Media Project The authoritarian actions of the Trump administration have added jet fuel to one of the Chinese Communist Party's most enduring external propaganda frames — that the United States is fundamentally hyp...

The authoritarian actions of the Trump administration have added jet fuel to one of the Chinese Communist Party’s most enduring external propaganda frames — that the United States is fundamentally hypocritical when it comes to rights and freedoms.

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HK’s Environment Protection Dep’t says the wastewater will be too diluted by the time it hits HK to cause damage, so that is reassuring.

But if you followed all the official hysteria and state media fear-mongering around the release of treated wastewater from Fukushima, it is also extremely ironic.

This man sounds like he is from mainland China. In the video, he is crying "help" in Chinese (“救命“). I'm so heartbroken for immigrants from China and around the world who are experiencing this. (Then one naturally wonders, "am I the next, with my strange name and my accent?")

China’s Global AI Firewall - China Media Project DeepSeek's latest model is its most restricted yet, particularly for users making politically sensitive queries in Chinese. Is a global split opening in AI?

DeepSeek's latest model is its most restricted yet, particularly for users making politically sensitive queries in Chinese.

The company's success has likely invited more concerted government involvement. That could set the tone for any other Chinese LLMs that become as famous as they have.

Xi Jinping's daughter, Xi Mingze (習明澤), joined a private dinner with Lukashenko on June 8, her first-ever appearance at a dinner with a foreign leader, according to Belarus state media.

The world is upside down. Harvard students interviewed on campus about the international student ban by *Chinese state media journalists*, request anonymity "for fear of retaliation from the US government."

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Taiwan's Yilan Creole: Revitalizing the only Japanese-based creole language in the world Yilan is a Japanese-based creole language that was developed from colonial interactions between the speakers of the Indigenous Taiwanese Atayal language, Seediq language, and Japanese colonists during the period when Taiwan was under Japanese colonizat...

Yilan is a Japanese-based creole language that was developed from colonial interactions between the speakers of the Indigenous Taiwanese Atayal language, Seediq language, and Japanese colonists during the period when Taiwan was under Japanese colonization (1895–1945).

Concerning CEO opinions read like a "poor china takes" bingo card.

If you’re going to get upset with someone, at least explain why.

Otherwise there’s only two possibilities:

1. You can’t
2. You can but won’t

Oh. And angrily restating your opinion isn’t an argument.

Anyone seeking to pad their resumé should check out Michael Kovrig's LinkedIn, 2018-2021. What a way to turn an awful situation on its head.

4月15日凌晨，四川成都
某高架桥上被人悬挂横幅
“没有政治体制改革就没有民族复兴”
“人民不需要一个权力不受制约的政党”
“中国不需要谁指明方向，民主才是方向”

Spent all week looking for the perfect China tariff meme. Finally found it

I know a lot of people are scared at the moment, but the populism and tribalism gripping the US right now are pretty universal trends, that could happen in any country at any time. Comparisons should stay local. Is there no part of US history we can compare this moment to, rather than China's?