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@colvap.bsky.social

China addict in Taiwan, Chinese AI researcher @ChinaMediaProject. Some words ft. @Economist, @FT, @thewirechina, @thechinaproject(RIP). Still recovering from zero-Covid.

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a group of people standing in front of a screen with a red ball in the background ALT: a group of people standing in front of a screen with a red ball in the background
22.10.2025 01:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cangjie input method - Wikipedia

It's a real keyboard arrangement apparently, the cangjie input method en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangjie...

16.10.2025 10:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

US-PRC convergence takes another step forward as Washington adopts the time-honoured practice of "One Institution with Two Names" (ไธ€ๅ€‹ๆฉŸๆง‹ๅ…ฉๅกŠ็‰Œๅญ).

05.09.2025 01:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

mbd.baidu.com/newspage/dat...

04.09.2025 04:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Civilizational State - China Media Project The โ€œcivilizational stateโ€ 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" (ๆ–‡ๆ˜Žๅž‹ๅ›ฝๅฎถ). Arising years before "civilization" joined the core of CCP thought, it connects today to Xi's โ€œGlobal Civilization Initiative.โ€ chinamediaproject.org/the_ccp_dict...

03.09.2025 06:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Chinaโ€™s growth is impressive, but have you seen Taiwanโ€™s growth?

03.09.2025 02:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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

27.08.2025 04:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

27.08.2025 00:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 49    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 donโ€™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.

21.08.2025 05:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Invite โ€˜will-bes,โ€™ 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.

14.08.2025 08:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Monty Python - The First Heart Transplant
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...

13.08.2025 02:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

08.08.2025 08:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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That's quite the headline.

01.08.2025 09:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 Chinaโ€™s Press: Despite speculation about Xi Jinpingโ€™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...

11.07.2025 00:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

thanks!

30.06.2025 08:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hey Matt, you got a link for this?

30.06.2025 08:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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DeepSeekโ€™s Democratic Deficit - China Media Project Governments and companies are underestimating the power of the high-performing AI model as a propaganda tool.

DeepSeekโ€™s Democratic Deficit: Governments and companies are underestimating the power of the high-performing AI model as a propaganda tool.
chinamediaproject.org/2025/06/24/d...

24.06.2025 07:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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A Trump Card for Chinaโ€™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 โ€” that the United States is fundamentally hyp...

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

chinamediaproject.org/2025/06/16/a...

16.06.2025 09:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

HKโ€™s Environment Protection Depโ€™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.

24.06.2025 04:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

This man sounds like he is from mainland China. In the video, he is crying "help" in Chinese (โ€œๆ•‘ๅ‘ฝโ€œ). 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?")

19.06.2025 01:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 105    ๐Ÿ” 32    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Chinaโ€™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.

12.06.2025 01:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Xi Jinping's daughter, Xi Mingze (็ฟ’ๆ˜Žๆพค), 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.

10.06.2025 02:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 104    ๐Ÿ” 35    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
็™พๅบฆๅฎ‰ๅ…จ้ชŒ่ฏ

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."

baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1833179...

28.05.2025 02:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 (1895โ€“1945).

08.05.2025 14:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

24.04.2025 05:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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If youโ€™re going to get upset with someone, at least explain why.

Otherwise thereโ€™s only two possibilities:

1. You canโ€™t
2. You can but wonโ€™t

Oh. And angrily restating your opinion isnโ€™t an argument.

17.04.2025 23:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Anyone seeking to pad their resumรฉ should check out Michael Kovrig's LinkedIn, 2018-2021. What a way to turn an awful situation on its head.

16.04.2025 12:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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4ๆœˆ15ๆ—ฅๅ‡Œๆ™จ๏ผŒๅ››ๅทๆˆ้ƒฝ
ๆŸ้ซ˜ๆžถๆกฅไธŠ่ขซไบบๆ‚ฌๆŒ‚ๆจชๅน…
โ€œๆฒกๆœ‰ๆ”ฟๆฒปไฝ“ๅˆถๆ”น้ฉๅฐฑๆฒกๆœ‰ๆฐ‘ๆ—ๅคๅ…ดโ€
โ€œไบบๆฐ‘ไธ้œ€่ฆไธ€ไธชๆƒๅŠ›ไธๅ—ๅˆถ็บฆ็š„ๆ”ฟๅ…šโ€
โ€œไธญๅ›ฝไธ้œ€่ฆ่ฐๆŒ‡ๆ˜Žๆ–นๅ‘๏ผŒๆฐ‘ไธปๆ‰ๆ˜ฏๆ–นๅ‘โ€

15.04.2025 01:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 63    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

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