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Not that I’ve been very active here anyway, but I’m taking some time away from all social media to use my time more effectively on some educational and career goals. I finally deleted my X account so I’m not even tempted to go there and peek.
Just when you think you’ve seen all the possible bad propaganda, this is what one Chinese embassy thought made a good ‘before and after’ comparison to show China’s progress. 😳
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Just when you think you’ve seen all the possible bad propaganda, this is what one Chinese embassy thought made a good ‘before and after’ comparison to show China’s progress. 😳
Sigh. My kid came home from school and said they’d watched a video about Taiwan today, with a military theme. Sounds like the healthy sort of programming that children should be watching in class. Not.
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Sigh. My kid came home from school and said they’d watched a video about Taiwan today, with a military theme. Sounds like the healthy sort of programming that children should be watching in class. Not.
All the people you’d expect to be upset about the Nobel Peace Prize going to an opponent of Maduro in Venezuela are indeed in tears today.
October 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
All the people you’d expect to be upset about the Nobel Peace Prize going to an opponent of Maduro in Venezuela are indeed in tears today.
An under-appreciated benefit of the USB port: it bypasses the need for a plug adaptor in foreign countries. 👍🏻
October 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
An under-appreciated benefit of the USB port: it bypasses the need for a plug adaptor in foreign countries. 👍🏻
Sorry, but are we meant to think staged “Messianic leader surrounded by sycophants awkwardly feigning affection and trying to touch the hem of his garments” style propaganda is good? Is that the message here?
September 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Sorry, but are we meant to think staged “Messianic leader surrounded by sycophants awkwardly feigning affection and trying to touch the hem of his garments” style propaganda is good? Is that the message here?
Retired Chinese people when the local coffee shop closes: Hmm, maybe I should have bought at least one drink over the years I used to sit inside it all day for free.
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September 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Retired Chinese people when the local coffee shop closes: Hmm, maybe I should have bought at least one drink over the years I used to sit inside it all day for free.
(Not)
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Attention is always on Uyghurs and Tibetans, but there are 55 minorities in 🇨🇳 and many of them are seeing language decline. I know a Zhuang woman who can’t speak Zhuang and recently met several Miao people who don’t know their language. Manchu is all but extinct. Why do these never get talked about?
September 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Attention is always on Uyghurs and Tibetans, but there are 55 minorities in 🇨🇳 and many of them are seeing language decline. I know a Zhuang woman who can’t speak Zhuang and recently met several Miao people who don’t know their language. Manchu is all but extinct. Why do these never get talked about?
Yikes. A news story that exposes not one but three troubling issues: 1, toxic substances being discarded in public; 2, hospitals refusing to help people in need; 3, unregulated sales of toxic substances on the Internet. 🤦♂️
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September 16, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Yikes. A news story that exposes not one but three troubling issues: 1, toxic substances being discarded in public; 2, hospitals refusing to help people in need; 3, unregulated sales of toxic substances on the Internet. 🤦♂️
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A lot of people upset about the killing of Charlie Kirk are busy identifying co-conspirators based on nothing but furtive eye glances and baseball cap adjustments in the news footage. So their reaction to a murder is to help get other innocent people murdered in retaliation. Makes sense.
September 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
A lot of people upset about the killing of Charlie Kirk are busy identifying co-conspirators based on nothing but furtive eye glances and baseball cap adjustments in the news footage. So their reaction to a murder is to help get other innocent people murdered in retaliation. Makes sense.
X is exactly how I expected it to be this morning, lol. Insults, squabbles, hypocrisy and conspiracy theories. Nothing changes.
September 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
X is exactly how I expected it to be this morning, lol. Insults, squabbles, hypocrisy and conspiracy theories. Nothing changes.
Woke up to see that MAGA has found its Horst Wessel.
September 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Woke up to see that MAGA has found its Horst Wessel.
Why does everything have to involve everyone now? So a woman got mad at a guy because she didn’t get a baseball. In the old days that would have been between him and her. You don’t have to wade in.
September 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Why does everything have to involve everyone now? So a woman got mad at a guy because she didn’t get a baseball. In the old days that would have been between him and her. You don’t have to wade in.
This is your view through your sniper rifle. You get one shot before the other two are rushed to safety. Who’s your target? 😏
September 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is your view through your sniper rifle. You get one shot before the other two are rushed to safety. Who’s your target? 😏
Not content with removing term limits, Xi is now pursuing immortality so he can rule forever. 😂 😱
LOL. Hot-mic catches Xi telling Putin and Kim Jong Un that biotech will make it possible to live to 150. “Earlier, people rarely lived to 70, but these days at 70 years you are still a child. [...] People can live younger and younger, and even achieve immortality." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Xi Muses on Living to 150 in Rare Hot-Mic Moment With Putin, Kim
Chinese President Xi Jinping commented on the possibility of people living to 150 during a hot-mic moment with his Russian and North Korean counterparts, a rare glimpse of an unscripted chat between t...
www.bloomberg.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Not content with removing term limits, Xi is now pursuing immortality so he can rule forever. 😂 😱
Hard to reconcile China releasing thousands of doves in the name of peace with kids watching this at school and my kid coming home to tell me they did army drills and played rifle games at school today. Mixed messaging to say the least.
What wound you think if schools in your country cancelled classes so the kids could watch a military parade and listen to speeches by the Dear Leader? It’s happening today in China, from Grade 1 up. Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if kindergartens are showing it too.
September 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Hard to reconcile China releasing thousands of doves in the name of peace with kids watching this at school and my kid coming home to tell me they did army drills and played rifle games at school today. Mixed messaging to say the least.
What wound you think if schools in your country cancelled classes so the kids could watch a military parade and listen to speeches by the Dear Leader? It’s happening today in China, from Grade 1 up. Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if kindergartens are showing it too.
September 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
What wound you think if schools in your country cancelled classes so the kids could watch a military parade and listen to speeches by the Dear Leader? It’s happening today in China, from Grade 1 up. Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if kindergartens are showing it too.
A new school year, but Xi Jinping Thought remains on the curriculum.
September 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
A new school year, but Xi Jinping Thought remains on the curriculum.
I sense there has been a silent edict to more strictly enforce keeping children away from religion recently. Twice at different temples in different cities my kid has been told to get out of the worship halls. Not even allowed to look as a tourist. Also seen more signs like 禁止未成年人进入 or 未成年人不得参加宗教活动.
September 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I sense there has been a silent edict to more strictly enforce keeping children away from religion recently. Twice at different temples in different cities my kid has been told to get out of the worship halls. Not even allowed to look as a tourist. Also seen more signs like 禁止未成年人进入 or 未成年人不得参加宗教活动.
Just been to my friend’s dad’s compound in south Jiading. Christ. I hope he doesn’t pay a management fee because no maintenance is being done. 🐈 and 🐕 shit everywhere. Paint peeling. 🌳 overgrown. 🗑️ overflowing and stinking. Potholes in the road. Paving slabs missing. The other side of Shanghai.
August 31, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Just been to my friend’s dad’s compound in south Jiading. Christ. I hope he doesn’t pay a management fee because no maintenance is being done. 🐈 and 🐕 shit everywhere. Paint peeling. 🌳 overgrown. 🗑️ overflowing and stinking. Potholes in the road. Paving slabs missing. The other side of Shanghai.
Spoke to two other Miao people who also can’t speak their native language. One was a woman in her 40s, the other a young man in his early 20s who couldn’t even tell me how to say ‘hello’. “My parents didn’t teach me.” I asked “Don’t you learn it at school?”, knowing the answer ofc, and he said no.
My tour guide on holiday is a Miao woman. She was impressed by my kid’s multilingualism. “Surely Miao kids are bilingual?” my wife asked. “No, kids rarely speak their minority languages these days, only Mandarin.” She wasn’t being political about it, just casually said it like it should be obvious.
August 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Spoke to two other Miao people who also can’t speak their native language. One was a woman in her 40s, the other a young man in his early 20s who couldn’t even tell me how to say ‘hello’. “My parents didn’t teach me.” I asked “Don’t you learn it at school?”, knowing the answer ofc, and he said no.
My tour guide on holiday is a Miao woman. She was impressed by my kid’s multilingualism. “Surely Miao kids are bilingual?” my wife asked. “No, kids rarely speak their minority languages these days, only Mandarin.” She wasn’t being political about it, just casually said it like it should be obvious.
August 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
My tour guide on holiday is a Miao woman. She was impressed by my kid’s multilingualism. “Surely Miao kids are bilingual?” my wife asked. “No, kids rarely speak their minority languages these days, only Mandarin.” She wasn’t being political about it, just casually said it like it should be obvious.
In 2012 when foreign media was regularly reporting on China’s poor air quality, China used to get upset about the negativity. It even banned a documentary about smog in 2015 called ‘Under the Dome’. Now it wants you to remember so it can make a positive comparison. Interesting to observe the shift.
August 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
In 2012 when foreign media was regularly reporting on China’s poor air quality, China used to get upset about the negativity. It even banned a documentary about smog in 2015 called ‘Under the Dome’. Now it wants you to remember so it can make a positive comparison. Interesting to observe the shift.
I feel like a lot of westerners don’t realize that a lot of western reporting on 🇨🇳 actually originates in 🇨🇳, esp about social phenomena. I see people say “CNN lies!” or “BBC propaganda!” about stories that are basically translations of viral Chinese news. Shows how little people read Chinese media.
August 11, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I feel like a lot of westerners don’t realize that a lot of western reporting on 🇨🇳 actually originates in 🇨🇳, esp about social phenomena. I see people say “CNN lies!” or “BBC propaganda!” about stories that are basically translations of viral Chinese news. Shows how little people read Chinese media.
I can’t think of a more cringe title than this play on ‘Seven Years in Tibet’, a film that remains banned in China. 🙈
Btw, I assume Andy learnt Tibetan and did all his pre-approved interviews in it, given it’s the official language there and he always insists reporters speak the local language?
Btw, I assume Andy learnt Tibetan and did all his pre-approved interviews in it, given it’s the official language there and he always insists reporters speak the local language?
August 10, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I can’t think of a more cringe title than this play on ‘Seven Years in Tibet’, a film that remains banned in China. 🙈
Btw, I assume Andy learnt Tibetan and did all his pre-approved interviews in it, given it’s the official language there and he always insists reporters speak the local language?
Btw, I assume Andy learnt Tibetan and did all his pre-approved interviews in it, given it’s the official language there and he always insists reporters speak the local language?
An earthquake that caused a tsunami and now a volcanic eruption in Russia? Putin has clearly lost the Mandate of Heaven and needs to go.
July 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
An earthquake that caused a tsunami and now a volcanic eruption in Russia? Putin has clearly lost the Mandate of Heaven and needs to go.