Eric Hundman
@ehundman.bsky.social
China analyst and research director at BluePath Labs, scholar, sometime artist. 中文通（非中国通), sci-fi geek, ex-STEM. Security, tech, and foreign policy in China + Taiwan. Views my own. 🏳️🌈
http://www.erichundman.com/
Chicago is home.
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Chicago is home.
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Allow me to rush to say that economics columnist Adam Tooze knows nothing about Chinese military modernization. Being smart about one thing does not make you smart about everything.
Economics columnist Adam Tooze explores Xi Jinping’s military modernization campaign and Beijing’s yearslong purge of the top ranks of the People’s Liberation Army. foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/30/c...
China Is Building a Better, More Modern Military
Xi’s purges are part of a generational reshuffling of generals.
foreignpolicy.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Allow me to rush to say that economics columnist Adam Tooze knows nothing about Chinese military modernization. Being smart about one thing does not make you smart about everything.
This would indeed be explosive if true, but I would encourage deep skepticism lacking further confirmation. Someone like Zhang either suddenly going turncoat or being a longtime US asset without being detected is nigh incomprehensible
I’m pretty stunned this has not been bigger news (buried by Minneapolis?). Not only has China’s top military general possibly leaked nuclear secrets to the US, but details of a private high-level briefing were leaked to the @wsj.com. @lingling-wei.bsky.social @chunhanwong.bsky.social
Exclusive | China’s Top General Accused of Giving Nuclear Secrets to U.S.
Bribery allegations have also been leveled against Gen. Zhang Youxia, whose downfall carries implications for the country’s military readiness.
www.wsj.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:54 PM
This would indeed be explosive if true, but I would encourage deep skepticism lacking further confirmation. Someone like Zhang either suddenly going turncoat or being a longtime US asset without being detected is nigh incomprehensible
He’s getting a real Chicago winter for his first!
January 26, 2026 at 10:56 PM
He’s getting a real Chicago winter for his first!
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if not doggo
why look like doggo
why look like doggo
Yes. Thursday.
Let's get this over with.
Let's get this over with.
January 22, 2026 at 1:26 PM
if not doggo
why look like doggo
why look like doggo
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Diablo II (2000)
January 21, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Diablo II (2000)
Thinking about how the Clintons had done precisely nothing in response to all this until they were personally targeted
January 13, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Thinking about how the Clintons had done precisely nothing in response to all this until they were personally targeted
I know I’m not the first to say it, but so much of where we are today can be traced back to Bush v Gore
So, one of the things I'm trying to get across in this next book, on a really deep level level, is how the nation could never have got this way--where any frightened cop gets to kill anyone--is because of political choices made after 9/11: to become, as I put it, a "bedwetter nation."
January 9, 2026 at 10:42 PM
I know I’m not the first to say it, but so much of where we are today can be traced back to Bush v Gore
The millennial urge to spend an entire evening reorganizing my phone apps
January 7, 2026 at 12:35 AM
The millennial urge to spend an entire evening reorganizing my phone apps
The most distinguished little graduate
December 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The most distinguished little graduate
-20 wind chills —> baby’s first fire
December 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
-20 wind chills —> baby’s first fire
Into it tbh
Has anyone ever thought, “i wish my drink was a sandwich”? What are we doing here Taiwan?
December 11, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Into it tbh
The thing is, if you read at all closely, many of his claims just don’t make any sort of logical sense
You can tell 2025 has pan-fried my brain because I just caught myself muttering “this is surprisingly good world-building” about a Ryan Lizza blog
December 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The thing is, if you read at all closely, many of his claims just don’t make any sort of logical sense
Rupert wants to help dad at work today
December 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Rupert wants to help dad at work today
This analogy makes no sense. Confucius Institutes did not operate inside China (not to mention their influence has been wildly overplayed). If you want to understand how the CCP asserted control in schools, look to curricular mandates, Party cells, reporting channels, personnel policies.
There's a parallel to how Xi reasserted the CCP's primacy across Chinese society.
Not quite party commissars, but more like the equivalent of Confucius Institutes in every school.
Not quite party commissars, but more like the equivalent of Confucius Institutes in every school.
The Texas GOP orders that the TurningPoint USA Trump youth organization will be obligatory at all high schools and colleges in the Lone Star State.
December 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This analogy makes no sense. Confucius Institutes did not operate inside China (not to mention their influence has been wildly overplayed). If you want to understand how the CCP asserted control in schools, look to curricular mandates, Party cells, reporting channels, personnel policies.
Another four inches of snow in Chicago (we’re at something like 16+ for the past week?) made for a beautiful morning
December 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Another four inches of snow in Chicago (we’re at something like 16+ for the past week?) made for a beautiful morning
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I’m struggling with my focus today. So I wrote out everything I’ve done this year, long hand and in a proper notebook.
I decided that the problem may be that I’ve done enough.
I decided that the problem may be that I’ve done enough.
December 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I’m struggling with my focus today. So I wrote out everything I’ve done this year, long hand and in a proper notebook.
I decided that the problem may be that I’ve done enough.
I decided that the problem may be that I’ve done enough.
Chicago blizzard snuggles to cleanse your timelines
November 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Chicago blizzard snuggles to cleanse your timelines
Somehow this creature is what is keeping me sane in 2025
November 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Somehow this creature is what is keeping me sane in 2025
My feelings are a complex mix of PTSD from Beijing 听写s and 😍
November 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
My feelings are a complex mix of PTSD from Beijing 听写s and 😍
Worth noting that he’s citing an Australian twentysomething who got his start by harassing professors and politicians around the world for being too “friendly” to China and thus supporting the Uighur genocide
November 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Worth noting that he’s citing an Australian twentysomething who got his start by harassing professors and politicians around the world for being too “friendly” to China and thus supporting the Uighur genocide
The goodest and most anxious boy in his training class
November 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The goodest and most anxious boy in his training class
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November 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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